Use cases

Who needs a seal? Almost everyone who issues a file.

Let's Seal proves any file is authentic, unaltered, from a known issuer, and existed at a point in time — verifiable by anyone, for free. Here's how that lands in your sector, step by step, in the app and from the CLI.

One standard, every file type

Whatever you issue, there’s a seal for it

PDFPAdES (embedded)
Images / video / audioC2PA Content Credentials
XMLXML-DSig
EmailS/MIME
Any other filedetached CMS .sig
Code & artifactscosign-compatible
By sector

Find your sector

Each guide walks the sector through sealing and verifying its own documents — with a workflow diagram, the web-app and CLI steps, and a live proof. More arrive every week.

Law & legal

Solicitors, barristers, in-house counsel, paralegals, and eDiscovery teams

  • Contracts & deeds
  • Legal opinions
  • Engagement letters
  • Wills
Read the guide

Insurance

Insurers, brokers, MGAs, loss adjusters, and surveyors

  • Policy documents
  • Certificates of insurance
  • Claims paperwork
  • Loss-adjuster reports
Read the guide

Software supply chain

Dev teams, DevOps, platform and security engineers

  • Build artifacts
  • Container images
  • SBOMs (SPDX / CycloneDX)
  • Release binaries
Read the guide

Compliance & audit

Compliance, risk, quality, and audit teams

  • Audit trails
  • Evidence records
  • SOC / ISO evidence
  • Data-integrity records (ALCOA+)
Read the guide

Intellectual property

Patent & IP attorneys, inventors, R&D teams

  • Invention disclosures
  • Prior-art records
  • Trade-secret proof
  • Design files
Guide on the way

Banking & lending

Banks, lenders, fintechs, building societies

  • Statements
  • Loan & mortgage agreements
  • KYC documents
  • Letters of credit
Guide on the way

Accounting & audit

Accountants, auditors, tax advisers, bookkeepers

  • Financial statements
  • Audit reports
  • Tax returns
  • Management accounts
Guide on the way

Investment & asset management

Fund managers, wealth managers, IFAs, custodians

  • Factsheets & KIIDs
  • Prospectuses
  • Investor statements
  • Capital-call notices
Guide on the way

Construction & engineering

Contractors, architects, structural & civil engineers

  • Building certificates
  • Structural calculations
  • Inspection reports
  • As-built drawings
Guide on the way

Surveying & property reports

Chartered surveyors, valuers, EPC assessors

  • Valuation reports
  • Homebuyer surveys
  • EPCs
  • Party-wall awards
Guide on the way

Property & conveyancing

Conveyancers, estate & letting agents, developers

  • Title documents
  • Transfer deeds (TR1)
  • Leases & tenancy agreements
  • Inventories
Guide on the way

Healthcare

Hospitals, GPs, clinics, dentists, vets

  • Medical records
  • Discharge summaries
  • Referral letters
  • Fit notes
Guide on the way

Pharma & life sciences

Pharma, CROs, clinical trials, medical devices

  • Batch records
  • Certificates of analysis
  • Trial data
  • GMP documents
Guide on the way

Education & credentials

Universities, colleges, awarding & professional bodies

  • Degree certificates
  • Transcripts
  • Diplomas
  • Enrolment letters
Guide on the way

Government & public sector

Councils, agencies, regulators, courts, registrars

  • Permits & licences
  • Planning permissions
  • Benefit & tax letters
  • Court orders
Guide on the way

HR & corporate

HR teams, company secretaries, boards, startups

  • Employment contracts
  • Offer & reference letters
  • Payslips & P60s
  • Board minutes
Guide on the way

Procurement & supply chain

Buyers, suppliers, tender teams, trade finance

  • Purchase orders
  • Contracts & NDAs
  • Tender submissions
  • Invoices
Guide on the way

Manufacturing & trade

Manufacturers, logistics, food & agri, automotive

  • Certificates of conformity
  • Mill / material certs
  • Test reports
  • Bills of lading
Guide on the way

Media, journalism & creative

Photographers, newsrooms, publishers, artists, film

  • Photos & video
  • Published articles
  • Master files
  • Brand assets
Guide on the way

Individuals & freelancers

Anyone with a file worth proving

  • Personal agreements
  • Creative work
  • Important documents
  • Photos / video
Guide on the way
Cross-sector

Ten reasons anyone seals a file

Every guide above is some combination of these jobs — delivered in the file’s own native format.

01

Prove authenticity & integrity

Show a document is genuine and hasn't been altered since issue — the anti-forgery, anti-tamper case.

02

Timestamp — prove it existed

Prove a file existed by a certain date: prior art, priority, deadlines, “I had this first”.

03

Prove authorship & provenance

Show who created or issued a work — for IP, attribution, and anti-plagiarism.

04

Bulk-issue verifiable documents

Seal thousands of statements, certificates, or invoices automatically inside an existing workflow.

05

Media provenance vs. deepfakes

Content Credentials on photos and video: this is real, this is who shot it, this is unedited.

06

Evidence & chain of custody

Forensic files, disclosure, incident records — provably unchanged from collection onward.

07

Software supply-chain integrity

Sign build artifacts, containers, and SBOMs; prove a release is genuine and untampered.

08

Verifiable credentials

Degrees, licences, memberships, and certificates anyone can check without phoning the issuer.

09

Long-term archival integrity

Records that must stay provable for years — the seal and Bitcoin anchor outlive any single vendor.

10

Regulatory & compliance evidence

Audit trails, data integrity, retention — provable, timestamped, and independently checkable.

Your headline market

Anyone issuing documents at volume

The biggest lane: organisations that already generate statements, certificates, policies, invoices, and reports. Sealing drops into the existing pipeline — API, CLI, or a watched folder — so every file leaves already sealed, timestamped, and carrying a proof link. The recipient gets a normal document that also verifies.

Drop-in
One API call or CLI command per document
At scale
Thousands a day, watched-folder or batch
Free & native
No per-seal fee; recipients get a normal file that verifies