Made by one person, shaped by a community

cDox is a calm place for Pages, Sheets and Slides, built with ideas from the people who use it.

Barry Lachapelle

Made by one person

Hi, I'm Barry Lachapelle. I've spent 25 years designing and building products at places like IDEO and Nike using a human-centred design approach: build what people actually need. cDox is no different. I talk with users every day. They tell me what they want. I build it, then they tell me if I got it right.

Welcome to cDox

cDox started as a question, not a business plan. Why do our most important documents live somewhere we never think about, under rules we never agreed to? Working internationally taught me that data lives in real buildings, in real countries, under real laws.

A few companies now hold most of the world's documents, and most people never really chose that. cDox is my attempt at a different default: not a platform that wants to read what you write, just a calm, reliable place to write, hosted here in Canada.

I'm keeping it small on purpose. No investors, no ads, no feature added just because a competitor shipped one. Boring, in the best way: predictable, transparent and dependable, and worth trusting with your words for a long time.

You don't have to take my word for any of it. Try cDox for yourself. It's free to start, the export button always works, and if it isn't for you, you can delete everything in a few clicks.

Barry Victoria, BC

We're small, on purpose

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3,122
people on cDox
9,890
pages written
869
sheets built

The story so far

  1. January 2026 A proof of concept A simple writing tool, put online to see if Canadians wanted one of their own. Plenty did.
  2. February 2026 Taking it seriously Rebuilt from the ground up as cDox 2.0, with real-time editing and comments.
  3. March 2026 Sheets arrives Sheets, with formulas, tabs and colours, right next to Pages.
  4. May 2026 The cDox API Read and write your documents from your own code, with the cDox API.
  5. August 2026 Apps everywhere iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux.
  6. September 2026 A faster, steadier home cDox moved to a virtual server of its own in Montreal, and got a lot faster and more reliable.
  7. September 2026 Shared folders and teams One place for a team's documents, shared and edited together.
  8. Today Still shipping New features most weeks.

How cDox is run

Independent

cDox is run by BFH Labs, Inc., in Victoria, BC. No investors and no ads.

Our principles

Paid for by its users

Free to start, with a Pro plan for people who want more. That's the whole business.

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Hosted in Canada

Servers in Montreal and backups in Toronto, under Canadian law.

Trust and privacy

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