Data Certification Technologies (DCT) is a patented, disinterested third-party platform that produces cryptographically signed, timestamped, court-ready records of digital files — records any court, opposing counsel, or auditor can verify independently, without trusting DCT, the customer, or any intermediary.
How the platform works Investor inquiriesThe legal and insurance industries spend extraordinary sums every year resolving disputes that hinge on whether a digital record existed, unaltered, at a specific time. When that question can be answered cleanly — with cryptographically verifiable evidence — disputes settle faster, subrogation recovers more, audits close on time, and litigation cost drops. When it cannot, the cost falls on insurers, defense counsel, claims operations, and the parties they serve.
Three forces have converged to make this an urgent commercial market:
Federal Rules of Evidence 902(13) and 902(14), added in 2017, allow electronic records to self-authenticate when their integrity can be cryptographically demonstrated — reducing the live-witness foundation work that traditionally made digital evidence slow and expensive to present.
Parties increasingly need to prove a record is original, has not been AI-altered, or — equally — was AI-generated and attributable to a specific source. This need now spans legal discovery, regulatory compliance, and content verification.
Insurance subrogation, regulatory audit, healthcare records, and compliance workflows move records through many hands. Each hand-off is a moment where custody can break. An unbroken cryptographic chain from origination forward resolves a category of cost the affected parties currently absorb.
A customer submits a document, image, or any digital asset. The platform performs a sequence of cryptographic operations that produce a certificate of authenticity tied to that exact file, that exact moment, and a specific signing party. The customer receives a human-readable PDF certificate and a machine-readable evidence package — either of which any third party can verify independently using public tools, without a DCT account.
From file to court-ready certificate — every step automated, logged, and verifiable by any third party.
Files arrive via web upload or REST API, encrypted in transit and at rest to industry standard.
A SHA-256 hash is computed across the file's bytes, with SHA3-256 in parallel for forward agility as algorithms evolve.
The hash is timestamped by an independent commercial Time-Stamp Authority under RFC 3161 — the international standard underpinning legally accepted timestamps since 2001.
The hash and timestamp are signed with a key protected by a hardware security module. Private keys never leave the HSM; every signing operation is logged at the infrastructure layer.
The signed package is stored in write-once-read-many (WORM) storage with cross-region replication. Every action that touches the record — ingest, view, share, retrieve — is logged to a hash-chained, append-only audit trail.
Neutrality is structural: DCT certifies the record, but no one must trust — or even contact — DCT to verify it.
The rules of evidence require that records of regularly conducted activity be authenticated without bias. A vendor with skin in the underlying dispute cannot credibly serve that role. DCT has no interest in the substantive outcome of any matter it certifies — only in the integrity of its certification process. Our customers' adversaries, the courts, and the auditors who rely on our records all benefit from that neutrality.
No vendor can make a record "court admissible"; admissibility is decided by a judge based on the foundation counsel lays. What DCT records are designed to do is make self-authentication under FRE 902(11)–(14) straightforward — reducing the foundation work and witness time a proponent needs. We provide the technical evidence in a form purpose-built to support admission; we do not promise admission itself.
The patent protects the specific four-tier architecture the platform implements — registered data ingest, a staging tier that assigns signatures and validates transmission integrity, authenticated presentation, and certified storage with retention and litigation-hold properties — together with the corresponding method claim addressing certification of records for originality and use in evidentiary contexts.
We frame it the way diligence will: the patent is a defensive asset on our architecture. It gives us leverage against direct copycats and strengthens the cryptographic-rigor positioning that defines our category. It is not framed as a market monopoly — competitors can and do build on different architectures, and our strategy assumes they will. Our advantage rests on the combination of the patent, the disinterested third-party position, deep domain expertise in our first vertical, and the operational discipline of the platform itself.
The four-tier pattern protected by US 9,875,374 B2 — the same architecture the platform implements.
The platform is horizontal by design — anywhere certified digital evidence has economic value. We are leading commercially where our domain depth is greatest.
Our founder spent four decades in insurance and risk management, concentrated in high-risk programs where evidentiary clarity drives cost recovery. The patterns that produced cost-effective subrogation in those programs are the same patterns the DCT platform codifies.
Subrogation that resolves under the business records rule in a fraction of conventional litigation time is the kind of cost reduction defense counsel and claims operations actively buy. The certificate-of-authenticity artifact maps directly to how subrogation claims are established.
Once proven in subrogation, the same certification engine extends to medical records, compliance audit, and certified release of public records — each an expansion on a proven platform, not a new product build.
We are sequencing deliberately. The V1 product proves the core certification platform and earns the first paying customers. Each later stage is gated on a real-world signal — a paying customer requires the capability, a sponsor commits, or a market matures. Investor capital is committed against demonstrated demand, not an upfront kitchen-sink build.
A bring-your-own-file digital notary: cryptographic hash, independent trusted timestamp, HSM-protected signing, tamper-evident WORM retention, and certificates any third party can verify — sold directly to insurance and legal buyers.
Compliance audit and healthcare-records handling.
At-site smartphone capture with device-level integrity, extending chain of custody to the field.
Industry-specific certified data-collection forms, co-developed with vertical experts.
A hosted commercial implementation of the open C2PA standard — complementary, not a competing proprietary scheme.
FedRAMP and federal contract vehicles.
The full eight-stage roadmap, with line-item cost detail and engineering scenario modeling, is available to qualified parties in the companion technical brief and cost workbook prepared by our Software Advisor.
Forty years in insurance, legal, and risk-management practice, focused on the highest-risk operations in transportation, construction, retail, manufacturing, and distribution. His patented self-funding and risk-management programs produced the insight behind the DCT certification architecture and US Patent 9,875,374 B2.
Senior technology executive with more than three decades in software development, enterprise architecture, and technology leadership across regulated sectors including government, financial services, and healthcare. Provides technical leadership to DCT and authors the engineering plan and cost estimates underlying the V1 build.
The seed is sized to carry the company from its current pre-build position through V1 launch and into the first paying design-partner contracts — build cost, twelve months of operating runway, initial go-to-market in the first vertical, and reserves for the specialized legal, securities, and patent counsel an early-stage regulated platform requires.
Accredited investors interested in the category are invited to contact us. We would welcome the opportunity to walk through the technical brief and cost detail with you and the technical advisor of your choice.
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