From compliance gap to production-grade trade conflict detection in three weeks.
An SEC-registered investment adviser running multiple ETFs and hedge funds in real estate replaced manual conflict reconciliation with a unified trade data platform — built, deployed, and shaped by their compliance team in 21 days, for under $50,000.
Documented, systematic conflict detection. When SEC examiners ask “how do you prevent conflicts?” — show them the system, not a spreadsheet.
Compliance hours redirected from manual reconciliation to judgment and risk analysis. A capital project, not a perpetual cost center.
Production-grade platform without diverting your engineers for half a year. Your team owns it. Built on stack you already trust.
The SEC expects systems. They had spreadsheets.
The firm's strength was disciplined fundamental research and capital allocation across ETF and hedge fund strategies. But operationally, there was no systematic way to detect trade conflicts across fund structures.
Compliance compared trades manually, maintained spreadsheets, and documented reviews in email. Trades lived in separate systems with different schemas, different field names, different date formats. Ad-hoc positions arrived by email from traders and PMs. Nobody could answer “what did we trade yesterday?” with certainty.
As AUM grew, the manual approach wasn't just operationally painful — it was a regulatory exposure. The CTO could build it in-house in 6–9 months, but that meant pulling engineers off other priorities and delaying compliance improvements that the business needed now.
The ask: production-ready conflict detection. Don't tie up the team. Weeks, not months. Fixed budget.
A unified trade platform — owned by the team, defensible to regulators.
Manual reconciliation eliminated across systems
Complete audit trail: who flagged, who reviewed, what justification, when resolved
Email alerts, exports for SEC filings, dashboards for the audit committee
Working software in week one. Production system in week three.
We don't plan for months and ship at the end. We ship working software every week, so the people who use it can shape it as it's built.
Platform Foundation
Secure API with Entra ID auth and automatic audit logging on every change. Frontend dashboard with component library and dark mode. SQL Server with managed schema. CI/CD pipeline with multi-environment deployment. Real-time monitoring.
- Most teams need 2–3 weeks for foundations alone
- Compliance saw a working secure dashboard in days
- Signal: this is real, not a slide deck
Unified Trade Data
Template-driven ingestion that auto-detects file format and source. Daily syncs from the ETF system. Daily syncs from the hedge fund system. Self-service upload for manual exception trades. Live dashboard of every load.
- First time the firm could query trades across all funds in one place
- Manual cross-system reconciliation eliminated
- Trustworthy data foundation for conflict detection
Conflict Detection
Configurable flagging engine on a schedule. Conflict dashboard with drill-down and filtering. Structured justification workflow — reviews documented in the system, not email. Email alerts. CSV/Excel exports for SEC filings.
- Conflicts caught within hours of execution, not at exam time
- Defensible audit trail with full attribution
- Scales with trading volume — no added headcount
Refinement With the Team Using It
Compliance used it daily and asked for adjustments. Each took 15–30 minutes to build, test, and deploy. By week's end, the system matched how compliance actually works.
- Alert format restructured around security identifier
- Status workflows shaped by real reviewers
- Trust and adoption from day one
Three weeks isn't magic. It's removing the things that take six months.
Most projects spend 6–8 weeks on architecture debate, auth, audit logging, and deployment plumbing before the first business feature ships. We don't.
Atelier
Proven API patterns, component library, ingestion framework, workflow engine, real-time dashboards, deployment automation. Architecture decisions already made.
Industry Knowledge
Investment adviser operations, SEC compliance, real estate fund workflows. No learning curve on what matters.
Working Software as the Feedback Loop
Compliance steered direction from week one. By week three, they were closing on a system they had shaped.
Team Continuity
The same people who built the foundation owned delivery to production. No handoffs, no rebuilds.
We hit the target because of him.
He set the budget. Not “let's see what it costs.” He said: under $50K, production system. That constraint forced clear priorities and eliminated scope creep.
He set the schedule. Three weeks to production. That deadline meant every decision was about shipping working software, not perfecting architecture.
He set the vision and held everyone accountable. He brought together compliance, his engineers, and our team. He removed obstacles. He held the line on quality and timeline.
The platform, the team, the tools — those were necessary. But without a leader willing to set a firm budget, a firm schedule, and a clear vision, this would have been a six-month project. Or never shipped at all.
Built on stack you already trust.
No exotic dependencies. No vendor lock-in. Familiar to your IT and your auditors.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Backend API | .NET 9 + Entity Framework |
| Frontend | Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind |
| Database | SQL Server + Hangfire |
| Data Integration | Template-driven ingestion |
| Workflow | JSON-driven engine |
| Auth | Microsoft Entra ID |
| CI/CD | Azure Pipelines |
| Monitoring | Application Insights |
You probably have a project like this on the back burner.
A compliance gap. A reconciliation nightmare. A reporting workflow held together by spreadsheets and email.
Let's talk about what three weeks could do for it.
Saberin Software · USA-based · Founded 2007 · 50+ enterprise clients across capital markets and regulated financial services