How Trustory Works

Your work history should not start from zero every time you move.

Trustory is building a Professional Passport for work history, certifications and professional evidence — so workers can carry trusted proof of what they have done while employers verify with greater confidence and workers remain in control of protected access.

Portable professional historyShareable Passport QRSMS & email access alertsWorker-controlled accessInstitution-backed verification
The simplest way to understand Trustory
CV

What you say about your career.

Professional Passport

The evidence you keep building behind that career.

TRU-ID

The unique identity that connects that evidence to you.

Trustory

The infrastructure that helps workers and institutions establish, carry and verify professional trust.

Trust is not a score we invent.

It is evidence accumulated over time — with clear verification status, worker consent and an auditable record trail.

What Trustory is

A professional evidence layer — not another job portal or online CV.

Trustory does not replace a CV, recruiter, employer or professional network. It is designed to make the evidence behind a worker’s professional history more portable, structured and trustworthy.

For a worker

A Professional Passport that can keep employment history, certifications and supporting evidence connected to one professional identity.

For an employer

A clearer path to verify professional history without depending only on CV claims, scattered documents and manual references.

For an institution

A controlled way to confirm employment facts and contribute accountable records to the workforce trust registry.

Why it exists

Workers move. Their professional evidence should be able to move too.

Today, professional history is often reconstructed again and again through CVs, certificates, references, phone calls and records held by different organisations. Trustory is being built around a different model: the worker carries a professional identity, while trusted evidence can accumulate around it over time.

01
Work is done
A person gains experience, training, certifications and employment history.
02
Evidence gets scattered
Proof may sit across former employers, paper documents, email, HR systems or personal files.
03
The worker moves
A new employer may ask them to prove the same professional history again.
04
Trustory carries it forward
The Professional Passport is designed to keep that evidence connected to the worker across future opportunities.
Professional Passport

The Passport becomes more useful as a career grows.

A worker does not need to wait until an employer urgently asks for Trustory. The value is in starting early, organising professional evidence and strengthening eligible records with verification over time.

What can live around the Passport

The Professional Passport is designed as the worker’s continuing professional evidence layer.

Employment records and work history
Certifications and training
Supporting professional evidence and documents
A shareable QR for networking, meetings and unexpected opportunities
Verification status and accountable institutional confirmation
SMS and email alerts when protected access is requested
Consent and access history for protected records
Why start now?
Build the history before you urgently need to prove it.

A worker can begin with the professional details and evidence they already have, then continue building the Passport as their career develops. Verification can strengthen eligible records over time.

Start with what you have
Keep adding as your career grows
Share your Passport by QR when opportunity appears
Get SMS & email alerts for protected access requests
Strengthen eligible records with verification
How it works

From worker identity to trusted professional history.

Trustory separates identity, evidence, verification and access so that each part of professional trust can be handled clearly.

1. A worker creates a Professional Passport
The worker creates one Trustory professional identity linked to their verified account details.
2. Professional history and evidence are added
Employment details, certifications and supporting evidence can be accumulated around that identity.
3. Eligible records move through verification
Verified employers or institutions can confirm employment facts or create authorised records, with the verification source remaining clear.
4. The worker can carry and share the Passport
The same professional identity moves with the worker. Its QR can be presented during networking, meetings, client conversations or unexpected opportunities.
5. A contact can reach available trust signals
Scanning the Passport QR provides a quick route to the worker’s Trustory identity and available trust signals without automatically exposing full protected employment history.
6. Protected access triggers worker alerts
When an employer requests deeper protected history, Trustory sends SMS and email alerts so the worker can review the request and approve or decline access.
Example journey

What this could look like for a security professional.

Private security is one of Trustory’s early focus sectors because work history, training, mobility and employer trust matter deeply — but the same infrastructure is intended for workers across the economy.

1
Kevin creates his Passport
He creates one Professional Passport and adds his current profession, experience and available evidence.
2
His history is strengthened
Eligible employment facts and training can be confirmed by accountable employers or verified institutions.
3
Kevin shares his Passport
At a meeting, introduction or unexpected opportunity, he can present his Passport QR instead of searching for scattered PDFs and certificates.
4
A new employer requests access
The employer can evaluate available trust signals. If deeper protected history is needed, Kevin receives SMS and email alerts and decides whether to approve access.
The principle is the same for a driver, technician, hospitality worker, healthcare worker, retail worker, freelancer or office professional: experience should remain connected to the person who earned it.
For workers

Your career is bigger than your current employer.

Trustory is designed so workers can build professional evidence they continue to carry, rather than leaving the value of past work trapped inside each organisation they leave.

What workers can do

The worker is an active participant in their professional history, not a passive record inside someone else’s HR system.

Create and maintain a Professional Passport
Add professional details, certifications and supporting evidence
Share the Passport QR during networking, meetings or unexpected opportunities
Invite eligible past employers into verification workflows
View employment records and verification status
Receive SMS and email alerts for new protected access requests
Approve or deny protected employer access requests
Dispute inaccurate records through traceable correction workflows
For employers and institutions

Employers can verify with more evidence — institutions must earn the right to issue trusted records.

Trustory separates ordinary participation from trusted verification authority. Institutions are reviewed before they receive the ability to create or confirm trusted workforce records.

For hiring employers

The goal is to reduce dependence on fragmented, manually reconstructed professional history.

Evaluate available professional trust signals
Request worker-approved access to protected history
Review verified employment evidence where available
Use clearer record provenance during workforce decisions
For verified institutions

Verified organisations can become accountable contributors to the workforce trust registry.

Register and move through Trustory verification
Receive audit scheduling where applicable
Confirm eligible employment facts
Stamp authorised worker employment records
Respond to disputes and corrections
Records and evidence

Not every piece of professional evidence means the same thing.

Trustory is designed to make the source and verification state of evidence clear. A worker-added document, an employer-confirmed employment fact and an institution-issued record should not be presented as if they carry identical weight.

Added by worker

Professional information or evidence the worker has added to their Passport.

Verification requested

A record or claim is waiting for an accountable source to confirm or correct it.

Institution verified

An authorised verified institution has confirmed or issued the record.

Rectified

A disputed record has been corrected while the audit trail remains traceable.

Trustory is being built for both formal and informal work. Different kinds of work may require different forms of evidence and verification, but the status of that evidence should remain clear rather than being presented as verified when it is not.
Corrections and rectification

Corrections do not silently erase the past.

Where a worker believes a record is inaccurate, Trustory uses a traceable correction model so the system can preserve what changed, why it changed and what the corrected record became.

A
Original
A record is created and becomes part of the professional history.
B
Disputed
The worker can challenge information they believe is inaccurate and request correction.
C
Rectified
If corrected, the updated record is preserved together with a traceable history of the correction.
Trust and integrity

Trustory is designed to protect both privacy and record credibility.

Professional trust infrastructure only works if people can understand who added a record, who verified it, who accessed it and what happened when something changed.

Authenticated access for workers, institutions and administrators
Role-based permissions for sensitive operations
Consent records for protected access workflows
SMS and email alerts for new employer access requests
QR sharing without automatic disclosure of protected history
Audit events around verification and record changes
Append-only history for key disputes and rectification workflows
Clear separation between worker-added and institution-verified evidence
For journalists, researchers and partners

The Trustory thesis in plain language.

If you are trying to understand or explain Trustory quickly, these are the essential points.

The problem

Professional history is repeatedly reconstructed from fragmented CVs, references, certificates and employer-held records.

The product

A Professional Passport that helps workers keep professional evidence connected to one continuing identity and share that identity by QR when opportunities appear.

The trust model

Evidence can carry different verification states, with accountable employers or verified institutions strengthening eligible records.

The privacy model

A Passport QR can lead to available trust signals without opening full private history. When deeper protected access is requested, Trustory alerts the worker by SMS and email so they can approve or decline.

The early market

Trustory is going deeper in private security while building infrastructure intended for workers across formal and informal sectors.

The bigger thesis

As African labour becomes more mobile and digital, the mechanisms for proving professional history should become more portable too.

One-sentence description

Trustory is building workforce trust infrastructure that helps workers carry professional evidence forward, employers verify with greater confidence, and trusted institutions contribute accountable records — with protected access controlled by the worker.

Why it matters

The worker moves. Their professional history should be able to move too.

The long-term opportunity is bigger than making recruitment slightly faster. It is creating a more durable way for professional trust to travel with people across employers, sectors, cities and — over time — borders.

For workers

The work done today can become part of a professional history they still carry tomorrow.

For employers

Professional decisions can rely on clearer evidence instead of repeatedly rebuilding trust from fragmented claims.

For the workforce economy

Trusted, portable professional evidence can become infrastructure that other workforce systems and institutions can build around.

Start building trust that moves
Your career should carry more than a CV.

Create a Professional Passport as a worker, or register your organisation to participate in trusted workforce verification.