Twinnin launches a likeness consent registry, with Model Management as first accredited partner

Twinnin, a consent, licensing and provenance registry for human likeness, announced two products on 15 October. Defend Twinn lets an individual verify their identity, register a timestamped objection to AI use of their likeness, and initiate and track takedown requests. Human Verified accredits businesses that use human likenesses with consent and lets them display a Human Verified mark on their website.

Model Management is named as the first Human Verified partner. Twinnin says an exclusive agreement gives it access to that agency's network of more than three million models, and Model Management's CEO Andreas von Estorff says the agency already ID-verifies every model. Twinnin was co-founded by Kat Grobler and William Haakon Berg, with Dr Mary Maller as chief technology officer. No pricing was disclosed.

Why it matters for digital humans: The consent and provenance layer is the part of the avatar stack nobody has standardised. Generation is close to commodity; documentation proving a face was licensed is not, and that is what enterprise procurement and EU AI Act Article 50 transparency duties increasingly turn on. A registry only has force if platforms, agencies and courts honour its records, and nothing in this announcement establishes that. The three-million-model reach and the verification claims are the companies' own, from a promotional release with no adoption data. Worth tracking as a template for how a consent layer might be structured, not as infrastructure that exists yet.