The student never pays
The student does not pay Vesper — no federal-return fee, no state fee, no product code. A conference or a campus commissions the work.
The file
What comes in: campus records the school already holds.
What goes out: a prepared nonresident return.
Who can see a student file: the Wolters Kluwer CPA who prepares the return, the Vesper CPA who reviews it, the campus officers who already hold those records, and Vesper operators under contract. There is no marketing list. There is no public dashboard. There is only the correctly filed return.
Where the work runs
Student files are processed with NVIDIA Confidential Computing: protected while in use, encrypted during processing, isolated in hardware — not only at rest or in transit. Vesper is a member of the NVIDIA Developer Program.
Education records
Campus records used for this work are education records. They are handled under a written data-processing agreement with the campus or conference. They are not used for marketing. They are retained only as long as the return and the campus’s own record-keeping require, then removed.
Who the CPAs are
Each return is prepared by Wolters Kluwer CPAs and reviewed by Vesper’s CPAs before filing. Vesper organizes the file.
What Vesper will not do
Will not sell student data. Will not use student files to market other services. Will not put a student on a call list. Will not publish identifiable student results.