Why TrustDeck exists
Project finance deals are run by small teams under enormous time pressure, reviewed by lenders with very specific frameworks, and documented across hundreds of files that must survive scrutiny for decades. Yet most of them still run through some combination of a SharePoint folder, a Dropbox link, an email thread — or an enterprise data room that costs the project budget more than the technical advisor itself.
Every one of those setups surfaces the same problems: no audit trail when you need one, no permission isolation between competing bidders, no template that matches how development finance institutions actually run diligence, and no sane way for a field engineer to upload commissioning evidence from a substation at 6 pm.
TrustDeck started as an internal tool built to run live deals. After months of daily use on real transactions, it became clear the gap was bigger than one team — so it became a product, with a sole focus: be the data room that emerging-market infrastructure deals actually deserve.
What we believe
A data room is evidence infrastructure, not a file dump. Every view, download, permission change, and NDA acceptance should leave a record you can hand to an auditor, a lender, or a court — years after the deal closes.
Specialist workflows deserve first-class support. IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles, REIPPPP submissions, and Lender's Technical Advisor reviews are not edge cases to us — they are the product.
Pricing should never be a negotiation tactic. Flat per-room rates, published on the website, with no per-page fees and no surprise renewal pricing. Your data is exportable in full, at any moment, in standard formats.
Where we are now
TrustDeck is independent and bootstrapped. No investors, no sales targets distorting the roadmap — just a focused product and a very specific opinion about what a data room should be. We are onboarding our first design partners in renewables and infrastructure now.
We don't expect to be the biggest VDR. We expect to be the obvious choice when the deal is project finance, the bidders are global, the lenders are DFIs, and the budget would rather not be measured in five figures per month.
How we build
A deliberately small senior team with deep deal-side experience, modern tooling, and a relentless focus on the specific use cases we serve best. Every feature traces back to a workflow someone on the team has personally suffered through.