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

IROH

In market

IN MARKETCredit RFQ

Iron Gate

Counsel is live. The waitlist is 4,153. The public sale is not.

Closed files are history. Live files have a clock. Iron Gate has a few days.

Iron Gate — 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. 4,153 on the product waitlist — that is demand, not an allocation.

Archive is free. Live access is timed. Iron Gate is timed.

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

United States professional · counsel-named

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

6/10

Growth

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Orbit · 8589

IROH

The plate

Orbit. Edition 8589.

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

IROH · Chicago · Credit RFQ

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Waitlist

Product demand

Chicago

Private-credit funds

Sells

Bps

Bps on facilities on the tape

Markets

United States professional

Years

Founded 2022

Surfaces

Permissioned matching

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Bps on facilities on the tape

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

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

Retail was never in the deck. Rare.

Traction

3 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2022, headquartered in Chicago. 3 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 4,153 on the waitlist, gated — product demand, not a book built. 24 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 94/100. A coverholder or carrier running one binder on this record. They killed their own ‘token as fee’ sentence before we asked. Rare, and it scored.

Next 12 months

One administrator consuming marks daily.

eFront and Allvue are funds’ books. This is the tape between funds. They sell a fee the customer already pays a slower vendor for. TAM is that invoice, not a token float.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

Before the waitlist, before the window, there was a refusal. Iron Gate would not let a public sale sit on this page. That is why a company in Credit RFQ is listed here at all — and why the people who wanted a coin left, and the people who wanted the product stayed.

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.

On a Tuesday in Chicago, 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 screen

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

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.

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

You can read twelve thinner companies. Or this one, once, while the window is open.

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

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: 18
Counsel hours on file: 91
Asks / week: 519
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

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

This company

Iron Gate

Twelve Credit RFQ decks look the same. One of them has a Chicago customer on the record.

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

L2 wrappers are cheaper. They are also a different perimeter — and declined here. Iron Gate is priced as software against an invoice that already exists.

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

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
06Retail and unnamed geographies are structurally off the form, not only in the footer.

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.

Control environment
32%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Claims & campaign ops
28%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Second market
17%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Certifications & adapters
23%
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.
FriKill switchRehearse unpublish in 24 hours. If it takes a committee, it is not a switch.
SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Bps on facilities on the tape
Who pays: A coverholder or carrier running one binder on this record.
Unit economics: They sell a fee the customer already pays a slower vendor for. TAM is that invoice, not a token float.
Moat on file: Covenant language mapped to the LMA set — not a custom dialect.
Switching cost: Network effects only if a second named counterparty writes. One customer is a service firm.
Vs the comps: eFront and Allvue are funds’ books. This is the tape between funds.
Why we listed it: Retail was never in the deck. Rare.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

One administrator consuming marks daily.

They killed their own ‘token as fee’ sentence before we asked. Rare, and it scored.

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
Named founder; customer still a conversation
Chicago 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.”

Product83
Customers96
Legal path84
Tech maturity94
Demand61
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 4,153.

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.

Incumbent feature

The administrator, CCP, scheme or custodian can ship this as a checkbox. Iron Gate has to be cheaper or faster before that happens.

Ask these next

01Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
02What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
03Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
04Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
05Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
06What happens if a founder later wants a public token?

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: Iron Gate LLC
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
Public residual claimsrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Anja KhanChief executive
Kofi DiazFinance

Stack

Permissioned matching
Credit RFQ
Audit log
Disclosure templates

Named with them

Helix Audit
Clearline
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Anja Khan came in named. The team is not a handle. Iron Gate LLC exists, founded 2022, headquartered in Chicago. Anonymity would have been an automatic decline.

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
Iron Gate 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: 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 09:36
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.

Launch your own How an RCAICO works

Other companies

VELMVellum ProtocolSettlement rails for private credit funds. Campaign live. No public token sale.KITEKite LedgerTrade-finance records on a permissioned L2. Live waitlist. Allocation is not on this pad.PLSDPalisade IDPermissioned identity for funds. Live in the EEA professional lane. No token, no sale.NRTLNorthlineOn-chain fund admin. Day 8 of 14. The pack is the product. Pathway locked: not offering.