Due Diligence

The data room an investor's lawyer is about to ask for

A due diligence room built around the checklist Australian investors actually work through - so the gaps are yours to close before anyone else finds them.

Start free — no card Score your readiness first

The Data Room is on the Free plan. No card, no time limit.

The problem

Due diligence is where raises quietly die

A term sheet arrives, the lawyers send their list, and the founder spends three weeks assembling documents from email threads, a shared drive and two laptops. Nothing is missing exactly - it is just not anywhere.

Momentum is the thing a raise cannot get back. Every week between term sheet and completion is a week for an investor's conviction to cool, and the usual cause is not a problem in the business. It is the document nobody can find.

What this replaces

A shared drive with no versioning, where final_v3_REAL is the one nobody trusts
Documents emailed as attachments, with no record of who opened what
A checklist in a spreadsheet, drifting out of step with the folder
Finding out what is missing when the investor's adviser tells you

How it works

Built around the checklist, not the folder

Most data rooms give you empty folders and wish you luck. This one starts from what has to be in there.

A room that knows what it needs

Seventy-two items across corporate, financial, commercial, legal and technical, each with a note on what it is for. Load a document against an item and the room tracks it from then on.

Versions that survive the raise

Replacing a document keeps the one before it. Each version carries its date, time and time zone, so two years later you can still show exactly what an investor saw.

A gap report before they ask

One click lists every item with nothing filed against it. It is the same list the other side's adviser will build - better that you run it first.

Access you can withdraw

Share a folder by email with named shareholders, directors or investors, and stop sharing when the round closes. Documents open through an access check, not a guessable link.

A holding area for the mess

Load everything you have in one go, then move each file onto the item it belongs to. The unsorted pile is a feature, not a failure.

Fed by the rest of the platform

Your deck, financial model and cap table push into the room as numbered versions when you are ready - never automatically, and never a draft you did not choose to send.

Questions

What founders ask

Is the CatenaHQ data room free?

Yes. The Data Room with document tracking is on the Free plan, which needs no card and has no time limit. The paid plans are Raising at $149 a month and Managing at $199 a month, and they add the rest of the platform rather than unlocking the room.

Can investors see my documents without logging in?

No. Every document is served through an access-checked route rather than a public file path, so a link that leaks does not open the file.

What happens when I replace a document mid-raise?

The previous version stays. Each version carries its own date, time and time zone, so you can show which document an investor saw and when.

How do I know what is still missing?

The gap report lists every checklist item with nothing filed against it. It is the same list an investor's adviser works from, which is why it is better to run it before they do.