Make them prove it.

Someone says they're your daughter, your father, your accountant, your bank. zikora checks, in under a minute, using a key on their own phone. No passwords. No security questions. Nothing to guess.

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Every channel carries the claim. None of them carries the proof.

A phone number can be spoofed, a voice cloned, an email header forged. Whatever the medium, it delivers a statement about who someone is, and no way at all to check it.

a call · Mum
“Mum, I'm in trouble.”

Cloning a voice takes three seconds of audio.

a text · Dad
“Dad, new phone — it's me. Can you send it here?”

Right name, new number, no way to ring back and check.

an email · your accountant
“It's your accountant. Wire it today.”

The right firm, the right tone, the wrong account number.

Three channels, three people you actually know, one shape: somebody asserts an identity, and nothing about the way it arrived can confirm or deny it.

Three steps, about forty seconds

01
Pick who's calling

Choose the person they claim to be. zikora makes a fresh phrase for this call and this call only — never reused, gone in minutes.

02
Say it out loud

Read the phrase to your caller. Anyone can hear it; only one person in the world can answer it.

03
Watch it turn green

Their device signs the phrase with a key only they hold. Your screen flips to verified — or it doesn't, and now you know.

It's not a secret. It's a dare.

A safe word you must whisper can be overheard, guessed, or tortured out of someone. zikora's phrase is said out loud to the fake and the real alike, and only one of them can answer it.

The real one signs. The fake one stalls.

A forged answer is rejected. Yesterday's answer is useless. And doubt never quietly becomes trust: a challenge expires in minutes, visibly, and expiry is not a verdict.

Under the hood: each person holds an Ed25519 key on their own device, created by their phone's own passkey. zikora never holds it, and there is nothing in the middle to steal.

Not just families

for families
Check that it's really them.

Before you send money, open a door, or believe bad news.

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for business
Prove your people to your customers.

And your customers to you, without passwords or security questions.

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for agents
Know whether a human approved this.

When software acts for someone, see who authorized it and when.

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Readable from across the room

Three states, three unmistakable treatments. Nobody squints at a verdict.
PENDING
Patient amber
The phrase is out. The clock is running. Nothing to do but listen.
VERIFIED
Warm, conclusive green
A signature only they could make. Breathe. It's really them.
EXPIRED
Plainly dead
An old challenge never lingers looking trustworthy. Start a fresh one.

Set it up with your family this weekend.

Five minutes at the dinner table: everyone gets a key, everyone learns the steps. The next strange phone call gets an answer instead of a knot in your stomach.

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zikora · igbo, "show the world" · ed25519 under the hood · challenges expire
Words we use
Circle
The small group you verify with — your family, or your team.
Phrase
The four words you read aloud. New every time, gone in two minutes.
Hearth
Your home once you're signed in — your circle, and what's waiting for you.
Seal
To send someone in your circle an encrypted message, locked until they open it.