Create Files
Create Files
When you sell a business, the due-diligence paperwork shouldn't live in a Dropbox link. Create Files gives you a secure, branded, fully-audited data room — the seller uploads, the buyer views, and every action is on record. Set up in minutes.
Sign up, pay once, and your data room is ready — with a due-diligence folder index matched to your deal type (share sale, asset sale, property or fundraising).
Drag and drop contracts, accounts, leases and more into a clean folder tree. Up to 1 GB per room.
Give each buyer a named, view-only login — behind an NDA click-through if you want one. Control exactly which folders each buyer sees, and whether they can download at all.
Export everything as a ZIP, download the branded PDF activity report for the transaction file, then permanently purge the room.
Require buyers to accept a confidentiality undertaking before a single document opens. Standard wording supplied, fully editable — every acceptance recorded with time and IP.
Buyers read PDFs in the browser with their name, email and time stamped across every page. With downloads off, view-only really means view-only.
Buyers raise questions against the room or a specific document; you answer in place. Threaded, logged, emailed — no more scattered enquiry emails.
Authenticator-app sign-in codes for every account, seller and buyer. A stolen password alone can't open the room.
The Insights dashboard shows who viewed which document, how often and when — read the buyer's interest before the next call.
Running competing bidders? Show each buyer only the folders you choose — hide employee data from a trade rival until you're ready.
Every login, view, download, NDA acceptance and Q&A exchange logged and exportable — as CSV or a branded PDF report for the transaction file.
Buyers are emailed when new documents land; you get a daily digest of buyer activity. The deal keeps moving on its own.
Documents encrypted (AES-256) on Cloudflare infrastructure in the EU, served over TLS via short-lived signed links — off your own systems, liability handled.
Hand over the entire room as one organised download, then permanently purge it — irrecoverably removed from storage, not just hidden.
Your documents are encrypted (AES-256) and stored on Cloudflare's infrastructure in the European Union, sent only over encrypted (TLS) connections, and served through short-lived signed links. Every view and download is recorded in an audit trail. Full detail is on our Security page.
Yes. We operate in line with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. For the documents you upload, your firm is the data controller and we act as your processor; a Data Processing Agreement is available on request.
You can export the whole room as a single ZIP, then permanently purge it. Deletion is real — the documents are irrecoverably removed from storage, not just hidden.
That's your choice, per room. Buyers are always read-only; you decide whether they can download or only view in the browser — and you can change it at any time. In view-only mode, PDFs open in a secure viewer with the buyer's name, email and time watermarked across every page, and no file link is ever exposed.
Yes. Switch on the NDA gate and buyers must accept a confidentiality undertaking before they can see any document. We supply standard wording (you can edit it), and every acceptance is recorded with the exact text, date, time and IP address — ready to rely on if you ever need to.
Inside the room. The built-in Q&A lets a buyer raise a question against the whole room or a specific document; you answer in place. Everything is threaded, logged in the audit trail and emailed to the right people — and each buyer sees only their own questions.
Yes — free, for every account. Anyone can switch on authenticator-app codes (Google Authenticator, 1Password, Authy and similar) from their Security page, so a stolen password alone can't open a data room.
As many buyer-side reviewers as you need. Each gets their own named, view-only login, which also gives you a clear record of exactly who viewed what — and if you're running several bidders, you can limit each buyer to only the folders you choose.
Minutes. Pay once, follow the link we email you to set a password, and your data room is ready with a standard due-diligence folder structure to drag your documents into.
Any file type — PDFs, Word, Excel, images and more — up to 1 GB per room (512 MB per file). There's nothing to install; it runs in any modern web browser.
Yes — it's built in. Upload your logo and set your colours in settings, and your data rooms, sign-in page and emails all carry your firm's brand. For a fully bespoke version on your own web address, get in touch below.
Your logo and colours are already included — set them up yourself in minutes and every room, sign-in page and email carries your firm's brand. Want to go further? We also build fully bespoke versions of Create Files on your own web address, presented entirely as your firm's own system.
Talk to us about a branded version