Digital evidence · for litigators and their teams

Preserve the evidence the day the file opens. Not the week before trial.

Web pages, posts, listings, emails and chat threads get edited, deleted and denied. instantproof gives your firm a five‑minute, ~€10 preservation step that produces a sealed, independently verifiable evidence package. Make it the first thing every matter gets.

Qualified eIDAS seal + timestamp
Witnessed TLS traffic recording
Verifiable by opposing counsel
Belgian company · EU data
Exhibit · certificate IP‑2026‑001042
Webpage capture
Sealed evidence package · 9 files
2026‑06‑30
09:14:02 UTC
Subject
https://example.com/posts/9281
Origin IP
203.0.113.7
Manifest SHA‑256
4f9a 0c71 b3e2 … c1d2
Verify at
secure.instantproof.legal/verify/IP‑2026‑001042
  • screenshot.png · recording.mp4captured
  • witness/capture.pcap + tls‑keys.logwitnessed on the wire
  • manifest.sig · qualified eSealsealed
  • timestamp.tsr · RFC 3161qualified time
eIDAS · Art. 41Qualifiedseal & timestamp

Illustrative certificate. Every field shown is bound by hash inside the signed manifest.

Built on eIDAS Reg. (EU) 910/2014 RFC 3161 qualified timestamp Qualified eSeal via an EU QTSP SHA‑256 per file TLS traffic witnessed and sealed GDPR · stored in the EU
Why firms use it every week, not once

Online evidence has a half‑life. A preservation routine removes the gamble.

A one‑off capture saves one case. A routine saves the ones you don't yet know you'll need. Three moments in a matter where a €10 capture pays for itself many times over.

Moment 1At intake

Freeze what the client is pointing at

The post, the listing, the profile, the review. Capture it before the counterparty receives your first letter and cleans up.

  • Webpage capture from €0.95
  • Client can be on the call while you do it
  • Bill it as a disbursement or absorb it
Moment 2Before the first letter

Record the logged‑in reality

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Web, marketplaces, Gmail. A recorded, isolated browser session captures content behind a login, with the network traffic witnessed.

  • Browser session ≈ €10
  • Video + decryptable network record
  • Server identity proven by its own TLS certificate
Moment 3While the matter runs

Re‑capture as facts move

Edited statements, changed prices, deleted apologies. Each re‑capture is a timestamped point on a timeline the other side cannot rewrite.

  • Same subject, new certificate, minutes apart
  • Packages stay yours, outside our platform
  • Hand the verifier link to opposing counsel
The cost argument you can make to a client

The same technical facts a bailiff records. For about €10 instead of €300 to €700.

A bailiff's report is strong by tradition. For online content, what actually carries weight is the technical record of what the server sent, when. instantproof captures every layer of it, and a bailiff can still authenticate that record later if a procedure calls for one.

Bailiff reportinstantproof
Cost per finding€300 – €700from €0.95 · ≈ €10 recorded session
Time to evidenceDays, by appointmentMinutes, self‑service, 24/7
What is capturedOfficer's written accountVideo, screenshot, witnessed network capture, hashes, qualified timestamp
Evidential basisPublic officer's sworn recordQualified eIDAS seal + timestamp; presumption of accuracy and integrity (Art. 41)
Who can verifyVia the officer or the courtAnyone: you, an expert, opposing counsel
Escalation—Bailiff authenticates your existing record. Nothing lost.
Typical litigation file, volatile online items preserved6
Bailiff route, 6 findings at €450 avg.€2,700
instantproof, 6 recorded sessions at €9.95€59.70
Saved per file, or preserved that otherwise would not be€2,640

Cost ranges are indicative and vary by country, officer and complexity. Admissibility and evidential weight are always for the court. instantproof produces technical evidence artifacts, not legal advice. Full comparison →

Chain of trust

Evidence that survives an opposing expert. Because it never asks anyone to trust us.

Four layers of proof. Three of them rest on parties other than us, and the fourth, our own traffic witness, records something nobody can fake without breaking the security of the internet itself. It is the subject of a filed patent application. Read the architecture →

1 · Traffic witness

Records the padlock‑secured traffic itself

Besides the video, we record the padlock‑secured traffic itself, and because that traffic carries the website’s own identity certificate and can be unscrambled only one way, the recording is provably from the real site and provably shows what it actually sent, which no screenshot, video or edited file can offer.

In technical terms: this is TLS traffic capture, with the session keys preserved so the encrypted stream can be decrypted and verified against the server’s certificate by anyone, at any time. The witness runs on a separate host operated by instantproof, with a hardware‑backed signing key that cannot be exported and recorded administrative access.
2 · The web server itself

Proves its own identity

The decrypted handshake contains the real server certificate, signed by a public Certificate Authority. The content came from gmail.com or facebook.com, not a look‑alike.

Keys can only unlock the one recording the witness saw. Fabrication would mean breaking TLS.
3 · Qualified trust provider

Fixes the time and seals the package

A qualified electronic timestamp and qualified electronic seal from an eIDAS qualified trust service provider. One changed byte breaks the seal.

Reg. (EU) 910/2014, Art. 41: presumption of accuracy of date and time, and of integrity.
4 · You, or anyone

Verifies offline, forever

Signature against a public key, SHA‑256 of every file against the manifest, timestamp token against the authority. No account, no login, no instantproof required.

Packages are stored with write‑once object lock and cross‑region replication for the life of the dispute.
Public verifier, usable by the other side:secure.instantproof.legal/verify/<certificate‑id>
Walkthroughs

Watch it work.

Short recordings of the real product, no narration needed. Each one shows a complete flow, from log‑in to the downloaded evidence package.

Record a browser session

Drive an isolated browser on video while the traffic is witnessed. For logged‑in content.

2:35 · English UI

Capture a web page

Preserve a public page as served right now: screenshot, source, network log.

0:51 · English UI

Verify a certificate

How opposing counsel or an expert re‑checks a certificate. No account needed.

0:22 · English UI

All walkthroughs →

Practice areas

Where the routine earns its keep.

Every one of these matters starts with something online that will not stay online. The capture is the same. The client conversation is different. All use cases →

IP

IP, brands and counterfeits

Certify the infringing listing, the seller profile and the checkout flow before a takedown alerts them.

Capture: recorded marketplace session, origin IP in certificate
DF

Defamation and media

Preserve the post, the comments, the share count and the timestamp before it is quietly edited or deleted.

Capture: webpage capture at intake, re‑capture after the letter
EM

Employment and harassment

Slack, Teams and email threads, recorded from the client's own logged‑in session before access is revoked.

Capture: browser session with DKIM‑signed emails on the wire
FA

Family and inheritance

WhatsApp Web, social posts and account states for family court, preserved before accounts are closed or wiped.

Capture: live WhatsApp Web session, witnessed on the wire
CO

Commercial and contract

Terms pages, price lists, published offers and confirmation emails as they stood on the day that matters.

Capture: webpage capture; file certificate for the signed PDF
PR

Property and tenancy

Listings, landlord messages and condition photos, timestamped before the deposit dispute begins.

Capture: file certificates for photos from €0.95 each
Firm plans

Priced so preservation is never a budget question.

Start per certificate. Move to a firm plan the month evidence capture becomes a standing part of intake. Cancel any time; every package you already hold stays valid and verifiable.

Pay per certificate

€0.95 +
  • Webpage €0.95 · recorded session €10 · file €1
  • Full evidence package, yours to keep
  • Public verifier for every certificate
  • Belgian invoice, rebillable as disbursement
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Teams + API

from €249 /mo
  • Not available for direct purchase: set up with you after a short call.
  • Everything in Professional
  • Higher storage allowance
  • API and automation workflows (roadmap)
  • Onboarding session for your team
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Prices exclude VAT. Cancel any time; every certificate you already hold stays valid and verifiable.

Questions counsel ask first

Before you put it in the intake checklist.

Will a court accept this instead of a bailiff's report?

Admissibility is always for the court. What instantproof gives you is a qualified eIDAS timestamp and seal, which under Article 41 of Regulation 910/2014 carry a presumption of accuracy and integrity, plus a sealed recording of the TLS traffic itself. That shifts the burden onto whoever disputes it. If a procedure or counterparty still requires a bailiff, the bailiff authenticates your existing package rather than starting over.

Can opposing counsel or their expert verify it without involving you?

Yes. The package contains the public key, the signed manifest, the SHA‑256 hash of every file, the timestamp token and the keys to decrypt the witnessed capture. Anyone can recompute and confirm it offline. There is also a public verifier that needs no account.

What about content behind a login, such as WhatsApp or a client's mailbox?

Use a recorded browser session. The client, or you, drives an isolated browser that is screen‑recorded while its encrypted traffic is witnessed. The result proves the message came from WhatsApp's or Google's real servers. A plain WhatsApp export can also be certified, but we state on that certificate that an export carries no signature from WhatsApp.

Where is the evidence stored and for how long?

In the EU, on redundant object storage with write‑once locking and cross‑region replication, engineered for eleven nines of durability. You also download the complete package. Nothing about verification depends on instantproof still existing.

Can we bill the client?

You receive a Belgian invoice per certificate or per month. Most firms rebill per‑matter certificates as a disbursement, exactly as they would a bailiff's fee, at a fraction of the amount.

Is instantproof giving legal advice?

No. instantproof produces technical evidence artifacts. Legal strategy and admissibility are for you and, ultimately, the court.

Ready when you are

Add one line to your intake checklist: “Preserve online evidence.”

Create an account and issue your first certificate in minutes. Firms get direct access to the engineers who built it.

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