Everything important, where you'll actually find it.
Everyone has a drawer, a shoebox, or a folder of scans they hope they never need. The marriage certificate you can't find the day you need it. The policy you've never read until the geyser bursts. The licence that expired last month. KuduDoc is where those live — sealed so they're provable, organised so they're findable, watched so they don't lapse, and readable so you can just ask.
Personal plan, no credit card.
Home
Family
Me
Cover
Sealed means anyone can check the copy hasn't changed — free, at /verify.
The documents everyone owns.
This isn't a feature list dressed up as one. It's the actual paperwork of a South African life — most of it in one drawer, all of it only ever looked for on a bad day.
Marriage certificate
Banks, Home Affairs and estate lawyers all ask for it — always at short notice, never when it's to hand.
Birth certificates
Every school registration, passport application and medical aid addition wants the unabridged one.
ID document and passport
The two documents that unlock every other one. The passport quietly expires, usually the month you book flights.
Driver's and vehicle licence
Both expire. Neither warns you. Both cost you at a roadblock, and one of them costs you at renewal too.
Title deed and bond documents
The deed proves the house is yours. The bond papers say on what terms — and what happens if you sell early.
Your lease
As a tenant, the sealed copy is what settles a deposit dispute — it shows exactly what was agreed, and when.
Matric and degree certificates
Every serious job application asks for them, usually in the week you can least afford to go looking.
Car, home, life and medical aid policies
You've paid for cover you've never read. The day you need it is the worst possible day to start reading.
Warranties and guarantees
The geyser, the roof, the laptop — all worthless without the paper, the date and what it actually covers.
Will and estate documents
The file your family will one day have to find without you. A sealed copy makes sure they know what it said.
SARS and IRP5 documents
Five years of records SARS may ask for, plus the numbers you need before you can file this year's return.
Firearm licence
It expires, and the renewal has to be lodged well before it does — miss the window and the licence lapses.
Storing them is the easy part.
Any cloud drive can hold a scan. What you actually need is to understand what's in it, be warned before it lapses, and prove what it said. That's the whole job.
KuduDoc AI
Ask instead of reading.
Nobody reads a 34-page policy schedule for pleasure. They read it at six on a Sunday morning with water coming through the ceiling. KuduDoc reads your policies, leases, contracts and certificates the moment they land — so when it matters you ask a question in your own words and get the clause, the excess and the document it came from.
It points you at the passage. It doesn't decide your claim — and when it isn't sure, it says so instead of guessing.
See what the AI can doI've had a burst geyser — does my policy cover it?
Answered from your own document. Never trained on it.
It reads the dates for you
Nothing expires quietly.*
Your passport, driver's licence, vehicle licence and firearm licence all have an end date printed on them, and none of them will tell you it's coming. Upload the document and KuduDoc reads the expiry straight off it — no capture form, no spreadsheet, no reminder to set. Then it tells you at 90, 60, 30 and 7 days, and keeps telling you until the new one is uploaded.
How renewals and expiry workExpiring soon
Passport118 days
Vehicle licence disc — CA 214 90821 days
Firearm licence86 days
Driver's licence2029
Dates read off the documents themselves — nothing typed in by you.
Sealed, not just stored
Proof, not just a copy.
A file in a folder proves nothing — anyone can produce a document that says something slightly different. A sealed one is fixed: your lease, signed agreement or affidavit gets a certification signature, a SHA-256 fingerprint and a timestamp, and anyone can check it at /verify without an account. That's the difference on the day a landlord, an insurer or a bank disputes what was agreed.
Check a document at /verifyVerification result
Unchanged since sealing — this file matches the sealed original
DocumentResidential-Lease-2026.pdf Sealed12 Mar 2026, 16:04 SAST FingerprintSHA-256 · 9c4f2a11…Free, for anyone, with or without a KuduDoc account.
* On our roadmap — in build, not live yet. See the full feature catalog.
Nobody thinks about this until the day they have to.
Three ordinary days that go very differently depending on whether you can find the document — and prove what it said.
The deposit dispute
You move out. Three weeks later the agent's copy of the lease says the carpets were your problem, and the copy in your inbox says they weren't. Nobody wins an argument about whose memory is better.
What changes: you send the sealed copy and its timestamp. It shows exactly what the document said on the day you signed it, and that not a byte of it has moved since. The argument ends there.
The claim
The geyser goes at six on a Sunday morning. The plumber wants an answer, the call centre wants a policy number, and the schedule is somewhere in an email from 2023 with an attachment nobody opened.
What changes: you ask what you're covered for and get the clause and the excess in seconds — before the plumber arrives, and before you agree to anything you can't claim back.
The estate
If something happens to you, someone has to find the policy, the will, the bond papers and the medical aid — usually in the worst week of their life, usually starting with a password they don't have.
What changes: nominated access* lets you name an executor or next of kin and the shelf they may open, with the release recorded. On our roadmap — in build, not live yet — and until it is, we'd rather say so than let you plan around it.
* On our roadmap — in build, not live yet.
Your documents are yours. That's the architecture, not the slogan.
You're being asked to put your marriage certificate and your ID in someone else's system. That deserves a straight answer about what happens to them, including the parts that aren't flattering.
They are never training data
What you store here is never used to train a model — not ours, not anybody's. The AI reads your documents to answer the question you asked, and that is the entire extent of it. No opt-out to hunt for, because there's nothing to opt out of.
Hosted in South Africa
Documents and account data sit on infrastructure located in South Africa — not routed offshore by default. Some supporting services do cross borders (outbound email is the obvious one), and where that happens the POPIA transfer conditions apply. We name the category rather than hide it behind “our partners”.
POPIA-minded — and there's no badge to show you
There is no such thing as being “POPIA certified”. The Act doesn't work that way: compliance is an ongoing practice enforced by the Information Regulator, not a logo anyone can issue. So instead of a badge that would mean nothing, we publish the practice in plain language and let you read it.
Read the privacy & POPIA noticeVault,* for what nobody else should read
Some documents shouldn't be readable by anyone but you. Vault is the same idea as a box at a bank: we hold the box, you hold the only key. Zero-knowledge, plainly caveated — we cannot open it, and if you lose your key, neither can we nor anyone else. That's exactly the point.
See Shelves and Vault* On our roadmap — in build, not live yet.
Personal use is a plan, not a trial.
We didn't shrink a business product and call the leftovers a free tier. The Personal plan is a real, ongoing plan with no expiry date and no card — because most people's document year genuinely fits inside it.
R0 /month
New accounts start with 14 days of Family. After that, Personal is free, ongoing, no card.
- 5 signature sends a month — with unlimited documents held on your shelves
- All 22 PDF tools — merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, redact and the rest
- One reusable template — Family adds 50 AI/OCR credits and ten templates
- Free verification at /verify, forever — for you and for whoever you send a document to
Before you hand over the drawer
No, and the difference is the whole product. Dropbox and OneDrive do file management: they keep a file exactly where you put it and treat it as a blob of bytes. KuduDoc does document management: it seals the file so its contents are provable, reads it so you can search it and ask it questions, files it on a shelf according to what it actually is, and watches the dates printed inside it.
A folder has never once told you that your passport expires in four months. That's the gap.
Your documents stay verifiable. Sealed proofs never depend on a subscription, and that's deliberate: a SHA-256 fingerprint is standard maths anyone can recompute with free tools, and the OpenTimestamps anchor lives on the Bitcoin blockchain rather than on our servers. If KuduDoc disappeared tomorrow, every document we've sealed would still be provable.
Practically: you can drop back to Free and keep verification forever, and you can export the lot whenever you like — the signed PDFs, the audit trails and the .ots timestamp proofs. There's no lock-in to engineer around, because the proofs were built to be checked without us.
Not yet — honestly. Nominated executor and next-of-kin access is on our roadmap, in build, not live yet.* When it ships it will be a named person, a defined shelf and a recorded release, so it's clear afterwards exactly what was opened and when.
Until then the truthful answer is that someone you trust needs to be able to get into your account, and anything in Vault* is unrecoverable without your key, by design. We'd rather tell you that plainly now than have a family discover it later.
In some ways yes, and in one way no — both halves are true. A drawer can burn, flood, or simply be tidied away by someone who meant well. A sealed copy survives all three, and it proves what the document said on the day you sealed it, which a photo on your phone cannot.
But a sealed copy is not a legal replacement for an official certified copy where one is required. Home Affairs, a bank, a court or a conveyancer can still insist on the original or a properly certified copy, and nothing we do changes that. Keep the original safe. Keep a sealed copy here so you always have it to hand, always know exactly what it says, and can prove it hasn't been altered.
* On our roadmap — in build, not live yet.
The drawer never told you anything.
Personal plan, no credit card · Hosted in South Africa · POPIA-minded