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, worked examples, and a live proof. Don’t see yours? The same seal fits any file.

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

Property & conveyancing

Conveyancers, estate & letting agents, landlords, and developers

  • Tenancy agreements
  • Leases
  • Transfer deeds (TR1)
  • Title documents
Read the guide

Education & credentials

Universities, colleges, and awarding & professional bodies

  • Degree certificates
  • Transcripts
  • Diplomas
  • Professional licences
Read the guide

Media, journalism & creative

Photographers, newsrooms, publishers, artists, and film teams

  • Photos & video
  • Published articles
  • Master files
  • Brand assets
Read the guide

Intellectual property

Patent & IP attorneys, inventors, and R&D teams

  • Invention disclosures
  • Lab notebooks
  • Prior-art records
  • Design files
Read the guide

Banking & lending

Banks, lenders, fintechs, and building societies

  • Bank statements
  • Loan & mortgage agreements
  • KYC / onboarding documents
  • Letters of credit
Read the guide

Accounting & audit

Accountants, auditors, tax advisers, and bookkeepers

  • Financial statements
  • Audit reports
  • Tax returns
  • Management accounts
Read the guide

Investment & asset management

Fund managers, wealth managers, IFAs, and custodians

  • Factsheets & KIIDs
  • Prospectuses
  • Investor statements
  • Capital-call notices
Read the guide

Construction & engineering

Contractors, architects, structural & civil engineers, and building-control teams

  • Building & completion certificates
  • Structural calculations
  • Inspection & test reports
  • As-built drawings
Read the guide

Surveying & property reports

Chartered surveyors, valuers, and EPC assessors

  • Valuation reports
  • Homebuyer & building surveys
  • EPCs
  • Party-wall awards
Read the guide

Healthcare

Hospitals, GPs, clinics, dentists, and vets

  • Fit notes & sick certificates
  • Referral & discharge letters
  • Medical records
  • Lab & imaging results
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Pharma & life sciences

Pharma, CROs, clinical trials, and medical-device makers

  • Batch records
  • Certificates of analysis (CoA)
  • Clinical-trial data
  • GMP / GxP documents
Read the guide

Government & public sector

Councils, agencies, regulators, courts, and registrars

  • Permits & licences
  • Planning permissions
  • Benefit & tax letters
  • Court orders
Read the guide

HR & corporate

HR teams, company secretaries, boards, and startups

  • Employment contracts
  • Offer & reference letters
  • Payslips & P60s
  • Board minutes & resolutions
Read the guide

Procurement & supply chain

Buyers, suppliers, tender teams, and trade-finance desks

  • Purchase orders
  • Contracts & NDAs
  • Tender submissions
  • Invoices
Read the guide

Manufacturing & trade

Manufacturers, logistics, food & agri, and automotive

  • Certificates of conformity (CoC)
  • Mill / material certificates
  • Test & inspection reports
  • Bills of lading
Read the guide

Individuals & freelancers

Anyone with a file worth proving

  • Manuscripts & writing
  • Designs & creative work
  • Personal agreements
  • Photos & video
Read the guide
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 blockchain 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