Sent a pitch deck? Stop guessing whether they read it

Every founder, FA, and salesperson knows the feeling: you send your pitch deck or proposal, and then... nothing. A black box.

Did they read it? Which pages? For how long? Did they forward it to their partner?

Email attachments, WeChat files, and cloud links all have the same problem: zero visibility after send.

The cost of the black box

For a founder raising a round, this isn't just curiosity - it's strategy:

• You send your deck to 30 investors, 3 reply, and you have no idea which of the other 27 actually read it.
• The "golden follow-up window" (usually within 24 hours of reading) gets wasted because you don't know they read it.
• Your weekly update to the board says "contacted X investors" - a number that is essentially made up.

The same story plays out in B2B sales (did the procurement officer open the proposal?), legal (did the counterparty's counsel actually review the NDA?), and hiring (did the candidate's reference actually read the offer?).

The fix: document tracking

DocTrail is a document sharing and tracking tool built for this exact problem:

• Per-page reading analytics - see exactly which pages were read, in what order, and for how long
• Reading completion + heatmaps - know if they skimmed or studied
• Forward-chain tracking - see if your deck was forwarded, and to whom
• Real-time notifications - get pinged the moment someone opens your document
• Security controls - password / email-OTP access, NDA prompts, expiry links, dynamic watermarking, and disable download/print/copy

It's privacy-respecting by design: visitors are informed before access, and tracking can be disabled per link.

Try it

DocTrail is live at doctrail.pages.dev. Free tier included.

Stop guessing. Know who read it.