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How File.Business communicates with you.

You depend on File.Business for compliance: we depend on transparency. Real-time system status, planned maintenance announcements ahead of time, regulatory-change alerts pushed when they happen. No surprises.

Part of your File.Business BOS · 51 jurisdictions · 220K+ businesses
All systems operationalUPTIME 99.992% · 90-DAY · LAST INCIDENT 47 DAYS AGOSTATE PORTAL POLLOperational99.99%24-HR UPTIMEBOSAI APIOperational142msP95 LATENCYFILING ENGINEOperational99.6%ON-TIME RATEDOCUMENT VAULTOperational99.999%DURABILITYRECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS2 HRS AGODE SOS portal scheduled maintenance Jul 4, 02:00-04:00 ETYESTERDAYBosAI updated · new Q&A about post-2025 BOI IFR3 DAYS AGOCA franchise tax form 3522 e-file restored after vendor outage
How we communicate

Status + alerts, transparent.

99.992% uptime

90-day rolling. State portal integrations + BosAI + filing engine + document vault all measured separately.

Service-by-service status

Each major service has its own status indicator + sparkline + uptime metric. Outages localized + isolated.

Planned maintenance

72-hour advance notice for any maintenance window. Email + in-app + status page. Affected services listed.

Regulatory alerts

When a state SOS changes process or a federal rule changes (BOI, IRS), we push an alert + update BosAI knowledge.

Incident postmortems

Within 5 business days of any SEV-1+ incident: published postmortem with root cause + corrective actions.

Multi-channel delivery

Status page, email digest, in-app banner, optional Slack webhook, optional SMS for SEV-1. You choose.

How it works

A clean handoff, in 4 steps.

1

Real-time status

status.file.business shows live service health. Auto-refreshes every 60 seconds.

2

Subscribe to channels

Pick what you want: email digest (default), SMS for SEV-1, Slack webhook for engineering teams, RSS for monitoring tools.

3

Receive alerts at incident

SEV-1: immediate push. SEV-2: within 30 min. SEV-3+: in next-day digest.

4

Read postmortems

Within 5 business days for SEV-1+. Public + always available.

Two ways to engage

One-time, or part of your BOS.

Status page
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Public status + email digest available to everyone.
  • Real-time system status
  • Email digest subscription
  • Public postmortems
  • RSS feed
  • Historical uptime
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FAQ

Common questions.

What's your historic uptime?

99.992% over 90 days. 99.97% over 12 months. Outages typically <15 minutes; longer incidents trigger postmortems.

How do you measure uptime?

External synthetic monitoring + state-portal-poll success rate + filing-engine success rate + BosAI API success rate. Each measured independently.

What's SEV-1 vs SEV-2 vs SEV-3?

SEV-1: customer-blocking outage of core service (filing engine, BosAI, vault). SEV-2: degraded but functional. SEV-3: minor issue or affecting <5% of users.

Will you guarantee uptime SLA?

Public tier: best-effort with our 99.99% target. Enterprise: contractual SLA with credit triggers (typically 5% credit per hour below SLA).

What happens during state-portal outage?

State portal outages are NOT counted against our SLA (out of our control). We surface "state portal degraded" badges + retry filings automatically when restored.

Do you have a phone number for outages?

Status page + email + in-app for everyone. Enterprise tier adds 24/7 SEV-1 phone tree with on-call rotation.

What about scheduled maintenance?

72-hour advance notice. Typically performed Sun 02:00-06:00 ET (lowest-traffic window). Listed on status page + emailed.

How are regulatory changes communicated?

State SOS changes: in-app banner + email digest. Federal (IRS, FinCEN): email alert + BosAI knowledge update + impacted-customer outreach if material.

Where are postmortems published?

status.file.business/postmortems. Public + persistent. Email-pushed when published.

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