Losing your job
You've lost your job. Keep the record while it's still fresh.
After a firing, things disappear fast: access to email, the people you worked with, your memory of the order things happened in. The first few days are when the record is easiest to build.
Last updated Oct 6, 2026
You were let go
- The termination letter or email, and the reason it gives
- What you were told in person, written down the same day
- Reviews, praise and warnings from before
- Anything that changed in the months before
- Your final pay, and any paperwork you were given or asked to sign
Your former employer is disputing your account
Sometimes the other side tells a different story later: that you quit, or broke a rule. That's answering, and the record works the same way.
- Their account, in their words, and the date you received it
- Your own record of the dates they mention
- Messages, rosters and reviews that cover those dates
- What you've been asked for, and when you sent it
Add older items with the date they happened. The record also shows the date you added each one.
How it works
One record, either way round.
Everything in one place. Your own notes, photos, files, emails, pasted texts and voice notes go into one dated register for this case.
Two dates on every entry. When it happened, and when you wrote it down. The second date can’t be changed, not by you and not by us.
Letters for both directions. 84 letters, eight of them written for the person answering. Each one fills in the facts from your record and leaves the ask blank. What you want is yours to write. Nothing is sent for you, and when you send one, it goes back into the record as a dated item.
Emails go into the case. Every case can have its own email address. Once you’ve turned it on with Copy in the case’s “Email it in” box, the emails you write from your case carry it in BCC. Emails you forward from your own sign-in address file themselves; anything else waits in Mail waiting until you check it.
Get an AI to help, if you want to. Copy a ready-made request into your own AI and bring the answer back. When it comes back as a letter draft, BuildMyEvidence checks its dates, amounts, item numbers and names against your record. There is no AI inside BuildMyEvidence.
One case file at the end. A cover, a one-page summary, the contents, then the record, numbered and dated, with every file at the back. The summary page also downloads on its own.
What it costs
Free to build. $59 once, when you want the finished file.
Building the record is free, for as long as you need it. So is reading every page of the case file, downloading any single file, and taking everything out: every file you’ve added, each with its fingerprint. You pay $59 once per case when you want to download the finished case file, the summary page or the itemized packs. No subscription. Nothing renews.
What it won’t do
It won’t tell you what happened, who’s right, or what to ask for. It doesn’t give legal advice. It keeps the record that anyone advising you would want to see.
Questions
- I've lost access to my work email.
- Write down what you remember now, with dates. Add anything you kept personally, such as texts, photos of rosters or your own notes. Don't try to get back into work systems.
- I've been asked to sign something.
- BuildMyEvidence doesn't give legal advice. Keep a copy of anything you're asked to sign, and the date.
- Do I need a lawyer?
- If you speak to one, the case file is the record they'll want to see.
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BuildMyEvidence works for any situation where you need a clear, dated record.