Millions. That's what one compliance failure cost a mid-market financial firm last year.
The records existed. Nobody could prove they were real.
That's not a tech problem. It's a governance problem. It happens to firms with every tool they need, and no way to prove what they know.
The moment every CFO eventually faces
It shows up without warning. A regulator sends a letter. A lawyer requests documents. A buyer's due-diligence team asks for proof of a decision made three years ago.
Suddenly "do we have this?" isn't the question. It's "can we prove it's real?" Most finance leaders have never timed how long that would take. The ones who have don't like the answer.
Having records isn't the same as governing them
Storing data isn't the same as owning its chain of custody. Access isn't the same as authority.
Most CFOs treat these as the same thing, because most of the time, nobody asks the question that proves otherwise. A shared drive full of files feels complete. But it can't show you, on demand, that a document is the original, untouched, and tied to a specific person and date.
You don't see that gap until someone tests it. And by then, it's usually someone looking for a reason to doubt you.
Where the real cost comes from
It's not storage. It's reconstruction: staff, lawyers, and consultants spending weeks piecing together what happened from scraps: emails missing context, undated notes, a "final" document with three different versions floating around.
That work is slow, expensive, and never as clean as a sealed record would have been from day one.
Archivista closes that gap before the audit, not during it. Every record sealed the moment it's created. Chain of custody, automatic. Proof, on demand.
Own what your organization knows. Authentic. Attested. Archived. Auditable.