Secure file sharing · dropsecure.com
DropSecure
End-to-end encrypted file transfer for people who send documents they cannot afford to have read by anyone else — tax returns, financial statements, student records, case files, contracts.
It started with a mortgage application
Our founder needed to send tax documents to a mortgage broker. The available options were all bad in the same way: attach the file to an email and hope, use a consumer cloud service and accept that a copy sits on someone else's server indefinitely, or drive across town with paper.
These were tax returns — full name, address, Social Security number, income, dependents, bank details. Everything an identity thief needs, in a single PDF, sent over a channel with no meaningful protection.
The infuriating part was that the technology to solve it already existed. What did not exist was a way to use it that an accountant, a broker, or a client could operate without training.
So we built it. DropSecure encrypts the file on the sender's device before it goes anywhere. The keys stay with the people exchanging the documents — not with us, and not with the infrastructure the files pass through. What arrives on our servers is data we ourselves cannot read.
The right answer to “what if your provider is breached?” is that there was nothing readable to take.
Free first, then a business
We released it free. That was deliberate: a security product nobody uses protects nothing, and we wanted to know whether the problem we felt was a problem other people felt too.
It was. The people who found it were the ones handling other people's most sensitive documents every working day — accountants in filing season, financial advisors onboarding clients, attorneys exchanging discovery. They did not need a security lecture. They needed something their least technical client could use on the first attempt.
When usage grew past what a side project could sustain, we started charging. Paying customers changed the product for the better: they asked for retention controls, audit trails, administrative oversight and compliance documentation — the things that separate a useful tool from something an institution can actually deploy.
Who uses it now
Over 5,000 licenses have been sold across those groups — individual practitioners buying one seat, and institutions deploying it across departments.
What it does
- End-to-end encryption, performed before upload
- Zero-knowledge key handling
- Send to anyone, no account required to receive
- Expiring links and download limits
- Revoke access after sending
- Delivery and access audit trail
- Large file support
- Administrative controls for teams