Eformogi

For Receivers

You received a family-issued transcript.

A family or student sent you a verify URL — likely something like eformogi.com/verify/tr_5ab8… — and the page told you it was ✓ Verified. This page explains what that means, what it doesn't, and what your options are. We aim to be honest about both.

What "verified" means here

The family used Eformogi to compose a transcript and seal it with a SHA-256 cryptographic hash. The hash is a fingerprint of every byte in the document at the moment of issuance. When you load the verify page, your browser re-reads the receipt and confirms the bytes still match. If any field on the transcript had been altered after issuance — a course added, a grade changed, a name edited — the hash would not match and the verify page would not show ✓ Verified.

In plain language: verification proves the document you're reading is the document the family issued, byte for byte.

What "verified" does not mean

We are deliberate about this. Verification does not mean the underlying claims on the transcript were evaluated by a third party. A family-issued transcript is, by definition, self-attested: the family is the records office of record. The cryptographic hash protects against tampering after issuance. It does not, by itself, prove the courses were taught, the evidence was collected, or the grades were assigned by an independent evaluator.

If your workflow requires third-party-evaluated records — for example, a registrar's official transcript from an accredited institution — you should ask the family for the linked evidence behind specific claims. Common forms of evidence include:

  • Portfolios of student work (essays, projects, lab notebooks)
  • Standardized exam scores (AP, SAT subject, CLEP, IB)
  • Evaluator signatures or letters from independent assessors
  • Dual-enrollment registrar records from accredited colleges
  • State homeschool office acknowledgments where applicable

How to evaluate this transcript for your workflow

Three honest questions that may help:

  1. What is your tolerance for self-attested records? Many colleges, employers, and scholarship programs accept homeschool and microschool transcripts directly from families — particularly when accompanied by portfolios, exam scores, or evaluator letters. Some require a third-party umbrella school. Knowing your own threshold before you call the family will save everyone time.
  2. Does the transcript include the evidence you need? The "evidence" column on the printed transcript names what backs each course. If you need to inspect the underlying evidence, ask the family — they own it and can share it directly.
  3. Is the cryptographic seal sufficient for your records-keeping? The hash and verify URL give you an audit trail: you can prove, months later, that the transcript you received hadn't been altered after issuance. For many receivers that's enough; for others it isn't. We don't pretend otherwise.

What's on our roadmap

We are building a trust ladder — a way for specific claims on a transcript to carry stronger forms of attestation than self-attested:

  • Tier 0 — self-attested (today): the family issued the claim. Hash protects against tampering.
  • Tier 1 — self-attested + evidence: the family attached portfolio artifacts or exam scores to the specific claim. You can inspect the evidence directly.
  • Tier 2 — third-party signed: an independent evaluator (tutor, dual-enrollment instructor, exam board) cryptographically signed the claim.
  • Tier 3 — issuer-of-record: an accredited institution issued the claim through its own records office.

Today, every family-issued transcript is Tier 0. The trust ladder is on the public roadmap; we'll roll out Tier 1 inline-evidence first.

You will never need an Eformogi account

Verification is free and login-free, by design. We believe the receiver side of a records office should never require a sign-up to do its core job. If a family forwards you a verify URL, you click it. You read the result. You decide what to do. That's it.

Our business model puts the cost of verification on requesters and intermediaries that need verification at scale (for example, automated agents pulling on family records, or high-volume admissions platforms). Families pay nothing for the record. Individual receivers verifying a single transcript pay nothing. That's the contract, and it's in our founding documents.

Help shape the receiver side

We're looking for a small number of admissions officers, scholarship reviewers, and employers to act as design partners on the receiver side of this product. There is no cost, no contract, and no platform to sign up for. Just an ongoing conversation about what would make verifiable family-issued records actually useful inside your workflow.

We'll reply by hand within 2 business days. No drip, no list.

If something looks wrong

If the verify page returned "Not a valid Eformogi receipt", the most likely explanation is a typo in the URL or an old receipt id. Ask the family for a fresh URL — they can re-issue at any time, and the new receipt will have its own hash.

If you suspect the transcript or any other part of this flow is being misused, please contact us at hello@eformogi.com. We take abuse seriously. We will investigate and, when warranted, revoke the issuer's ability to use the platform.