About DealRoom
Built by someone who kept losing the introduction.
DealRoom did not start as a product idea. It started as a recurring problem in real transactions, and the growing suspicion that every available tool was solving a different one.
The origin
A compromise nobody should have to make.
“I originally needed a way for two parties to speak openly in the same group, while I remained involved as the broker. A normal messaging group exposed their telephone numbers and gave them an immediate route to communicate directly before the deal and its protections were signed. Keeping them apart slowed the process, but introducing them through consumer messaging weakened my position. DealRoom was created to solve that exact problem.”
Everything that followed came from sitting with that problem rather than reaching for the nearest tool. Data rooms handle documents well and have nothing to say about the conversation. Messaging apps handle the conversation and publish everyone's details as their opening move. Email does both badly and leaves no record anyone would rely on.
What was missing was a room that understood a deal has sides — a buyer, a seller, advisers, and an administrator responsible for the whole thing — and that each of them is allowed to see different material at different times.
Mission
Make it possible to run a private transaction openly, without giving away the relationship that created it.
Deals should move quickly because everyone involved can talk properly — not despite it. That only works when the confidential parts of a transaction stay confidential without anybody having to be careful.
Straight about it
What DealRoom is, and what it is not.
What it is
- A private, invitation-only transaction room for deals with more than one side.
- A place to talk, share documents, sign agreements and track what the deal still needs.
- An alias layer, so parties can work together without exchanging personal contact details.
- One accountable administrator, with an auditable record of what happened and when.
What it is not
- A social network, a directory, or anywhere to find new counterparties.
- A replacement for a properly drafted NDA or non-circumvention agreement.
- A source of legal, brokerage, escrow, investment or financial advice.
- Participant-only end-to-end encryption — the room administrator has oversight by design.
How we build
Four things we will not compromise on.
Say what the software actually does
No claim on this site describes something the product cannot do. Where there is a limit — and there are limits — it is written down rather than skirted around.
Control belongs to whoever created the room
Permissions, aliases, access gates and closure sit with the administrator. The tool should reinforce that role, not quietly dissolve it the moment people start talking.
Confidential by default, not by discipline
Private details should not be something participants have to remember to protect. The room simply never publishes them.
A record is worth as much as a conversation
Deals get disputed. Anything worth arguing about later should be evidenced at the time, in one place, rather than reconstructed from four inboxes.
DealRoom provides communication and transaction-workflow technology. It does not replace properly drafted legal agreements or professional legal advice, and no platform can guarantee that parties will never communicate outside it.
Open the conversation. Keep control of the introduction.
Bring every authorised party into one professional transaction environment without exposing private contact details or creating hidden in-app side channels.
Submitting this form does not create a DealRoom account. Accounts are created securely inside the mobile app.