The problem
Your accounting records
need to outlast the software.
QuickBooks Desktop is sunsetting. Subscription versions of accounting software assume you'll keep paying for access to your own historical data. PDF exports and printouts work as evidence in casual disputes, not in serious audits. And in seven years, when an auditor asks for the original records from a transaction in 2026, the answer "we have a backup file somewhere" depends on whether the software that created it still installs, still activates, and still opens the format.
For most workflows, that risk is theoretical. For business closures, acquisitions, litigation holds, regulated industries, succession events, and any record-keeping that has to defend itself years after the fact, the gap is real and gets wider as time passes.
What Sealed Ledger does
Seals your data
so it can prove itself later.
Sealed Ledger reads your accounting data via a standard read-only OAuth connection and produces a cryptographically sealed archive — an open SQLite database with a documented schema, a cryptographic hash that any party can independently verify, and a manifest that documents exactly what's inside. The archive is yours. You hold it. We don't store your data on our servers; we produce the artifact and hand it over.
The methodology underneath is called SALT — Sealed Auditable Ledger Technology. It's open and publicly documented. Anyone with the right tools can verify a Sealed Ledger archive without needing us to be in business. That's deliberate: an archive that depends on the original vendor's continued existence isn't really preservation, it's storage at a vendor.
How it works
Five protocols,
one consistent workflow.
Who it's for
People who need their records
to defend themselves.
Sealed Ledger is built for situations where audit defensibility matters more than convenience. Business owners closing companies who need preserved records for the 7-year audit window. Companies migrating from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online who want a verifiable archive of the pre-migration state. Bookkeepers and ProAdvisors handling forensic engagements, succession events, or litigation holds. Accountants and attorneys who need contemporaneous documentation that survives independent scrutiny.
If your records ever need to prove what existed at a specific point in time — not just "what we have now" — Sealed Ledger is the discipline that makes that possible.
What you get
Concrete deliverables.
When you'd use it
Concrete scenarios.
Closing a business. You're closing operations after years or decades. Tax, audit, and legal authorities can ask for original records years into the future. A sealed archive at closing gives you a record that proves itself in 2031 — not a stack of PDFs that depend on you remembering you saved them.
QBD sunset migration. You're moving from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online (or another platform). The migration brings forward only what the target supports — historical detail is often summarized, restructured, or dropped. A sealed archive of the QBD state at migration preserves the full historical record independent of what the new system happened to accept.
Buying or selling a business. An acquirer wants verifiable historical accounting data they can audit independently. A sealed archive, hashed at the transaction date, lets both parties hold a record that neither side can later dispute. Two-party custody with cryptographic verification beats "trust me, this is what was on the books."
Succession or new treasurer. A non-profit treasurer or new bookkeeper is taking over a file they didn't create. Sealing the inherited state at the moment of handoff documents exactly what was inherited — separating future work from prior history with cryptographic precision.
Audit preparation. An audit is coming and you want the auditor to work from verifiable contemporaneous records, not from whatever the live system looks like by the time they arrive. Sealing the records at the audit-period close gives the auditor a fixed, defensible target.
The SALT methodology
Open, documented,
vendor-independent.
SALT — Sealed Auditable Ledger Technology — is the open methodology underneath Sealed Ledger. The format is published. The verification procedure is documented. Any practitioner with the right technical knowledge can produce or verify a SALT archive without using our tools.
This is deliberate. The value of a sealed archive comes from its independence — from us, from Intuit, from any single vendor's continued existence. Our role is providing the tools and the engagement work that make SALT practical for customers who don't want to build the workflow themselves. The methodology itself is yours to use, document, and depend on indefinitely.
Pricing
Per-engagement, scoped to your situation. Contact us to discuss what you need preserved and why.
Get started
Seal first.
Defend later.
If your accounting records ever need to prove themselves to an auditor, attorney, or acquirer, the time to seal them is before that conversation starts.
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