Independence endswhere your tools start.
For freelance investigative reporters.
If your storage answers to a third party, your independence is partial. The Ark holds your reporting on hardware that answers only to you.
Delivered in 14 days · Set up in under 10 minutes
The tools you depend on are points of leverage against you.
Every dependency in your reporting workflow is somebody else's call to make. Independence is the sum of the calls you keep for yourself.
Storage answers to subpoenas
Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud. A subpoena to the provider yields your reporting in full. You aren't notified, you don't get to object, and the provider has no incentive to fight on your behalf.
Platforms answer to policy
Workspace accounts are suspendable. Drives are revokable. Terms of service change. Your archive is held at the pleasure of whichever vendor you signed up with.
Your contacts are someone else's metadata
Who reached you, when, and how often is captured by your phone provider, your messaging app, your email host. The shape of your sources is visible without the content ever being read.
A reporting workflow that answers to you. Drafts, transcripts, source documents, research files, contact graph. All on hardware in your possession. End-to-end encrypted. Reachable from anywhere over an encrypted tunnel. Nothing on a third-party server for a court order to reach.
Reporting on hardware in your possession
Drafts, transcripts, source documents, research files. AES-256 at rest. Available to you over an encrypted tunnel. Not held by any cloud provider.
Source comms that don't transit a logged platform
End-to-end encrypted messaging and file transfer routed through your Ark. Contact graph stays on your device. Nothing for a third party to log.
Anonymous source intake
Sources connect to your Ark without providing an email, phone, or any identifying information. The Ark requires no identity to use, from either side of the conversation.
Work from anywhere without your archive
Keep your Ark in a secure location. Connect from your laptop over an encrypted tunnel. No sensitive files on the device you carry through airports and border crossings.
Collaborative investigations, revokable
End-to-end encrypted sharing between Arks lets a small team work on the same archive without putting anything on a third-party server. Access is revokable per collaborator.
No telemetry, no phone-home
The Ark does not communicate with ArkCentral. We sell you a device and step out of the picture. Updates ship through the device's own mechanism and carry no telemetry.
Press freedom
Working in a high-risk environment?
Evaluation units available at no cost for qualifying press freedom and investigative reporting professionals. Get in touch to apply.
Independence,at the early access price.
Limited spots. Limited time.
The Ark 2.0
Your investigative archive
Everything an investigative reporter needs to file, archive, and protect sources, on hardware that answers only to you.
Encrypted archive drafts, transcripts, source docs at AES-256 rest, reachable from anywhere
Anonymous source intake no phone, no email, no identity required from sources
No-trail comms end-to-end encryption with contact graph on your device only
Work-from-anywhere tunnel encrypted access from any laptop without carrying the archive
No vendor copy your data exists only on your Ark, nothing for us to subpoena
250,000+
Documents and transcripts
200+ hrs
Of source audio
Decades
Of reporting archive
Expandable
Add capacity as needed
What's included
Early Access benefits
Everything below, locked in at the early access price.
The Ark 2.0 + full app ecosystem
1TB storage, encrypted comms, source intake, file vault, all included
FREE encrypted backup disk
Your reporting always recoverable, even if the primary device is lost
30% lifetime discount
On all future ArkCentral purchases, forever
Extended 3-year hardware warranty
Peace of mind well beyond standard coverage
The Ark
from $499
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