The office asks for 2023
Every invoice and receipt from that year, complete and in order, shared with your advisor through one expiring link before lunch.
FY 2023 · 617 documents · one link
Industries Freelancers & Self-Employed
The back office you never had to hire
Client work pays. Paperwork does not. paless gives you a vault where every invoice, contract and receipt files itself, and Pal, the EU sovereign AI assistant, reads, finds and drafts, so the evenings belong to you again.
Sound familiar?
Admin eats the evenings
Invoices, quotes, contracts, receipts: when the workday ends, the second shift starts. Every hour of it is unbilled.
One person, five jobs
You are the accountant, the lawyer, the archive and the office manager, and the client still expects the actual work on Friday.
Tax season, every season
Receipts in coat pockets, invoices in three inboxes, statements behind bank logins. The advisor asks for one folder; you have twelve.
Your back office
The whole back office, staffed by Pal
Solo does not mean unsupported. Pal reads everything that lands in your vault, files it where it belongs, and answers questions the way a good office manager would: with the document open and the line pointed at.
From inbox to archive without you
Forward an email, snap a photo of a letter, drop a folder from your cloud. It arrives OCRed, tagged and filed while you keep working.
Ask, instead of digging
What did we agree about usage rights? Which quote went out in March? Pal answers from your own documents and cites the source.
Tax season in one folder
Invoices, receipts and statements sit in one searchable archive, ready for the advisor. What took a weekend takes a coffee.
Ask Pal
“What did I agree with Marten Studio about usage rights?”
Exclusive web use for two years, print excluded; renewal is due in June. The exact wording is marked in the contract.
Sources
- Marten Studio contract, §6
- Email thread, 14 June 2025
Even the Individual plan includes a second user, so your tax advisor sees exactly what they need and nothing else. Compare plans
Day to day
The paperwork, handled
Six jobs Pal takes off your desk, one for every hat you wear.
Snap it, send it, done
A letter arrives, your phone scans it, OCR reads it and Pal files it. The paper can go in the drawer; the document is in the vault.
Invoices that file themselves
Pal learns how you name and sort. After a few examples, new invoices land in the right place with the right tags on their own.
Receipts become data
Text, tables and figures, even from crooked photos: OCR turns every receipt and statement into something you can search and ask.
Find the clause before the call
Full text search reads inside contracts and quotes: the notice period, the license terms, the number you promised. Found before the phone stops ringing.
Replies you only approve
Pal drafts the answer from your documents; you read it and send it. Nothing leaves without your approval.
Share without attachments
Send clients and your advisor expiring links instead of files: they see exactly what you chose, for exactly as long as you chose.
Three moments it pays for itself
The laptop dies on deadline day
Your archive lives on EU servers, not on the machine that just went dark. Borrow any browser, sign in with your passkey, keep working.
three replicas · one isolated backup
The client from 2022 returns
Find the old quote and the final files, ask Pal what you charged and why, and send the new offer while the enthusiasm is fresh.
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Built for Europe
Your clients' documents stay in Europe
Freelancers carry other people's confidential material: briefs, contracts, unreleased work. paless keeps it on isolated European infrastructure, encrypted with AES 256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, out of reach of the US CLOUD Act. And if you ever want to leave, a structured export compatible with the open source paperless-ngx project goes with you.
GDPR compliant EU AI Act compliant AES 256 encryption No US CLOUD Act Redundant storage
Read the security overview Questions freelancers ask
Do I need to be technical to use paless?
No. Your vault runs on your own secure domain like yourname.paless.eu, updates and backups are handled for you, and you sign in with a passkey instead of a password.
Can my tax advisor see my documents?
Yes, two ways: share a folder through an expiring link, or give them their own login that sees only what you choose. A second user is included even in the Individual plan.
What if I stop freelancing or switch tools?
Your archive exports in a structured format compatible with the open source paperless-ngx project. Everything you filed leaves with you.
Is paless GDPR compliant?
Yes. GDPR and EU AI Act compliant, hosted on isolated European infrastructure, encrypted with AES 256. Client documents never touch a US cloud.
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