The wedge
Per financed invoice
A warehouse that writes the event is worth more than a bank that only reads it.
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Board
MAPN
Screened
SCREENEDWarehouse receiptsMaple Pike
Skip it and you read a PDF. Counterparties who matter will have already called.
You can open twelve thinner companies. Or this one, once, while the window is still a number.
Maple Pike — 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.
Closed stamp is coming. a few days is the number. There is not a second number.
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
Receipt registry
Counsel hours
0
Not offering — locked
Sentences killed
0
Before listing
Claims live
1/7
Sprint
Our cut
0%
Of any proceeds
Plate Vault · 8854
MAPN
The plate
Vault. Edition 8854.
A unique plate for Maple Pike. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.
MAPN · Cape Town · Warehouse receipts
Score
0
Desk diligence
Pilots
0
Named, redacted
Stage
upcoming
upcoming
HQ
Cape Town
Trade-finance banks
Sells
Per
Per financed invoice
Markets
0
Cape Town
Years
0
Founded 2023
Surfaces
0
Receipt registry
Complete
0
File readiness
Why the desk took it
Early — still a question.
Public listing of cargo was refused on day one.
Traction
One named pilot (redacted).
Founded 2023, headquartered in Cape Town. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 3 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 75/100. Two licensed PSPs on a paid pilot — identities off the public file. A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.
Next 12 months
A second warehouse, or the network is a customer.
Bank portals are silos. Maple Pike is the record both sides file. 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. Maple Pike would not let a public sale sit on this page. That is why a company in Warehouse receipts is listed here at all — and why the people who wanted a coin left, and the people who wanted the product stayed.
If you leave this page without opening the claims table, you have read marketing. The scarce version of Maple Pike is the version that survives counsel. It is on a clock.
US traffic was taken off the public surfaces in the first working session. Maple Pike did not argue. Adult companies do not costume a US offering.
From the screen
The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian. Maple Pike does not attest to its own facts.
From the pilot
A dual-control drill exists on paper. Production evidence is the next artefact, not a tweet.
From the founder
We will not describe this as Reg CA-compliant, MiCA-stickered, or FCA-authorised. Issuers retain their own counsel in every relevant jurisdiction.
The window
Miss this and you read the archive.
The incumbent will still be slow in a year. The window will not.
0% of proceeds. Fixed fee. The incentive is a clean campaign — not a raise.
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
- 14
- Counsel hours on file
- 14
- Asks / week
- 9
- Our cut
- 0% of proceeds
Our TAM is an invoice the customer already pays. A coin would not make it larger. It would make the licence harder.
This company
Maple Pike
Twelve Warehouse receipts decks look the same. One of them has a Cape Town customer on the record.
In the same conversation
- Contour / we.trade (history)
- CargoX
- Bank trade portals
- Not a commodity NFT
The bet
Why this company exists.
A warehouse that writes the event is worth more than a bank that only reads it.
A warehouse that writes the event is worth more than a bank that only reads it.
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
L2 wrappers are cheaper. They are also a different perimeter — and declined here. Maple Pike is priced as software against an invoice that already exists.
Named: Cape Town, United Kingdom. Off-limits: Public residual claims, United States. A US person hearing an offering communication is a US problem even if the company sits in Cape Town. 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
- 06A named counterparty verifies; Maple Pike does not attest to its own facts.
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.
Second market
40%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Named operators
26%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Claims & campaign ops
21%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Counsel & perimeter
13%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Operating week
What “in market” actually looks like.
- WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
- FriKill switchRehearse unpublish in 24 hours. If it takes a committee, it is not a switch.
- ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
- SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
The wedge
Why this one, not the other one.
- They sell
- Per financed invoice
- Who pays
- Two licensed PSPs on a paid pilot — identities off the public file.
- 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
- Dual-control on title change — the fraud case is the feature.
- Switching cost
- Permissioned connectivity is the moat. Public endpoints would erase it.
- Vs the comps
- Bank portals are silos. Maple Pike is the record both sides file.
- Why we listed it
- Public listing of cargo was refused on day one.
Next twelve months
What has to be true.
A second warehouse, or the network is a customer.
A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.
A round, if any, sits with their providers. This pad does not take the order.
Traction
What you can verify today.
Founded 2023, headquartered in Cape Town. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 3 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 75/100. Two licensed PSPs on a paid pilot — identities off the public file. 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
- Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
- Cape Town 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.”
- Product25
- Customers40
- Legal path62
- Tech maturity37
- Demand10
- Market access68
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.
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.
Single-customer gravity
If the first named buyer is also the only buyer, Maple Pike is a services shop with a ledger. Ask for the second.
Ask these next
- 01Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
- 02Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
- 03If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
- 04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
- 05What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
- 06Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
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
- Maple Pike Ltd
- 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.
- Cape Townnamed
- United Kingdomnamed
- Public residual claimsrestricted
- United Statesrestricted
Team
Who runs it.
- Nia ShahChief executive
- Mei HolmHead of product
Stack
- Receipt registry
- Warehouse receipts
- Disclosure templates
- Approval trail
Named with them
- Clearline
Who can decide
The technical founder is on the record as Head of product. Contractors in undisclosed jurisdictions are written down as a fact, not hidden. Facts can be managed. Hiding them is how companies die in diligence.
If the first customer renews, the adapter work pays for itself. If they do not, Maple Pike is a services firm with a slide. The twelve-month test is renewal, not waitlist.
Claims with evidence
Statements with evidence.
| Statement | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Maple Pike does not sell a token to the public on this pad | Posture lock | live |
| The product is warehouse receipts sold to institutions | Architecture + customer type | draft |
| Receipt registry 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: Cape Town, United Kingdom | Named markets on the file | draft |
On the record
- Application APP-4831ScreenSep
- Counsel questionPathSep
Operating log
09 Sep 13:00
Application scored. Maple Pike 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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