Secure WhatsApp Alternative for Organisations
WhatsApp is the most widely used business communication tool that most organisations never officially approved. It proliferates because it is fast and familiar - but it processes work communication under Meta's foreign jurisdiction, offers zero organisational control, and treats every business conversation as consumer data. Sanket gives organisations the speed of WhatsApp with the governance, sovereignty, and data ownership that sensitive operations demand.
Zero Meta, zero advertising, zero consumer data model
Organisation-controlled provisioning and instant revocation
Data residency under your jurisdiction
Signal Protocol - same class of encryption, stronger governance
The shift
Before Sanket vs. After Sanket
Before - current state risks
Identical messaging experience - individual chats, groups, file sharing, voice messages - with zero Meta advertising model
Organisation-controlled provisioning: administrators decide who is on the platform, not individual employees
Data processed under your jurisdiction, not Meta's US corporate infrastructure and foreign legal exposure
Signal Protocol end-to-end encryption - cryptographically stronger than WhatsApp's current closed implementation
After - with Sanket
Instant access revocation for leavers - ex-employees cannot retain access to company groups
Full audit visibility for administrators: user access logs, group membership history, and communication governance
Whitelabel option: your branding, your identity, your app - not Sanket's name in front of your users
Built for this
The architecture that makes replacing WhatsApp at work with a governed secure platform work
WhatsApp's privacy problem for organisations is structural, not a settings choice. Meta processes communication metadata for advertising intelligence, stores content under US jurisdiction, and gives organisations no meaningful data governance. When employees use personal WhatsApp for work, business communication enters a foreign consumer platform that the organisation cannot control, audit, or legally protect.
Zero-Knowledge Server
The core security gap is organisational control: WhatsApp accounts belong to personal mobile numbers, so organisations have no ability to manage identity, revoke access when someone leaves, or retain any governance over company communication groups. Sanket closes this gap entirely while maintaining the familiar messaging experience.
Signal Protocol E2E
Open-standard cryptography with Double Ratchet key derivation. Each message session generates unique ephemeral keys.
Admin Governance
Administrators control identity, groups, devices, retention, and access revocation - properties consumer apps cannot offer.
Sovereign Deployment
Organisations transitioning away from WhatsApp start with Sanket.Work - a whitelabel cloud deployment mirroring the WhatsApp UX while adding full organisational governance. Departments requiring stricter data isolation can scale to Sanket.Enterprise for on-premise deployment.
The result
What organisations achieve
Eliminate shadow IT risk by giving teams a governed WhatsApp-like alternative they will actually adopt - fast, familiar, and officially approved
Regain data ownership and access control over business communication currently flowing through Meta's foreign consumer infrastructure
Satisfy FCA, GDPR, NIS2, and internal compliance requirements for recorded and governed business communication
Evaluation guide
Questions every buyer should ask
Does the platform eliminate Meta, Google, and consumer-platform dependency from business communication?
Can administrators provision and deprovision users without individual employee action?
Can access be revoked instantly for departing employees across all devices?
Is data residency configurable to your jurisdiction under a formal GDPR data processing agreement?
Does the messaging experience match WhatsApp usability closely enough for easy staff adoption?
Is the platform free of advertising, metadata profiling, and consumer data business models?
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Why is using WhatsApp for work a security and compliance problem?
WhatsApp accounts are personal - tied to individual phone numbers with no organisational ownership. Organisations cannot provision users, revoke access when employees leave, set retention policies, or audit group membership. Communication is processed under Meta's US jurisdiction for advertising purposes. For regulated industries, this creates GDPR, FCA, and MiFID II exposure.
Will my employees actually use Sanket instead of WhatsApp?
Sanket is designed to be as fast and familiar as WhatsApp - individual chats, group messaging, file sharing, and voice messages on the same mobile and desktop platforms employees already use. The transition from WhatsApp to Sanket typically requires minimal retraining.
Is Sanket's encryption really better than WhatsApp?
Both use Signal Protocol, so the underlying cryptography is in the same class. The difference is governance and architecture: Sanket operates a zero-knowledge server (the server cannot read your messages), while WhatsApp's closed server architecture cannot be independently verified. Sanket also has no advertising model that creates incentives to retain communication metadata.
What happens to our communication data when someone leaves?
Unlike WhatsApp, where departing employees keep all their groups and message history on their personal accounts, Sanket gives administrators instant revocation. Access is cut immediately at departure - no residual risk of ex-employees retaining visibility into company communication.
Can Sanket meet our GDPR requirements that WhatsApp cannot?
Yes. Sanket.Work is deployed with a GDPR data processing agreement, configurable EU/UK data residency, administrator-controlled retention, and no advertising model. WhatsApp's consumer terms of service are fundamentally incompatible with GDPR controller/processor requirements for business communication.
Ready to solve replacing WhatsApp at work with a governed secure platform?
Talk to the Tosh Defence team. We start with your threat model and deployment constraints - not a product pitch.