The guarantee, and why you need not take it on faith
Most vendors promise you will not be held hostage. Here is ours, plus the reason it is checkable.

An entitlement can pause new capture. It cannot touch evidence you already hold.

Opening, verifying, listing, exporting and downloading packages are not gateable — not merely "not currently gated". The only enforcement function in the gateway accepts a capture action, and no read equivalent exists to call, so a lapsed licence has no code path through which to strand your records. A test asserts that reads can never be added to the gated set.

Read it yourself: apps/gateway/src/license.ts and license.test.ts in the public repository. If we ever break this, the diff is public and the test goes red.

Packages are sealed with your keys. We hold no copy, so we could not unlock or withhold them even if a contract ended badly.

What things cost
Four of these five are free. Verification being free is not a funnel trick — it is what makes a sealed package worth anything to the person receiving it.
Free forever

Vault tools

Browser vault, desktop apps, CLI. Seal and open packages on your own devices. No account, no server that can read your plaintext, no feature held back.

MIT licensed. Nothing here becomes paid later.

Open the vault
Free forever — permanently

Verification

Anyone handed a QEV package can verify it: signature, per-file digests, and a verdict per check rather than one green badge. No account, no licence, no relationship with us, no expiry.

This stays free even if the sender stops paying us. A proof only a paying customer can check is not a proof.

Verify this site
Free — no licence, no clock

Gateway evaluation

Run the capture gateway on your own infrastructure and put real work through it. Capped by volume — 250 packages, 50 cases — and never by time, so an evaluation cannot expire in the middle of a job.

Reaching the cap pauses new capture only. Everything already sealed stays fully readable.

Gateway docs
Free — time-boxed

Pilot

For a company that actually wants to use this. A signed 90-day licence, volume limits lifted, and help getting your connectors and flows right. Staged deliberately: synthetic → redacted historical → shadow alongside your real process → live.

Free because this needs evidence from real workflows more than it needs pilot revenue. Ask, and say what you would use it for.

Request a pilot licence
Paid

Team

For when capture is part of how the business runs: a self-hosted gateway under your control, connectors, evidence bundles for handoff, and a support commitment. Priced per conversation — list rates are unpublished because we have not run enough pilots to price honestly, and inventing a number would be the same species of claim this product exists to avoid.

Perpetual by default. If you stop paying, capture stops; your evidence does not.

Talk about a team deployment
What you are not buying
Stated here rather than discovered during procurement.

No third-party security audit

No external firm has assessed this. Internal adversarial passes and an independent product audit have been done and published, which is not the same thing. If procurement requires a pentest report, QEV has none yet. See audit status.

Installers are not signed

Desktop builds are not Apple-notarized or Authenticode-signed, so the OS warns you and is right to. Every binary’s SHA-256 sits inside the Ed25519-signed site manifest so you can verify what you downloaded — that proves the bytes, not the publisher. See downloads.

The gateway is pilot-grade

It works end to end — the full field-service suite passes and seals packages carrying independently verifiable Ed25519 signatures. It is not multi-tenant-hardened, has no KMS/HSM integration, and no formal key rotation or revocation product.

No hosted plaintext

There is no QEV cloud holding your content, which also means there is no SaaS tier to buy. The gateway runs on your infrastructure. A deliberate design limit, not a roadmap gap.

Start without asking anyone

The vault needs no account. The gateway needs no licence to evaluate. Ask for a pilot when you want it in front of real work.