Plans

The cost of proof is nothing.
The cost of having none is everything.

One seal. Court-ready. Choose how you pay for it — every plan protects the same record with the same cryptographic weight.

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For solo lawyers

Pay only for the seals you create. No subscription, no commitment.

$0.50 / seal
$5 minimum reload · prepaid credits
One conversation or one file
  • Pay-as-you-go, no monthly bill
  • 12 seals / minute (adjustable)
  • Up to 54 MB per seal
  • Email support

Files over 54 MB (to 100 MB) count as two seals. Otherwise the same 50 cents — screenshot, recording, or conversation.

Standard

For firms of one to a hundred

The post-Charter subscription. Same seal, larger storage, no scarcity.

$699 / seat / month
$8,388 billed annually
You save $1,800/yr vs monthly
  • 5 GB pooled storage / month
  • Available immediately, no waitlist
  • Self-serve seat management
  • Email support

Bespoke

For Am Law 200

A contract conversation. Negotiated storage, terms, and procurement to match how your firm buys software.

Custom ACV $150K–$500K+
Custom annual contract
 
Request a deployment
  • Negotiated storage allowance
  • Annual contract on your paper
  • Direct invoicing & net-30 terms
  • Procurement & onboarding support

Why a seal, when everyone already keeps logs

Every AI keeps logs. None of them is a disinterested witness.

Your provider holds your logs in readable, changeable form — and it is a party with its own interests, not a neutral notary. Apostillum never sees your content, cannot alter it by design, and anchors the proof to public infrastructure outside anyone’s control.

Disinterested. Not your AI vendor, not your firm. We have no stake in what the record says — and never see it.

Blind by design. We hold a one-way fingerprint and zero key shares. We cannot read, alter, or delete your record — not even under subpoena.

Proof, not a promise. “We won’t delete, won’t train” is a policy a court can override. An anchor on Bitcoin and Hedera cannot be.

Which is why even on the smallest plan, your record is more defensible in court than a Fortune 500’s default enterprise AI logs.

In 2025 a federal court ordered ChatGPT logs preserved despite OpenAI’s own deletion policy, then compelled production of twenty million of them. A provider’s promise can be overridden; a cryptographic anchor cannot.

The difference between tiers is price and storage. Nothing else.

In every tier

20-year retention on every sealed record. WORM immutable — the same record on day 7,300 as on day one.

Triple-witness anchoring. Every seal is timestamped on Hedera, Bitcoin, and RFC 3161. If one fails, the other two still authenticate.

Shamir-split keys. Apostillum holds zero shares. We cannot decrypt your content, even under subpoena.

Designed for FRE 902(14) self-authentication. The record carries its own proof of integrity — no separate witness required.

Public verifier portal. Opposing counsel, the court, or the bar can verify any seal independently — no login required.

Zero-knowledge architecture. We cannot read, alter, or delete your content. Not technically. Not under court order.

The same AI session · Three records · One survives the bench

What sanctioned counsel had vs. what sealed counsel has at the Rule 11 hearing.

Three lawyers. Same prompt to ChatGPT. Different records. Only one survives a sanctions motion.

A · Real cases on record

Mata. Park. Wadsworth. Butler Snow.

What counsel handed the judge

Raw ChatGPT screenshots. Re-run prompts that produced different output the second time. An affidavit that says “I asked it.”

What it cost to produce

$0 up front — then 1–3 days of non-billable scramble the moment it’s challenged. 8–24 hours at $600/hr you never invoice — the responses aren’t instant — on top of $5,000 to six figures in sanctions.

When the motion lands

Re-running prompts that won’t reproduce. Rebuilding the record from memory, under a deadline, with no guarantee it holds. The prep you skipped, owed back with panic.

What the court called it

“Gibberish.” “Subjective bad faith.” “Below the basic obligations of counsel.”

What it did to the bar card

$5,000 sanctions. Disqualification. A grievance panel. A name in the published opinion, forever.

B · Hand-built record

The honest lawyer’s tax.

What counsel handed the judge

Contemporaneous notes. Timestamped screenshots in the matter folder. An affidavit reconstructing each prompt. Maybe a notarized printout.

What it cost to produce

1.5–3 attorney hours per matter, forever. Roughly $900–$1,800 at $600/hr — time you do not bill back.

When the motion lands

You dig through the matter folder and hope the notes are complete and the screenshots legible. Defensible — if you were disciplined every single time.

What the court called it

Admissible if the judge believes you. The hearsay objection survives. Chain of custody is your word against silence.

What it did to the bar card

Nothing — if you are honest, organized, and the judge is patient. Three conditions you do not control.

C · Apostillum-sealed

The same record. Court-ready.

What counsel hands the judge

One PDF. A cryptographic seal designed for FRE 902(14). Hedera + Bitcoin + RFC 3161. WORM immutable, 20-year retention.

What it costs to produce

12 seconds. $0.50 a seal — or included in your plan.

When the motion lands

You export one PDF. Twelve seconds. The record was finished the day it was made.

What the court sees

A record built to self-authenticate. No witness needed for the seal — the seal is the witness.

What it does to the bar card

Nothing. The record speaks for itself.

Real cases: Mata v. Avianca, 678 F.Supp.3d 443 (S.D.N.Y. 2023); Park v. Kim, 91 F.4th 610 (2d Cir. 2024); Wadsworth v. Walmart, D. Wyo. 2025; Johnson v. Dunn (Butler Snow disqualification), N.D. Ala. 2025. Over 1,300 AI-hallucination cases tracked at damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations.

The cost no column above shows you

And then the court orders a forensic audit.

An audit can be compelled no matter what you filed — that call belongs to the judge, not to us. What we can change is what the audit finds.

$5K–$15K+
A typical forensic reconstruction — six figures once custodians and devices multiply.
Weeks to months
From examiner intake to a report you can put in front of a court.
No guarantee
Recovery depends on what was overwritten. The labs put that in writing.

Apostillum is not a cheaper audit, and it can’t promise a judge won’t order one. It guarantees the other half — the half that actually fails today: the record is sealed and anchored the moment it’s made, so it is there — reliably, in seconds, for twenty years. A forensic audit hopes to recover what might be gone. Apostillum hands over what was never lost.

Charter is twenty-two seats. When the twenty-second is taken, it closes.

Charter seats belong to individuals, not firms — twelve attorneys at one firm means twelve seats, each with a name on the register. One seat per individual: one email, one card, one name. It is cheaper than Standard because founding members shape the product; that discount is their compensation, not a promotion. When the twenty-second seat is claimed, Charter is retired.

Sources & authorities

Everything above, on the record.

The cases are real and citable; the cost and timeline figures are drawn from the digital-forensics and e-discovery market. The diligent-lawyer model — 1.5–3 hours per matter at $600/hr — is an illustrative estimate, shown openly so you can substitute your own rate.

  1. AI-hallucination sanctions are now routine. A running database of 1,490+ decisions worldwide where courts addressed AI-fabricated citations. damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations
  2. Who actually gets caught: about 90% are solo practitioners and small firms. Stanford Law, Center for Internet & Society (Oct 2025). cyberlaw.stanford.edu
  3. A court can override a provider’s deletion policy. Order to “preserve and segregate all output log data,” NYT v. OpenAI, No. 1:23-cv-11195 (S.D.N.Y., May 13, 2025) — binding regardless of OpenAI’s deletion commitments. Loeb & Loeb client alert
  4. The provider’s own account — enterprise and Zero-Data-Retention customers were carved out; the retention obligation ran until Sept 26, 2025. openai.com
  5. Twenty million chat logs were ultimately compelled into production (Nov 2025) — the provider controls the timing and the form. via Reuters / Windows Central
  6. Forensic reconstruction is expensive. Hourly rates $200–$450; “typical analyses… $5,000 to $15,000,” and complex matters “well over $100,000.” Vestige Digital Investigations. vestigeltd.com
  7. And it scales with data: under 10 GB, $1,500–$5,000; 10–50 GB, $5,000–$10,000; over 50 GB, $10,000–$25,000+. darwinsdata.com
  8. An audit that finds nothing still costs real money. A NIST small-business case study: a forensic exam concluded “no company data had been tampered with or exfiltrated” — total cost roughly $3,000. NIST SBC series, via Darwin’s Data