Building a Persistent Home for Everyone.
X-PEN ID exists for one reason — to give a verified, structured, lifelong identity that lives longer than any single platform.
About X-PEN ID
X-PEN ID is a persistent, human-centric digital identity platform launched in April 2025, by Expert Novice Group in partnership with Xpertno Research Center (XRC). It brings education, professional journey, research output, and credentials together into one structured, searchable, contributor-owned profile.
Most online profiles are scattered, unverifiable, and invisible to modern AI and discovery systems. X-PEN ID solves that — by giving every contributor a permanent ID, a Schema.org-compliant knowledge graph, and a transparent verification system that grows over time. It is not a profile page. It is your lifelong identity infrastructure.
Identity is the Foundation. Let's Rebuild!
Our Mission
To create a persistent, human-centric digital identity for every contributor on earth — making education, work, research, and credentials structured, verifiable, and globally discoverable.
Our Vision
A web where every contributor, from a student to a senior scholar and professional, is fairly indexed, fairly verified, and fairly visible — across borders, languages, and decades.
"Empowering Global Thought, One Identity at a Time.
At X-PEN ID, we envisioned a future where identity is not merely verified — it is honoured, preserved, and empowered. Every expert, researcher, and thinker carries a legacy that deserves to transcend borders, systems, and time. With each profile we build and every idea we uplift, we are not just creating digital records — we are carving monuments of human intellect.
As the Founder, I am deeply humbled by the global community that continues to grow around this vision. Together, let's not just document achievement — let's redefine what it means to be recognized."
From an Idea to an Infrastructure
X-PEN ID started as a question — why are contributors invisible to the systems that should know them best? Here's where we've been, and where we're going.
- One Identity. Verified for Life.
- Turn Achievements into a Trusted Digital Presence.
- Every Pen has a story — Let yours be X-PEN!
The founding idea
X-PEN ID is conceived to bridge the gap between scattered scholarly profiles and the need for one verified, persistent, AI-ready contributor record.
Building the foundation
Core platform built — registration, profile system, publication indexing, multi-level verification, and Schema.org-compliant knowledge graph generation.
Ecosystem integration
Connected with SEIPID for persistent article identifiers, PubLibra for book publishing, X-NeuroVerification for credential validation, and XIJIR for journal mandates.
Public API + global reach
Public read-only API for journals and integrators. Multi-language support. Partnerships with research bodies. The infrastructure scales.
Values that Shape Every Decision
These principles guide how X-PEN ID is built, how data is treated, and how the platform grows.
Trust by design
Verification is layered, transparent, and earnable. No false promises, no fake badges.
Open by default
Profiles are public, structured, and machine-readable. Schema.org. JSON-LD. No closed gardens.
Built to last
Persistent IDs. Stable URLs. Open data. Designed to outlive any single institution.
For everyone
Students, researchers, authors, professionals — across every country, every language, every level.
Future-aware
Built for the AI-driven discovery web of the next decade, not retrofitted from a 2010 design.
Free for contributors
Individual profiles are always free. No paywalls between you and your own identity.
X-PEN ID doesn't stand alone.
It's part of a wider open-scholarship ecosystem — each component handling a specific layer of the contributor's journey, all linked through structured data.
Your identity should be as permanent as your contributions.
Join a growing community of contributors building verified, structured, lifelong profiles — one X-PEN ID at a time.