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ExistBefore guides
Practical, step-by-step guides for proving a file existed at a given moment — without uploading the file.
Consumer
Online purchases, shopping, and fraud
When something goes wrong with an online purchase, time is against you. The faster you collect and secure evidence, the stronger your position will be. Here is a practical guide to turning the chaos of fraud into clear, usable documentation.
Consumer
Travel, mobility, and transport
Delays, cancellations, damages, disputed rentals, rooms different from photos, accidents, and road problems all have one thing in common: they must be documented immediately. This section helps gather evidence during travel, commutes, and stays, showing how to secure conditions, locations, liabilities, communications, and damages before they become difficult to reconstruct.
Household
Home and utilities
Switching electricity, gas, or water supplier should be easy: pick the offer, send the data, wait for the switch, and enjoy the adult sensation of having done something administrative without losing half a day. Then comes a final bill with estimated usage, strange readings, or amounts looking like a random number generator output. The smart move is documenting your meter reading before the switch, with photos, video, contract data, and orderly communications. Before switch date, photograph meter, prepare a summary, and timestamp main files with ExistBefore.
Consumer
Healthcare, wellbeing, and personal services
Healthcare, aesthetic, and rehabilitative journeys often require reconstructing promises, consents, received instructions, appointments, results, and progress over time. This section helps document communications, visible conditions, professional indications, and progressive changes, creating a useful timeline in case of doubts, disputes, or insurance claims.
Household
School, training, and education
Handovers, grading criteria, informally shared materials, bullying or cyberbullying episodes may require precise documentation. This section helps students, families, teachers, and schools keep orderly proofs of instructions, assignments, communications, and critical episodes, especially when what was said or shared risks getting lost.
Personal
Private life and interpersonal relationships
Among friends, relatives, and private individuals, people often rely on trust. But loans, handovers, returns, sales, and informal agreements can get complicated when versions no longer match. Here you will find guides to document simply what was promised, delivered, paid, or returned, reducing the risk of arguments based solely on memory.
Consumer
Platforms, social media, and online reputation
Online content can damage a person or a business in minutes, and disappear right after. Harassment, threats, defamation, fake reviews, impersonated profiles, and identity theft require quick, complete, and orderly documentation. Here you will find practical guidance on securing content, profiles, dates, URLs, interactions, and modifications before they are deleted or altered.
Consumer
Events, weddings, and entertainment
An event is prepared over weeks, but any problems emerge in a few hours: services different from those promised, missing setups, last-minute changes, undelivered photos, damaged materials, or poorly executed parties. This section helps document agreements, expectations, actual service, and final results, before, during, and after the event.
Household
Pets and animals
When it comes to animals, disputes can involve promises, conditions, custody, handovers, non-compliant services, or damage caused to third parties. This section helps you document adverts, agreements, the animal's condition, liabilities, and communications, creating a clear trail in situations that are often emotional and delicate.
Household
Inheritances and family assets
Inheritances, family goods, documents, keys, valuables, and advanced expenses can generate tension if not documented in time. This section helps secure what exists, what is handed over, what is paid, and what is agreed, before differing memories or informal agreements become a source of conflict.
Professional
Freelancers, consultants, and agencies
In professional work, having done a good job isn't enough: often you must be able to prove what was included, what was requested, what was modified, and what was delivered. This section helps freelancers, consultants, and agencies protect offers, methodologies, reports, technical attachments, campaigns, drafts, and creative assets, reducing the risk of disputes with clients.
Creative
Creatives, authors, copywriters, designers
Ideas, texts, logos, naming, scripts, and creative materials often travel before being approved, published, or paid. This section helps secure a version's existence before sending to clients, publishers, brands, or collaborators, creating a useful temporal trail when content might be copied, modified, or claimed by others.
Developer
Software, development, SaaS, AI
Code, datasets, algorithms, AI models, and software deliveries change constantly, which is exactly why they must be accurately documented. This section helps you secure versions, files, technical components, and shared materials, allowing you to prove what existed, what was delivered, and in what form, prior to modifications, integrations, or disputes.
Founder
Startups, investors, and innovation
The early stages of a startup are fragile: ideas, prototypes, founder roles, pitches to investors, and commercial methods are often shared before formal protection exists. This section helps document initial versions, agreements, contributions, and materials, creating a clear foundation before pitches, negotiations, presentations, or the entry of new partners.
Legal
Legal services, technical consultants, and digital evidence
Digital evidence is only useful if it is properly collected, correctly preserved, and integrated into a coherent reconstruction of facts. This section is designed for those working with chats, screenshots, opinions, memos, working documents, and digital acquisitions, offering practical guidelines for locking down contents, contexts, timelines, and prior existence.
Corporate
Governance, partners, management, and HR
Corporate decisions, minutes, policies, letters of intent, due diligence, partner agreements, HR procedures, and internal materials can become subjects of dispute long after the fact. This section helps prove from when a document existed, when a procedure was in force, and which materials were shared, approved, or prepared at a specific moment.
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- Inheritances and family assets Come cristallizzare accordi informali tra eredi e spese It always happens: someone advances money, someone promises, everyone postpones settling the accounts. Then time passes and memory does what it wants. Since the only certainty is that sooner or later we all exit the stage (including those arguing over the kitchen chairs), might…
- Private life and interpersonal relationships How to agree on a consensual casual relationship A casual relationship can be light, enjoyable, and adult, provided the people involved are truly free, lucid, and aligned on what they want. The point is not turning intimacy into a municipal office form, but communicating well beforehand, respecting limits during, and leaving…
- Startups, investors, and innovation How to avoid founder disputes over roles, equity, contributions, and initial documents Founder disputes rarely arise at the beginning: they emerge when the project starts holding value. Avoiding them means clarifying and documenting immediately who does what, who brings what, and how it evolves over time. If you've already launched, you can still tidy up and…
- Pets and animals How to capture adverts or promises when buying or adopting an animal Even before gathering evidence, take the time to really get to know the animal. A gradual approach reduces surprises and misunderstandings. Then, if something is promised or declared, documenting it well helps you avoid misinterpretations. Start calmly, observe, and only then…