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SMS Archiving Built for Enterprise Compliance

Capture every business text from personal and corporate devices. Preserve full thread context, meet eDiscovery demands, and stay compliant with FINRA, TCPA, and SEC 17a-4.

Archon SMS compliance dashboard showing a captured thread, with chat archived in real time and a tamper-proof status confirmation

2TB+

Messages archived

4200 +

Enterprises worldwide

99 %

Uptime SLA

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Uptime SLA

Compliant with
TCPA
FINRA 4511
SEC 17a-4
HIPAA
MiFID II
SOX
GDPR
⚠ The Exposure

The texts your compliance programme can't see

SMS sits outside every corporate monitoring tool. Employees know it. Regulators know it too and they’re acting on it.

Personal numbers carry business records you don’t own
Business texts sent from a personal phone are regulatory records that live on a device you don’t control and leave when the employee does.
SMS is the off-channel regulators are already fining firms for
FINRA and the SEC have issued over $2 billion in fines for unmonitored off-channel communications since 2021; text messages are the most common channel cited.
A legal hold covers every device not just corporate ones
Preservation obligations extend to personal phones used for business. Without BYOD capture, you’re handing an incomplete record to a court.

Platform Capabilities

Built for the way business SMS actually works

 Personal devices, multiple carriers, group threads. Archon captures all of it, without requiring anything from your employees.

Capture

Every device, every carrier, every thread. Zero employee action required.

Archon captures at the carrier and platform layer, not the device. Employees enroll a number once — after that, every SMS and MMS is captured automatically, whether sent from a personal iPhone or a corporate SIM.

  • BYOD capture without installing anything on personal devices
  • Corporate SIM and business messaging platform support
  • MMS, attachments, and group threads fully preserved
  • Full historical import on first connection, no messages missed
SMS capture flow showing four source types — personal iPhone, corporate SIM, business SMS platform, and group threads — all feeding into a single tamper-proof, immutable archive
Archon eDiscovery interface returning results in seconds for a keyword search, with the term highlighted inside the full conversation context

eDiscovery

Search by keyword. Retrieve the full thread. Every time.

SMS evidence without context is incomplete evidence. Archon preserves the full conversation thread around every message, so your legal team produces a coherent record, not isolated texts.

  • Search by keyword, phone number, date range, or participant
  • Full thread context preserved around every search result
  • Export in PDF or native format with chain of custody
  • Reviewer workflow with tagging, redaction, and privilege flags
Legal Hold

Place a hold on the person, not just the mailbox.

Legal holds on SMS must cover every number a custodian uses for business — personal and corporate. Archon ties holds to the person, not the device, so nothing slips through when a matter goes active.

  • Hold placed across all enrolled numbers for a custodian
  • Deletion suspended automatically — no IT involvement needed
  • Full audit trail of hold activity for court admissibility
  • Multi-matter support: custodians can be held across concurrent cases
Legal hold panel — placed on hold across personal and corporate numbers, with messages preserved and deletion suspended
SMS compliance reporting dashboard showing 94% BYOD enrolment rate, 2.1 billion messages archived, 12 off-channel flags, and zero policy exceptions

Reporting

See exactly who is enrolled, what is captured, and where the gaps are.

BYOD compliance is only as strong as your enrolment rate. Archon gives your compliance team a live view of who is covered, which numbers are active, and where off-channel risk remains.

  • BYOD enrolment coverage by team, department, or individual
  • Off-channel activity flags when unenrolled numbers send business SMS
  • Policy exception reports surfacing gaps before auditors do
  • Exportable in PDF, CSV, or directly to your GRC platform

Compliance Coverage

Built for regulated industries

Archon is purpose-built for sectors where SMS retention is a legal obligation, not a preference.

  • Retain messages for up to 10 years with automated lifecycle management
  • Satisfy eDiscovery requests with full thread context and chain of custody
  • Capture BYOD and corporate numbers under a single retention policy
  • Receive real-time alerts when unenrolled numbers send business SMS
  • Pass regulatory audits with tamper-proof, WORM-compliant storage

TCPA

Consumer SMS consent and retention

FINRA 4511

Financial industry message records

SEC 17a-4

WORM retention for broker-dealers

HIPAA

Healthcare SMS and PHI compliance

MiFID II

EU investment services records

SOX

Sarbanes-Oxley financial records

CCPA

California consumer data rights

GDPR

EU data protection and retention

Ready to bring your SMS communications into compliance?

Join 4,200+ organizations that trust Archon to capture what other tools miss.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • 1. How do you capture SMS from personal devices without installing software?

    Archon captures at the carrier and platform layer, not at the device. Employees enrol their personal number through a one-time registration process — no app, no MDM profile, and no access to personal content outside of business SMS. Only messages sent or received on the enrolled number are captured.

  • 2. What if an employee uses a number they haven't enrolled?

    Archon’s off-channel detection monitors for business SMS activity from unenrolled numbers. When a known employee sends or receives a message on an unregistered number, your compliance team receives a real-time alert — so you can act before a regulator does.

  • 3. Are MMS messages and group threads fully archived?

    Yes. Archon captures SMS and MMS in full — including images, documents, and audio — as well as group threads with multiple participants. Full thread context is preserved, so every reply is searchable and producible alongside the messages it responds to.

  • 4. Can employees delete SMS messages from the archive?

    No. The archive operates independently of the device or carrier. Even if a user deletes a message from their phone, the archived copy remains intact in tamper-proof, WORM-compliant storage. Only designated compliance administrators can manage retention under policy.

  • 5. Where is our data stored and who can access it?

    You choose your data residency region at setup: US, EU (Frankfurt), APAC (Singapore), or your own private cloud. Data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3. Only authorised users with the roles you define can access archived messages.

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