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How we hold your data

What happens to a client's books once they are with us — stated as properties of how the system is built, not as assurances about how carefully people will behave.

The short version

Read, never write. Separated in code.

A promise about conduct is only as good as the worst day the person making it has. A property of the software holds on that day too.

The commitments below are the ones we can point at something for. Where a control is intended but not yet operating, it is not listed — a roadmap described in the present tense is the most common way a security page becomes untrue.

Commitments

Four things, and what each rests on

  • 01

    Your books stay yours

    We read from your accounting system. We do not post, adjust or delete in it — not to fix a coding error, not to tidy a prior period, not at all. Your ledger is the system of record and your auditors' subject; it is not ours to edit.

  • 02

    Separated in code, not by convention

    Every client's figures are isolated from every other client's by the structure of the software rather than by anyone remembering. A query that fails to say which client it is for raises an error instead of quietly returning rows — and there is a test that proves it, which has to pass before any change ships.

  • 03

    Nothing is changed without your sight of it first

    Anything that would alter your records is shown to you as a preview — what would be added, what would change, and what was skipped and why — and is written only once you accept it.

  • 04

    Held in one system, not a shared drive

    Most firms in this space run client books out of a shared cloud folder named after the client. That is the arrangement this was built to replace.

What is not claimed

Deliberately absent

Several things a page like this usually says are missing, because the control behind them is not yet operating. They will appear when they are true and not before:

Certifications and audits. The firm holds none. A security page that implies otherwise is the first thing a serious counterparty checks.

Guaranteed turnaround dates. Earned over a quarter of hitting them, then stated — not promised in advance on a web page.

If a control matters to your decision, ask directly and you will get a straight answer about whether it exists today.

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If your investors or lenders have specific control requirements, send them over. A straight answer is faster than a brochure.

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