Each session initializes, runs, and dissolves; your findings intact, your footprint at zero.
Investigative work has always carried risk. What's changed is the infrastructure of exposure. Source identity, document origin, a researcher's pattern of inquiry are no longer protected by physical distance or institutional walls. They exist as data, and data can be accessed, extracted, or subpoenaed.
Most tools are not built for this. A cloud drive stores. A messaging app transmits. A browser leaves a record. None of them were designed around the risk of being tracked.
Ephemeral is.
A sealed, virtualized Instance initializes on your device. Isolated from the host system at the cryptographic level.
Each Workspace has its own credentials, encrypted storage, dedicated mailbox, and secure file intake endpoint. Generated instantly from the client.
Work inside the contained runtime. No telemetry. No analytics. No logging. Nothing leaves the sealed environment.
The Instance is destroyed. The runtime dissolves. Your device retains no investigative data. The Workspace persists only within Ephemeral infrastructure.
Sources, documents, and lines of inquiry leave traces across every platform they touch, not through breach, but through ordinary use. Ephemeral isolates each investigation at the infrastructure level, so source identity, access patterns, and lines of inquiry leave no recoverable trace.
Privileged materials, witness communications, and case strategy cannot share infrastructure with other matters, other clients, or other teams. Ephemeral provisions each matter as a structurally independent environment, so containment is guaranteed by architecture rather than enforced by procedure.
When the institution is both the client and the subject, the review environment cannot share infrastructure with normal operations. Ephemeral provides a contained workspace that is structurally independent from institutional systems, so the integrity of the process is architectural rather than procedural.
Ephemeral AG is registered and operated in Switzerland, supported through institutional partnerships and public-interest funding.
Operational control is structurally separated from all funding entities. No investor, partner or funder has access to infrastructure decisions.
We cannot sell any data. We do not surveil Workspaces. We cannot access Workspace contents.
Annual security audits, legal disclosures, and canary statements are published. Client-side code is open source and independently auditable.