Canvix brings multimodal AI to artwork authentication — combining spectral imaging analysis, brushstroke pattern recognition, and a deep provenance graph to give the art industry a reliable, data-backed Authenticity Index.
Today, authenticating a painting means hiring a committee of human experts — a process that takes six to twelve weeks, costs tens of thousands of dollars, and produces an opinion, not a fact. The result is a market riddled with misattributed works, fraudulent provenance documents, and billion-dollar liability exposure for insurers and auction houses alike.
Canvix replaces opinion with intelligence. We ingest high-resolution spectral imaging data, cross-reference 200 million auction records and exhibition histories, and surface the patterns that distinguish a genuine work from a forgery — at a fraction of the time and cost.
Works are submitted via our portable NIR scanner API or as high-resolution TIFF files. We capture surface texture, underdrawing, and pigment layer data invisible to the naked eye.
Our model — trained on 4 million verified museum works — extracts brushstroke dynamics, pigment period-consistency, and canvas aging signatures across twelve independent dimensions.
We traverse our 200-million-record provenance graph — auction records, exhibition histories, ownership transfers — to surface chain-of-custody gaps and verify stated ownership history.
A composite score across four independent signal layers — delivered as a blockchain-anchored certificate, insurer-ready PDF, or API JSON response in under 48 hours.
Mann built Canvix from a simple observation: the art world's most consequential decisions — multi-million dollar acquisitions, insurance underwriting, estate settlements — rest on the word of a few aging scholars with no systematic evidence behind them.
With a background spanning computer vision research and a deep personal connection to the collector community, he set out to build the data layer the art market never had. Canvix is the result — part authentication engine, part provenance archive, part market intelligence platform.
"The art world trusts centuries-old methods because nothing better existed. Now it does."
We're opening Canvix to a focused cohort of auction houses and art insurers for our pilot. No commitments — just early access and a direct line to the product team.
We'll be in touch within 48 hours.