HashShot is built and maintained by Dharma Sadasivan as an independent contribution to the legal community — not a startup, not a product, just useful infrastructure for a profession he loves.
I'm Dharma, a former law firm partner turned Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel of Stability. I love being a lawyer. My profession has given me countless opportunities to help others.
To encourage tech adoption and give back to the legal community, I serve on multiple tech-oriented committees of the Law Society of Singapore and independently build free tools for the legal industry in my spare time.
By 2026, most data in the world will be AI-generated.
As AI adoption becomes more widespread, electronic evidence is at increasing risk of manipulation. AI will only get better — faster, cheaper, easier to use, more widely available, and more convincing.
AI will be used to tamper with or generate false electronic evidence. This will occur with increasing frequency as AI becomes easier to use, cheaper, faster, more widely available, and more convincing.
The number of forensic investigations into the authenticity of electronic evidence will rise, albeit not at the same rate due to the high cost of such investigations. Forensic investigations will not be suitable for many disputes, such as those involving small quantums of damages.
Litigants will challenge the integrity of electronic evidence more frequently. Courts will face challenges in assessing how reliable electronic evidence is.
As an industry, we cannot wait until unreliable electronic evidence pervades the courts and impedes the administration of justice.
The risk is real. The clock is ticking. The search for simpler, cheaper, faster, more scalable solutions to prove the integrity of electronic evidence must begin now.
I believe cryptographic proofs are a viable path forward, and developed the HashShot ecosystem to demonstrate how this approach can be applied in our industry. It doesn't solve every problem, but it's a start.
If you are keen to collaborate on R&D in this area, please reach out to me by email or on LinkedIn.