About ThinkBox & This Offer

The Digital Compliance Platform Built by People Who Wrote the Rules

ThinkBox Digital was founded by two former National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) specialists with a combined 60+ years of experience helping the world's most demanding institutions — federal agencies, national libraries, museums, and archives — manage digital information correctly. Not approximately correctly. Not compliant-enough. Correctly, to the standards that govern long-term access, legal defensibility, and regulatory accountability.

ThinkBox Compliance Cloud turns that expertise into software. It is a cloud-based platform that operationalises digital compliance across ten integrated service areas — from workflow analysis and digitization strategy through metadata management, e-discovery readiness, email archiving, information governance, risk assessment, digital preservation, file format analysis, and EBCDIC data conversion. Every feature is grounded in the actual standards and regulations that govern digital information in government, legal, healthcare, finance, and archives environments.

For TWAIN Innovation Cloud participants, ThinkBox Compliance Cloud addresses the compliance layer that sits downstream of every document scan — ensuring that the documents your scanners and capture systems produce are preserved, governed, discoverable, and defensible for as long as they are needed. If your TWAIN workflow produces records, ThinkBox ensures those records meet the standards that protect your organisation.

Meet the Founders
Founding Partner
Kevin De Vorsey
Over 30 years in document management, digitization, and digital preservation for the world's largest museums, libraries, and archives. Former Program Officer at NARA, Digital Preservation Analyst for the National Library of New Zealand's National Digital Heritage Archives, and Systems Analyst at the American Museum of Natural History. Holds an MLIS from the Pratt Institute.
NARA Program Officer ISO TC 171 WG5 Convener PDF/A Standards Smithsonian MLIS Pratt Institute
Founding Partner
Greg Lepore
Over 30 years in archival processing and electronic records. Started at the Utah State Archives, then Johns Hopkins University's Eisenhower Library, and as Webmaster for the State of Maryland. Joined NARA in 2004 as an Electronic File Format Specialist — responsible for ensuring agency transfers met NARA guidelines and developing file format signatures for incoming records identification.
NARA File Format Specialist Utah State Archives Johns Hopkins Maryland State Archives EBCDIC Conversion
ThinkBox Compliance Cloud — 10 Modules
01
Digital Workflow Analysis & Optimization
Map, audit, and optimise every digital workflow in your organisation — identifying bottlenecks, compliance gaps, redundant processes, and opportunities to increase throughput while reducing risk.
02
Digitization Strategy & Implementation
Develop and execute digitization programs aligned to federal standards including FADGI, NARA 1236, and Metamorphose. Covers scanning specifications, quality control, format selection, and long-term access planning.
03
Metadata Structuring & Management
Design and implement metadata schemas that support search, discovery, long-term preservation, and e-discovery. Metadata architecture aligned to Dublin Core, EAD, METS, and agency-specific requirements.
04
E-Discovery Readiness Consulting
Assess and improve your organisation's ability to respond to litigation holds, regulatory requests, and FOIA demands. Covers ESI protocols, legal hold procedures, and defensible deletion strategies.
05
Email, Text & Social Media Archiving
Capture, preserve, and make discoverable communications across email, text messages, and social media platforms — meeting NARA, SEC, FINRA, and agency-specific requirements for electronic communications records.
06
Information Governance
Build and enforce information governance frameworks covering records classification, retention scheduling, disposition authority, access controls, and lifecycle management across your entire information estate.
07
Compliance & Risk Assessment
Systematic evaluation of your digital information practices against applicable regulations, standards, and best practices — identifying compliance gaps, quantifying risk exposure, and prioritising remediation.
08
Digital Preservation
Ensure long-term access to digital content through format migration, fixity checking, preservation metadata, storage architecture guidance, and alignment to OAIS (ISO 14721) and NARA digital preservation policies.
09
File Format Risk Analysis
Identify file formats at risk of obsolescence, incompatibility, or regulatory non-compliance across your digital holdings. Develop migration pathways to supported, sustainable formats including PDF/A, TIFF, and open standards.
10
EBCDIC Data Conversion
Convert legacy EBCDIC-encoded mainframe data to modern, accessible formats. ThinkBox has hands-on experience converting 50-year-old legacy datasets from federal agencies — preserving data that would otherwise be permanently inaccessible.
Standards Authority
Built to Federal & International Compliance Standards
ThinkBox Compliance Cloud is grounded in the specific regulations and standards that govern digital records in the world's most demanding environments. Kevin De Vorsey serves as Convener of ISO TC 171 WG5 — the international standards body responsible for the PDF/A family of formats — and has been involved in PDF standards development since 2011. Greg Lepore developed file format guidelines and signatures at NARA. These are not consultants who have read the standards. These are the people who wrote and maintain them.
NARA 36 CFR 1236 FADGI Guidelines ISO PDF/A (TC 171 WG5) OAIS ISO 14721 Metamorphose Dublin Core METS / EAD EDRM Federal Records Act FOIA Compliance SEC / FINRA HIPAA Records
Who This Platform Serves
🏛 Federal & State Government 📚 Libraries & Archives ⚖️ Legal & Courts 🏥 Healthcare 💰 Financial Services 🏛 Museums & Cultural Institutions 🎓 Higher Education 🔬 Life Sciences & Research 📄 TWAIN / Document Capture ISVs
What's Included in the TIC Trial
  • ✓ Full ThinkBox Compliance Cloud platform trial — access to all ten compliance modules: Workflow Analysis, Digitization Strategy, Metadata Management, E-Discovery Readiness, Email Archiving, Information Governance, Risk Assessment, Digital Preservation, File Format Analysis, and EBCDIC Conversion capabilities.
  • ✓ Compliance assessment session with ThinkBox founders — a structured one-hour session with Kevin De Vorsey and/or Greg Lepore to assess your current digital compliance posture, identify your highest-risk gaps, and prioritise the modules most relevant to your regulatory environment.
  • ✓ TWAIN workflow compliance review — specific analysis of how your TWAIN scanning and document capture workflows produce records, and whether those records meet the applicable preservation, format, metadata, and retention standards for your sector.
  • ✓ File format risk report — an assessment of the file formats your capture and document management systems produce against current sustainability, accessibility, and regulatory compliance requirements, with specific migration recommendations where formats are at risk.
  • ✓ Digitization standards alignment check — review of your current or planned digitization specifications against FADGI, NARA 1236, and Metamorphose guidelines — the standards that govern federal and institutional scanning programs.
  • ✓ Metadata schema review — evaluation of your current metadata structures against the requirements for long-term access, e-discovery, and interoperability — with specific recommendations for closing gaps in your metadata design.
  • ✓ E-discovery readiness baseline — a baseline assessment of your organisation's current e-discovery posture — identifying gaps in ESI protocols, legal hold procedures, and records accessibility that create legal or regulatory exposure.
  • ✓ Access to ThinkBox white paper library — curated resources on digital preservation, e-discovery, records management, and archival workflows from the world's leading standards bodies and research institutions — the same reference materials ThinkBox consultants use.
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