Build log August 2026 Louis-James Davis

August 2026: more than thirty patent applications, Verus and the Confrmo platform

August 2026: I filed more than thirty UK patent applications, began building Verus private messaging and shipped escrow, attendance and ledger work on Confrmo.

August was the busiest month of the year. I filed more than thirty UK patent applications, built the first versions of Verus private messaging and calls. I also shipped a run of products on the Confrmo platform. It was also the month my products started working for each other.

More than thirty patent applications

Across August I filed more than thirty applications with the UK Intellectual Property Office. They cover identity checks and what a verified person is allowed to reveal, private messaging servers that can prove what they do not keep, verified email, attendance, a multi-party business platform and a mechanical door handle for safety in buildings. The full list, with plain-English descriptions, is on my patents page.

Confrmo: escrow, attendance, names and items

On the Confrmo platform I shipped four things people can use. Confrmo Escrow now tells every party as a deal moves from one stage to the next, because in anything involving money, silence makes people nervous. I'm Here, Confrmo's attendance service, refuses a clock-in outright when the location check fails, rather than flagging it for someone to review later. Confrmo Names gives people a personal web address. I made sure an address is never shown until it actually works. Every item registered on Confrmo now gets its own VCode straight away, so anyone can scan it to check its status.

Confrmo working for Veridium

The Confrmo Ledger certifies Veridium carbon credits. On 10 August I set up a Veridium node that Confrmo runs itself, so the Ledger confirms a credit has settled by checking the chain directly rather than relying on someone else's website. The node holds no keys, so it cannot move anybody's coins. The work on Confrmo made Veridium stronger.

Verus: private messaging and calls

On 18 August I started building Verus, a messenger that is private first: no phone number needed and a server designed to hold as little as possible. By the end of the month it had calls that ring on every platform, a Mac app signed for distribution, one identity across a phone and a computer, plus purchase codes that work in every app already in people's hands. Calls between iPhone and Android agree their audio at the start, so Apple devices keep their best quality while calls with Android simply work.

VCode, Couri and WhoozGot

I rebuilt the VCode decoder for the newest Android phones and made it a quarter of the size, then taught the scanner to prefer waiting over guessing, because for identity a wrong read is worse than no read. Couri gained sign-in with a verified Confrmo identity, so every sender behind an address is a real person. WhoozGot, a going-out guide, learned to read pub menus by their layout as well as their words.

Every choice from August 2026