Company
A small team, one product, and a deployment that runs without us.
VERA is developed by a small team at VERA Forensics, in France. It was built inside a working national forensic laboratory, and it is sold only directly.
- VERA Forensics, registered in France
- One product, sold directly
- No resellers, no distributors
Where it came from
It was built inside a laboratory, not in front of one.
VERA did not start as a product idea. It started inside a national forensic laboratory, watching the same thing happen: an extraction arrives, most of it is never opened, and the part nobody could read was the part nobody had a tool for.
That origin shows up in the design in ways that would be difficult to reach from outside. The unit of work is the seal rather than the file, because that is how a case is actually organised. Evidence access is read only everywhere, because nothing else is acceptable in a laboratory. Every generated mapping has to be accepted by a human, because an examiner is professionally responsible for what goes into the report and no amount of automation transfers that.
It also means the first users were examiners who had no reason to be polite about it. That is the most useful thing that can happen to a piece of software this early.
How we work
The things that follow from being a small team.
Being a small company is a real constraint and we would rather state its consequences than have you discover them.
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You talk to the people who built it
There is no account manager and no first-line support tier. Questions about the software are answered by the team that built it, which is faster and occasionally less polished.
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No sales channel
There are no resellers, no distributors and no integrators. Every deployment came from a conversation we had directly, which is also the mechanism behind the responsible use position.
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No roadmap theatre
Where a capability is in development, it is described that way, on this site and in a demonstration. One inflated claim caught in a demo destroys every true claim made before it.
Continuity
What happens if we stop.
This is the right question to ask a supplier of this size, and the answer has two halves that both need to be true.
The technical half: a deployment that requires no internet connection, no licence server and no vendor access does not stop working because the vendor did. It carries on doing exactly what it did the day before, indefinitely. That is a consequence of the offline architecture rather than a promise.
The contractual half: source escrow with an independent third party and a perpetual licence on the deployed version can both go into the contract. The deployment is documented so that a competent team can operate and rebuild it without us. That documentation exists because we cannot reach into a customer's network to fix anything, which is a constraint we imposed on ourselves and which turns out to be the reason continuity is answerable.
A tool that only works while the vendor is still trading is a dependency. A tool that runs on your hardware, offline, with the source in escrow, is an asset you happen to have bought from a small team.
VERA Forensics
The company behind the software.
VERA Forensics is a French company. VERA is its only product.
Registration details, the publication director and the hosting provider are on the legal notice page, as French law requires.
See it running on a real extraction
Usually thirty minutes on a video call, on fictitious data. On site if you need it, or a conversation first. If VERA does not fit what your service needs, that is a useful answer too.
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