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DocSend is great for sending and tracking a single deck. ShareAndGo is a full virtual data room for when the deal gets real: folders, access groups, an audit trail and NDA gating.
Tracking a pitch deck is a different job from running diligence.
DocSend, part of Dropbox, made its name on trackable links. Send a deck, see who opened it, see which pages held their attention, and follow up while interest is warm. Its Spaces feature extends that into data rooms.
ShareAndGo starts from the data room. It is built for the stage after the first meeting, when a buyer, investor or lender wants a structured set of documents, has questions, and needs to be kept out of the folders that are not theirs.
For founders and sales teams sending decks and proposals to many people and watching engagement page by page, DocSend is excellent at that. For a process with groups of outside parties, folder-level permissions, questions to answer and documents to collect, ShareAndGo is organized around exactly that work.
| Feature | ShareAndGo | DocSend, as reviewed Nov 2, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Structured data room (folders) | Yes, nested folders + access groups | Yes, data rooms (Spaces) with folders |
| Per-folder access control | Yes, access groups, set per folder | Yes, folder and file level security |
| Tamper-evident audit trail | Yes, SHA-256 hash-chained, exportable | Audit log, data room audit log |
| Dynamic per-viewer watermarking | Yes, email address and date on view-only pages | Yes, available |
| Document view tracking | Yes, per user, per document, durations | Yes, DocSend's core strength |
| NDA gating | Yes, accept before any document opens | Yes, NDAs and gating agreements |
| Flat pricing (no per-user) | Yes, flat plans, no per-user or per-GB fees | Each user needs a license |
| Deck send + view analytics | Yes, plus a full room | Yes, the product's core use case |
| Starting point | A data room per process | A tracked link per document, with Spaces for data rooms |
| Who pays | Your team members; invited recipients never count | Licensed users; visitors need no license |
| Collecting documents | Request lists with templates and a public upload link | Upload privileges can be granted to visitors |
| Questions | Q&A with assignment, categories and priorities | Not described on the pages reviewed |
| Cloud imports | Drag folders in with structure kept | Integrations with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive |
| Scale | Built for one process at a time | Trusted by over 47,000 companies, per its site |
| Visitors | Never counted toward a plan | Unlimited visitors with no license needed |
DocSend says it is trusted by over 47,000 companies, and the reason is easy to see. You get a notification each time someone opens a link and can watch how they move through the document in real time. Its links need no log-in, so a cold investor can open a deck with one click, and you can update the file behind a link without sending a new one.
Spaces adds unlimited data rooms and unlimited viewers, built-in NDAs, and permissions down to the file level, including upload rights for visitors. Page-by-page insights carry over into the room, which helps a founder see which part of the model a fund is reading. Because it sits inside Dropbox and connects to Box, Google Drive and OneDrive, getting files in is quick.
A data room in a sale or financing has jobs a tracked link does not. Questions have to be routed to the right person on your side and answered once for everyone who should see the answer. Missing documents have to be chased. Different parties need different folders, and anything they cannot open should be hidden, not shown as locked.
ShareAndGo handles each of those inside the room. Q&A threads are assigned, categorized and prioritized. Request lists start from templates and track each item, and a public request link lets someone upload one file without seeing anything else. Groups control folder access, and invitations carry end dates you can extend in one click or revoke at any time.
Recipients confirm their email with a six-digit code, so you know who opened what without asking them to create an account. View-only pages carry a watermark with their email address and the date.
Some teams send the first deck through DocSend to see who is interested, then open a ShareAndGo room for the shortlist once diligence starts. The tools answer different questions: DocSend tells you who is paying attention, and ShareAndGo controls what the serious parties can see, collects what you still owe, and keeps a chained record of the whole process.
Founders running a seed or Series A process who send one deck to dozens of funds, sales teams sending proposals and wanting to know when a buyer is reading, and investor relations teams that live on engagement data. Its links open with no log-in, its analytics go page by page, and its pricing counts licensed users rather than visitors.
CPAs, advisors and company finance leads running a defined process with a handful of outside organizations, where folder-level separation between parties matters more than slide-level analytics, and where questions and missing documents have to be tracked to the end. Its plans count your own team, never the people you invite.
Sending a deck to forty funds and seeing who reads the financial slide twice is exactly what DocSend was built for. Once two or three funds move to diligence, a ShareAndGo room with a group per fund keeps their access separate and their questions in one place.
The buyer's deal team, its quality of earnings accountants and its lawyers each need different folders. ShareAndGo lets the advisor give each one its own group, hide everything else, and track the request list the buyer sends.
Leases, rent rolls and environmental reports go to a shortlist of buyers. DocSend's tracked links work for a teaser; the diligence file, with download switched off and watermarked pages, sits better in a room.
Opposing counsel should read a defined set of records and nothing more. Group isolation, invitation end dates and an exportable audit log make ShareAndGo the more natural fit.
Audit trails, NDA gating, AI search
The enterprise VDR alternative
A data room vs cloud storage
Self-serve
Self-serve signup
NDA gating, watermarks and Q&A
Data-room controls with no IT setup
Per-recipient watermarks and NDA gating
AI-native
A data room with AI
Built-in AI
M&A rooms
ShareAndGo vs every VDR
Another tool built around document tracking.
What each plan includes.
