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The platform

Four planes. One closed loop. The whole record.

Provarium is the financial operating layer for mission-driven capital. Engage, collect, audit, distribute, and record impact on one ledger. The four planes — accounts, instruments, ledger, and council — are how the loop is built.

Book briefing See it in use

A note on language. We use shareholder to mean any party holding voice and standing in a council — donors, investors, or programmes — depending on the operating model.

The loop

Engage, collect, audit, distribute, record impact

One closed loop. The last step trains the first — outcomes recorded on the ledger sharpen the segmentation that powers the next campaign.

  1. 01

    Engage

    Smart campaigns trained on the ledger. Segmentation of principals — who gave, to what, when — drives the next outreach.

  2. 02

    Collect

    One distribution surface. Three modes: once-off, subscription marketplace, DAF. Same ledger, same audit, same impact record.

  3. 03

    Audit

    Reconciled by construction. Every inflow lands signed, witnessed, and queryable. Month-end is a read query.

  4. 04

    Distribute

    Milestone-bound covenants route capital to the right work. Recovery rails handle the edges. Attribution is structural.

  5. 05

    Record impact

    Programme evidence attaches to the covenants that produced it. The loop closes — and feeds back into engagement.

Engage sits above the four planes and is fed by the ledger’s outcome data. The other four verbs map to the four planes below.

Distribution

One surface, three modes

The same rails carry once-off giving, subscription giving via a marketplace of the organization’s giving opportunities, and DAF-enabled giving. The ledger, the audit, and the impact record do not change with the mode.

Once-off

A single gift, signed and witnessed on arrival. No separate checkout, no separate ledger. The covenant follows the same rails as everything else.

Subscription marketplace

The organization’s giving opportunities listed as subscribable positions. Donors hold recurring slots, not one-off intentions — and switch between opportunities without leaving the rails.

DAF-enabled

Donor-advised funds direct capital through the same covenants and signatures. The DAF holder’s voice persists on the register; the loop does not break.

Plane 1 · Accounts — Collect

Principals as first-class accounts

Sponsors, advisors, donors, NGOs, auditors, counsel — each with a cryptographic identity, persistent voice, and a position on the ledger. This is where the loop collects: an inflow attaches to a principal account before it touches anything else.

  • Identities, not logins

    Each principal holds a cryptographic identity. Identities sign motions and carry weight; logins do not.

  • Shareholder register

    Donors, investors, and programmes on one register the council, the advisor, and the auditor share.

  • Persistent across advisors

    A principal’s voice persists when an advisor changes, when a council reconstitutes, when a fund retires.

Shareholder register

12 principals · 4 categories

  • Northwind Trust
    Sponsor
    $4.20M
  • Atelier Capital
    Investor
    $1.80M
  • L. Chen
    Advisor
    —
  • Harbourline NGO
    Programme
    $0.95M
  • Pacific Foundation
    Donor
    $2.40M
Capital flow · LED-4421 Cleared
Sponsor
$2.4M
Advisor
witnessed
NGO · Harbourline
$420k
Programme
42 outcomes
Plane 2 · Instruments — Distribute

Blended-finance ready by construction

Grants, forgivable loans, revenue-based instruments, equity, and milestone-bound covenants — the typed objects that carry capital out to the right work. This is the plane where the loop distributes.

  • Structured, not stored

    Each instrument is a typed object with covenants, signatories, and milestones — not a PDF in a folder.

  • Milestone-bound releases

    Evidence triggers release. Recovery moves on the same rails. Roll-backs are signed.

  • Multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction

    Each instrument carries its own jurisdiction. Counsel and regulator mapped per type.

Plane 3 · Ledger — Audit + Record impact

One reconciled record for every position

Positions held by principals, instruments issued to NGOs, motions put by councils — all reconciled on the same ledger. This is where the loop both audits and records impact — the same record carries both. Outcome data here trains the segmentation that drives Engage.

  • Reconciliation by construction

    The ledger cannot be out of balance. Month-end is a read query.

  • Closed-loop impact reporting

    Programme evidence attaches to the covenants that produced it. The shareholder sees the loop close.

  • Sits above payments rails

    Provarium is not a payments provider. The distribution surface and the loop are ours; the card and bank pipes — Stripe, StraTech, and similar — sit underneath.

Ledger · Q2 2026
Live
LED-4421 Grant disbursement · Meridian Fund
+ $125,000 Witnessed
LED-4420 Committee motion · Q2 review
— Signed
LED-4419 DAF contribution · J. Okonjo
+ $42,500 Cleared
LED-4418 Milestone covenant released
+ $18,000 Witnessed
4 of 1,284 entries countersigned · immutable

Council · April 2026

Motions on the book

Approve Q2 disbursement schedule passed
Quorum · 7 of 9
Ratify advisor appointment · L. Chen passed
Quorum · 9 of 9
Release Harbourline milestone II covenant open
Quorum · 6 of 9
Plane 4 · Council — Governance overlay

Motions on the book, not in an inbox

Every proposal is a versioned, quorum-aware motion. Signatures carry weight. The council pack is assembled by the ledger, not by a committee secretary at 11pm. The council is the governance overlay across the whole loop — what gets engaged, what gets collected, what gets distributed, and what counts as recorded impact.

  • Quorum-aware motions

    Motions know who must sign and when. Cycles, deadlines, and carry-overs are first-class.

  • Signatures of record

    Each sign carries a cryptographic signature, an identity, and a position against the motion.

  • The council pack, assembled

    Read it on the day, or a decade later — the evidence persists.

vs alternatives

One ledger, not three systems

A side-by-side against the alternatives councils already use. Category labels — not named competitors.

Capability Provarium vs Spreadsheets vs DocuSign workflows vs Audit firm engagements
Motion of record Versioned, quorum-aware, signed A pack assembled by handAn envelope on a queueReconstructed at audit
Blended-finance instruments Loans, equity, milestones, covenants Out of scopePer-instrument envelopePer-engagement attestation
Cross-border residency Sovereign by design Wherever the file livesUS-hosted by defaultPer engagement
Shareholder voice Positions persist across cycles An inbox threadNot addressedNot addressed
Audit-ready exports A read query A month-end projectA folder of PDFsA six-figure engagement
Commitments

What Provarium is built to guarantee

Six commitments that distinguish the financial operating layer for mission-driven capital from a stitched-together stack. Each is architectural — not a roadmap item.

Evidence by default

Closed-loop impact reporting on the ledger. Every transition carries its own signature. Audit is a read query, not a forensic project.

Sovereign by design

Data residency, key custody, and jurisdictional controls are the ground plan, not add-ons. Documented at provisioning.

Cross-border, multi-currency

Multi-jurisdiction councils run on locale-specific rails. Currency, regulator, and counsel mapped per instrument.

Shareholders’ bill of rights

Where the platform holds personal narratives from beneficiary communities, the shareholder retains full control over what, how, and to whom.

Blended-finance ready

Grants, forgivable loans, revenue-based instruments, equity, and milestone-bound covenants — first-class instrument types on the ledger.

One shareholder register

The council, the advisor, the donor / investor, and the NGO read the same register. One truth, one record.

Integrations

Provarium fits the stack you already have

Above your payments rails (Stripe, StraTech). Alongside the parties you already work with.

Auditors
Counsel
Custodians
Banks
Accountants
Regulators

Open schemas for instruments, motions, and positions. Your auditors, counsel, custodians, and accountants plug in via documented APIs and signed exports.

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See your loop on the ledger

Forty-five minutes, principal-led. Sovereign by design. Your organization’s loop running on a live Provarium workspace.

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