VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlist KITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlist PLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlist NRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14 SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14 QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14 CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlist HRTNHartline8,787 waitlist OBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlist FENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlist LUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlist RDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlist HRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlist QLTDQuilt1,876 waitlist NMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlist BRASBrass4,166 waitlist SLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlist WLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlist EMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlist NQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlist KLNSKiln4,412 waitlist GLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14 IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14 PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14 VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlist KITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlist PLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlist NRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14 SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14 QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14 CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlist HRTNHartline8,787 waitlist OBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlist FENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlist LUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlist RDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlist HRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlist QLTDQuilt1,876 waitlist NMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlist BRASBrass4,166 waitlist SLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlist WLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlist EMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlist NQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlist KLNSKiln4,412 waitlist GLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14 IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14 PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14

GORN

In market

HOT WINDOWPayroll rails

Gorse Mere

Heat 74. 149 asks this week. 0% of any raise comes here.

If this pad disappeared tomorrow, the customer could still run the job. That is why they are here.

Gorse Mere — A routing layer in front of payment firms that already hold licences. One API picks the rail (SEPA, cards, local schemes) and can present a wallet-like checkout. The wallet is the interface. It is not a coin.

Live campaign. 6,072 on the product waitlist — that is demand, not an allocation.

Heat 74 of 99. Hot windows do not stay hot. They close.

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

Payroll adapters

Counsel hours

United States professional · counsel-named

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

8/12

Growth

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Ledger · 8648

GORN

The plate

Ledger. Edition 8648.

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

GORN · Boston · Payroll rails

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Waitlist

Product demand

Boston

Licensed PSPs

Sells

Scheme-map

Scheme-map licence

Markets

United States professional

Years

Founded 2021

Surfaces

Payroll adapters

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Scheme-map licence

They sell a night’s sleep to compliance — the AA layer stays a lab until counsel says otherwise.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

US was taken off the file in the first hour. That is adult.

Traction

4 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2021, headquartered in Boston. 4 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 6,072 on the waitlist, gated — product demand, not a book built. 19 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 85/100. A named Boston administrator who already signs the pack (redacted). A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

Next 12 months

Two paying PSPs or the file should not go to Build.

Modulr and Lemonway sell the account. Gorse Mere sells the router in front of accounts they already have. 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.

You can wait for a sticker. The named customer did not. They are writing into this record while the rest of the market argues about a comment period.

What you can verify today is smaller than the slide. What you cannot verify is named as a question, not a promise. That is the difference between this company and a pad listing — and why the waitlist is not a coin queue.

A dual-control drill sits on paper. Keys, title, or NAV liability sit with a named licensed party — not Gorse Mere. The architecture says so. We have not watched the drill live. That is the next ask, not a slogan.

From the founder

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

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 screen

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.

If the window closes you still have the pack — as history. Not as a live conversation.

Budget exists on a line the board can see. That is why the window is this quarter.

Open the diligence or watch it close. There is not a third option that still counts as early.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 14
Counsel hours on file: 26
Asks / week: 759
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

Do not put a participate button on our page. If you do, we leave.
Yara Santos, Chief executive

This company

Gorse Mere

Services firms hide in ‘platform’ language. Gorse Mere sells a seat plus an event. Named.

In the same conversation

Modulr
Lemonway
Checkout.com routing
Not a L2 payments coin

The bet

Why this company exists.

They sell a night’s sleep to compliance — the AA layer stays a lab until counsel says otherwise.

MiCA is forcing PSPs to choose a perimeter. Houses that will not become CASPs still need programmable checkout. The ones that pick software over a coin will buy this. The ones that want a token will be declined here.

PSP orchestration in Europe is a multi-billion software market. Buyers already pay for routing. A token would not make the invoice larger; it would make the licence harder.

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 United States professional · counsel-named. Proposed Regulation Crypto Assets is not treated as a calendar slot. Build as if it never opens.

How it works

01Payer or merchant hits a single checkout API
02The router selects a licensed rail the PSP already runs
03Account-abstraction is an optional UX layer (currently testnet)
04Settlement lands in the PSP’s existing accounts — no new token
05Exceptions (chargebacks, scheme rejects) post back into the PSP’s existing case system
06A named counterparty verifies; Gorse Mere does not attest to its own facts.

In the same conversation as

Modulr
Lemonway
Checkout.com routing
Not a L2 payments coin

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
30%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Second market
28%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Certifications & adapters
15%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Claims & campaign ops
27%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Scheme-map licence
Who pays: A named Boston administrator who already signs the pack (redacted).
Unit economics: Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
Moat on file: Scheme certifications already in motion with two processors.
Switching cost: The customer’s auditor has seen this book. Switching means a new auditor conversation.
Vs the comps: Modulr and Lemonway sell the account. Gorse Mere sells the router in front of accounts they already have.
Why we listed it: US was taken off the file in the first hour. That is adult.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Two paying PSPs or the file should not go to Build.

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

A round, if any, sits with their providers. This pad does not take the order.

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Payroll adapters
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Boston 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.”

Product76
Customers96
Legal path84
Tech maturity94
Demand70
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 6,072.

Token temptation

If the wallet layer is ever described as a means of payment, the product becomes an e-money or CASP problem. This file treats that as a hard stop.

Perimeter

A supervisor can still read account-abstraction as issuing. Until counsel names the path, treat the AA layer as a lab.

Customer concentration

A handful of PSP design partners can stall the company if they slip. Ask who is paying, not who is ‘interested’.

United States

The US is out of scope on this file. That is deliberate. It also caps the TAM.

Scheme freeze

A card scheme can kill the router without talking to Gorse Mere. Concentration in one scheme is existential.

Facts vs theatre

A proof of a fake book is still a fake book. Gorse Mere has to attach to the real one, in Boston.

Ask these next

01Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
02Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
03Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
04Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
05What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
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: Gorse Mere Inc. · Delaware
Path on file: United States professional · counsel-named
Posture: No public sale
Pack: Growth

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.

United States professionalnamed
United States retailrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Yara SantosChief executive
Nia ShahChief executive

Stack

Payroll adapters
Payroll rails
Takedown SLA
Disclosure templates

Named with them

Clearline
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

The technical founder is on the record as Chief executive. Contractors in undisclosed jurisdictions are written down as a fact, not hidden. Facts can be managed. Hiding them is how companies die in diligence.

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
Gorse Mere does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is payroll rails sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Payroll adapters 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: United States professional	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Sprint packPackJun
Counsel lockPathJul
Claims register liveRegisterAug
Creator briefBriefSep

Operating log

11 Sep 09:35
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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