You can't run Private Wealth on Public Email.
Every day your advisors are chasing documents over email, sending encrypted attachments clients won't open, and coordinating estate planning through threads no one can audit. SideDrawer gives every client relationship its own vault — organized, secure, and built for the relationships you're trying to protect.

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Enabling secure prospecting, delivery and engagement with clients, their family and trusted professionals
The Problem
We're dealing with banks and large insurance companies that are sending me encrypted emails, which can't be shared with my team members. It's an awful and annoying experience.— John Baynham, Retirement Income Group
You've felt it from both sides. The encrypted email your client ignores. The shared drive link they're afraid to click — because it looks exactly like the phishing attempts they've been warned about. The estate planning folder you've been emailing back and forth with a lawyer for three months. This is not a technology problem. It's an infrastructure problem.
What Changes
One secure place for every client relationship.
Not a folder. Not a thread.
Collaboration
One vault. Not eight email threads.
A typical HNW client has 8–12 parties in their financial life: estate attorney, accountant, insurance broker, adult children, business partner. In most practices, every one of them is on a separate email thread. Nobody has the same version of anything. Nobody knows what was sent when. The advisor becomes the hub of a coordination problem they didn't design and can't see.
When a lawyer needs an estate document, they go to the vault. When an accountant needs a tax form, they go to the vault. When a family member needs access, they have it — with exactly the permissions the advisor set. One vault per client relationship. Defined access per collaborator. Full audit trail.
Email gets replaced. Coordination doesn't. It just works better.
We've been using SideDrawer with family members, accountants, and lawyers without any difficulty, and all the while improving the client experience.— Alex Liber, Cove Continuity Advisors
Tax season was a real eye opener of the impact the platform can have on the efficiency of our practice. We just added the accountant as a Collaborator — and it simplified the entire process.— Frank Gasper, CSR Wealth
Who We Serve
Built for how your firm actually works
Select the model that fits your practice.
Multi-generational relationships deserve multi-generational infrastructure.
Private wealth relationships don't end with a single client. They span spouses, children, estate trustees, and family offices. SideDrawer gives every generation its own access layer — within the same vault structure the advisor manages.
- Vault per household — not per client file or email thread
- Private and shared drawers — collaboration across families and trusted third parties, without email
- RBAC per relationship — define exactly what each party can view, upload, download, or sign
- Cross-vault search with RBAC enforcement — advisors search all relationships; each user surfaces only what they're permitted to see
- iFrame embedding into your existing advisor portal — client action items surface in the host experience
- Three deployment tiers — SaaS through Enterprise PaaS; scale as your firm grows

Consistent client experience across every advisor in your network.
Independent dealer networks face a compliance and brand challenge: hundreds of advisors, hundreds of different client experiences. SideDrawer solves both by deploying under your brand, with your compliance controls, across your entire advisor force.
- White-label & co-brand — clients see your firm's name, not SideDrawer's
- Multi-brand tenant support — manage multiple brand affiliations from one platform; data viewable combined or segregated by brand code
- Advisor dashboard — visibility across all client relationships; no more chasing document status
- Pricing model: per admin user — clients, third parties, and family members don't count
- Regional data residency confirmed — SOC 2 Type II; AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit
- Multi-language support .

Structured document collection across an 80–100 document financial plan.
Financial planning engagements are document-intensive. Tax returns, benefit statements, insurance policies, estate documents — all collected, organized, and audited over a multi-month engagement. SideDrawer replaces the email chain with a structured vault lifecycle.
- Structured document requests — digital, conditional, with status tracking across all clients
- B2C vault lifecycle — planner engages client → assigns vault → completes financial plan → turns vault over to client on free B2C model → client returns to planner when ready
- Client stays on the platform after engagement ends — your brand remains their document home
- Back-office approval/reject workflows — client submits → ops reviews → approves or rejects inline; no email round-trips
- Estate readiness — vault becomes the permanent document home for the family, not just the planning engagement

Adoption
Even the most reluctant clients come around.
Security without adoption isn't security. If your clients route around the platform and go back to email, you've solved the wrong problem. The question isn't whether the tool is secure enough — it's whether your clients will actually use it.
The objection we hear most from advisors is: "My clients won't use it."
And then we've watched practices onboard clients in their 70s, 80s, and 90s who had never used anything like it before. The reason is simple: older clients are often the most motivated, because estate readiness matters to them personally.
Many advisors don't want to tell their older clients to use new software. But with SideDrawer, it's the older clients who are the biggest adopters because they want easy access for estate documents in case something happens to them.— John Baynham, Retirement Income Group
Honestly, I think I'm going to love this program. It's actually comforting to know all of our vital information is in one safe place. If anything suddenly were to happen to either of us, I worried about succession and estate planning etc. for our children.— End client, Spring Plans
The iPhone Effect
Once your practice runs on SideDrawer, it's hard to go back.
Now that we've been using SideDrawer, it will be hard to go back to what we were doing before. It's like once you get an iPhone, you can't use something else.— John Baynham, Retirement Income Group
No Advisor would give up SideDrawer. The impact to their practice and client experience is too positive.— Yevheniia Vostrikova, New Outlook Wealth
Document requests stop going over email. Client onboarding stops being a coordination exercise. Estate planning stops requiring a 30-email chain with a lawyer. The practice runs differently. Better.
Security
It's great if we're secure. But if our clients aren't, that's a gap.
It's great if we are encrypting and taking steps to be cybersecure, but if our clients aren't secure when interacting with us, that's a huge gap in our offering. This is why the two-way secure exchange through SideDrawer was essential to fill this gap.— John Baynham, Retirement Income Group
SideDrawer closes the loop. Not just your end — your client's end too. Every interaction is structured, logged, and access-controlled. No document leaves your system without a record.
When we mention SideDrawer, clients feel added comfort trusting us with their information since we actively take steps to ensure their data is protected and secure.— Dewdney & Co.
What your clients and your compliance team both need
- Canadian data residency — confirmed; data at rest in Canada
- SOC 2 Type II certified — documentation available on request
- AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit
- Immutable audit trail — every action logged with timestamp and user attribution
- Client-controlled permissions — advisors set what clients can and cannot do; clients cannot delete compliance records
- Version control — no document can be overwritten without a full history record
- Referral growth — advisors report that better client experience directly drives referrals
Common questions
Answered before you have to ask.
Give every client relationship the infrastructure it deserves.
SideDrawer is built for advisory practices that take their client relationships seriously. Book a private walkthrough — no sales deck, no demo script. Just your practice and what needs to change.
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