Three line items. Fully disclosed.
Dealdrum's fees sit on the engagement letter for every deal. Two are paid by the contract holder out of project cash. One is split off the investor's gross profit before the payout — so investors see clean net returns, and contract holders see a cost of capital they can plan around.
Origination Fee
Paid by the contract holder, deducted from Tranche 1 at disbursement.
- Covers contract verification, paymaster checks, document classification, and deal-room build
- Sliding scale: 2.5% on smaller tickets, sliding to 1.5% above GHS 10M
- Charged only when the deal funds — listing, verification, and the Trust Room stay free during review
Final number on the engagement letter. Sliding-scale schedule available on request.
Monitoring Fee
Paid from the project escrow cash waterfall while the deal is live.
- Ongoing payment-control checks, document-request management, and audit-trail upkeep
- Charged against the funded amount, spread across the tenor (typically 0.5% over 6 months)
- Stops the day the deal closes or is repaid early — no minimum term
A tenor longer than 6 months may scale the monitoring fee proportionally; agreed up front.
Platform Success Fee
Legally on the contract holder. Structurally deducted from the investor payout, so net returns to the investor stay clean.
- Calculated against the realised investor profit, not the funded principal
- Disclosed per deal — investor sees both gross yield and Dealdrum's split before they commit
- If the deal doesn't return a profit, this fee is zero
Premium investor services (below) are scoped on a separate engagement letter.
0% to sign. 3% of your upside, off the top.
There is no subscription, no investor fee at signing, and no per-deal access charge. Dealdrum's margin on the investor side is the 3% Platform Success Fee on realised profit — disclosed up front on every deal, deducted by the escrow bank before the payout hits your account. When you read "9.5% net coupon" on a deal page, that is what lands in your account. Nothing comes out of it afterwards.
Optional, bespoke, billed separately.
Beyond the three platform fees, these are scoped on their own engagement letter and only billed if you ask for them.
- Bespoke due diligence on a specific opportunity
- Off-platform deal sourcing — we go find a deal that fits your mandate
- Investor representation — lobby contract holders or institutions on your behalf
- Legal advice and services from Dealdrum's platform lawyers
Always free
- Listing a deal
- Document upload and classification
- Verification & requirement checklist
- Trust Room while a deal is under review
- Workspace for your team
Fee calculator.
Drop in any deal and switch between the two views — what the contract holder sees as cost of capital, and what the investor sees as net return.
Indicative only. Final fees and structure are agreed on the engagement letter per deal.
No subscription. No fee at signing. No per-deal access charge. Just the 3% of realised upside, disclosed on the deal page.
Two ways you earn on Dealdrum.
The most common question we get from originators and advisors is, "If I bring you a deal or an investor, how do I make money?" Both paths are explicit and tracked in your originator account.
Bring a deal
Your fee stays whole.
- You keep your existing advisor, finder, or originator fee with the deal sponsor — full amount, untouched.
- Dealdrum's three platform fees are separate from your fee, additive to the contract holder's cost line, and disclosed up front on the engagement letter.
- If you bring a deal you also want to co-advise on, co-mandate options are on the LOI template.
Bring an investor
Permanent attribution. Lifetime revenue share.
- Every investor you introduce is permanently linked to your originator account.
- When that investor funds any deal on Dealdrum — yours or someone else's — you receive a share of Dealdrum's 3% success fee on that deal.
- Attribution lasts for the life of the investor's relationship with the platform.
- Tracked in your originator dashboard; paid quarterly.