Essentials
For a company that wants every public promise in one place.
$499 a month
- Promise Register and Early Warning
- Readiness Check with your company record
- Quarterly board report
Kept Desk · promise management for organisations
Make promises you can keep. Then prove you kept them.
Ministries promise citizens a road, a clinic, a service. Universities promise students a programme and accreditors a standard. Companies promise customers a delivery date. Kept Desk is the private workspace where every one of those promises gets an owner and a date, is chased until it is delivered, and is confirmed by the person it was made to.
Now open: the Kept Desk Workspace for any organisation, built on promises the other side confirms. Each promise gets a Promise Receipt the recipient agrees to, and they confirm delivery with one click. Free 30-day trial; 90-day pilots for governments and institutions.
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Kept Desk never changes anyone's public KeptIndex record. Listed companies that use it are scored under the same rules as every other company. Independence policy · Security
Who uses Kept Desk
Governments and public agencies
Every commitment a ministry, department or municipality makes, to citizens, parliament or a donor, in one register with an owner and a date. Leaders see what is on track before the public asks.
For example: a public works ministry tracking each road section it promised to open this year; a health department tracking the clinics it said would be staffed by the end of the quarter.
Universities, hospitals and institutions
Promises to students, patients, accreditors, funders and boards, tracked to delivery, with a record the board and the accreditor can check.
For example: a university tracking the new programme it promised to open by next semester; a hospital tracking an equipment upgrade it committed to a donor.
Companies, MSMEs and suppliers
Delivery dates promised to customers, agreed on a Promise Receipt and confirmed delivered by the customer. A customer-confirmed on-time record is something your next customer can trust.
For example: a contractor proving it handed over each site on the date agreed; a supplier showing a buyer a year of customer-confirmed on-time deliveries.
Pilots for governments and institutions
- Week 1: set up. We create your private workspace, with sign-in for each official or staff member, and load the promises you have already made.
- Weeks 2 to 12: run it. Owners get reminders before each date and escalation after it; leaders get a weekly view of what is on track, at risk or overdue.
- Day 90: decide. You receive a delivery report for the period. You choose whether anything is ever published; nothing is made public without your decision.
How the Workspace works: promises the other side confirms
An official promises a minister a project milestone, sales promises a customer a delivery date, a project lead promises the board a launch. Kept Desk Workspace puts each one in a single register with an owner and the original date, and lets the person it was promised to agree it and confirm delivery themselves.
Agree it
Add a promise in one sentence, or CC Kept Desk on the email where you made it. Send the customer a Promise Receipt: what, by when, and what counts as delivered. They agree it with one click, no account needed. Promise Check warns you first if the date is at risk.
Track it
Reminders before the date, escalation after it, repeated weekly until resolved. The score is measured against the original date, overdue items included. Supplier watch warns you when a listed company you depend on starts missing its own public dates.
Prove it
The customer confirms delivery on their receipt, and that counts as verification. Show your board, an auditor or your next customer a customer-confirmed on-time record, with a one-click board report.
What would Kept Desk be worth to your team?
Put in your own numbers. Everything is worked out in your browser; nothing is sent to us.
Plan–
Hours saved a month (net)–after the time to record and check
Value a month–
Net value a month–
An illustration from your own assumptions, not a promise of savings. In a pilot we measure the real chasing and reporting time before and after, so you decide on evidence.
Start the free 30-day trial No card needed. Team $99 a month (up to 25 people) · Business $299 a month (up to 150) · Enterprise from $1,500 a month.
For listed companies
Listed companies make dated public promises: a launch, a plant, a filing, a deal closing. Investors price them in, and a miss is remembered. On top of the Workspace, Kept Desk adds tools to test a date before you announce it, track every public promise to delivery and report to the board.
What it does
Shows you which announced dates are at risk while there is still time to act: deliver, add resources, or tell the market early and plainly, with wording your counsel reviews.
What it cannot do
Change your public record. Every commitment is scored against the date you first announced; a later revision is recorded as drift, not a fresh start. The only way to a better record is delivering, or promising more carefully.
Why investors gain too
A company that warns the market before a deadline, rather than after, gives investors better information. That is the behaviour KeptIndex was built to reward.
Why it matters
1 in 5dated promises by S&P 500 companies not delivered on time (76.9% on time, 5,113 outcomes)
37 daysmedian delay when a promise is late
93 daysone late promise in four slips at least this long
71%on time across all 7,068 checked commitments, large and small companies
A missed date costs a company three times: in share price, in the credibility of its next promise, and sometimes in litigation. Most companies have no single place where every date they have announced is listed, owned and watched. Kept Desk is that place.
Promise Readiness Check
Before you announce a date, see how often promises like it have landed on time. This free check uses the public KeptBase record; Kept Desk adds your own company’s record, the wording you plan to use and the dependencies involved.
– of promises like this landed on time
Draft Check: test a press release before you publish it
Paste a draft press release, earnings script or investor update. Draft Check finds every dated promise in it, the way KeptIndex will record it once it is public, shows how often promises like each one landed on time, and flags wording that tends to cause trouble later. It runs entirely in your browser: nothing you paste is sent to us or stored.
Six modules, one quarterly loop
1 · Readiness Check
Before you announce a date: how often comparable promises held, how late the late ones were, and a safer window. Company-specific forecasts are added only once they are validated.
2 · Promise Register
Every dated promise from your filings, calls and investor decks, with an owner and a due date, in one list.
3 · Early Warning
Due-soon alerts, status requests to owners, and at-risk promises flagged to investor relations and counsel in time to act.
4 · Disclosure Assist
Update the market before a deadline rather than after it, with draft wording for your counsel to review.
5 · Close-out
Point to the public proof of delivery so the public record settles quickly and correctly.
6 · Board and Investor Report
Each quarter: kept, due and at risk; deadline drift; peer position; your KeptScore trend.
Plans for listed companies
Founding offer
Professional
For investor relations, legal and finance working together.
$1,500 a month
- Everything in Essentials
- Earnings-call promise capture
- Competitor Promise Watch and peer benchmarks
- Disclosure Assist
Enterprise
For groups with many businesses, and companies preparing a listing or a raise.
Custom
- Everything in Professional
- Execution Record Report for IPOs and capital raises
- Multi-division promise register and roles
Every listed-company plan includes the Kept Desk Workspace for your whole team and starts with a free 30-day trial. The first ten founding customers receive their first year at half price and help shape the product.
Kept Certified
Kept Certified will recognise companies with an outstanding, independently verified record of delivering what they announce. Proposed criteria: a KeptScore of 85 or more on at least 30 confirmed outcomes, sufficient coverage of the company's disclosures, no unresolved material dispute, a decision by an independent methodology committee, a public certificate ID, annual reassessment and automatic lapse. Eligibility never depends on buying anything from KeptIndex, including Kept Desk. Certification will open only after the criteria have completed public consultation and independent review.
How Kept Desk fits with KeptIndex
The record · data
KeptIndex: what listed companies promised in SEC filings and what happened, every entry linked to its source. Browse it free
The proof · evidence
Person-checked Commitment Records for law firms, lenders, insurers and journalists. From $750
The practice · solution
Kept Desk: the private workspace where an organisation makes promises it can keep and proves it kept them. Separate from the record, by design.
Independence
Kept Desk never changes the public record. Your private drafts and plans stay private and never flow into public entries, outcomes or KeptScores. You correct the public record through the same corrections process as everyone else, with the same evidence standard. Kept Desk is sold and supported separately from the people who decide outcomes. When a paid KeptIndex report covers a company that uses Kept Desk, the report discloses it. Read the full independence policy and the methodology.
Security
Full security pageData encrypted at rest and in transit on Cloudflare; two-step sign-in with an authenticator app, which an admin can require for everyone; roles, confidential records and an activity log; export at any time. Single sign-on and an independent audit are on the roadmap, and the security page says plainly what is live and what is planned.