Attested Accounts

Attested Accounts will seal invoices, quotes, expenses and other financial records created in the Business Village, so a practice or client can later show what a record said and when it was written — independently of the platform's own word. It has not been built: the sealing mechanism runs today for other products from the same company, not yet for financial records.

By John Stroh, Director, My Digital Sovereignty Ltd. Published , last updated .

What it will add to records you already keep

The Business Village already carries the accounting capability a small entity needs. What Attested Accounts is designed to add is that a financial record, and the actions taken on it, become checkable later by someone who trusts neither the practice nor the platform on its word alone. Once built, each write will be signed at the moment it happens and anchored so that altering a record afterwards is detectable — the same property this company's other products already carry today, applied to financial records specifically once the work is done.

Who this is for

Accounting and bookkeeping practices responsible for client records they did not personally create; small businesses, charities, incorporated societies and trusts that need to be able to explain a financial record's history later; and anyone adopting AI-assisted bookkeeping, reconciliation or invoice-processing tools, where the question of who — or what — changed a record becomes harder to answer without something recording it.

What this is not

Attested Accounts is not an accounting system, a bank, an audit opinion, or a source of accounting advice. It does not replace the Business Village's existing accounting features or any other accounting platform — it sits alongside the operational record as an evidence layer. Nothing here should be read as a statement about whether any particular record is accurate, lawful or complete; sealing shows a record has not been altered undetectably since it was signed, not that what it says is correct.

Who built it

Attested Accounts is a planned product from My Digital Sovereignty Ltd, the New Zealand company also responsible for the Village community platform, the AI Visibility Auditor and MIO° Conduct Record. Once built, it will share their sealing and timestamping infrastructure.