Human Creative Announces Capital Investment, New Partner

Jan 27, 2026

Human Creative is pleased to announce that it has received an infusion of capital investment and a new partner who will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer.

Three investors contributed to the funding round: Derek Burger, Charles Dawson, and Michelle Dawson.

Charles Dawson, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at RVHS/Teamworks, shared: “As the founder and Chief Innovation Officer of a Healthcare AI firm, I recognize both the pervasiveness and growing inaccuracy of generative AI. Whether for assurance, ownership clarity or cultural reasons, being able to verify the origin and originality of a work before its acceptance, ensures integrity for all parties in a data transaction. In addition, having a provably clean provenance increases the value of the creation and shifts the burden of verification of authenticity from the receiver to the originator.

Objectively: Human creative is one of the pioneers of origination side certification and thus stands to grow significantly in a very short period of time.
Subjectively: Requiring staff to use it saves a ton of time for those of us who receive a high volume of submissions (be they code, articles, homework or blogs).”

Human Creative is dedicated to certifying human productions in the age of AI through its live-monitoring systems. Its current system, Certified Human Content(TM), live-tracks every keystroke of written content, live-audits for AI content, locks phones while the program is in use, blocks generative AI sources and tabs, and provides a human auditor feature enabling a full analytical review of each completed work. Certified works receive a shareable certification which reveal many details about how the file was crafted, giving transparency to recipients and assuring them that the content they have received is not AI generated.

“Whether they are aware of it or not, everyone sees the slop that AI is generating as it pretends to be artists, has conversations with itself through users on social media, and even substitutes for technical expertise on important matters like legal documents. This has created not only AI fatigue, but also questions surrounding content ownership. I’m excited to partner with friends that are already moving quickly on a plan to provide content creators the tools they need to certify that they actually created their own work. As AI fatigue grows, consumers will want to know that the content they are consuming has been created by humans and not AI. Human Creative will be first in line to provide this increasingly necessary stamp of certification and I’m thrilled to be a part of it at such an early stage,” shared Derek Burger.

Derek Burger will be joining Human Creative as its newest partner and assuming the role of Chief Financial Officer for the company. Burger is also the plant controller at Keter, overseeing the operational finances of a plant with $55-$65 million in annual revenue. His financial expertise will be an asset to the Human Creative team as they anticipate their service expansions in 2026.

Human Creative’s CEO, Tiffany Ward, remarked: “Our team is thrilled to be welcoming Derek Burger as a partner. His financial skills as well as business intuition will enable our company to thrive during a year of rapid growth. As we launch our Certified Human Content(TM) system to individual users, academic institutions, and businesses, Derek Burger’s insights will play heavily in optimizing our financial operations. We are grateful to have his partnership at this stage of the company’s history.”

Human Creative’s Certified Human Content(TM) system has a planned market launch in spring of 2026. To learn more, visit humancreative.org/


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Conor Quinlan

Software Developer Intern
Conor is a Senior at West Virginia University, majoring in Computer Science with a focus in Cybersecurity.
conor@humancreative.org

Derek Burger

Chief Financial Officer
Derek Burger, plant controller with Keter, has spent over a decade in operational accounting and finance. Currently managing the finances for a plant with $55-$65 million annual revenue, his recent work has focused on developing metric based reporting to drive cost reductions and operational efficiency improvements. Derek's experience involves educating and guiding plant leadership through a pivotal leadership change and major operational turn around.
derek@humancreative.org

Patrick Trester

Chief Software Engineer
Tech. Sgt. Patrick Trester is an experienced software developer and has served in NCOIC Command & Control (C2), Cyber Security, and Emergency Management for the US Airforce for over eleven years. Commended with an endorsement from the U.S. Air Force, he was also the recipient of the Air Force Global Strike Command Innovative Professional of the Year award.
patrick@humancreative.org

Ben Ward

Chief Marketing Officer

Benjamin Ward, Account Operations Manager for Inner Action Media – the marketing agency of record for the West Virginia Lottery – co-founded Human Creative. He received an M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2018 and is an avid reader and writer on the topic of AI and culture.

ben@humancreative.org

Dr. James Brooks

Chief Technology Officer
Dr. James Brooks, professor at Grove City College, is a co-founder of Human Creative. Brooks received his PhD in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014. James has been involved in technology development of autonomous systems for over two decades resulting in the development of large margin business segments with several hundred million dollar annual revenues and over 50 issued US patents.
james@humancreative.org

Tiffany Ward

Chief Executive Officer
Tiffany Ward, author and editor, received her M.A.B.S. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2018. Prior to co-founding Human Creative, she ran a sales organization which serviced over 2300 regular customers, with gross annual sales over $1,000,000. From 2018-2019, she authored a successful fictional trilogy under a pen name.
tiffany@humancreative.org

AI Detectors are inconsistent and can be easily bypassed...I'm becoming more and more convinced that this will be one of the only ways to verify authentic student work.

- Vince Anastasi, Writing Instructor
Grove City College