How it works

One relationship. One line.

How 4orm actually works: where the information sits, who has to permit what, and why the evidence is a by-product of the conversation rather than a second job.

The line

Six steps first. The other five when you want them.

4orm follows the important information, permissions, changes and decisions around a financial relationship, from before it begins to well after it ends.

PersonMy 4ormPermissionProfessionalDecisionRecord
See the full relationship
ConversationInformationPermissionVerificationProfessionalActionChangeDecisionEvidenceOutcome
My 4orm

The person has a side of the record too.

Financial records have traditionally lived inside the firm's systems. My 4orm gives the person a clear view of the information and the relationship around their own decision.

PersonMy 4orm
InformationDocumentsIdentityPermissionsEvidence
Identity

Verify once. Keep what was verified, not the document.

Government IDSecure verificationVerification resultRelationship record
Why the separation matters. Sensitive identity evidence should be minimised and kept apart wherever possible. 4orm needs proof that verification happened, not a copy of the licence in every workflow that touches the file.
Permission

Requested, explained, chosen, recorded.

Where permission is required, the person sees what is being asked for and why, before anything moves.

RequestPurposeInformationYour choiceShareHistory
Provenance

A new value does not erase the old one.

4orm keeps source, status and change visible, instead of letting every number on a screen look equally certain.

$120,000You told us
$120,000Document supported
IdentityVerified
$138,000Changed · previous value kept
The conversation, and its limits

It explains. It does not decide.

The conversation is the way in. The structured record is the source of truth, and the two are deliberately not the same thing.

It canExplainAsk the next useful questionInterpretCompareSummarize
It cannot silentlyVerify a factChange provenanceGrant permissionRewrite historyReplace professional judgment
Evidence

A by-product, never another form to fill in.

The same line you have followed down this page becomes the timeline: what happened, when, who was involved, what was shown, what was agreed.

The test. Any system that asks a busy professional to go and create evidence afterwards loses to a busy week. The record has to fall out of the work itself, or it does not get made.
Integrations

Built around the systems already there.

4orm does not need to replace the financial system. It connects the relationship around it.

IdentityFinancial dataCreditDocuments
4orm
Broker and dealer systemsSignatureOfficial registersReporting

Evidence that made itself while the work was happening.

See the line running, with synthetic data, from before a professional exists to long after the decision is made.

Experience 4orm Privacy and security