Complex carry management
Carried interest calculations, vesting schedules, ownership allocations, and employee lifecycle changes all had to be automated without losing a decimal of accuracy.
ClientNavable
IndustryFintech
EngagementEnd-to-end product development
TimelineOngoing, since 2021
Websitewww.navable.com
Who they are
Navable is a fintech platform built for alternative asset managers, helping private equity, venture capital, hedge fund, and real estate firms streamline carry management, investor onboarding, employee compensation, and investor relations. The platform replaces manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with secure, automated workflows. Design, develop, test, deploy, and scale the entire Navable platform from concept to production, owning the complete engineering lifecycle rather than a slice of it.
What the work moved.
2021
Building and running the platform ever since, still their engineering team
10+
Pilots converted into full-time enterprise customers
15 modules
From carry management to a private marketplace, all shipped by one team
100%
Of the engineering lifecycle owned: strategy, design, build, cloud, QA
What we owned.
Ignicube worked as part of the Navable team, not a vendor on the other side of a ticket queue.
- Product strategy & solution architecture
- UI/UX design
- Frontend & backend engineering
- Database design
- AWS cloud architecture
- Terraform infrastructure as code
- CI/CD & deployment automation
- Cloud operations & production monitoring
- Quality assurance & performance optimization
- Ongoing product enhancements
The challengeWhat stood
What stood
in the way.
No compensation visibility
Employees had no way to see total compensation, carry ownership, co-investment performance, or historical earnings in one place.
Fragmented investor onboarding
Onboarding was scattered across documents, email, and manual review: slow for investors and risky for compliance.
A branded experience per firm
Every firm and fund needed investor portals that looked and behaved like their own product, not a shared tool.
Approvals with no structure
Review and sign-off ran informally across onboarding, investments, and administration, with nothing configurable or auditable.
Strict tenant isolation
A multitenant platform serving competing firms meant every client, fund, and organization had to be provably unable to reach another's data.
What we builtHow we
How we
solved it.
Carry management engine
A calculation engine handling carry, vesting schedules, ownership allocations, and employee lifecycle events. The core of the product, and the hardest part to get right.
Real-time compensation dashboard
Employee-facing dashboards showing compensation history, carry ownership, co-investment performance, and incentive visibility as it changes.
Digital investor onboarding
End-to-end onboarding: investor tracking, document management, subscription processing, compliance workflows, and secure identity handling.
White-labeled investor portals
Configurable portals letting each firm deliver branded reporting, document sharing, and communications to their own investors.
Configurable workflow automation
Review and approval workflows across onboarding, investments, and operations, automated where possible, governed everywhere, with a centralized notification engine keeping every party informed.
Enterprise multitenancy
Strict tenant isolation, role-based permissions, and scalable data segregation designed in from the schema up.
AWS & DevOps ownership
Complete infrastructure ownership: Terraform-managed AWS, containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and production monitoring.
Impact
What changed for Navable.
- Launched a production-grade platform serving alternative asset managers across private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, and real estate.
- Digitized investor onboarding end to end, removing the document-and-email shuffle entirely.
- Gave employees real-time visibility into compensation, carry ownership, and investment performance.
- Delivered enterprise-grade multitenancy supporting multiple firms with strict data isolation.
- Cut manual administrative effort through configurable approval workflows and automated notifications.
- Built AWS infrastructure and deployment automation that has scaled with the business for five years and counting.
- 10+ pilots converted into full-time paying customers.
Technology
Disciplines
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