Signed & Dated

Long-form stories about money, paperwork, and the documents that decide how a dispute ends.

Every episode follows one person through a financial mess — a business partner draining a joint account, an insurer denying a claim, a contractor walking off a job half-finished — and then shows the part most accounts leave out: which record settled it, and what date was on it.

The second half of every episode is a walkthrough of the actual procedure. Filing windows, what a sworn statement is and is not, why an audit log matters, which deadline runs from which day. That section is the point of the channel. The story is how you get someone to sit through it.

The stories are fictional. The procedures are real.

Characters, businesses and events are invented, and no episode claims otherwise. The statutes, filing deadlines, forms and dollar figures in the walkthroughs are checked against primary sources — state codes, federal agencies, the published rules of the regulator involved.

Narration and imagery are produced with synthetic voice and AI-generated visuals, disclosed on every upload under YouTube's synthetic-content policy. Nothing on the channel is financial or legal advice.

Episodes

Nine complete, 25–31 minutes each. Published in order as they go live.

  1. 01My Partner Moved $47,300 Out Of Our Joint Account On A Sunday And Called It A Software Fee30:53
  2. 02The Adjuster Looked At $94,750 Of Water Damage And Told Me It Didn't Happen Suddenly Enough29:05
  3. 03The Mortgage Officer Turned Her Monitor Around And Showed Me Four Accounts I Never Opened26:00
  4. 04My Brother's Lawyer Sent Me A Will Dated Eight Months After Dad's Dementia Diagnosis30:29
  5. 05They Called Me An Independent Contractor For Six Years And Then Printed My Schedule26:06
  6. 06A Friend Took $58,400 From Me And What Stopped Him Was One Line On A 2019 Form27:35
  7. 07A Contractor Took $38,900 And Left A Hole In My Floor — One Page I Printed Got $30,000 Back27:11
  8. 08A Date I Never Wrote Down Was Worth $70,000 Of My Pension — Five Offices Had It On File26:18
  9. 09My Landlord Kept $3,300 Of My Money And $9,900 Came Back — Because Of A Form I Signed25:23

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Who it's for

People who have just found a problem of their own and want the procedure that fixes it: small business owners, self-employed tradespeople, homeowners dealing with an insurer, anyone who has just been handed a document they don't understand. Primarily the United States, with viewers in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.