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WorkMonitor vs Veriato
User activity monitoring and behaviour analytics aimed at investigations and forensic review.
Written from public materials and reviewed September 7, 2026. Check anything here against Veriato’s own site before you decide, and everything below about WorkMonitor is read from the same catalogue as our product pages.
Logging what happened, or proving the log was not edited
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If an admin covers their tracks
With WorkMonitor
The trail is hash-chained and append-only, so a removal breaks the chain and the break is detectable.
Activity-logging and insider-risk tools
Deleting rows from a log table leaves no evidence that rows were deleted.
Who watches the investigator
With WorkMonitor
Every access to a person’s record is logged, investigators included, and surfaced to the subject.
Activity-logging and insider-risk tools
Nobody. Investigative access looks identical to no access at all.
Tenant isolation
With WorkMonitor
Composite foreign keys make a cross-tenant row a database error rather than a code-review question.
Activity-logging and insider-risk tools
Enforced in application code, which means enforced until somebody forgets.
When the subject pushes back
With WorkMonitor
A transparency view and a dispute route with human review — which is what keeps a programme lawful where it operates, and what a regulator asks to see.
Activity-logging and insider-risk tools
Investigations run entirely outside anything the subject can see or contest, and a challenge lands on the investigator.
Feeding the security stack
With WorkMonitor
SIEM export, a typed v1 API and HMAC-signed webhooks, so this is a source rather than a destination.
Activity-logging and insider-risk tools
One more console with its own login and its own notion of an incident.
The question we get asked
Our investigations depend on collecting quietly. Does telling people defeat the purpose?
It rules out one class of investigation and strengthens another. Covert collection is not available here at all. What replaces it is evidence built to survive challenge — hash-chained, append-only, with the investigator’s own access recorded — which is the property that matters when a finding is contested rather than when it is gathered.
What We See — every person's own view of their record
What WorkMonitor ships, with its real status
- Audit log (hash-chained; primitive in Proof Ledger)
- Compliance evidence pack
- SIEM export
- Access-anomaly detection
Switching
Bringing your Veriato history across
Nobody switches tools if it means abandoning a year of history. Export yours as CSV and the importer maps it onto our columns. There is no dedicated Veriato preset yet, so expect to line the columns up once rather than not at all.
The columns your export needs to line up with
- date
- minutes
- project
- task
- note
Six columns, mapped once on the first import. Rows that cannot be normalised still pass through, so the importer reports exactly which ones need attention rather than rejecting the file.
After the import
Where your Veriato history lands
Imported hours sit on the same ledger as everything captured after them, so a week from before the switch and a week from after it are read the same way. Corrections append with an author and a reason rather than overwriting, which is what lets you answer why a number changed long after anyone remembers.
Integrity — anomalies flagged for a person to weigh
When Veriato is the better answer
Deep forensic session recording for investigations is the requirement, and covert collection is acceptable in your jurisdiction.
If that is the deciding requirement, buy that instead. Nothing on this page is worth reading if the unflattering half is missing from it, which is also why every capability above carries its real status rather than a tick.
Questions
Moving from Veriato
Answered about what WorkMonitor does, including where the answer is no.
- Does WorkMonitor support covert or undisclosed monitoring?
- No. The agent is visible, consent is recorded against a policy version, and subjects can see their own record. If covert collection is a requirement and is lawful where you operate, this is the wrong tool.
- How do I move my Veriato data into WorkMonitor?
- Export it as CSV and the importer maps it onto our columns — email, date, minutes, project, task, note. There is no dedicated preset for this vendor yet, so the columns get lined up once on the first import. Session recordings are not imported and cannot be. The time series comes across, and the forensic surface here is the append-only trail from that point on.
- Does WorkMonitor record sessions for forensic review?
- No continuous session recording. The forensic surface is the append-only trail of access, change and export, plus integrity signals — a different kind of evidence, weaker on replay and stronger on proving it was not edited.
- Is the subject of an investigation notified?
- Access to a person’s record is logged and surfaced to that person, investigators included. There is also a dispute route carrying a right to human review, which is what regulators tend to ask about first.
- Is monitoring like this legal where we operate?
- It depends on the jurisdiction, and there is written guidance for 32 of them plus per-region capture policy and versioned consent. The mechanisms are shipped; the lawfulness of a specific programme is a question for your own counsel.
- What does WorkMonitor cost for an investigations team?
- The same published per-seat price as any other team — the audit and transparency surfaces are not a premium tier. Two seats are free with no card.
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The software is the easy part of a rollout
Here is what we would send a manager doing one for the first time: how to read a productivity number, what to say to a remote team before anything is installed, and a policy you can adopt as written.
Point it at one team for a week.
Create the account, put the agent on a handful of desks, and leave it alone. On Friday you read the week instead of reconstructing it: hours against their projects, focus and idle per person, and the timesheets already filled in.
Free for two seats. No card, and no sales call to sit through.