The wedge
Per NAV event
Shadow books do not survive an audit. This only ships if the admin signs.
VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlistKITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlistPLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlistNRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlistHRTNHartline8,787 waitlistOBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlistFENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlistLUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlistRDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlistHRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlistQLTDQuilt1,876 waitlistNMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlistBRASBrass4,166 waitlistSLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlistWLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlistEMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlistNQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlistKLNSKiln4,412 waitlistGLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlistKITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlistPLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlistNRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlistHRTNHartline8,787 waitlistOBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlistFENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlistLUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlistRDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlistHRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlistQLTDQuilt1,876 waitlistNMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlistBRASBrass4,166 waitlistSLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlistWLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlistEMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlistNQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlistKLNSKiln4,412 waitlistGLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14
Board
FLIQ
Screened
SCREENEDFund booksFlint Span
Skip it and you read a PDF. Counterparties who matter will have already called.
If this pad disappeared tomorrow, the customer could still run the job. That is why they are here.
Flint Span — An operational layer for funds: NAV events, share-class records, books an AIFM can defend. The administrator remains the administrator. This is co-sourced infrastructure, not a tokenised fund on a public board.
Screened, not yet in sprint. Treat every number as provisional. Calendar access is not automatic.
If you needed a reason to open diligence tonight: a short list other people already did.
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
Closed
Heat
0/99
Inbound / wk
0asks
Asking now
0live
Named pilots
0
Redacted on the public page
Live nodes
0
Permissioned ledger
Counsel hours
0
Not offering — locked
Sentences killed
0
Before listing
Claims live
0/4
Sprint
Our cut
0%
Of any proceeds
Plate Ledger · 8721
FLIQ
The plate
Ledger. Edition 8721.
A unique plate for Flint Span. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.
FLIQ · Luxembourg · Fund books
Score
0
Desk diligence
Pilots
0
Named, redacted
Stage
upcoming
upcoming
HQ
Luxembourg
Fund administrators
Sells
Per
Per NAV event
Markets
0
Luxembourg
Years
0
Founded 2021
Surfaces
0
Permissioned ledger
Complete
0
File readiness
Why the desk took it
Early — still a question.
NAV liability sentence exists. Who is wrong when the number is wrong.
Traction
One named pilot (redacted).
Founded 2021, headquartered in Luxembourg. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 3 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 76/100. A qualified custodian reconciling against this book. A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.
Next 12 months
Daily NAV in one live fund.
Citi TA will not be replaced. It might consume this. Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
The brief
How a serious reader should hold this.
The first sentence Tomás Costa would not let us publish was the exciting one. What remains is slower — and scarcer: Flint Span S.à r.l. selling Fund books as software, from Luxembourg, to a buyer who already pays someone else to do this badly. That buyer is named. You are not, yet.
Flint Span exists because the incumbent brand will not staff the unglamorous middle of Fund books. 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.
On a Tuesday in Luxembourg, 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 counsel
A dual-control drill exists on paper. Production evidence is the next artefact, not a tweet.
From ops
The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian. Flint Span does not attest to its own facts.
From the founder
Fixed fee. Deposit to start. 0% of proceeds. Token-only pay is declined. Percentage of raise is declined.
The window
Miss this and you read the archive.
The next Fund books company on this board will not have this waitlist, this HQ, or this counsel posture.
Budget exists on a line the board can see. That is why the window is this quarter.
The scarce thing is not the company. It is the next a few days of a live conversation.
Window
Closed
Closed. History only — not a place to buy.
- Sentences killed
- 15
- Counsel hours on file
- 5
- Asks / week
- 7
- Our cut
- 0% of proceeds
We did not come here to sell a token. We came here so a named customer could read a pack that survives counsel.
This company
Flint Span
Not the incumbent brand. Flint Span sells the job the brand will not staff.
In the same conversation
- SS&C
- Apex
- Citi TA
- Not a public tokenised fund
The bet
Why this company exists.
Shadow books do not survive an audit. This only ships if the admin signs.
Shadow books do not survive an audit. This only ships if the admin signs.
Allocators want faster marks. Administrators cannot staff that with people. A dual-record (their books + this event) is how they sleep.
Fund administration is a fee business measured in basis points of AUM. A faster close is retained business.
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.
The live path is Not offering — locked. Proposed Regulation Crypto Assets is not treated as a calendar slot. Build as if it never opens.
How it works
- 01Administrator remains source of truth
- 02Events (NAV, subscription, share-class) are signed and timestamped
- 03Investors and auditors query what they are allowed to see
- 04The fund unit is not listed here as a token you can buy
- 05Investors and auditors query only what they are allowed to see
- 06Kill of a public sentence is an hour, not a committee.
In the same conversation as
- SS&C
- Apex
- Citi TA
- Not a public tokenised fund
If they raise
Where the money would actually go.
Not a token float. A budget against work. RCA Pad still takes 0% of proceeds.
Named operators
40%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Second market
28%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Certifications & adapters
15%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Control environment
17%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Operating week
What “in market” actually looks like.
- MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
- TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.
- SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
- WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
The wedge
Why this one, not the other one.
- They sell
- Per NAV event
- Who pays
- A qualified custodian reconciling against this book.
- Unit economics
- Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
- Moat on file
- Named administrator on the engagement letter.
- Switching cost
- The customer’s auditor has seen this book. Switching means a new auditor conversation.
- Vs the comps
- Citi TA will not be replaced. It might consume this.
- Why we listed it
- NAV liability sentence exists. Who is wrong when the number is wrong.
Next twelve months
What has to be true.
Daily NAV in one live fund.
A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.
Capital would fund the adapter work and a named counsel memo, not a public sale.
Traction
What you can verify today.
Founded 2021, headquartered in Luxembourg. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 3 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 76/100. A qualified custodian reconciling against this book. A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.
- Architecture paper — no production customer on the public file
- No token contract listed as a public sale
- Named founder; customer still a conversation
- Luxembourg 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.”
- Product23
- Customers40
- Legal path62
- Tech maturity37
- Demand10
- Market access90
Risks
What can kill it.
The one that actually kills it
Counsel is a slide
Unnamed counsel is how companies die in diligence. Not offering — locked has to be a memo you can file, not a slogan on the hero.
Unit token
A share-class token sold to the public is a securities offering. This pad will not run that as a sale.
Admin of record
If the admin has not signed, this is a shadow book. Shadow books do not survive an audit.
NAV liability
Who is wrong when the number is wrong? That sentence has to exist.
Distribution
Using this layer as a public subscription journey is a different file — and usually the wrong house.
Shadow book
If the administrator has not signed, Flint Span is a copy of a spreadsheet. Copies do not survive the audit.
Incumbent feature
The administrator, CCP, scheme or custodian can ship this as a checkbox. Flint Span has to be cheaper or faster before that happens.
Ask these next
- 01Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
- 02Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
- 03Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
- 04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
- 05What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
- 06If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
Structure
How money would actually move.
Too early to talk about a round on this pad. Screen first. A path has to be named by counsel before anyone should wire.
- Entity
- Flint Span S.à r.l.
- Path on file
- Not offering — locked
- Posture
- Private only
- Pack
- Sprint
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.
- Luxembourgnamed
- EEA professionalnamed
- United Kingdomnamed
- United States retailrestricted
Team
Who runs it.
- Tomás CostaChief executive
- Tomás MbekiFinance
Stack
- Permissioned ledger
- Fund books
- Audit log
- Takedown SLA
Named with them
- Northbridge Counsel
Who can decide
Tomás Costa (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.
If the first customer renews, the adapter work pays for itself. If they do not, Flint Span is a services firm with a slide. The twelve-month test is renewal, not waitlist.
Claims with evidence
Statements with evidence.
| Statement | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Flint Span does not sell a token to the public on this pad | Posture lock | live |
| The product is fund books sold to institutions | Architecture + customer type | draft |
| Permissioned ledger 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 |
| Production date for the chain layer is not committed | Desk file | draft |
| No public token is sold on this pad | Engagement terms + posture lock | live |
| Customers contemplated: Luxembourg, EEA professional, United Kingdom | Named markets on the file | draft |
On the record
- Application APP-4163ScreenSep
- Counsel questionPathSep
Operating log
03 Sep 17:00
Application scored. Flint Span 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
This is not a sale page.
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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