About Aramantos Digital

The Founder

John Doyle

After five years at Apple and two on Google's SRE team, I interviewed for a senior engineering role and made it to the final round, having never held a junior developer position. They decided not to take a chance on me. So I decided to take a chance on myself.

I started building tooling that solved my own problems at first. But the more I built, the more I realised that my problems, both technologically and in terms of digital trust, had to be felt by others too. That's when I decided to take what Apple taught me about putting users first and what Google taught me about building for scale, and turn these tools into user-centric, scalable products that I truly believe solve a real-world problem.

The deeper that exploration went, with the help of our custom AI-assisted workflow, the clearer it became that what had started as individual tools was growing into an ecosystem that fits a real need, one driven by the pollution and dilution of trustable information online.

More and more people are questioning the authenticity of what they're being shown online. When they start looking for an answer, I'm hoping that answer will be Aramantos Digital.

How It Started

The first thing I built was SRE Chaos Challenge, a chaos engineering tool that started as a love letter to the SRE roles I'd be applying for. Then I realised it had a legitimate use case beyond my portfolio.

That raised a question: if I wanted to discuss this with anyone, how do I protect the IP? Do I need NDA agreements? The existing tools were either bloated or expensive, so I started building SignaSeal.

SignaSeal led me to blockchain-verified signatures, and the more I explored that space, the more I saw its potential. That's where ProveChain came from, cryptographic proof of what you created, when you created it, anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain.

None of this was planned as a product suite. Each tool grew out of a real problem the previous one uncovered. That's still how Aramantos Digital works: solve the problem in front of you, and let the next one reveal itself.

But when it came time to launch, it became clear that ProveChain was the anchor, the foundation from which everything else builds. Proving the authenticity of your documents is the starting point, both for a user's journey into digital trust and for this company's journey toward showing that integrity and authenticity online are possible.

The Business Model

Core functionality is free. Always will be. ProveChain's hashing and verification is free. TimeAnchor is entirely free, no account needed. The fundamental guarantees, hashing, timestamping, verification, should never be gated behind a paywall.

Cloud storage, team features, priority Bitcoin anchoring, API access, that's what the paid tiers are for. Convenience and scale, not the fundamental guarantees.

Aramantos Digital is not VC-backed. Not chasing unicorn valuations. Not building to flip. Sustainable tools that solve real problems without compromising your privacy or autonomy.