Archon Data Store captures email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom into a single WORM-compliant, searchable archive with automated retention, cross-source legal hold, and eDiscovery built in.
200 +
Enterprise connectors supported
80 %
Average data compression achieved
100 %
Compliant with every regulation
1 X
Unified archive, not four separate silos
Most organizations today run four or more communication platforms and manage them as four separate compliance problems. Here is what that costs you.
Native retention in Slack, Teams, and Zoom is a deletion schedule, not a compliance control. None of these tools provide the WORM immutability or chain of custody that SEC, FINRA, and HIPAA require.
When a legal hold lands, your team searches four tools with four syntaxes and export formats—turning minute-long cross-custodian searches into days of work and creating chain-of-custody risks.
Point-solution archiving means paying separately for email, Slack, Teams, and Zoom, each with its own storage model and admin overhead, while your data grows 30 to 50 percent a year.
Archon Data Store replaces your patchwork of point solutions with one Lakehouse-based archive where email, Slack, Teams, and Zoom are captured, governed, and discoverable under the same policies from day one.
Archon connects natively to every major communications platform your teams use, capturing the full context of conversations, not just flat text exports.
Capture every inbound, outbound, and internal message. Cryptographic hashing is applied at ingestion, not on export.
Archive chats, meetings, recordings, and shared files, all in one place under the same retention and legal-hold framework as email.
Archon captures inbound and outbound text messages, multimedia content, and A2P communications directly from your messaging provider then archived and indexed alongside every other channel.
Every thread is stored in WORM-compliant format with full metadata incuding sender, recipient, timestamp, delivery status — ready for eDiscovery without manual exports.
Search, preserve, review, and produce communications across email, Teams, SMS, and WhatsApp, all from one searchable archive with the same legal-hold and chain-of-custody framework.
Archive SMS, MMS, calls, WhatsApp, iMessage, and mobile media in one place, with unified retention, compliance, and eDiscovery controls across corporate and BYOD devices.
Platform Capabilities
Every message is SHA-256 hashed and stored in write-once format at ingestion. Trusted timestamps verify records are complete and unaltered, satisfying SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA Rule 4511.
One hold freezes email, Slack, Teams, and Zoom records simultaneously for specified custodians. Holds override retention automatically and release cleanly, with a full audit trail throughout.
Full-text and metadata search across all channels in one interface. Filter by custodian, channel, date, or keyword, then export in standard legal review formats. Days of work done in minutes.
Archon Analyzer classifies archived content, detects PII, and flags potential policy violations for compliance review, proactively, before an audit notice arrives.
Define retention schedules by channel, regulation, or content type. Policies enforce automatically across SEC, HIPAA, SOX, and more. Legal holds always take priority.
Hot/warm/cold tiering plus up to 80% compression cuts long-term archiving costs significantly. Data is stored in open Apache Parquet format, queryable and free from vendor lock-in.
See how Archon consolidates all four into one governed archive and what it means for your next eDiscovery request.
Why Archon
Native retention settings in Slack, Teams, and Microsoft 365 are designed for storage management, not compliance. Here is what is missing without a dedicated communications archiving solution.
| Capability | Native Channel Tools | Archon Data Store |
|---|---|---|
| WORM immutability at ingestion | ✕ Not provided | ✓ SHA-256 hash + trusted timestamp |
| Capture edits & deletions with original content | ✕ Not captured | ✓ Full edit history preserved |
| Cross-channel legal hold | ✕ Per-platform only | ✓ Unified hold across all channels |
| Chain of custody audit trail | ✕ Not maintained | ✓ Immutable, append-only audit log |
| Full-text search across all channels | ◐ Within platform only | ✓ Cross-channel in one query |
| Vendor-independent data storage | ✕ Data locked to vendor | ✓ Open Apache Parquet format |
| OCR & speech-to-text for files/recordings | ✕ Not processed | ✓ Searchable text extracted |
| Automated retention by regulation | ◐ Manual / limited | ✓ Policy-enforced per framework |
| Intelligent storage tiering & compression | ✕ Single-tier, full cost | ✓ Hot/warm/cold, up to 80% savings |
| Data survives platform downgrade or exit | ✕ Tied to subscription | ✓ Independent of source platform |
How It Works
Archon's native connectors link to your email, Slack, Teams, and Zoom environments via API. No agents to install, no disruption to your teams.
Map your regulatory obligations to retention policies, content classifications, and access controls. Archon's policy engine enforces them automatically from day one.
Real-time ingestion begins across all channels simultaneously. Historical data is back-ingested with the same WORM immutability applied to new records.
Your compliance, legal, and IT teams search, place holds, and export records across every channel from one interface, with a single defensible audit trail.
Regulatory Coverage
See how Archon unifies email, Slack, Teams, and Zoom into a single WORM-compliant archive and what that means for your next eDiscovery request, audit, or legal hold.
A communications archiving solution captures messages from email, Slack, Teams, Zoom, and other platforms into a separate, tamper-proof repository that exists independently of those platforms. The key difference from native retention is immutability: native retention tools control when messages are deleted inside the live platform, but they do not prevent editing, do not maintain chain of custody, and do not produce the WORM-compliant records that SEC, FINRA, and HIPAA require. Archon captures every message at the point of creation, applies cryptographic hashing, and stores it in write-once format — creating a defensible record rather than a managed deletion schedule.
Archon archives email (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Exchange on-premises, and legacy mail), Slack (all message types via the Discovery API on Enterprise Grid), Microsoft Teams (chats, channels, meetings, and file activity), and Zoom (chat, recordings, and transcripts). Beyond these core communications channels, Archon supports 200+ enterprise data sources — including SMS, SharePoint, Salesforce, and enterprise applications — so all regulated data can be governed in a single archive.
Yes. Archon stores all archived communications in WORM (Write Once, Read Many) format with SHA-256 cryptographic hashing and trusted timestamps at the point of ingestion. This satisfies the non-rewriteable, non-erasable storage requirements of SEC Rule 17a-4(f). Archon also maintains an immutable audit trail for every action taken on archived data, supporting the chain-of-custody documentation required for regulatory examinations under FINRA Rule 4511. Automated retention policies enforce the required three-to-six-year retention periods without manual intervention.
When a legal hold is placed in Archon, it applies simultaneously across all archived communication channels — email, Slack, Teams, and Zoom — for specified custodians and date ranges. The hold overrides any active retention schedules, preventing deletion of records under preservation obligation. Hold placement, modification, and release are all logged in the immutable audit trail. When the hold is released, defensible deletion resumes automatically according to the applicable retention policy, with a complete audit record of the entire hold lifecycle.
Your archived data belongs to you and is stored in open Apache Parquet format in Archon's governed repository — completely independent of the source platforms. If your organization changes Slack plans, migrates from Teams to another tool, or moves email providers, your historical archive remains fully accessible, searchable, and defensible. Unlike archives that store data inside the source platform's infrastructure, Archon's records survive any changes to your underlying communication tools.
Yes. Archon supports retroactive ingestion of historical communications data across all connected channels. When the platform is first deployed, it can back-ingest existing messages, files, and records from Slack, Teams, email, and other sources, applying the same WORM immutability, cryptographic hashing, and governance as newly captured content. Archon can also ingest legacy archives, PST files, and data from decommissioned archiving platforms — making it possible to consolidate historical records from multiple tools into a single governed archive.
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