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

GORQ

In diligence

IN MOTIONCarbon inventories

Gorse Span

The incumbent copy takes a year. The named customer is already writing.

A named Houston customer is already on the record. The public still thinks this is a deck.

Gorse Span — A ledger of energy certificates (GOs, RECs) for producers and offtakers who already sit in a national registry. It moves the event faster. It does not invent a green token for Twitter.

In a 14-day diligence sprint (day 11). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

10 live counterparties in the thread. The public page is the overflow.

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

Sprint day

0/14

Window

Closed

Heat

0/99

Inbound / wk

0asks

Asking now

0live

Named pilots

Redacted on the public page

Live nodes

Inventory ledger

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

3/9

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Signal · 5107

GORQ

The plate

Signal. Edition 5107.

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

GORQ · Houston · Carbon inventories

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 11 of 14

Houston

Producers

Sells

Producer

Producer seat

Markets

United States professional

Years

Founded 2022

Surfaces

Inventory ledger

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Producer seat

A national registry as counterpart is the whole company.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

No public token representing a tonne. We searched.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2022, headquartered in Houston. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 8 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 89/100. Sprint day 11 of 14. Two licensed PSPs on a paid pilot — identities off the public file. Counsel is named, even if the memo is still a draft. Unnamed counsel is how files die.

Next 12 months

One retirement an offtaker will show their auditor.

A public carbon coin is a commodity or a security. This pad will not sell it. 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 Carbon inventories is not a rumour. It is how this board stays readable. Gorse Span is what survived. That is the sell.

The bet is narrow. A named Houston buyer already has budget for this invoice. Gorse Span wins if it is cheaper than the internal build and cleaner than the protocol pitch. It loses if a founder later wants a public book. The window is the time you have to decide which it is.

US traffic was taken off the public surfaces in the first working session. Gorse Span did not argue. Adult companies do not costume a US offering.

From the pilot

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

From ops

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

US persons are outside the audience. A form that asks “are you accredited?” without verification is not an exemption.

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

The next Carbon inventories company on this board will not have this waitlist, this HQ, or this counsel posture.

Switching cost is the auditor conversation. Once it happens, you are late.

If you are a founder who wants a pack like this: apply. If you are a buyer: call them — not us.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 15
Counsel hours on file: 96
Asks / week: 33
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

Kill the public sentence in an hour or do not list us. We can do the hour.
Ibrahim Vogel, Chief executive

This company

Gorse Span

The protocol pitch is the thing this company has already refused.

In the same conversation

National GO registries
Xpansiv
Not a public carbon coin

The bet

Why this company exists.

A national registry as counterpart is the whole company.

Corporate offtakers are being asked to prove what they bought. Registries lag. A dual record that the registry still owns is sellable.

GO and REC markets are measured in tens of billions. Ops software is a thin slice with high switching costs.

Versus the field

The incumbent brand sells the relationship. Gorse Span 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 Not offering — locked. Proposed Regulation Crypto Assets is not treated as a calendar slot. Build as if it never opens.

How it works

01A certificate that exists in a registry is evented here
02Delivery and retirement are visible to the offtaker
03The registry remains the legal source
04No public ‘carbon token’ sale on this pad
05Delivery and retirement are visible to the offtaker; the registry remains source
06Retail and unnamed geographies are structurally off the form, not only in the footer.

In the same conversation as

National GO registries
Xpansiv
Not a public carbon 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.

Second market
35%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Named operators
19%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Claims & campaign ops
15%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Counsel & perimeter
31%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.
WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
FriKill switchRehearse unpublish in 24 hours. If it takes a committee, it is not a switch.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Producer seat
Who pays: Two licensed PSPs on a paid pilot — identities off the public file.
Unit economics: They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.
Moat on file: Dual-record: the registry still owns the legal fact.
Switching cost: Once the record is the record, the incumbent copy has to migrate history. That is the year.
Vs the comps: A public carbon coin is a commodity or a security. This pad will not sell it.
Why we listed it: No public token representing a tonne. We searched.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

One retirement an offtaker will show their auditor.

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

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Inventory ledger
No token contract listed as a public sale
Named founder; customer still a conversation
Houston 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.”

Product68
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity60
Demand62
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 a short list.

Double count

If the registry and this ledger can both be sold, the product is a liability.

Green token

A freely traded climate token is usually a commodity or a security. This pad will not sell it.

Registry cooperation

Without the registry, this is a shadow certificate.

Policy

GO rules move. The product has to move with them, not ahead of them.

Double count

If the registry and this ledger can both be sold, Gorse Span is a liability. Dual-record or nothing.

Single-customer gravity

If the first named buyer is also the only buyer, Gorse Span is a services shop with a ledger. Ask for the second.

Ask these next

01Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
02Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
03Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
05Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
06What happens if a founder later wants a public token?

Structure

How money would actually move.

Sprint is diligence, not a raise. A pack at the end is a file the company can take to its own lawyers and investors. RCA Pad does not complete funding.

Entity: Gorse Span Inc. · Delaware
Path on file: Not offering — locked
Posture: No public sale
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.

United States professionalnamed
EU retailrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Ibrahim VogelChief executive

Stack

Inventory ledger
Carbon inventories
Approval trail
Takedown SLA

Named with them

Meridian Tax

Who can decide

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

Year two is a second named market and the remaining certifications — still permissioned. It is not a public book. A public book would be a different company.

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Gorse Span does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is carbon inventories sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Inventory ledger 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
Production date for the chain layer is not committed	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

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 15:11
Workshop. Funnel has no purchase step.
08 Sep 09:00
Kick-off. Exclusions recorded.
09 Sep 16:20
A claim killed for missing evidence.

Path to now

D0
Kick-off
Geographies, owners, SLA, exclusions.
D14
Read-out
Accept the pack or stop.

Not a subscription

This is not a sale page.

Sprint is diligence, not a raise. A pack at the end is a file the company can take to its own lawyers and investors. RCA Pad does not complete funding. 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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