Every professional should own their work history.

Can0nical is a work recording, reporting and validation platform. You record what you delivered, report it to the client or manager who received it, and they validate it. What you keep is a permanent, portable work record that goes on counting no matter who you work for next.

What Can0nical does

Three things, in the order you already do them. You record the work: the deliverable, the dates, the hours, the client it was for. You report it as a milestone, a timesheet or an invoice, sent to the person who received the work. They validate it in one tap, with no account and no sign-up. What comes back is not your claim about your work. It is theirs, once it exists neither of you can quietly change it, and anyone you show it to can check it for themselves without an account.

For a consultant or freelancer, that loop is also how the business runs. Clients and their rates, the hours against each one, the timesheets and invoices that come out of them, and what has actually been paid all live in the same place as the record, so client management and proof of work are one job instead of two. What that is worth in a working week is set out for freelancers and consultants.

For a company, the same loop produces employee work records: what someone delivered, confirmed by the client or manager who received it rather than written up at review time. Company accounts, team members and a ledger of what your people have verified exist today. Organisation-wide reporting, and rolling verification into hiring and procurement, are in build and priced after a conversation rather than from a table. What exists now for someone on the hiring side is the check they can run on a candidate.

Why a work record should be canonical

Canonical means the accepted version: the one others are checked against when copies disagree. Your work history has no such version. It exists as a CV you wrote, a rating on a platform you may leave, a reference from someone who has to remember you, and a folder of files that prove you had the files.

We named the company after the missing piece. A canonical record that outlives the client, the employer and the platform is not a better CV. It is the version that was confirmed at the time by the person who received the work, that neither of you can quietly change afterwards, and that anyone can check without asking us.

The problem: a record that doesn’t move when you do

Almost everything you have done for a living is recorded somewhere you cannot reach. It sits in a client’s inbox, in a former employer’s HR system, in a project tool whose access ended with the contract. None of it is yours, and none of it travels. So you carry the burden of remembering it, and of proving it again, every time something changes.

Things change in a particular order, and the order matters more than it is usually given credit for.

1. You change clients: this happens most

A consultant may work with six or eight clients in three years. Every one of them asks the question the last one already answered, and there is nothing to point at. Because it happens most often, it costs the most in total.

For example: a consultant delivers a data migration for one client, a compliance review for the next, and an operations rebuild for a third. Three engagements, three separate piles of evidence, none of which the fourth client can check. On Can0nical that is one record with three validated entries, and the fourth client checks it in seconds without asking anyone for a favour.

2. You change employers: this happens often

An employee may change companies three or four times in a decade. The projects you led and the numbers you moved stay in the system you just left. You arrive at the next job with a CV, which is a claim, and references, which are favours.

For example: someone moves through three companies in eight years while using the same tools the whole way: the same CRM, the same ticketing system, the same repository host. The tools never changed. The record changed three times, and each time it started from zero.

3. You change platforms: this happens least, and it still matters

Marketplace ratings are the clearest case of a reputation you built and do not own: four years of five-star reviews on one platform, and a new account on the next. The work happened. The proof was rented. It is a real loss and we do not dismiss it. It is third on this list because most professionals change clients and employers far more often than they change platforms.

Your work record should outlive the client, the employer, and the platform.

Why that order is the right one to build for

A record that survives a change of client survives a change of employer, and a record that survives both is platform-agnostic by construction, because it was never held by a platform in the first place. Building for the rarest case first would have produced proof that still lived inside somebody else’s system. Building for the commonest case produces proof that does not.

We call this the Reputation Reset, and it is usually told as a platform story: you leave a marketplace and the reviews stay behind. That version is true and far too small. The reset happens every time a contract ends, every time you change employer, every time you move countries. Told as a platform story it makes Can0nical sound like something you reach for when you leave somewhere, when it is something you use every week you stay.

What we’re building

A simple loop with a durable result. You record your work as you do it. The client who received it validates it with a single tap. Validated work is recorded permanently into a record only you control. And you carry that one record everywhere: one verified identity that speaks for you to any client, employer, or platform.

Around that loop sits the ordinary machinery of the job: clients, rates, timesheets, invoices and payments. Recording the work and reporting the work are the same act. Asking you to do it twice would be the surest way to get you to do neither.

No rewriting your CV from scratch. No starting over. Just proof that’s yours, that travels, and that can’t be quietly erased.

Who’s behind it

Can0nical was started by Bryan Ajwala in Nairobi, built close to the professionals it’s for, across the freelance and independent-work corridors where an unprovable track record costs the most. It’s a product of OmniGrowth Connect LLC, a New Mexico company, built in public and shipped deliberately.

The mission

We think the record of your work is one of the most valuable things you own, and right now, you don’t really own it. Our mission is to change that: to give every professional a permanent, portable, verifiable history that belongs to them and no one else.

The longer argument

Why the self-reported CV stopped being evidence, why detecting AI-written applications cannot repair it, and what a verified work history has to guarantee to be worth anything: we set all of it out, with the data and its sources, in Verifiable Credentials for the Global Workforce.

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