Protect your Business Plan 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.
Bernstein helps individuals and teams secure proof of authorship and prior existence before sharing their ideas, plans, or concepts with third parties.
Ready to share your deck?
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:
send pitch decks to multiple investors,
share business plans and strategic documents,
explain product concepts and differentiation,
disclose information without an NDA.
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.
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.
With Bernstein, you can:
timestamp your pitch deck or business plan,
establish authorship and prior existence,
keep your content private and encrypted,
share your idea knowing you can later prove when it was created and by whom.
A simple workflow for entrepreneurs
Create a project
FOR YOUR IDEA
A project can include:
pitch deck (PDF),
business plan,
product concept or roadmap,
mockups or technical notes.
Certify a version
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 as usual
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 over time
As your idea evolves, you can certify new versions and maintain a clear, timestamped history of its development over time, documenting how your thinking, strategy, and materials progress.
Before sending your pitch deck, business plan, or project documents, take a moment to protect what you’ve created. Bernstein lets you document your idea before it leaves your hands, so you can share it with confidence - and keep independent proof it was yours from the start.
What this protects you against
Using 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’s 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. Learn about NDAs with Bernstein.
Who this is for
Using Bernstein is relevant whenever a business idea needs to be shared outside a trusted inner circle.
Startup founders preparing for fundraising
Entrepreneurs sharing a business plan
Teams pitching to angels, VCs, or accelerators
Entrepreneurs discussing ideas with advisors or partners
Independent consultants, coaches, and startup advisors helping clients shape strategy, decks, or positioning
If you are about to share a business idea with someone new, this is the right moment to use Bernstein.