Docsroom

About Docsroom

We built it for ourselves first.

Docsroom started as the tool we wished we had. It still is.

Most of our time was not spent on the work itself. It went on asking people for the documents and answers the work needed, chasing the ones that did not come, and finding them again when they arrived in the wrong place. Anyone who depends on other people loses time the same way.

We tried shared folders. We tried a portal that made people create accounts. We tried a spreadsheet of who owed what. What worked, in the end, was a list: one line per thing, with a name against it and a status both sides could see. Docsroom is that list, with the chasing built in.

Requests

Every request, every client · status and date

Tachograph downloads, August

Pennine Freight · due Monday

5 days

Gas safety certificates

Kestrel Lettings · due 30 September

2 days

Allergen sheet for the new menu

The Copper Kettle · due Friday

On time

Decided early

What we believe

Nobody you ask should need a password

A link that shows only what is theirs is safer and simpler than an account.

The ask and the answer belong together

A file without its question is a file you will look for again.

Reminders should stop

Chasing that does not know when to stop is worse than no chasing.

Small on purpose

Docsroom is not your email, your e-signature service or the software you run the rest of your work on. It does one job properly and hands the result over.