About Velado: who makes it and why
Why it exists
An accounting firm works every day with clients' trial balances, returns, contracts and payslips. AI saves hours on that work, but the duty of confidentiality and data protection law do not allow those documents to be sent, as they are, to an outside service. Velado was built inside the firm to do the missing step: remove the identifiers before sending and put them back at the end.
Who makes it
HVR Business Consulting, Lda., Lisbon, Portugal. Founder and product lead: Hugo Ribeiro, certified accountant, member no. 64356 of the Ordem dos Contabilistas Certificados (the Portuguese chartered accountants' body). The blog guides are written or reviewed by him.
Product principles
Local: documents are processed on the user's computer; the desktop app has no internet access. Reversible: the mapping between real data and codes is kept in a vault encrypted with the user's password. Honest: it is pseudonymisation, not anonymisation; no detection is complete and the final review always belongs to the person sending.
How we write the guides
Each guide opens with the direct answer, cites the rule with its section and a link to the official source, and shows the date of the last review. A rule that was not read at source is not cited by number. The guides are informative and do not replace advice from your professional body or a lawyer.
Contact
Questions, corrections or press enquiries: info@velado.app. We reply within 1 business day.