Feathertrail
What did your website say
on the day it mattered?
Feathertrail archives private markets firms' websites — every page, every document, every quarter — so the answer is minutes away, and provable.
Why it exists
A fund manager's website is a regulated communication. Under the SEC Marketing Rule, the FCA's financial promotion regime and their equivalents, firms are expected to keep records of what they published — yet when the lookback question arrives, most firms' honest answer is a folder of screenshots someone remembered to take, or a hopeful visit to the Wayback Machine.
Feathertrail replaces that with a discipline: the site is captured in full on a documented quarterly schedule and after every change, and each capture is built to carry evidential weight.
What a capture contains
The complete record
Every page three ways — text as published, full-page image as rendered, and underlying source — plus linked documents, video files and an inventory of embedded media. Also stored in WARC, the ISO-standard archive format used in e-discovery.
Evidence, not just files
Every file is SHA-256 fingerprinted at capture; each snapshot is timestamped by an independent authority (DigiCert) and stored append-only under a ten-year retention policy. Any snapshot can be re-verified at any time to demonstrate it hasn't changed since capture.
The quarterly report
A plain-English report with each capture: what changed since last time, word by word, and a site-health check — broken links, missing documents, housekeeping risks — each with the page it was found on.
How it's run
Feathertrail is operated by Wagtails Private Markets as part of client engagements. It runs on our own infrastructure — no third-party SaaS holds your records; the archive lives in your client folder, in open file formats you can read without us. Archiving is always done with the site owner's knowledge and authorisation.
About Wagtails Ask about Feathertrail Open console
The console button opens Feathertrail on machines where it is installed and running; it is not a hosted service.
Seen our crawler in your logs?
Feathertrail's crawler identifies itself as:
Feathertrail/1.0 (+https://feathertrail.wagtails.co; matt@wagtails.co; compliance archive crawler)
It archives websites whose owners have engaged Wagtails to do so. It is deliberately gentle: single-threaded, a minimum one-second pause between pages (typically three or more in practice), a few hundred requests per visit at most, quarterly or when the site's owner publishes changes. It reads robots.txt and never disguises itself as a human visitor. If it has reached your site in error, or you'd like it allowlisted or blocked, email matt@wagtails.co and it will be resolved the same day.