The architecture
Who sees what, exactly
Aleva’s trust model is three rings with strict boundaries between them. This page states the rules in full, because “trust us” is not an architecture.
Three rings, one direction
The partnership is the unit of account. Everything it creates stays in the innermost ring unless a partner deliberately shares a specific deal outward — and sharing a deal never shares the partnership’s discussion, allocations, or decision.
Information flows outward only by explicit choice, and never all the way through: the network ring talks about a deal without the founder listening, and founders receive feedback with the names removed.
The rules
The visibility table
“Never” in this table is not a setting someone can change. It is the absence of any code path or database policy that could serve the data.
| Content | The partnership | Trusted network | Founders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deal record (company, terms, deck) | Yes | Only if shared | Their own deal |
| Partner discussion and leans | Yes | Never | Never |
| Investment thesis and pass reasons | Yes | Never | Never |
| Allocations, capital calls, K-1s | Yes | Never | Never |
| Network discussion of a shared deal | Sharer sees it | Yes | Never |
| Feedback to founders | — | — | Anonymized only |
Enforcement
The database is the boundary
Every table in Aleva carries row-level security policies in Postgres. A request can only read rows the policies grant to that specific user — the application cannot override them, and neither can a bug in a page.
The policies are covered by an automated test suite that runs on every change: partnership privacy, share boundaries, and the founder wall each have tests that fail the build if a rule weakens. Trust violations are treated as outages, not bugs.
For the avoidance of doubt
What Aleva is not
Not a marketplace.
There are no public listings and no deal feed. Deals move person to person, by name.
Not a syndication platform.
Aleva handles no transactions, holds no funds, and forms no SPVs.
Not a fund administrator.
Aleva keeps the partnership’s record. It does not calculate NAV, issue statements, or act as agent.
Not a broker-dealer.
Aleva takes no compensation tied to any securities transaction. Sponsors are never paid by the platform.
No investor capital ever moves through Aleva. The platform charges subscription and posting fees only — never a percentage of anything.