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A receipt proves a process ran. It does not turn output into truth.

Under Seal preserves the source, the page pin, the checks performed, the unresolved conditions, the human decision, and the version. The reviewing lawyer still owns the legal and factual conclusion.

Authority review: August 12, 2026. State rules, local rules, contracts, and matter facts still require firm-specific review.

Important boundary

Under Seal is software, not a law firm, auditor, records custodian, or compliance certification. Local deployment reduces particular disclosure and vendor-access risks. It does not by itself satisfy professional-conduct rules, HIPAA, state privacy law, trust-account rules, discovery duties, court orders, or a firm's own policies.

A receipt can establish

The document version and checksum examined.
The page or line offered as support.
Which deterministic checks ran and their results.
Which pages were unreadable, excluded, or uncertain.
Who accepted, edited, rejected, or marked an item not found.
Whether the version satisfied the configured export gate.

A receipt cannot establish

That the provided record is complete.
That a source is truthful or authentic.
That a citation remains good law unless negative-treatment research was separately performed.
That an inference is legally correct.
That a court's local rule, standing order, or disclosure rule was satisfied.
That a human review was competent merely because it was recorded.

Claim ledger

Evidence states used throughout Under Seal

Proposed

An idea or requested capability. It must not be marketed as available.

Specified

Behavior and acceptance criteria are documented.

Implemented locally

Code exists in a working tree. Verification may still be incomplete.

Tested locally

Named local tests or evaluations pass.

Committed

The implementation is present in version history.

Pilot-validated

A real firm used it on an approved matter under the pilot protocol.

Released

Versioned software shipped with a release receipt, supported configuration, and rollback path.

Current public evidence boundary

Under Seal is pre-release. Repository tests support specific local controls, including synthetic local encrypted recovery and offline signed-update/rollback drills. Deterministic citation tests also chain valid Id., supra, named, and reporter short forms to a preceding full case citation while blocking orphaned, ambiguous, fabricated, or out-of-coverage antecedents. That does not establish that authority remains good law. Local tests do not yet prove production deployment, independent signing-key custody, target-hardware rollback, a successful firm-specific recovery procedure, cross-firm outcomes, compatibility across a certified hardware matrix, or legal compliance in a particular jurisdiction. Customer-result claims remain unavailable until paid-pilot evidence exists.

Rules and claim standards

Government guidance

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Current Rules of Practice and Procedure

The current national federal rules plus direction to the local rules that may add court-specific requirements.

Rule

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Includes discovery, disclosure, preservation, and electronically stored information requirements for federal civil matters.

Government guidance

Federal Trade Commission

Advertising and Marketing Basics

Advertising claims must be truthful, non-deceptive, fair, and supported by evidence before publication.

Government guidance

Federal Trade Commission

Advertising FAQs: A Guide for Small Business

Explains express and implied claims, material omissions, reasonable-basis substantiation, and disclosures.