# Board packs and investor updates, on your own domain.

Publish documents at an address like board.yourcompany.com and lock them with a secret code. Past quarters stay in the history, and directors read a page that stays current instead of a PDF attachment.

## Why the address matters

A board pack usually arrives as an attachment named “Q3 board deck FINAL v2.pdf”. A link at `board.yourcompany.com` says who it’s from before anyone opens it.

In the Kestrel Grid board pack above, directors switch the cash runway between three scenarios and mark the decisions they’re ready to approve. “Save as PDF” still gives you a clean copy for the archive.

## Set it up once

1. **Connect a subdomain** In **Settings → Custom domain**, add something like `board.yourcompany.com`, then create two DNS records. The certificate is issued for you. Custom domains come with the Individual and Team plans.
2. **Publish the update** Ask your agent to build the quarter’s update from your numbers and publish it. It starts **Private**, visible only to your workspace.
3. **Share it with a code** Turn on a **Secret code** that expires in 30 days, and send directors the link and the code separately. From then on, the link opens on your domain.

> **Which links move.** Public and secret-code links open on your domain. Private and Email links keep opening on artifact.guru, where people sign in.

## Every quarter, one place

| Approach | When it fits |
| --- | --- |
| One artifact per quarter, in a Board project | Each quarter keeps its own link and code; search finds any of them |
| One living link, a new version each quarter | Directors keep one bookmark; past quarters stay in the version history |

Either way, nothing gets lost in an inbox, and you can give a new director the whole history in one link.

## Stay in control

- **Views** shows how many people opened it and on which days. It also shows where they came from.
- **New code** replaces the old one at once, and anyone who only knows the old code is locked out.
- Switch the link to Private and pages already open stop loading anything new within about a minute.
- Shared links ask search engines not to index them.

## Other documents on your domain

Every public and secret-code link in the workspace opens on the same domain. Use it for investor updates and release notes, or for a security overview a customer needs to review.

## Make your own

Have these ready:

- This quarter’s numbers and plan
- The CEO letter
- Cash, burn and scenarios
- The decisions you need

Then ask your agent:

```
Build our Q3 board update as one self-contained HTML document: a short CEO
letter, headline numbers with sparklines, revenue against plan, pipeline, cash
and runway with a scenario switch (the scenarios I list), hiring, risks, and
the decisions we need from the board. Put the appendix in expandable sections.
Use only my numbers and make sure runway equals cash divided by net burn.
Add a print stylesheet for a clean PDF.

Publish it privately to artifact.guru in the Board project and give me the
link.
```

## Questions

### Can directors open it without an account?

Yes, with the secret code. That’s also what lets the link open on your own domain.

### Can I see who opened it?

On a secret-code link you see counts, not names. To see each director by name, invite them by email instead; that link opens on artifact.guru.

### Does it need a separate domain per document?

No. One subdomain serves every public and secret-code link in the workspace, each at its own path.

Source: https://artifact.guru/use-cases/own-domain