In simple English
This tool creates a secure website for sharing your startup's pitch documents with investors. You control who sees each file and get an audit log of every view. It answers investor questions using an artificial intelligence chatbot trained on your PDFs. You host it on your own servers so you do not pay high monthly fees to a commercial service. It requires some technical knowledge to set up and connect to a database.
What it is
A self-hosted Next.js template (a starter project containing complete code and layouts) that lets founders share documents and chat with investors securely. It connects to MongoDB (a database system for storing information) and uses external language models for automated chat.
What it is good fork
Founders and fund managers who want a private, branded data room without paying for commercial sharing software or risking leaks on third-party servers.
- Keeps sensitive fundraising documents on your own infrastructure instead of a third-party service.
- Includes an artificial intelligence chatbot that answers questions based on your uploaded pitch materials.
- Allows tier-based access so different investors see only the documents you choose.
- Requires technical setup including a database and API keys for artificial intelligence providers.
- Does not prevent users from downloading or saving files using browser tools.
- Runs as a single company instance per deployment, so it is not built for managing multiple distinct startups at once.
commercial data room subscriptions and shared Google Drive folders
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git clone https://github.com/dottaap-star/open-dataroom cd open-dataroom npm install npm run setup