Software escrow, by industry.
Every industry depends on software it doesn't control. What changes by sector is the regulation, the recovery scenario, and what a usable deposit has to contain. Find yours.
Find your sector.
Eight sectors, one mechanism. Start where your industry sits, and see what escrow has to account for there.
SaaS & software
Continuity, because source code alone won't restart a hosted service.
Healthcare
Clinical uptime, where downtime means care can't be delivered.
Financial services
The sector where regulators name software escrow most.
Manufacturing
Equipment that outlives the software vendors it runs on.
Public sector
Procurement that requires escrow, often held in US hands.
AI & ML
Weights, data, and pipeline, not just source code.
Custom software
Handing off a build without either side giving up its position.
EdTech & education
EdTech vendors that don't always survive the year.
What changes by sector.
The escrow is the same shape everywhere. Three things move with your industry.
What names or expects it
Some sectors name escrow in their rules; others treat it as a procurement norm. What your industry expects shapes how the agreement is written.
What breaking looks like
A hosted SaaS outage, a stalled production line, and a clinical system going dark each need a different deposit and a different release.
What a new team needs
A usable deposit holds what a new team would need to run the software again. What that includes shifts with the stack your sector runs on.
Verification depth is matched to the sector's risk, not applied automatically. EscrowTech does not compile or run every deposit by default; the higher levels are chosen where the recovery scenario justifies them, never standard. See verification options →
Two vaults. One in a granite mountain.
Deposits are held in two physical, US-based vaults, one inside a granite mountain, monitored around the clock. The provider has to satisfy the people who approve the deal, and EscrowTech is the one their legal teams already recognize.
Escrow by industry, answered.
The questions buyers, vendors, and their counsel ask across sectors.
Does software escrow differ by industry?
The mechanism is the same in every sector: a neutral third party holds the software and releases it on agreed conditions. What changes by industry is the regulation behind it, the recovery scenario you are protecting against, and what a usable deposit has to contain.
Which industries most need software escrow?
Any industry that runs on software it cannot rebuild or replace overnight. It comes up most in SaaS, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, public sector, AI and ML, custom software, and education, where a vendor failing would interrupt something people depend on.
What changes about escrow by sector?
Three things: the regulation that names or expects escrow, the recovery scenario the deposit is built for, and the contents a new team would actually need. The neutral custody in the middle stays the same.
Does my industry's regulation name software escrow?
In some sectors it is named or strongly expected, financial services being the clearest example. In others it is a contractual and procurement norm rather than a statute. Your industry page covers where escrow sits in that sector's rules.
How do I know what my deposit should contain?
It depends on what your software needs to run again in your sector. Source code is the start; a usable deposit also holds the build tools, dependencies, configuration, and documentation a new team would need. We scope it to your recovery scenario.
Is verification different by industry?
The options are the same, but the depth is matched to the sector's risk, not applied automatically. EscrowTech does not compile or run every deposit by default; the higher levels of verification are chosen where the recovery scenario justifies them, never standard.
Who holds the deposit and stays neutral?
EscrowTech does. It drafts and administers the escrow agreement as a neutral third party and holds the deposit for both sides. It does not take a position in the underlying commercial deal or decide the dispute behind a release.
How do I get started for my industry?
Start from your sector above, or tell us what you run on and the industry you are in. We will structure the escrow, the release conditions, and the verification around how your sector actually breaks and recovers.
Make it safe to depend on.
Tell us your industry and what you run on. We'll structure the escrow and the verification around it.
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