How it works
Attested Accounts seals a financial record the moment it is written — every create, update and status change to an invoice, quote, recurring-invoice template, expense or time entry is Ed25519-signed at that instant, using the same signing and anchoring infrastructure already running across this company's platform. It is an evidence layer beside your existing accounting records, not a new ledger. The table below names what's live today.
- Key Takeaways:
- Sealing is live. Every write is signed the moment it happens, and — as of this month — each tenant's newly-written entries also carry a hash link to the entry before it, so a deletion or reordering inside the sealed history becomes detectable, not only an altered signature.
- Sealing shows a record has not been silently altered since it was signed — it does not show that what the record says is true, complete, or lawful.
- Financial records carry a statutory retention requirement most other records don't. Erasure requests now correctly report which finance records fall under that retention rather than erase them, while scrubbing what genuinely can be erased around them (see below).
What's running today
| Piece | Status |
|---|---|
| Signing and anchoring infrastructure (Ed25519 signatures, scheduled external anchoring) | Live |
| That infrastructure applied to invoices, quotes, recurring-invoice templates, expenses and time entries | Live |
| Per-entry hash-linking of the sealed history, so a deletion or reordering is independently detectable | Live — applies to entries written from this month onward; earlier entries are not linked retrospectively, by design. |
| An on-demand, qualified (RFC 3161) timestamped receipt for a single sealed record | Built, available on request — not yet a self-serve button. |
| A page showing a record's sealed history (who wrote it, when) | Live |
| A downloadable, self-verifiable bundle a third party can check offline, without trusting our word for it | Live |
| Erasure requests correctly reporting statutory-retained finance records rather than erasing them, and scrubbing the genuinely erasable remainder around them | Live |
What sealing does
When a financial record is created or changed, the write is hashed and signed under the tenant's own key at that moment, and the signature anchored externally on a schedule. A later reviewer can check that a record matches what was signed, and — for entries written this month onward — that nothing in the sealed history has been silently removed or reordered. This is the same evidentiary property this company's other products carry, applied to financial records — not a claim that any given figure or entry is itself correct. A downloadable bundle lets a third party check this independently, offline, with our published verification tool, rather than taking our word for it.
Financial records and statutory retention
Ordinary personal records can usually be erased on request. Financial records commonly cannot to the same extent — record-keeping law sets minimum periods some records must be kept for. We do not state a specific retention period or cite specific legislation on this page: that citation has not been independently verified, and we would rather say nothing than assert something we have not confirmed. What is built and live: an erasure request against a tenant with financial records now correctly REPORTS which of them fall under statutory retention, rather than silently erasing them or silently skipping them — and separately scrubs the parts of a retained record that are not themselves part of the statutory record (for example, OCR text extracted from a receipt), while leaving the retained core — including the receipt image itself — untouched.
Who built it
Attested Accounts is a 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. See about for the company and its wider product range.