Governed Document Control

Control the document. Prove the access.

Arkin Vault stores, gates, releases, and proves access to your most confidential documents — agreement-gated release and a complete evidence trail, in one governed vault.

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Working with select law & advisory firms. India + US workflows supported.

Series-B_Diligence.pdf Sealed

Locked until the NDA is complete

NDA signed in the browser. Release condition met.

Sending one confidential document takes three tools today. Arkin Vault does the whole job in one governed flow.

Send

Deliver large, sensitive files — no public links, far beyond email attachment limits.

Gate & sign

Hold release until the NDA is signed in the browser, bound to the document.

Track

Every view, download, and signature logged to the recipient.

Prove

Agreement, files, and access trail kept together as one evidence record.

A transfer tool, a signing tool, and a records system — one governed flow instead of three. Already invested in DocuSign, Adobe Sign, Dropbox, or SharePoint? Keep them — Arkin Vault works alongside and governs the release.

What it does

One governed workspace for the full document lifecycle.

The signature capability is agreement-gated release. Around it sits everything a confidential workflow needs to stay controlled and provable — from intake to evidence.

Secure Rooms Agreement-Gated Release Controlled Access Audit Trail Records Vault Retention & Legal Hold Version Control Roadmap

Document Rooms

Create secure rooms by client, matter, deal, project, vendor, or research file. An NDA room gates every document inside it automatically.

Signature

Agreement-Gated Release

Documents stay sealed until an NDA, engagement letter, or acknowledgement is complete — signed in the browser and bound to the exact agreement text.

Controlled Access

Recipient verification, watermarking, expiry, view limits, revocation, and page-level controls — clean reads when you want them, locked down when you don't.

Audit Trail

Every view, download, and signature — with identity, IP, timestamp, and page number. Nothing a recipient does goes off the record.

Signature

Records Vault

The executed agreement, the released documents, and the access trail — preserved together and exportable as an evidence pack (PDF + JSON).

Retention & Legal Hold

Expiry-driven lifecycle, folder retention windows, scheduled purge of expired materials — and deletion suspended the moment a legal hold applies, with the hold itself on the audit trail.

The operating surface

Not a concept — a working platform.

The screens below are the real product: the governed repository, the per-document controls, and the access trail that becomes your evidence.

arkinvault.com/admin

Arkin Vault dashboard: the governed document repository with per-document NDA and download permissions, render status, views, and upload dates.

Vault dashboard — every document's gate, permissions, and status at a glance.

/admin/doc · permissions

Per-document permissions: watermark text and mode, recipient access password, and the require-NDA-before-viewing gate.

Access & permissions — watermark mode, access password, NDA gate.

/admin/doc · access log

Access log: NDA signed, pages viewed, and full download — each entry with viewer identity, timestamp, page, and IP address.

Evidence & audit trail — signature → views → download, per recipient.

Screens shown with synthetic demonstration data.

Who it's for

Built for teams whose documents carry consequences.

Three professions live this problem every day. The same governed exchange works for many more.

Law firms

Client disclosures, matter exchanges, expert and settlement files, vendor confidentiality — with the executed agreement and access trail held as evidence.

Arkin Vault for law firms

Accounting & advisory

Engagement letters, tax records, audit handoffs, client document rooms — gated on the engagement and preserved for the file.

Arkin Vault for accounting

Founders & investor diligence

Diligence rooms, customer NDAs, IP disclosures, board and founder documents — released only after the NDA, tracked to the recipient.

Arkin Vault for founders

Also used by In-house counsel & GC Universities & research Hospitals & clinics Real estate & mortgage Government contractors Authors & literary agents

Vertical-specific features — HIPAA-grade BAAs, FERPA-aware records, sector-specific evidence packs — are roadmap items. The core agreement-gated release workflow serves all of these segments today.

Purpose-built flow · Authors & literary agents

Send your manuscript to an agent — clean, gated, confidential.

The same governed exchange, shaped for authors. Upload your manuscript — EPUB, Word, or PDF — gate it behind your own NDA, and send it to an agent. No visible watermark to break the read, and a quiet delivery confirmation so you know it arrived — without hovering over anyone's shoulder.

Clean, unwatermarked read — the way an agent expects a manuscript
Your own NDA, signed in the browser before the pages open
Delivery confirmation when it reaches the agent, plus a record if a copy is downloaded — your unpublished work stays accounted for

For authors →

Brilliance.epub No watermark

Delivered · your manuscript reached the agent · NDA in place

For agents — every manuscript arrives with the author's NDA already signed and the confidentiality terms settled before you open it. Read on your own time, raise your questions, and reply — the record protects your confidentiality too, and no submitter is watching over your shoulder.

Bring your stack

Keep the tools you already use.

Starting fresh, Arkin Vault covers the whole confidential-exchange flow on its own. Already invested in a signing tool or a drive? It works alongside them — sign where you sign today, store where you store today, and let Arkin Vault govern the release and hold the record.

DocuSign Adobe Acrobat Sign Dropbox Google Drive SharePoint & OneDrive Box · iManage · NetDocuments Clio & practice management Google Drive filing · live More native connectors · roadmap

See all planned connectors — signing, storage & DMS, practice management, API

The Aethyia platform

One governed spine. A family of products.

Aethyia builds one governed-document spine — audit, evidence, controlled access — and specialized products that sit on it.

ArkinVault Live

Confidential document exchange — agreement-gated release, controlled access, evidence-ready records.

ArkinFinverse Live

Turns financial documents into clean books in minutes. The same governed handling for sensitive financials.

ArkinIP Roadmap

Invention and IP records — disclosures, prior-art files, and inventor confidentiality on the same governed vault.

Shared spine: identity & access control · audit trail · evidence-ready records · India + US posture. Arkin Vault is a product of Aethyia Inc.

Security & trust

Specific, not “bank-grade.”

Real implementation details, because on a confidential-document platform vagueness is the red flag.

Regional AWS hosting (India / US)

TLS 1.2+ in transit; KMS-encrypted storage at rest

Full access logging & watermarking

Evidence-pack exports (PDF + JSON) on demand

Tenant-isolated vaults & admin controls

Daily encrypted backups, 14-day retention

NDA text SHA-256–bound to every signature

Published vulnerability-disclosure policy

Read the full security model

By jurisdiction

Two markets, both first-class.

Confidential exchange has region-specific obligations. Arkin Vault is built for both, not retrofitted for either.

For India

CCA-recognized eSign, DSC support, Aadhaar OTP via Leegality / Digio / eMudhra / NSDL
eStamp prompts & stamp-duty awareness for state-specific agreement types
DPDPA-aligned consent, retention, breach-notification workflow

Arkin Vault for India

For the United States

ESIGN / UETA-aligned electronic signing posture
Works alongside DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat Sign, Zoho Sign, Dropbox Sign, PandaDoc
CCPA / CPRA-ready retention defaults and state-privacy posture

Arkin Vault for the US