The wedge
Auditor extract
Clove Vault sells the statement, not the vault. Anyone can launch a vault.
CLOR
Counsel is live. The waitlist is a short list. The public sale is not.
The first buyer already has a vendor. Clove Vault is taking that invoice. The queue is a short list deep.
Clove Vault — Accounting and proof layers for vaults that already hold assets for known clients. zk or otherwise, the point is a statement a counterparty can verify — not a public yield product.
Screened, not yet in sprint. Treat every number as provisional. Calendar access is not automatic.
Window 19d. Waitlist a short list. 12 asks this week. This is not a quiet listing.
Diligence, not a prospectus. RCA Pad does not allocate, take orders, or close funding. If this company raises, it raises with its own counsel.
Stage
upcoming
Window
0days
Heat
0/99
Inbound / wk
0asks
Asking now
0live
Named pilots
0
Redacted on the public page
Live nodes
0
Prime adapters
Counsel hours
0
Undetermined — not a path
Sentences killed
0
Before listing
Claims live
1/4
Sprint
Our cut
0%
Of any proceeds
Plate Horizon · 8794
CLOR
The plate
A unique plate for Clove Vault. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.
CLOR · Auckland · Prime brokerage ops
Score
0
Desk diligence
Pilots
0
Named, redacted
Stage
upcoming
upcoming
HQ
Auckland
Asset managers
Sells
Auditor
Auditor extract
Markets
0
Auckland
Years
0
Founded 2022
Surfaces
0
Prime adapters
Complete
0
File readiness
The wedge
Clove Vault sells the statement, not the vault. Anyone can launch a vault.
Why the desk took it
Custodian is named, even if redacted.
Traction
Founded 2022, headquartered in Auckland. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). Desk diligence score 58/100. A coverholder or carrier running one binder on this record. Counsel is named, even if the memo is still a draft. Unnamed counsel is how files die.
Next 12 months
Fund admins already report. This is a proof they can attach. Per-event pricing so a pilot can start without a transformation programme.
The brief
The first sentence Luca Reilly would not let us publish was the exciting one. What remains is slower — and scarcer: Clove Vault Ltd selling Prime brokerage ops as software, from Auckland, to a buyer who already pays someone else to do this badly. That buyer is named. You are not, yet.
Clove Vault exists because the incumbent brand will not staff the unglamorous middle of Prime brokerage ops. The product is that middle. The token, if it ever exists, is not the product — and is not for sale here. The people in the queue already understood the difference.
A dual-control drill sits on paper. Keys, title, or NAV liability sit with a named licensed party — not Clove Vault. The architecture says so. We have not watched the drill live. That is the next ask, not a slogan.
From the screen
Fixed fee. Deposit to start. 0% of proceeds. Token-only pay is declined. Percentage of raise is declined.
From ops
The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian. Clove Vault does not attest to its own facts.
From the founder
A dual-control drill exists on paper. Production evidence is the next artefact, not a tweet.
The window
The incumbent will still be slow in a year. The window will not.
Budget exists on a line the board can see. That is why the window is this quarter.
Read it once, properly, while the number is still green. Then decide.
Window remaining
0days
When this window closes, the campaign is archive.
Kill the public sentence in an hour or do not list us. We can do the hour.
This company
Clove Vault
Services firms hide in ‘platform’ language. Clove Vault sells a seat plus an event. Named.
In the same conversation
The bet
Clove Vault sells the statement, not the vault. Anyone can launch a vault.
Clove Vault sells the statement, not the vault. Anyone can launch a vault.
Allocators asked for proof after 2022. Labs answered with demos. The first vault accounting that an auditor will sign is a business.
Middle-office spend at alternative managers is a budget that survived the last cycle.
Versus the field
A generalist vendor can copy the slide in a quarter. They cannot copy the named record, the scheme map, or the auditor conversation. That is the year they would have to buy.
Auckland being the city does not make local retail a default audience. Communications capable of inducing investment activity still have a promotions problem.
How it works
In the same conversation as
If they raise
Not a token float. A budget against work. RCA Pad still takes 0% of proceeds.
Claims & campaign ops
32%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Certifications & adapters
24%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Counsel & perimeter
21%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Second market
23%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Operating week
The wedge
Next twelve months
Still no yield marketed to the public.
Counsel is named, even if the memo is still a draft. Unnamed counsel is how files die.
Growth money would extend the record to a second geography, still permissioned.
Traction
Founded 2022, headquartered in Auckland. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). Desk diligence score 58/100. A coverholder or carrier running one binder on this record. Counsel is named, even if the memo is still a draft. Unnamed counsel is how files die.
Readiness
Six things a serious buyer asks. 100 is “ready to take to counsel and a customer.”
Risks
The one that actually kills it
Unnamed counsel is how companies die in diligence. Undetermined — not a path has to be a memo you can file, not a slogan on the hero.
If the landing page is APY, this is a different, usually unlicensed, business.
A zk circuit of a fake book is still a fake book.
Who holds the keys? If it is the startup, that is custody.
No auditor, no statement. Demo is not diligence.
A zk circuit of a fake book is still a fake book. Clove Vault has to prove the real one.
If counsel will not name a path and not-offering is not locked, heated waitlist copy is an accidental offering.
Ask these next
Structure
Too early to talk about a round on this pad. Screen first. A path has to be named by counsel before anyone should wire.
Where they can operate
Named markets are where a sentence is allowed. Restricted is where it is not. This is not a worldwide offering.
Team
Stack
Named with them
Who can decide
Luca Reilly (Chief executive) will take a 30-minute call and decide budget. If the only person who can accept “we are not opening a sale” is a silent co-founder in another time zone, this company would not be on the board.
A second counterparty writing into the record is the only network effect that counts. One customer is a consultancy. Two is a market.
Claims with evidence
| Statement | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Clove Vault does not sell a token to the public on this pad | Posture lock | live |
| The product is prime brokerage ops sold to institutions | Architecture + customer type | draft |
| Prime adapters is the method — not a listed asset | Paper only | draft |
| Retail buyers are out of scope | Named markets lock | live |
| Any raise completes with the issuer’s counsel and providers — not on RCA Pad | Fixed-fee terms | live |
| Pilot identities redacted in public | No board minute | draft |
| No public token is sold on this pad | Engagement terms + posture lock | live |
| Customers contemplated: Auckland | Named markets on the file | draft |
On the record
Operating log
03 Sep 10:00
Application scored. Clove Vault is not a calendar slot.
11 Sep 10:12
Counsel question sent. Name a path or lock not-offering.
Path to now
Now
Screen
Calendar is never automatic.
Next
Counsel or close
A named path, or a locked not-offering.
Not a subscription
Too early to talk about a round on this pad. Screen first. A path has to be named by counsel before anyone should wire. Founders who want a pack like this one apply. Readers who want the company talk to the company — not to this pad.
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