Capture every client iMessage and stay SEC-compliant, without phone changes, new apps, or IT. Setup takes three minutes.
“We have a policy that says advisors can’t text clients.” For years, that answer was enough to satisfy an examiner. It isn’t anymore.
Examiners now routinely ask to see the actual messages, not just the policy. If your advisors are texting clients on iMessage and you can’t produce those records, a written policy doesn’t protect you. It may make things worse, because it shows you knew the risk and didn’t address it.
iMessage is the default app on every iPhone. Your advisors are already using it. Your clients expect it. And unlike SMS, it’s end-to-end encrypted, which makes it invisible to your compliance archive unless you’re capturing it at the source.
Prohibiting iMessage doesn’t make the risk go away. It makes it invisible. Without iMessage capture from Sausalito Labs, you have no audit trail and no easy way to prove your team’s compliance with your firm’s text messaging policy.
The SEC has made electronic communications recordkeeping a stated examination priority, with RIA firms increasingly in scope. A deficiency finding doesn’t just mean scrutiny — it means the SEC may shorten the interval before your next examination.
iMessage capture used to require IT expertise. Now it takes three minutes and no IT.
Sausalito Labs captures iMessage conversations from your advisors’ existing iPhones and delivers them automatically to your compliance archive, with no change to how your team or clients communicate. Your advisors keep texting the way they always have — Sausalito runs quietly in the background.
Activate your capture session. No IT required.
Choose exactly what gets archived by phone number, group name, or eSIM. Personal stays personal.
Delivered as email to Smarsh, Global Relay, your inbox, or your own cloud storage.
A complete, exam-ready record of client conversations, captured at the source.
No fancy consultants. No IT ticket. No onboarding call required.
Sign in to your Sausalito Labs account to activate your linked device session in less than three minutes.
You control exactly which conversations get archived. Build your capture list using any combination of:
Sausalito delivers captured messages in the format your destination requires:
No ongoing maintenance. No manual exports. Set it once and stay compliant.
Sausalito Labs is priced per advisor, with no setup fees, no IT costs, and no long-term contract required.
Most firms are capturing and compliant the same day they start. Book a demo and we’ll walk you through coverage for your team and answer any compliance questions specific to your firm.
Book a demo and see iMessage capture running in under three minutes.
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