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Document exchange in professional services

How do accountants, lawyers and consultants share documents with clients securely?

By giving each client a contact with three separate document spaces, so a draft stays with your team, work in progress is visible to whoever is assigned, and only the finished document reaches the client. A record is kept when the client opens it in their portal.
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The problem

What goes wrong when an accounting, legal or consulting firm and the clients it serves exchange documents today

  • The engagement lives in an inbox

    A signed engagement letter, three drafts of a return and a scanned ID sit in the same email thread as everything else the client has ever sent you.

  • One folder, every client mixed together

    A shared drive gives whoever has the link the same view of everything in it — there is no boundary between a working paper and a deliverable.

  • No record of who has seen the current version

    When a client asks "did you get the file I sent Tuesday", the honest answer is often a scroll through a thread, not a lookup.

What moves

The specific documents that pass between the two sides

Not documents in the abstract — these are the ones that actually show up.

  • engagement letters
  • financial statements
  • tax returns
  • signed contracts
  • identity documents for onboarding

Three spaces

The same structure as every other setting, applied here

Private, Team and Shared. Built and available now.

  • Private

    Working papers, a draft engagement letter, and anything not yet ready for the client or the wider team.

  • Team

    The colleagues assigned to this client, collaborating on a file before it goes out.

  • Shared

    Exactly what the client can see — the finished letter, the filed return, the signed contract.

  • Documents and spaces

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    Three spaces per contact — Private, Team and Shared — with upload, moving a document between them, and page-by-page previews of PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and images, converted on our own servers. Admins decide, per document, who can download it; every download is logged.

  • Document requests

    In progress

    A checklist of what you need from someone, filling in as they upload against each line. Partly built; not finished.

Not built for this industry

One product, applied here — not a separate one

docivault is not built for this industry. It is built for the exchange — the private workspace, the contacts, and the three document spaces are exactly the same ones every other use case on this site uses. What changes here is who is on each side, what moves between them, and what a buyer in this setting needs to check before trusting a vendor.

Client confidentiality and data-protection rules vary by profession and jurisdiction — check what applies to yours before relying on any vendor. See /compliance and /subprocessors for what docivault actually holds today.

Questions

What people ask about professional services

Is docivault built specifically for accounting or law firms?

No. It is built for the exchange between a firm and its clients, which happens to look like this in professional services. The same three spaces work for a clinic and a patient, or a landlord and a tenant.

Can I keep working papers separate from what the client sees?

Yes, by space rather than by folder discipline. A draft stays in Private until someone deliberately moves it to Shared. This is built and available now.

What replaces the shared drive folder per client?

A contact per client, each with their own Private, Team and Shared space, plus categories to label a document by type across all of them.

Is the document exchange itself built yet?

Yes. Workspaces, contacts, the three spaces, uploading a document, moving it between spaces, viewing common formats page by page, downloads that an admin allows per document and that are always logged, comments and sharing by an expiring link are all built and available now. Document requests are in progress. Bulk import from Drive or OneDrive, and a way to browse or export the record of who opened a document, are not built.

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