Protect your business plan, decks, and business ideas
Share your business idea with confidence. Pitch decks, business plans, and product concepts often need to be shared before trust is fully established.
Proof of authorship before sharing
Bernstein helps individuals and teams secure proof of authorship and prior existence before sharing their ideas, plans, or concepts with third parties.
If you are about to send your deck, plan, or proposal to someone new, this is the right moment to use Bernstein. Before your ideas leave your hands, Bernstein allows you to document and certify the current version, creating independent proof of when it existed and what it contained — without revealing the content itself.
The reality of sharing a business idea
When developing a business idea, people are often required to:
This creates a natural tension: you need to share your idea to move forward, but you want to avoid unnecessary exposure. Traditional protections — patents, trademarks, NDAs — are often too slow, too expensive, or simply unrealistic at this stage.
The risk of sharing without proof
Ideas shared without protection
Pitch decks and business plans contain your most valuable ideas — shared with dozens of investors before any deal closes.
Limited NDA enforcement
NDAs are often not signed before initial meetings, and even when signed, proving breach is difficult.
No proof of prior ownership
Without evidence, it's your word against theirs if someone claims your ideas as their own.
How Bernstein helps
Bernstein does not replace patents or legal filings. Instead, it gives you something essential before fundraising: verifiable proof that your idea existed, in your hands, at a specific point in time.
Certify before sharing
Create timestamped proof of your deck before every investor meeting. Establish ownership before disclosure.
Version control
As your pitch evolves, certify each version. Build a complete audit trail of your fundraising materials.
Instant protection
Certification takes seconds. Protect new versions before every meeting without slowing down.
What to certify
How it works
Create a project
Set up a project for your idea. Add your pitch deck, business plan, product concept, roadmap, mockups, or technical notes.
Certify before sharing
Before sending your documents, certify the current version. This creates a permanent, timestamped proof anchored on the blockchain — without revealing the content.
Share your materials
Send your deck or plan to investors, accelerators, or advisors. Recipients don't need a Bernstein account — you share your materials as usual and keep independent proof.
Iterate and keep control
As your idea evolves, certify new versions and maintain a clear, timestamped history of its development over time.
What this protects you against
Bernstein helps you establish prior existence, authorship, and a clear timeline for your business idea before it is shared externally. This provides reliable evidence in case of disputes, misunderstandings, or competing claims.
This is not about mistrust — it is about clarity and peace of mind.
What Bernstein is (and is not)
Bernstein does not replace patents, trademarks, or NDAs. It complements them.
Bernstein can be used together with NDAs, commercial agreements, or more generally to document business secrets, trade secrets, and copyrighted material — helping define and record the scope of what is disclosed at a given point in time, and keeping an independent, verifiable record of that information.
Who this is for
Bernstein is relevant whenever a business idea needs to be shared outside a trusted inner circle.