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CLO6

In market

IN MARKETCredit RFQ

Clove Works

A named Lagos buyer is on the record. You are still reading the public page.

Clove Works survived the screen. Most of Credit RFQ did not. That is not a slogan. It is the decline pile.

Clove Works — A system of record for private-credit funds and desks: tapes, RFQs, or covenants that update when a borrower files. The buyers already have a book. This is plumbing, not a venue that matches strangers.

Live campaign. 1,064 on the product waitlist — that is demand, not an allocation.

Closed stamp is coming. a few days is the number. There is not a second number.

Diligence, not a prospectus. RCA Pad does not allocate, take orders, or close funding. If this company raises, it raises with its own counsel.

Waitlist

Window

Closed

Heat

0/99

Inbound / wk

0asks

Asking now

0live

Named pilots

Redacted on the public page

Live nodes

Permissioned matching

Counsel hours

Lagos · counsel-named

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

8/13

Build

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Concentric · 5273

CLO6

The plate

Concentric. Edition 5273.

A unique plate for Clove Works. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.

CLO6 · Lagos · Credit RFQ

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Waitlist

Product demand

Lagos

Private-credit funds

Sells

Administrator

Administrator co-source

Markets

Lagos

Years

Founded 2021

Surfaces

Permissioned matching

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Administrator co-source

They sell a faster close to administrators, not access to a crowd.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

They asked us to kill ‘marketplace’ in every sentence. We did.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2021, headquartered in Lagos. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 1,064 on the waitlist, gated — product demand, not a book built. 20 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 91/100. A treasurer at a bank that already settles — not a crypto-native desk. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

Next 12 months

One administrator consuming marks daily.

eFront and Allvue are funds’ books. This is the tape between funds. They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

The decline pile in Credit RFQ is not a rumour. It is how this board stays readable. Clove Works is what survived. That is the sell.

If you leave this page without opening the claims table, you have read marketing. The scarce version of Clove Works is the version that survives counsel. It is on a clock.

On a Tuesday in Lagos, an exception posts back into the customer’s existing case system. Nobody opens a side spreadsheet. That is the product: the night someone in ops does not stay late.

From the pilot

We will not describe this as Reg CA-compliant, MiCA-stickered, or FCA-authorised. Issuers retain their own counsel in every relevant jurisdiction.

From counsel

This communication is not an offer. Participation mechanics do not exist on this pad. If a later reader treats the public stack as the offer, the stack was already wrong.

From the founder

A dual-control drill exists on paper. Production evidence is the next artefact, not a tweet.

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

Miss a few days and you are explaining to your IC why you read it after it closed.

A supervisor is already forcing a perimeter. Houses that pick software over a coin will buy this now.

We do not allocate. We do not take a cut. We will not hold the window open for you.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 14
Counsel hours on file: 70
Asks / week: 133
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

If RCA Pad ever asked for a cut of a raise, we would walk. That is in the first email.
Claire Reilly, Chief executive

This company

Clove Works

Open-source looks free until the auditor asks who attests. Clove Works has an answer.

In the same conversation

eFront
Allvue
Closed RFQ wires
Not an on-chain lending pool

The bet

Why this company exists.

They sell a faster close to administrators, not access to a crowd.

Allocators want daily marks and covenant visibility. Banks want to originate without building a chain team. The first honest tape that does not pretend to be an exchange will be paid for as software.

Private credit AUM is measured in trillions. The software take-rate is small. The switching cost, once a tape is the record, is not.

Versus the field

The incumbent brand sells the relationship. Clove Works sells the job the brand will not staff. A protocol pitch is the thing this company has already refused. Open-source looks free until the auditor asks who attests.

The live path is Lagos · counsel-named. Proposed Regulation Crypto Assets is not treated as a calendar slot. Build as if it never opens.

How it works

01A loan or covenant event is written once
02Permissioned counterparties see what they are allowed to see
03Marks and RFQs stay inside named desks
04No public order book, no retail
05Default and amendment events are first-class, not a PDF in a side channel
06Exceptions post back into the customer’s existing case system — no side spreadsheet.

In the same conversation as

eFront
Allvue
Closed RFQ wires
Not an on-chain lending pool

If they raise

Where the money would actually go.

Not a token float. A budget against work. RCA Pad still takes 0% of proceeds.

Certifications & adapters
28%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Second market
20%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Named operators
18%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Claims & campaign ops
34%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Administrator co-source
Who pays: A treasurer at a bank that already settles — not a crypto-native desk.
Unit economics: They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.
Moat on file: Four origination desks already post into a closed tape.
Switching cost: Once the record is the record, the incumbent copy has to migrate history. That is the year.
Vs the comps: eFront and Allvue are funds’ books. This is the tape between funds.
Why we listed it: They asked us to kill ‘marketplace’ in every sentence. We did.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

One administrator consuming marks daily.

A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

Growth money would extend the record to a second geography, still permissioned.

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Permissioned matching
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Lagos is the operating centre
The waitlist, if any, is a product list — not a book
RCA Pad does not take a cut of proceeds

Readiness

Six things a serious buyer asks. 100 is “ready to take to counsel and a customer.”

Product77
Customers78
Legal path84
Tech maturity94
Demand45
Market access44

Risks

What can kill it.

The one that actually kills it

The named customer is a letter of intent

Pilots that cannot be named, even redacted, are theatre. One paying seat that an auditor has seen is worth more than a waitlist of 1,064.

Marketplace slip

The moment this looks like a public book, it is a venue. This pad will not list that.

Data rights

Who owns the tape when a fund leaves? If that is unsigned, the enterprise value is a conversation.

Credit cycle

A default cluster will test whether the product is a record or a reputation.

Retail

Retail is prohibited. Any ‘access token’ story is a different company.

Data rights on exit

If a fund leaves and the tape stays, who owns the history? Unsigned, the enterprise value is a conversation.

Token relapse

A later round that wants a public token puts Clove Works in a different perimeter. The file treats that as a hard stop.

Ask these next

01What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
02Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
03Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
04What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
05Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
06Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?

Structure

How money would actually move.

If this company raises, it raises with its own counsel and providers. The waitlist is a product list. It is not a round, a book, or an allocation on RCA Pad. We do not take a cut.

Entity: Clove Works Ltd
Path on file: Lagos · counsel-named
Posture: No public sale
Pack: Build

Where they can operate

Named vs off-limits.

Named markets are where a sentence is allowed. Restricted is where it is not. This is not a worldwide offering.

Lagosnamed
Mainland China retailrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Claire ReillyChief executive

Stack

Permissioned matching
Credit RFQ
Takedown SLA
Approval trail

Named with them

Clearline
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Claire 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

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Clove Works does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is credit rfq sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Permissioned matching is the method — not a listed asset	Desk snapshot	live
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: Lagos	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Sprint packPackJun
Counsel lockPathJul
Claims register liveRegisterAug
Creator briefBriefSep

Operating log

11 Sep 09:43
Takedown SLA idle-tested.
08 Sep 11:40
A claim held for missing evidence.
04 Sep 08:22
Weekly report issued to the desk.
01 Sep 14:08
Creator set on disclosure. No buy language.

Path to now

Sprint
Pack accepted
Narrative, matrix, claims locked.
Path
Counsel names it
Or the file stays not-offering.
Live
Campaign
Waitlist and register. No purchase journey.

Not a subscription

This is not a sale page.

If this company raises, it raises with its own counsel and providers. The waitlist is a product list. It is not a round, a book, or an allocation on RCA Pad. We do not take a cut. 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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