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

NETC

In market

IN MARKETPayroll rails

Nettle Desk

Pilots named (redacted). Waitlist not. 903 names. Your move.

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

Nettle Desk — 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. 903 on the product waitlist — that is demand, not an allocation.

4 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.

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

Tallinn · counsel-named

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

6/8

Build

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Concentric · 9999

NETC

The plate

Concentric. Edition 9999.

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

NETC · Tallinn · Payroll rails

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Waitlist

Product demand

Tallinn

Licensed PSPs

Sells

Per-transaction

Per-transaction routing fee

Markets

Tallinn

Years

Founded 2023

Surfaces

Payroll adapters

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Per-transaction routing fee

The wedge is scheme sprawl: every new local rail is a new integration the PSP does not want to own.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

They walked in with a licensed PSP letter, not a token deck.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2023, headquartered in Tallinn. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 903 on the waitlist, gated — product demand, not a book built. 18 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 85/100. A named Tallinn administrator who already signs the pack (redacted). A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.

Next 12 months

Counsel memo on the AA perimeter, or the UX layer stays dark.

A L2 payments coin is the thing this file has already refused. 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.

Most Payroll rails 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.

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 Nettle Desk. The architecture says so. We have not watched the drill live. That is the next ask, not a slogan.

From ops

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

From counsel

Fixed fee. Deposit to start. 0% of proceeds. Token-only pay is declined. Percentage of raise is declined.

From the screen

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 decline pile in Payroll rails is full of companies that looked the same on slide one. This one is listed.

903 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: 13
Counsel hours on file: 31
Asks / week: 113
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

I will take thirty minutes and decide budget. If that person is not me, we should not be listed.
Tomás Berg, Chief executive

This company

Nettle Desk

Not the incumbent brand. Nettle Desk sells the job the brand will not staff.

In the same conversation

Modulr
Lemonway
Checkout.com routing
Not a L2 payments coin

The bet

Why this company exists.

The wedge is scheme sprawl: every new local rail is a new integration the PSP does not want to own.

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.

Tallinn being the city does not make local retail a default audience. Communications capable of inducing investment activity still have a promotions problem.

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

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.

Certifications & adapters
37%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Second market
19%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Counsel & perimeter
19%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Control environment
25%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
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.
TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Per-transaction routing fee
Who pays: A named Tallinn 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: Network effects only if a second named counterparty writes. One customer is a service firm.
Vs the comps: A L2 payments coin is the thing this file has already refused.
Why we listed it: They walked in with a licensed PSP letter, not a token deck.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Counsel memo on the AA perimeter, or the UX layer stays dark.

A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.

If they raise, it is to hire the remaining certifications and the second market — not to float a coin.

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
Tallinn 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.”

Product75
Customers78
Legal path84
Tech maturity94
Demand45
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 Tallinn story becomes a fact pattern. The restricted list exists for a reason: Global public, United States.

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 Nettle Desk. Concentration in one scheme is existential.

Path silence

If counsel will not name a path and not-offering is not locked, heated waitlist copy is an accidental offering.

Ask these next

01Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
02What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
03If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
05Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
06Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?

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: Nettle Desk Ltd
Path on file: Tallinn · counsel-named
Posture: No public sale
Pack: Build

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.

Tallinnnamed
Global publicrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Tomás BergChief executive
Elena EllisonHead of product

Stack

Payroll adapters
Payroll rails
Takedown SLA
Audit log

Named with them

Clearline

Who can decide

Tomás Berg (Chief executive) will take a 30-minute call and decide budget. If the only person who can accept “we are not opening a sale” is a silent co-founder in another time zone, this company would not be on the board.

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
Nettle Desk 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
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: Tallinn	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Sprint packPackJun
Counsel lockPathJul
Claims register liveRegisterAug
Creator briefBriefSep

Operating log

11 Sep 09:19
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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