We built the record first.
Strata began with a simple observation: every team already had somewhere to put documents, and none of them could prove what happened to one.
- Founded 2021
- 62 people
- 9 countries
Strata started in a validation office, watching a quality manager email the same protocol to eleven people and then spend two weeks working out which reply held the current revision.
The tooling existed. Shared drives, wikis, e-signature add-ons, a folder called FINAL_v3_USE_THIS. What none of it did was hold the one thing an auditor actually asks for: an unbroken account of who changed what, when, and on whose authority.
So we built the record first and the interface second. Every action in Strata writes an entry that cannot be edited afterwards. Everything else — the folder tree, the metadata, the approval chain — exists to make that record accurate without anyone having to think about it.
- Active projects
1,400
Active projects
- People, 9 countries
62
People, 9 countries
- Documents controlled
4.2M
Documents controlled
- Audit findings on the trail
0
Audit findings on the trail
Four things we refuse to trade away.
These are not posters on a wall. They are the arguments we keep having, written down so we stop having them twice.
The record is the product
Features are judged by whether they make the audit trail more complete. If a shortcut would leave a gap, it does not ship.
Permission is granted, never assumed
New members start with nothing. Access is an explicit act, scoped to a project, revocable in one click and logged both ways.
Boring where it counts
Document control is infrastructure. It should be predictable, legible and unsurprising — the excitement belongs in your work, not your filing.
Built for the person who gets audited
Our design partner is never the buyer alone. It is the document controller who has to answer the question at eight in the morning.
Five years, in order.
- 2021
First line of code
Two engineers and a document controller prototype an immutable event log for document state.
- 2022
First tier-one contractor
A main contractor runs an interchange rebuild entirely inside Strata.
- 2023
SOC 2 Type II
Independent audit completed; continuous monitoring goes into production.
- 2024
Approval chains
Multi-reviewer sign-off with routed rejection ships to every plan.
- 2026
Form builder
Drag-and-drop templates bring structured capture into the same approval engine.