Regulators expect every business message archived. Including the ones on Slack and text.
SEC 17a-4 and FINRA recordkeeping rules don't end at email. When examiners ask for a communication, you have to produce it — complete, time-stamped, and tamper-evident. Sharp Archive captures business communications across 23+ channels in one searchable record.
The fines aren't for missing email. They're for everything else.
Email archiving has been standard for years. Recent enforcement has focused on the channels firms never set up to capture.
Texting clients and the WhatsApp problem
Regulators have levied billions in penalties over business conducted on personal texts, WhatsApp, and other off-channel apps. If your people use them and you can't produce the records, the gap is the violation.
Records must be tamper-evident, not just stored
Rule 17a-4 requires retained communications be preserved in a non-rewriteable, time-stamped form with on-demand retrieval. A folder of exported PDFs doesn't meet that bar; a purpose-built archive does.
An exam request shouldn't trigger a fire drill
When FINRA or the SEC asks for communications tied to an account or date range, you should be able to search and produce in minutes — across email, social, and text — not scramble across disconnected systems.
Built for the standard examiners hold you to.
Connect the accounts your firm uses, and every message is captured, indexed, and preserved in a tamper-evident record you can search and export on demand.
23+ channels, captured continuously
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, RingCentral, GoHighLevel, website, plus text via iMessage, WhatsApp, and SMS — all in one place.
Intelligent monitoring & alerts
Automated risk scoring surfaces communications that may need review, so compliance staff aren't reading every message by hand to find the ones that matter.
Search and produce in minutes
When a records request or audit lands, find the exact messages across every channel and export them — without engineering tickets or waiting on a vendor.
Your data stays yours
On-demand export anytime, with no proprietary lock-in. Built on SEC 17a-4 compliant, tamper-evident infrastructure, and listed in the FINRA Compliance Vendor Directory.
You'll always know what you're paying.
No bloated enterprise quotes, no surprise overages, no multi-year contracts.
Platform price — includes 3 feeds and intelligent monitoring & alerts.
*30-day free trial allows a maximum of five connections.
See whether your firm could produce every channel today.
Book a 20-minute demo and we'll map your communications, show you the gaps an examiner would find, and set up a free 30-day trial so you can confirm the fit before you pay.
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