If we disappear tomorrow, you keep everything

Here's the fair question every privacy-conscious person should ask a service like ours: Why should I trust a small company with my data — and what happens to it if you shut down?

It's the right question, because it has burned people before.

The Skiff cautionary tale

Skiff was a privacy-first email and documents startup. Users trusted it specifically because it promised to protect their data. Then it was acquired by Notion — a closed-source, venture-backed company — and shut down. Skiff's encryption model wasn't preserved, there was no clean migration path, and people scrambled to get their data out before the lights went off. The lesson users took away was simple: don't rely too heavily on any single service that can vanish on someone else's schedule.

We take that seriously. So instead of asking you to trust a promise, we want to show you the architecture — because the reason your data is safe with VaultSuite isn't that we're nice. It's structural.

Four reasons you're not locked in

• We can't read your data in the first place. Everything is end-to-end encrypted in your browser before it reaches us. We store ciphertext. There's no readable copy for us to lose, leak, sell, or be compelled to hand over.
• The software is open source. VaultSuite runs CryptPad, which is public, auditable, and maintained by a community far larger than us. The app doesn't depend on our company continuing to exist.
• Your data exports in one click. Every document type exports to open, standard formats — PDF, DOCX, Markdown, HTML — anytime. Your files are yours, in formats that will still open in a decade.
• The whole stack is self-hostable. If we ever failed you, you could take your exported, encrypted data and run the exact same software yourself, on your own server. That's the ultimate escape hatch: the door is never locked from our side.

Files outlive apps

Apps are ephemeral — companies get acquired, pivot, or close. Your files shouldn't share that fate. Everything about VaultSuite is designed so your work outlives us: open formats, open-source software, and an exit you control. Ownership isn't a slogan we put on the homepage. It's the way the thing is built.

We'd rather earn your trust by making it unnecessary. Don't take our word for it — the code is open, the encryption is verifiable, and the door is always unlocked. Start your free trial →