The money was already mine. I just couldn't find it.

Draft placeholder. This is scaffolding for the real story you'll write later — keep the structure, swap the words.

The shock

I was shocked when I discovered that money — real money, in my own name — had been sitting unclaimed for years. [Tell the moment you found out: what it was, how much, how it felt to realize the system never told you.]

The wall

So I tried to claim it. [Describe the maze: the outdated state portals, the duplicate forms, the notary requirements, the dead ends. Make the frustration concrete.] It became obvious the money isn't hidden — the process is the obstacle.

So I built it for myself

[Explain how you started solving your own problem: searching across jurisdictions, mapping each broken step, automating the parts that wasted the most time. It worked — you recovered what was yours.]

Why I'm sharing it

[Make the turn: if it was this hard for you, it's this hard for millions of people who will never get their money back. So you decided to turn the tool you built into Reclaimd — so anyone can recover what's theirs without fighting the bureaucracy alone.]

— Romain Tribout, founder of Reclaimd (Vef invest SAS)