Istacap · Ontario, Canada
Send your drawing to a factory
without giving away who you are.
Every manufacturing deal starts with someone handing over a design. That moment is where the risk lives — and where every existing platform asks you to just trust them. Istacap makes the disclosure itself safe, provable, and reversible.
The hidden leak
Your file names you
A spreadsheet carries its author. A PDF carries the company that made it. A photo carries GPS coordinates. You mask your identity on the platform, then the file gives it away the second it opens.
Istacap strips it, and shows you exactly what it removed.
The staircase
Disclosure is earned
Nobody sees your drawings because they signed up. Each step of disclosure is bought with a real commitment — interest, then an NDA and deposit, then escrow.
The cost is what keeps the tyre-kickers out.
The proof
You get a receipt
Who opened your file, when, and what they agreed to before they did. Written to a log that cannot be edited afterwards — not even by us.
If it is ever disputed, you can prove it.
Why this is the wedge
Useful on day one, with nobody else on the platform
Marketplaces die waiting for both sides to show up. Istacap does not ask you to wait: protected disclosure is worth having the first time you use it, whether or not a single counterparty has joined. You are already sending drawings to people you found yourself — send them safely instead.
Every send also brings a real manufacturer or a real buyer to the platform, with their consent, through work they were doing anyway. That is how the network gets built — one protected file at a time.
What is live right now
- Metadata stripping for Office, PDF, JPEG and PNG
- CAD files held for human redaction, never auto-cleared
- Confidentiality gate before any file opens
- Append-only access log
- Exportable disclosure receipt
- Published fee calculator
- JSON API, ready for mobile
Specified, not yet built
- Capability matching between members
- Escrow and staged milestones
- Reputation from completed deals