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Your clients' files are not our business model. Or our vault.

Squirrel Docs is a pass-through, not a permanent vault. Files move from your client to you through Squirrel Docs, and then they are deleted on the schedule you choose: 30, 60, or 90 days. You set the window per firm. When deletion happens, you can get a Deletion Certificate confirming it.

Before a client uploads anything, you can send them our Pre-Link Trust Sheet — a plain-English one-pager, in your firm's name, explaining what the link is, what happens to their files, and when files are deleted.

A client's link can also carry an optional 4-digit PIN, set per client: turn it on for the clients who want the extra step, leave it off for the rest, and reset it at any time from the client's page.

Inside your firm, access is role-based. Every person signs in with their own email and password. The account owner and account managers see the whole firm; each portfolio manager sees only their own clients — their lists, files, and numbers — and can't open another team member's clients, even by guessing a link. Billing and account closure belong to the account owner alone. Sign-ins and actions are written to your firm's audit log, with the person who took them.

For each list, download a Chain-of-Custody Receipt: every file, who uploaded it, for which period, and when — a record you can keep for the close, or share with the client.

On SOC 2 — our honest line: Squirrel Docs is not yet SOC 2 certified. We run SOC 2-aligned controls on audited infrastructure, and we will tell you exactly which controls are in place today if you ask by email. We will not dress that up as certification.

Switching to Squirrel Docs — step by step

  1. In the tool you use today, export your client list — or just copy the spreadsheet, or the chase email, you already work from.
  2. Open Import in the sidebar and paste it into the Paste-Your-Mess Compiler on that page.
  3. Review the draft checklists the compiler built — untick anything wrong, and fix names and emails.
  4. Press Confirm. Your clients and their first lists are created — nothing exists until you confirm.

Leaving — step by step

  1. Sign in, open Settings → My Profile, and follow the full export link to the Your Data — Exit Any Time page.
  2. Download your full export — every client, checklist, list state, file, reminder and audit record, in open formats. It works any time: before you pay, while you subscribe, and after you cancel.
  3. Want proof before you trust it? Run the Exit Drill on the same page — it creates a throwaway test client, exports everything, then deletes the test data, so you can verify the round trip yourself.

Email Us for the Security Packet

The packet: data flow diagram, retention/deletion policy, sub-processor list, Trust Sheet sample.

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