The wedge
Per financed invoice
The wedge is the courier: two days of documentary lag is a spread.
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Board
LARD
Screened
SCREENEDPort titleLarch Desk
Leila Shah will not run a sale here. That is why serious people are in the queue.
Pilots are named and redacted. The waitlist is not. a short list people already asked.
Larch Desk — A permissioned record of title, invoices, warehouse receipts or port documents for houses that already finance or move goods. The event is the product. The bill of lading does not get replaced by a meme.
Screened, not yet in sprint. Treat every number as provisional. Calendar access is not automatic.
The named customer already picked. The waitlist is everyone who was late to that fact.
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
Title chain
Counsel hours
0
Not offering — locked
Sentences killed
0
Before listing
Claims live
1/5
Sprint
Our cut
0%
Of any proceeds
Plate Lattice · 2081
LARD
The plate
Lattice. Edition 2081.
A unique plate for Larch Desk. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.
LARD · Lisbon · Port title
Score
0
Desk diligence
Pilots
0
None on file
Stage
upcoming
upcoming
HQ
Lisbon
Trade-finance banks
Sells
Per
Per financed invoice
Markets
0
Lisbon
Years
0
Founded 2023
Surfaces
0
Title chain
Complete
0
File readiness
Why the desk took it
Early — still a question.
Legal title jurisdiction was in the application. Unusual, and good.
Traction
No paying pilot on the public file.
Founded 2023, headquartered in Lisbon. No named paying pilot on the file yet — that is the first question. 2 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 70/100. A national registry counterpart, not a scrape. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.
Next 12 months
Which law governs title — written, not assumed.
Bank portals are silos. Larch Desk is the record both sides file. They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.
The brief
How a serious reader should hold this.
Most Port title decks start with a market size. This one starts with a job: a person at a licensed firm, a record they cannot currently prove, and a calendar that does not wait for a proposed US rule. The calendar is the window. The window is the scarce thing.
If you leave this page without opening the claims table, you have read marketing. The scarce version of Larch Desk is the version that survives counsel. It is on a clock.
The auditor of a redacted pilot has seen a dual-record. Switching away now means a new auditor conversation. That is the switching cost — not the logo.
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 ops
US persons are outside the audience. A form that asks “are you accredited?” without verification is not an exemption.
From counsel
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.
Miss a few days and you are explaining to your IC why you read it after it closed.
a short list people did not join a waitlist for a ticker. They joined for a job.
Read it once, properly, while the number is still green. Then decide.
Window
Closed
Closed. History only — not a place to buy.
- Sentences killed
- 11
- Counsel hours on file
- 7
- Asks / week
- 4
- Our cut
- 0% of proceeds
I will take thirty minutes and decide budget. If that person is not me, we should not be listed.
This company
Larch Desk
A L2 wrapper is cheaper. It is also a different perimeter — and declined here.
In the same conversation
- Contour / we.trade (history)
- CargoX
- Bank trade portals
- Not a commodity NFT
The bet
Why this company exists.
The wedge is the courier: two days of documentary lag is a spread.
The wedge is the courier: two days of documentary lag is a spread.
Banks want to digitise without putting a commodity on a public chain. Warehouses will not be first movers. A permissioned title event they already recognise is the on-ramp.
Documentary trade is a trillion-scale flow. Software that shortens a hold by two days is a spread.
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.
Named: Lisbon. Off-limits: EU retail, United States. A US person hearing an offering communication is a US problem even if the company sits in Lisbon. Blocking an IP and taking a US Telegram admin is not a block.
How it works
- 01A document that already exists is hashed and evented
- 02Title changes when the parties that already can change it say so
- 03Financiers see the state they are underwriting
- 04No public listing of the cargo as an asset
- 05Title changes only when the parties that already can change it say so
- 06The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
In the same conversation as
- Contour / we.trade (history)
- CargoX
- Bank trade portals
- Not a commodity NFT
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
36%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Named operators
23%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Counsel & perimeter
18%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Second market
23%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Operating week
What “in market” actually looks like.
- ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
- FriKill switchRehearse unpublish in 24 hours. If it takes a committee, it is not a switch.
- 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
- Per financed invoice
- Who pays
- A national registry counterpart, not a scrape.
- Unit economics
- They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.
- Moat on file
- A named warehouse or port has written a live event.
- Switching cost
- Scheme maps, ISO, LMA language, registry adapters — eighteen months of unglamorous work.
- Vs the comps
- Bank portals are silos. Larch Desk is the record both sides file.
- Why we listed it
- Legal title jurisdiction was in the application. Unusual, and good.
Next twelve months
What has to be true.
Which law governs title — written, not assumed.
A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.
Capital would fund the adapter work and a named counsel memo, not a public sale.
Traction
What you can verify today.
Founded 2023, headquartered in Lisbon. No named paying pilot on the file yet — that is the first question. 2 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 70/100. A national registry counterpart, not a scrape. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.
- Architecture paper — no production customer on the public file
- No token contract listed as a public sale
- Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
- Lisbon 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.”
- Product19
- Customers18
- Legal path62
- Tech maturity34
- Demand10
- Market access44
Risks
What can kill it.
The one that actually kills it
A second geography without a lock
Extending the record into a market that is still restricted is how a clean Lisbon story becomes a fact pattern. The restricted list exists for a reason: EU retail, United States.
Legal title
If the court still wants the paper, the chain is a copy. Ask which jurisdiction has said otherwise.
Warehouse adoption
One bank is not a network. The warehouse has to write the event.
Public token
Tokenising the cargo for a crowd is a different, usually worse, company.
Fraud
Digitising a fake bill faster is not progress. Dual-control is the feature.
Paper still wins in court
If the court wants the original, the chain is a copy. Ask which jurisdiction has said otherwise.
Facts vs theatre
A proof of a fake book is still a fake book. Larch Desk has to attach to the real one, in Lisbon.
Ask these next
- 01Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
- 02What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
- 03Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
- 04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
- 05Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
- 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
- Larch Desk Ltd
- 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.
- Lisbonnamed
- EU retailrestricted
- United Statesrestricted
Team
Who runs it.
- Leila ShahChief executive
- Hiro DiazMarkets
Stack
- Title chain
- Port title
- Disclosure templates
- Takedown SLA
Named with them
- Helix Audit
Who can decide
The technical founder is on the record as Markets. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Larch Desk does not sell a token to the public on this pad | Posture lock | live |
| The product is port title sold to institutions | Architecture + customer type | draft |
| Title chain 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 | No board minute | draft |
| No public token is sold on this pad | Engagement terms + posture lock | live |
| Customers contemplated: Lisbon | Named markets on the file | draft |
On the record
- Application APP-4759ScreenSep
- Counsel questionPathSep
Operating log
09 Sep 16:00
Application scored. Larch Desk 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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