Capital Inquiry · Human & Digital, Inc.

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Human & Digital is building the identity infrastructure the Cultural Industries have needed for decades. Pre-seed. The conditions that make 2026 the inflection point are not permanent. Qualified inquiries are reviewed personally by the founder.

Why This. Why Now.

Four things that are
simply true.

TRUTH 01
The problem has been acknowledged by the industry for years. No one has solved it.
Content identification has EIDR, ISRC, ISBN. Talent identification has nothing globally interoperable, neutral, and persistent. Human & Digital built it.
TRUTH 02
The infrastructure is real. The registry is live. The standard is independent.
145,000+ HAND IDs issued. DOI® Foundation Registration Agency status. Governed by an independent nonprofit. Not a pitch deck — an operating system for talent identity.
TRUTH 03
2026 is the first year every market condition is simultaneously present.
Active legislation. AI rights crisis. NIL compliance gaps. Labor negotiations. C2PA adoption. These forces do not converge twice. This is not a company waiting for a market — the market arrived at the infrastructure.
TRUTH 04
The team built this industry. They did not discover it from the outside.
Founders of EIDR, WIRED, and standards bodies across the media supply chain. 34 combined patents. This is domain depth that cannot be hired or acquired in a funding round.
The Clock

Deadlines that do not
move for anyone.

MLB CBA expiration — December 2026. The next collective bargaining agreement will define AI likeness governance for a generation. The window to establish HAND as the neutral identity standard for both sides is open now.
SAG-AFTRA / AMPTP AI negotiations — active. Every major guild negotiation now includes AI likeness provisions. Infrastructure that is not in the conversation today will not be adopted by contract tomorrow.
CA AB 1836, AB 2602, NY S.8420-A — active law, active liability. Studios and platforms are managing compliance exposure today. HAND IDs are the technical answer to verifiable talent consent and attribution.
500,000+ NCAA D1 athletes as rights-holders — no infrastructure. NIL created the largest unaddressed talent identity gap in sports overnight. The compliance burden is real and growing every transfer portal cycle.
Independent validation — confirmed. Top 5 of 589 at SXSW. Sprockit Open Innovation cohort. Three shortlisted categories at the 2026 Smarter Sports Awards.
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