Secure credential delivery

Day-1 credential delivery

The gap between a new hire's start date and their first corporate login. Before MFA can enroll, before SSO can route, before MDM can enforce, someone has to hand off the initial domain credential. That handoff is currently uncontrolled.

Split-trust encryption

Zero plaintext retention

Tamper-evident audit logs

The Problem

The Day-Zero Gap

Your identity stack enforces security after first login. Before that login happens, none of your controls can see anything. That's where credentials still travel by email, chat, or phone call.

Credential exposure window

MFA · SSO · MDM · EDR

Enforces after login

Initial credential

Uncontrolled

Corporate directory

Active after first login

Hire dateUncontrolled handoffFirst login complete

Plaintext credentials

Temporary passwords shared over email, chat, or a phone call. Readable by anyone who intercepts. No encryption. No expiry. No record of who saw it.

One forwarded email away from a breach before the employee even logs in.

No proof of delivery

Who opened the message? Did the right person see it? When? You don't know. When the auditor asks how credentials were handed off, there's no evidence.

Audit finding: uncontrolled credential distribution.

Day-1 chaos

Wrong email. Wrong number. New hire stuck on hold with IT. Help Desk tickets pile up. Start dates slip.

Every failed delivery gets resent a different way. Two copies in the wild. Neither tracked.

Who it solves for

Employees, contractors, and global teams.

The day-zero gap applies regardless of employment type or location.

Employees

Full-time · Domain accounts

Delivers before identity providers can enforce
Scheduled to exact start date and time
One-time retrieval with auto-purge
Confirmed first-login audit chain

Contractors

External · Scoped · Frequent

No directory provisioning required
Short-window TTL, instant revocation
Zero credential residue
Audit-ready for every engagement

International Teams

Global · WhatsApp · GDPR

WhatsApp where SMS is unreliable
Timezone-aware scheduling
GDPR & CCPA aligned
Data residency expansion in progress

Delivery Protocol

Eight steps. Zero exposure.

No email. No Slack. No sticky note. Every credential moves through a verified, encrypted pipeline. Gone the moment it's retrieved.

Phase 01

Prepare

Encrypted before it leaves IT's hands.

Create employee recordHR adds contact info. No IT access required.
Assign & encryptEnters the system encrypted. Zero plaintext. Not even for a second.
Schedule for start timeRespects timezone. Releases at the exact login moment.

Phase 02

Deliver

The right person. Confirmed. At the right moment.

SMS or WhatsApp releaseSecure link to a verified number. Auto-fallback built in.
Out-of-band identity checkOTP confirms who's on the other end before the link is ever shown.

Phase 03

Destroy

One view. Then gone.

Single-use retrievalLink burns on read. TTL expiry if untouched.
Auto-purgeCredential gone the moment it's viewed. The record stays open until login is confirmed.

Phase 04Audit chain seals

Confirm

Retrieval and first login on one auditable timeline.

First-login confirmationRecipient confirms successful login. The audit chain seals.

Why Phase 04 is the moment that matters

Encryption proves the credential moved safely. Verification proves the right person received it. The audit chain only becomes proof of trust when the first login confirms it. That's the moment your auditor and your security team are actually asking about.

Encrypted on entryVerified on deliveryDestroyed on retrievalLogged foreverConfirmed on login

International Delivery

Built for global teams from day one.

Not every country runs on reliable SMS. Not every hire starts at 9am your time. CredentialFlow handles both.

WhatsApp Delivery

Where SMS is unreliable or expensive, CredentialFlow falls back to WhatsApp automatically. Same split-trust encryption, same single-use link, same audit trail.

Auto-fallback built in

Timezone-Aware Scheduling

Delivery releases at the exact local start time. Not whenever your admin remembered to hit send. Respects the recipient's timezone, every time.

Scheduled to the minute

GDPR & CCPA Aligned

Automatic data minimization and configurable retention policies. Regional data residency expansion in progress to support EU compliance requirements.

Global compliance roadmap

Delivery Pipeline

Credential Delivery Stack

Five protection layers. Every delivery, every audience, every location.

Split-Trust Dual-Control

Two shares. Two architecturally isolated systems with no shared infrastructure or access. The combined key is derived on demand and never persists. Neither system alone can decrypt anything. Enterprise BYOK available.

A breach of either system alone cannot expose a credential. Both are required.

Read the cryptographic specification

Just-in-Time Delivery

The retrieval link doesn't exist until identity is confirmed out-of-band. Nothing is pre-positioned in transit. One link, one recipient, one window.

Exposure window drops from days to minutes. Most attacks need longer than that.

Verified Handoff

Out-of-band checks confirm identity before the unique delivery link is generated. SMS to a verified number, not email. No link without a confirmed identity.

The wrong person physically cannot retrieve the credential. Even with the link.

One-Time Retrieval + Auto-Purge

Single-use link destroys the credential on view and expires at the configured TTL if unused. Nothing persists in email, chat, browser history, or logs.

Your breach surface disappears the second the employee logs in. Nothing to find.

Closed-Loop Audit Trail

Every delivery ends with a confirmed outcome, not just a status. The full chain, from creation to confirmed first login, is recorded automatically and visible to your team.

Auditors want proof of successful handoff. You have it. Competitors stop at delivered.

How it's different

Why existing tools don't solve this

Tool	What it does	Built for first-login delivery	Verifiable delivery record	Global delivery support
Password Managers (1Password, LastPass)	Stores credentials after they exist	No	Partial	Partial
Identity Providers (Okta, Entra, Azure AD)	Authenticates after first login is complete	No	No	Yes
Internal DIY Build	High maintenance, compliance gaps	Partial	No	No
CredentialFlow	Delivers before anything else activates	Yes	Yes	Yes

CredentialFlow doesn't replace Okta, Entra, or your identity stack. It solves the handoff problem that happens before any of it can enforce anything. See the full architecture

Ready to close the day-zero gap?

See how CredentialFlow delivers secure first-login credentials before your identity providers can activate.

SOC 2 Type IIGDPR & CCPAHIPAA Aligned

Also securing ongoing actions after Day 1