Build a record of your work the way decision-makers read it
Build an honest, portable record of your work: what you contributed, what changed, and the judgment inside it. Then you are ready before a review, a move, or a sudden change makes you reach for details that have gone soft.
Includes the 57-page guided handbook, your Professional Record, 13 pages of printable and fillable tools, and a Start Here guide.
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You know you contributed. You remember that the project mattered. But months or years later, the details are harder to recover.
What changed? What did you personally do? What evidence exists? How would you explain it to someone outside the company?
Keep the Proof helps you answer those questions while the work is still close enough to document accurately.
A guided handbook teaches the method; your Professional Record is where the work lives for years. Printable and fillable tools are there if you prefer paper or a form.
The teaching. It opens with Before You Rebuild Anything, walks you through capturing what happened, clarifying what was yours, and carrying it into language an outsider can follow, with a completed example beside every tool, and permission and safe use running throughout. It closes with Put Your Record to Work, which shows how to carry one Proof Line into a resume line, a LinkedIn About section, an interview answer, and a promotion note.
An editable, copyable, searchable working document you keep in a personally controlled account, with no app or subscription required. It holds your captures, full entries, corroboration notes, Proof Lines, a Match Your Proof to a Role page, a Put Your Record to Work workspace, and a running index, so any entry is a search away.
The same fields as your Professional Record, as printable and fillable pages, for anyone who would rather write by hand or type into a form. Use whichever you will keep up. You do not need to complete both.
Start Here is included as well: a short orientation guide explaining the recommended order and safe use of the materials.
Start with a project, decision, problem, improvement, or contribution worth preserving.
Document what happened, what you contributed, what changed, and what evidence supports the story.
Add to your Professional Record as work happens, with optional monthly and quarterly sweeps, so you are not reconstructing your career from memory later.
By the end of the first focused session, you should have at least one completed record entry and a repeatable way to keep the proof of what your work has built.
“Helped with onboarding.”
“Redesigned new-hire onboarding for a growing operations team, cutting time to full productivity and reducing early attrition, with the model later adopted by two other departments.”
The system moves you from a vague task description to a credible, evidence-supported account of what you contributed and what changed. Not every entry will carry a number. Where the evidence is qualitative, the system helps you say what changed and how you know.
Keep your evidence private and appropriate. Do not enter confidential employee information, protected customer information, proprietary company data, passwords, or sensitive business records. Describe the work and its outcome without retaining information you are not permitted to keep.
Your Professional Record is an editable document you can use in Word, Google Docs, or Pages. The Printable & Fillable Tools are fillable PDF pages, best filled in Adobe Acrobat Reader. The handbook and Start Here are PDFs to read.
No. Your first focused session helps you set up the system and complete at least one meaningful entry. Your Professional Record is designed for continued use, with optional monthly and quarterly sweeps.
No. It helps you capture the underlying evidence that can later strengthen a resume, interview story, promotion case, portfolio, or career conversation.
Yes. The best time to preserve career evidence is before a transition becomes urgent.
No. Use generalized, permitted descriptions and avoid confidential employee, customer, or proprietary business information.
Yes. Keep the Proof: The 10-Minute Career Evidence Starter is a free six-page worksheet that takes one accomplishment through the method and produces one portable Proof Line. Keep the Proof is the complete system: the full guided handbook, your Professional Record, printable and fillable tools, and the routines that keep the whole record current.
Keep the Proof helps you capture and translate evidence of work you have already done. The Field Kit helps you assess what your current work is building in you and read your broader capability position.
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Build your professional record now, while the work is still close enough to document accurately.
Includes the 57-page guided handbook, your Professional Record, 13 pages of printable and fillable tools, and a Start Here guide.
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Keep the Proof captures what you have already done. The Capability Formation Field Kit reads your current position: what your work is building now, what will travel, and where you may be exposed.
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