Demo sandboxes
Spin up an isolated seeded demo workspace — sample companies, contacts, and deals from a vertical template — with a time-boxed shareable prospect link and a full archive-and-reap lifecycle.
When a prospect asks "can I see it with my kind of data?", you don't want to hand them your production tenant or a stale screenshot. A demo sandbox gives you a one-click, isolated workspace pre-populated with realistic sample data for their vertical — ready to demo and ready to share.
What a sandbox actually is
A sandbox is an isolated, seeded demo workspace. Provisioning mints a fresh, separate workspace and seeds it with sample companies, contacts, deals, and account timeline drawn from a vertical template (all tagged as seed data). It's your prospect's slice of Pact, filled with plausible data instead of blanks.
A sandbox is a seeded workspace — not new infrastructure
Provisioning creates an isolated, seeded demo workspace inside Pact — it does not spin up containers, VMs, or any separate infrastructure. Think "a fresh workspace with sample data," created in seconds, not an environment you wait on.
Shareable prospect link
Each sandbox mints a time-boxed, shareable link you can hand to a prospect so they can explore on their own. The link is a randomly generated token (default TTL 72 hours) and is compared in constant time, so a stale or guessed link won't open the workspace. When the window closes, the link stops working.
Lifecycle and cost caps
Sandboxes move through a clear lifecycle — created → ready → demoed → handed-off → reaped — so you always know where each one stands. To keep sprawl and cost in check:
- there's a cap on how many sandboxes can be active at once,
- inactive sandboxes are archived automatically after a period,
- and old sandboxes are reaped — their seeded data and workspace fully purged — after a longer window.
You can also archive or delete a sandbox yourself at any time.
Regulated verticals
For regulated industries, a sandbox can be provisioned with compliance depth: the seeded workspace switches on the regulatory controls and regulated-shaped evidence appropriate to the vertical, so a compliance-minded prospect sees a realistic posture rather than a generic demo. The compliance preview is deterministic — driven by the vertical's real control set, not generated.