The record
The file has to speak when nobody else can.
A will is read for the first time when the person who signed it can no longer explain anything. Kellon makes the record on the day, so the answer does not depend on memory.
The output
Every session produces this.
Who was present and in what role. Whether identity was confirmed. How the document was displayed. The order in which each step occurred, and when. What the practitioner observed, entered during the session rather than recalled afterwards.
If the document is never questioned, it sits on the file. If it is, the record is already made.
Evidence pack
Will · 14 Jul 2026
Session opened
Testator and two witnesses present
Identity confirmed
Document shown to all participants
Testator signed
Signature applied on screen, observed by both witnesses
Witnesses signed
In sequence, same session
Record complete
Sealed and filed · hash verified
Illustrative. Sample data only.
Why each field exists
Nothing in the pack is there for decoration.
Each field answers a question that gets asked when a document is tested.
Who
Participants and their roles, fixed at the start of the session rather than described afterwards.
In what order
The sequence and timing of each step, because sequence is what the statute actually requires.
What was seen
How the document was displayed, and the practitioner's own observations, entered at the time.
Session sequence · Will
Why sequence matters
The order is not metadata. It is guaranteed in the signatory chain.
Signing a will remotely isn’t just about collecting three signatures. The law requires them in a particular order, in one continuous session, and it requires a record of how it was done.
A system that captures what happened after the fact can only report that order. It cannot hold it. Kellon runs the signing as a sequence and will not advance until each step is complete.
The practitioner still conducts the signing and makes the judgment calls. Kellon holds the structure, so consistency does not depend on who is running the matter that day.
Document integrity
The record has to convince someone who does not trust us.
That reader may be a probate registrar, opposing counsel, or a judge, and none of them has reason to take a software company's word for anything.
The pack is sealed at the close of the session, with a cryptographic record of its contents fixed at that moment, so that later alteration is detectable.
Independent verification
So that a pack’s integrity can be confirmed without access to Kellon. In development, not yet available.
What a court has already shown
In Re Curtis the Supreme Court of Victoria admitted a will that did not satisfy the formal requirements, on the strength of a recording of the signing. The lesson was not about informal wills. It was about what a contemporaneous record can carry.
Not an e-signature platform
A different question, asked by a different reader
Commercial signature
Did this party agree?
Raised by a counterparty, usually within a few years, usually while everyone involved can still be asked.
Statutory execution
Were the formalities properly conducted?
Raised by a court, years later, when the person at the centre of it has died. Kellon is built for this question.
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