We still don't know if people come for the analytics or the data-room side — so I bet on the data-room side this week

Quick update on PaperTrack (posted here a couple weeks back about building this because I was tired of documents going into a black hole 👋)

Someone in the comments on that post asked something I couldn't really answer yet: do people come for the analytics, or do they stick around once they discover the data-room/security side? Still too early to say for sure, but while digging into that I ended up going pretty deep on the data-room side of things — and realized there wasn't a great free resource out there for people prepping to raise or run a deal. Mostly paywalled legal sites or thin 300-word listicles.

So instead of just writing more marketing copy, I put together 5 actual guides/templates and made them fully free, no email gate:

→ The Ultimate Due Diligence Checklist — every document category investors ask for, why they ask for it, red flags, timeline by stage. Also comes with a free Excel tracker: https://papertrack.io/blog/due-diligence-checklist/

→ Data Room Folder Structure Template — the exact folder tree + naming convention I'd use today: https://papertrack.io/blog/data-room-folder-structure/

→ Data Room Security Checklist — access control, watermarking, audit logs, what actually matters vs. security theater: https://papertrack.io/blog/data-room-security-checklist/

→ Mutual NDA Template — copy-paste ready: https://papertrack.io/blog/nda-template/

→ Term Sheet Template (annotated) — liquidation preference, vesting, anti-dilution, explained in plain English: https://papertrack.io/blog/term-sheet-template/

Not gonna pretend it's purely altruistic — it's also a decent way to get in front of people who are about to need a data room anyway. But I think they're genuinely useful on their own, gate or no gate.

If anyone here has raised recently or run deal diligence — did I miss anything obvious? Especially curious if the folder structure matches what you actually used, since that one's the most "opinionated" of the five.