Virtual data room

    No ticket. No wait.Your data room is ready.

    When a data room takes an IT ticket, deal teams skip it and send files by email or WhatsApp — on the deals that matter most. With QuartzVault they create a secure room themselves, in a few clicks, from $129 a month.

    Part of the QuartzX platform family

    A data room: a folder tree beside a locked document, with three viewers granted access below it and a fourth place still empty.

    The riskiest step in a deal is the one people skip

    Nobody decides to leak a deal. They just can’t wait three days for a data room.

    Open a ticket

    Request a room, justify it, wait for IT or the vendor to set it up.

    Wait for approval

    Meanwhile the buyer wants the files today.

    Skip it

    An email attachment, a Dropbox link, a WhatsApp message. Just this once.

    Lose control of the deal

    No expiry, no log, forwarded to anyone. The most sensitive files of the year, with the least protection.

    Data rooms for every deal — not just the IPO

    M&A due diligence

    Buyers review everything, take nothing.

    Fundraising

    Investors see the deck and the numbers you choose.

    Board papers

    Directors read them, nobody forwards them.

    Tenders and RFPs

    Bidders get the same file, on the same day.

    Audits and regulatory reviews

    Reviewers get scoped access, you keep the log.

    Real estate

    Leases, title and inspection files in one room.

    The bill should not depend on how long the deal runs

    What is metered
    QuartzVaultThe room, and the term
    The incumbent standardThe page, the seat, or the gigabyte
    Inviting one more reviewer
    QuartzVaultFree — users and guests are unlimited on every tier
    The incumbent standard$15 – $250 per user, per month
    A 10,000-page diligence set
    QuartzVaultIncluded
    The incumbent standard$0.40 – $0.85 per page
    Storage
    QuartzVaultIncluded in the tier
    The incumbent standard$60 – $77 per GB, per month
    What you can tell procurement
    QuartzVaultA number
    The incumbent standardA formula, and an estimate of the inputs
    Finding out the real cost
    QuartzVaultOn the pricing above, before you start
    The incumbent standardOn the invoice, after the deal closed

    What metering the wrong unit costs

    7.8x
    Spread on one identical deal
    The same 10-month process — 50 GB, ~10,000 pages, 15 internal users, unlimited outside reviewers — priced four ways. Same work; the bill varies by nearly eight times on the choice of unit alone.
    2 – 10x
    What buyers pay above the quote
    Reported across 3,800+ analysed deals: the figure agreed at signature is not the figure invoiced, because the metered unit was never forecastable.
    ~3,000x
    Markup on a stored gigabyte
    Per-GB vendors charge $60 – $77 per GB per month against commodity object storage at roughly $0.023. Defensible only while pricing stays hidden.

    What every data room does, on every tier

    These are not the premium tier. They are what separates a data room from a shared folder, so they are in the $129 room and the $40k one alike.

    Permissions per document, not per link

    This bidder sees the folder. That one does not. Access is set on the material, so one party’s view is never an argument for widening anyone else’s.

    View-only, with no way out

    No download, no print, no copy. The material is read where it lives, which is the entire reason the physical data room existed.

    Every page carries the reader’s name

    A per-viewer watermark burns into the page itself. If something surfaces where it should not, the document says who was holding it.

    A log detailed enough to negotiate from

    Every open is recorded, down to the time spent on each page. A bidder who spent three hours in the litigation folder has told you what they are about to argue about.

    Access ends the moment you end it

    A party drops out and their access stops — not their next login, immediately. Nothing was ever on their disk to keep.

    How it starts

    Free until your data room goes live

    Preparation runs weeks ahead of the process, and a seven-day trial expires long before you have anything to show anyone. So setup does not start a clock: upload, structure and review internally for as long as sixty days at no cost. Billing begins the day you invite the first outside party in.

    • Unlimited uploads, structuring and internal review before anything is billed
    • If the deal dies before launch, it cost you nothing
    • Your document set and permission structure are already in place on day one

    Where we differ

    A data room shaped to your transaction

    The two ends of this market both ask you to adapt. The open-source tools are a product you host and take as it comes; the incumbents are a platform you conform to, quoted per page. QuartzVault is built by the team that builds QuartzIQ and QuartzID, which means the room can be fitted to the process you actually run — and a change you need is a roadmap conversation with the people writing it, not a ticket in someone’s queue.

    • The room’s structure, index and permission model built around your transaction, not a default template
    • Your naming, your document taxonomy, your review stages
    • Deployment and data-handling arrangements discussed per engagement, including for regulated and public-sector buyers
    • Backed by QuartzX, already running risk and identity platforms inside enterprise and public-sector accounts

    One flat price per data room, unlimited users

    Published, because every serious incumbent hides its price behind a demo request. Users and guests are unlimited on every tier — inviting one more reviewer is the thing a data room exists to do, and we will not tax it. Prices in USD; CAD and EUR are on the pricing page.

    Essentials — $129 / month

    Billed annually, or $179 month to month. One transaction at a time — a raise, a sale, a single diligence process.

    • 1 active data room
    • Unlimited users and guests
    • 25 GB included
    • Free to set up until the room goes live
    • Self-serve, card on file

    Professional — from $449 / month

    Billed annually, or $599 month to month, for 5 data rooms. Size it from 5 to 20 rooms: each extra room is $79 a month billed annually ($99 month to month) and adds 25 GB. For a desk running more than one process at a time — advisory, corp dev, a fund.

    • 5 concurrent data rooms
    • Unlimited users and guests
    • 250 GB included
    • Free to set up until each room goes live
    • Self-serve, or with a hand from us

    Enterprise — from $24,000 / year

    Annual or multi-year paper, scoped with you before anything is signed.

    • Unlimited data rooms
    • Unlimited users and guests
    • 1 TB included
    • Onboarding and a named contact
    • Deployment and assurance requirements scoped per engagement

    Questions worth asking before you pick one

    Make the secure way the fast way

    Tell us what you are running — a raise, a sale, a tender, a licensing process — and we will show you the room it would need and what it would cost, before you commit to anything.

    Setup is free for up to 60 days. Billing starts when the first outside party is invited in.

    Security and compliance

    • SOC 2 Type IIAudited by Sensiba LLP.
    • ISO/IEC 27001Certified by Sensiba LLP, an ANAB-accredited certification body.
    • GDPRCompliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
    • PIPEDAReady for Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

    Reports available upon request