FINRA Compliance Archiving
FINRA-ready archiving that reviews 100% of your communications.
FINRA and SEC recordkeeping rules require your firm to retain and supervise its business communications. Sharp Archive captures every email, text, social post, and website update — and reviews 100% of it with AI as it's archived. Not a sample. All of it.
The rule says supervise. It never said five percent.
FINRA and SEC recordkeeping obligations require you to retain your communications and supervise them. The category's answer has been to review a small sample after the fact — the rational choice when review meant a person reading emails. Reviewing 100% with AI is now practical, and it's a stronger position to defend in an exam than a sample.
Capture every channel
Email, text and messaging, social, and website content — captured automatically in tamper-evident format. One archive, one search.
Review 100%, not a sample
Every message scanned against 100+ risk categories as it's archived, with the flagged item and the reason shown for every hit.
Exam-ready by default
A full audit trail documenting that every item was reviewed and what was done — evidence of review without spreadsheet archaeology.
Built around the rules that apply to your firm
Sharp Archive maps to the recordkeeping and supervision obligations broker-dealers and RIAs already work under. We cite these as requirements we help you meet — never as endorsements.
Retain business communications
Books-and-records and correspondence obligations under FINRA rules and the SEC framework — every channel preserved and searchable.
Tamper-evident storage
Storage built to meet SEC 17a-4 requirements, including the audit-trail alternative.
Review & document
A supervision workflow — flag, comment, escalate, document — that maps onto your written supervisory procedures.
Text & messaging capture
Capture across SMS, messaging, and personal-device channels — the off-channel communications exams focus on.
Social & website review
Posts, comments, and website content reviewed for promissory statements, guarantees, and testimonials.
Reporting on demand
Exam- and records-ready reports generated automatically, showing what was reviewed and what was done.
Up and running in five minutes
Connect your channels
Authorize email, social, messaging, and web in a few clicks. No software to install, no IT project.
Archiving & review begin
Sharp Archive captures everything in tamper-evident format and scans 100% of it against the rules that apply to you.
Search & export anytime
Full-text search across every channel, exam-ready reports, and free export of your full archive at any time.
Intelligent Monitoring
Get alerted to what matters — not to everything.
Teams switching from other archivers tell us the same thing: their old system flags everything, so reviewers spend their days clearing noise — and the message that actually matters gets buried with the rest.
Sharp Archive scans content as it's archived — across every channel — and checks it against the FINRA and SEC rules that apply to your firm. Content gets a risk score, and only higher-risk items surface for review.
Scan on capture
Every email, text, and post is analyzed the moment it's archived — across all your channels at once.
Score against your rules
Content is checked against FINRA, SEC, and state rules and assigned a risk score, with the specific problematic language highlighted.
Surface only what's flagged
When content crosses the risk threshold, your team is notified — so review time goes to genuine concerns, not routine messages.
Switching costs you nothing to start
30-day free trial
Archive your own communications for 30 days, on your own data, up to five feeds. No credit card, no commitment.
No-cost startup
No setup fees, no onboarding charges, no implementation invoice. Connect your channels and archiving starts the same day.
10% below any quote
Send us a quote from any vendor. We come in 10% under it for your full term — with transparent, published pricing.
Locked into another vendor? If your contract has six months or less remaining, run Sharp Archive in parallel at no cost until it expires. Payments only begin when your old contract runs out.
Common questions
Is Sharp Archive FINRA-approved?
FINRA doesn't approve or certify archiving vendors — no vendor can honestly claim that. What we can say plainly: Sharp Archive is built to meet the recordkeeping and supervision obligations FINRA and the SEC require, including SEC 17a-4 storage. We'll show you exactly how on a demo.
I already have an archiving vendor.
Archiving stores evidence; it doesn't review it. Ask what your current review process actually catches — then run Sharp Archive month-to-month alongside it and compare.
Does it capture text and off-channel messages?
Yes. We capture SMS, messaging apps, and personal-device channels — the off-channel communications exams increasingly focus on — alongside email and social, in one archive.
"AI review" sounds like a black box.
It isn't keyword search with a new label. Every flagged item is shown with the original message and the reason it was flagged. You see exactly what it saw, and you decide what to do.
See it run on your own communications.
Book a Discovery Call and watch Sharp Archive scan your own data during the call — no slideware, no guessing.