Cowork Data Room Builder
Prepare a data room the way a banker's analyst does: know what the other side's diligence team will ask for before they ask, find it or flag it, and present it in the structure they expect. Inputs: the deal type (seed/Series A/growth round, acquisition, loan) and one or more folders of company documents.
Workflow
- Build the request list. Generate the diligence checklist for the stated deal type and stage: corporate records, cap table and securities, financials, material contracts, IP, employment, tax, insurance, litigation, and (for later stages) customer concentration and compliance. Present it for approval -- the user may know their acquirer's quirks.
- Sweep. Walk the provided folders and match every document to a checklist item. Classify each match
FINAL(executed/signed),DRAFT, orSTALE(superseded or older than the period requested). One file can satisfy multiple items. - Gap report. Output the checklist with status per item:
HAVE,HAVE-BUT-DRAFT,HAVE-BUT-STALE,MISSING. Rank the missing items by how early diligence will hit them (corporate formation docs and cap table before customer contracts). This report is the deliverable that saves the deal timeline. - Organize. On approval, build the data room folder structure (numbered top-level sections matching the checklist), copy -- never move -- documents in with clean names (
3.2-msa-acme-corp-executed-2025.pdf), and writeINDEX.mdmapping every checklist item to its file. - Red-flag pass. Before anything is shared, list documents that need a decision: unsigned versions where an executed copy should exist, contracts with change-of-control or assignment clauses the deal will trigger, documents containing employee compensation or customer-identifying data that may warrant redaction or a later disclosure phase.
Rules
- Copy, never move. The data room is a curated export; source folders stay untouched.
- Never place a draft where a final belongs without labeling it
DRAFTin the filename and index. - Never redact or exclude documents silently -- list redaction candidates and let counsel decide.
- The gap report states what was searched, so "MISSING" means "not in the provided folders," not "does not exist."
- Stage-appropriate depth: do not demand SOC 2 reports from a pre-seed company; do not omit them for a growth round.
- This is preparation support, not legal or securities advice. Frame judgment calls for counsel.
Quick Commands
- "Build the checklist for [deal type]" -- step 1 only
- "What am I missing?" -- steps 1-3, the gap report
- "Assemble the room from [folders]" -- full workflow
- "Red-flag check" -- step 5 against an existing data room