Your clients and customers text your team, and on Android those texts land in Google Messages. Sausalito Labs captures those business conversations, RCS and SMS, from each employee's own phone and delivers them to your archive for regulatory and legal recordkeeping. No second phone, no new number, no new app. Personal conversations stay personal.
| Name | Status | Last Capture | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Davidson | 6/20/2026 | 22 | |
| Greg Hall | 6/20/2026 | 16 | |
| Steven Barnes | 6/20/2026 | 152 | |
| Terry Smith | 6/20/2026 | 16 |
Why Google Messages is hard to archive
SMS text messages used to be the easy part. Carriers kept a copy, and carrier-based archiving could pick them up. The catch is that SMS messages are sent and stored unencrypted, so anyone who intercepts them can read them, which is why CISA recommends end-to-end encrypted messaging instead. On Android, that changed when Google Messages added RCS texting.
Read CISA's mobile communications guidance →One-to-one RCS chats in Google Messages have been end-to-end encrypted since 2021, and group chats since 2023. Since May 2026, RCS chats between Android and iPhone users are encrypted too. The carrier still delivers the message but can't read it, so carrier-based archiving can no longer process these conversations.
Since August 2023, Google Messages has used RCS for new and existing users by default. Read receipts, reactions, high-resolution photos and group chats all travel over RCS, so many of the texts your clients send are now RCS, not SMS.
In September 2022, the SEC charged 16 firms more than $1.1 billion after employees used text messaging apps on their personal phones for business conversations that weren't preserved. Financial firms were first, but the same duty applies anywhere a chat may be needed for an audit, an investigation or a litigation hold.
Read SEC press release 2022-174 →If your clients text you, those conversations need to be part of your books and records, whether they arrive as RCS or SMS.
Sausalito Labs works with Google Messages' own built-in functionality, so your team keeps using the messaging app already on their Android phone. There's nothing to install on the phone and no change to how they text clients.
Create your Sausalito Labs session and choose the Google Messages network.
Confirm the connection from Google Messages natively on your phone.
Choose which contacts and groups to capture or ignore, using the filters below.
Capture filters
Phone number
Group name
Groups containing a number
eSIM number
Setup takes about three minutes, with no IT team needed.
What's captured
Feature | Google Messages |
|---|---|
Phones | Android |
Chats with Android and iPhone users | Yes |
RCS, SMS and MMS | Yes |
One-to-one chats | Yes |
Group chats | Yes |
Photos and file attachments | Yes |
Emojis, Reactions, Stickers | Yes |
Voice messages | Yes |
Replies | Yes |
Deleted messages (captured before they're deleted) | Yes |
Selective capture filters | Phone number, group name, groups containing a number, eSIM number |
Delivered to | Smarsh, Global Relay, Mimecast, Microsoft Purview, your journaled mailbox or your own cloud storage |
Archive only what matches your rules, by phone number, group name, groups containing a number, or eSIM number.
Deliver to Smarsh, Global Relay, Mimecast, Microsoft Purview, your journaled mailbox, or your own cloud storage.
Review captured conversations in one place, with daily exports, session logs, alerts and notifications.
Add iMessage, WhatsApp or Signal anytime, under the same capture rules.
No. Clients keep texting your team exactly as they do today, from Android or iPhone. Nothing changes on their side.
No. You choose what gets captured by phone number, group name, or groups that include a client's number. Everything else stays on your phone and out of the record archive.
Yes. Conversations with iPhone users arrive in Google Messages as RCS or SMS, and Sausalito Labs captures them like any other chat.
Yes. Sausalito Labs captures RCS chats, SMS texts and MMS picture messages in Google Messages.
Yes. You can capture a group chat by its group name, or capture any group chat that includes a specific client's number.
No. Sausalito Labs works with the Android phone and the number you already use, through Google Messages' own built-in functionality. No second phone, no new number, no new app.
Messages are archived as they arrive, so a copy reaches your record store even if the message is later deleted from the phone.
Sausalito Labs can send to any archive, including Smarsh, Global Relay, Mimecast, Microsoft Purview, your journaled mailbox, or your own cloud storage.
Any firm that needs a record of business texts, from a one-person practice to an enterprise. That includes investment advisers and broker-dealers under SEC and FINRA rules, and firms in banking, insurance, legal and other fields that keep conversations for regulators, audits or litigation.
Setup takes about three minutes. Keep your Android phone, your number and the texting app your clients already use.
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