FileGuard wraps a file in a policy only you set — so a shared contract, photo, or document keeps behaving the way you meant, long after it leaves your hands.
Once a file leaves your phone, it usually stops being yours. It gets forwarded, screenshotted, quietly kept after it was meant to be a one-time thing. FileGuard exists because "sent" shouldn't mean "gone forever."
FileGuard wraps a file inside a sealed container we call a .ped — a Policy‑Enabled Document. From the outside, it just looks like a file. What it actually shows when it's opened depends on who's opening it, and whether you've changed your mind since you sent it.
Believable, harmless content — shown when the opener isn't who they should be.
A holding pattern for coercion, so being forced to open it doesn't hand over the real thing.
A plain refusal, when the situation around the request doesn't match the policy you set.
A visible "this was pulled back" notice, once you decide the answer is now no.
Pick a file, choose who can open it from your address book, and set the policy for how it should behave.
Share it however you already do — message, email, drive. The seal travels with the file; the file itself carries no unlocked content.
When it's opened, FileGuard checks the moment against your policy — offline, or through a Remote Release Authority you or your organization runs — before deciding which of the five faces to show.
Change your mind. Pull access, and future opens reflect it — even for copies already sent.
FileGuard's whole pitch collapses if the app itself is the thing spying on you. So it isn't.
No analytics, no ad tracking, no record of which buttons you tap or which screens you open.
Crash and diagnostic reports are something you choose to export — never something sent automatically.
Push notifications are a doorbell only. They wake the app; they don't carry your file, your contacts, or the security event itself.
Watchman, FileGuard's security-alert service, can tell your phone something needs attention. It can't read your files or your policy to do it.
Full privacy details ship in the app, and stay in plain language there too.
Contracts, medical results, financial documents, private photos — files you're fine sharing once, with one person, on your terms.
Legal, healthcare, and finance teams that need to prove, later, exactly who opened what, when — and be able to say no retroactively.
A small, strictly limited circle with first insight into FileGuard, a direct hand in strategy and the backlog, and a real stake in the company's success.
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