Governed document intelligence

Every answer cites its page. Or it abstains.

OpenDataRoom turns your underwriting reports, deal documents, and IC materials into governed, cited intelligence — every answer anchored to the exact page, with the discipline to abstain rather than guess.

This isn't a chatbot. There is no query-time model, so it cannot hallucinate — it returns cited passages, abstains, or blocks.

Cited to the page Abstains rather than guesses Deterministic & auditable Zero-trust isolation
  Watch the governance gate

It answers. It abstains.
It blocks. Watch which.

The same engine, three different questions. One gets a cited passage. One gets an honest “not supported.” One gets refused at the door. No model is generating any of it.

Illustrative — drawn from real engine behavior
opendataroom · governed-query live

analyst@room ~ query

Cited

“Stabilized loan-to-value of the subject property is 62.5%, based on the as-stabilized appraised value.”

Returned verbatim as a cited passage — no model in the loop to paraphrase or invent.

aster-court-appraisal.pdf · page 12
Source documentpage 12

Cited. The answer is anchored to a highlighted passage on page 12, returned verbatim with its bounding box.

  Why OpenDataRoom

For documents where a wrong answer is a liability.

Generic AI guesses confidently. In a deal room, a confident wrong answer ends careers. Three commitments make the difference.

Cited, not conjured

Every answer routes to the exact page and passage it came from — with bounding-box evidence on the page itself. Reviewers verify in one click. No black-box claims, no untraceable summaries.

exact page + bbox

Governed by design

When the documents don't support an answer, the engine abstains — or routes to the nearest supported fact. Out-of-scope and confidential intents are blocked outright, before they ever reach the documents.

abstain · route · block

Deterministic & auditable

Routing is reproducible and recorded. The same question yields the same evidence, every time — built for an audit trail, not a vibe. Defensible months later, in front of anyone.

same question · same evidence
  How it works

From a folder of PDFs to defensible answers.

  1. Govern the room

    Load deal documents into a private, access-controlled room. Nothing public; nothing leaks.

  2. Ask in plain language

    “What's the LTV?” “Where are the diligence gaps?” Ask the way you'd ask an analyst.

  3. Get cited answers

    Responses point to the exact page and evidence — or abstain when the room can't support a claim.

  4. Export for IC

    Package the evidence trail for committee, with role-based controls on who can see and do what.

  Built for

The teams who can't afford to guess.

01Investment committeesWalk into IC with every claim sourced and exportable.
02Credit & underwritingSurface LTV, DSCR, and risk facts straight from the report.
03Legal & diligenceFind gaps and obligations without trawling hundreds of pages.
04Advisors & clientsGive counterparties a scoped, read-only window — and nothing more.
  Security & trust

Your documents never leave the room.

A zero-trust foundation: identity at the edge, authorization per document, and a runtime isolated from everything it doesn't need. This describes how the product is architected.

policy: fail closed
egress: outbound-only · no public ports
data: mounted read-only · never embedded

01

Identity-gated access

Every visitor authenticates at the edge before a single byte of content is served — allow-listed, email OTP (SSO-ready). No open doors.
allow-list · email OTP

02

Per-document authorization

Roles scope exactly which rooms, documents, and actions each user gets. A viewer views; nobody sees what they shouldn't.
role-scoped

03

Isolated runtime

The engine runs with no public ports, outbound-only connectivity, and no path to the rest of your network. A compromise has nowhere to go.
no public ports · outbound-only

04

No data baked in

Content is mounted read-only at run time and never embedded in the software. Your documents stay yours.
mounted read-only

  Now onboarding select rooms

See your own data room, governed.

Bring a deal pack or report. We'll stand up a private room and show you cited, governed answers — and exactly where it draws the line.