There's a trust issue with music and AI.
We're the humans helping fix it.
Musical Form Institute is an independent third-party certification body for recorded music. We publish process-based standards and certify the recordings that meet them.
What we do, in two sentences
MFI operates two certification marks for recorded music. One verifies recordings produced without generative AI; the other verifies recordings produced without grid correction, pitch correction, or generative AI.
What you hear took lifetimes. We make that work visible.
Why this matters
Labels and platforms need a reliable way to know how a recording was actually made. Listeners do too. MFI is building the independent verification layer between the people who make music and the people who distribute it. The public registry is the first piece: a place DSPs, labels, and licensees can point to when they need an auditable answer to a question the industry has been quietly working around.
Two certification marks. One trust layer.
Certified Significant Form (CSF)
Verifies that a sound recording was produced without generative AI. Every certified recording is listed in the public CSF registry so labels, DSPs, and licensees have an auditable record to reference.
Certificate of Embodied Production (CEP)
A process-based standard that verifies a recording was produced without grid correction, pitch correction, or generative AI. The complete certification for recordings where production decisions were made by human beings in real time, with every entry listed in the public CEP registry.
Both registries are live.
The CSF public registry and the CEP public registry are both live and accepting submissions from labels of any size. Every entry can be audited against its published standard.
CSF public registry, as of launch
How to Submit Your Music
The CSF and CEP public registries are in open public beta. Any label or artist whose recordings meet the published standard can submit. Terms are identical for every qualifying applicant.
The MFI Label Portal
Labels submitting future releases can be accommodated through our Label Portal. Email Jeffrey to have portal credentials provisioned for your label.