For Fund Administrators · Partner Program

Your margins are shrinking because your model scales with people. Zive changes the model.

Fund administrators and outsourced CFO practices run their client books on Zive, more funds per accountant, one standard of delivery across every client, and the client relationship stays yours.

The economics

The admin business has a math problem. This is the fix.

Every client you win costs you an accountant.

Labor costs are up, clients' structures are getting more complex, and your margin compresses with every entity you take on. Growth that requires proportional hiring isn't growth, it's a bigger version of the same squeeze. On Zive, the platform absorbs the volume work and your accountants handle review, exceptions, and the client relationship. Capacity per person changes by an order of magnitude, and quality goes up, not down, because every workflow is validated before it reaches your client.

Your clients. Your brand. Your relationship.

Zive is the infrastructure underneath your practice, not a competitor for your clients. Partners run their books on Zive; clients see your firm delivering better, faster work.

  • You own the client relationship and the commercial terms
  • Zive stays in the background, your delivery, your standards
  • Platform licensing with per-fund pricing that scales with your book
  • Your team trained and supported directly by Zive
What changes for your practice

Beyond capacity: what partners actually do with it.

Take mandates you used to decline

Complex multi-entity structures, heavy side-letter books, high-LP-count vehicles, the work that didn't pencil before becomes your best-margin work.

Win on turnaround, not just price

Five-day closes and same-week fund launches are a pitch your competitors running legacy systems can't match.

Stop losing quarters to audits

Every client's trail exists from day one. Audit support becomes a deliverable, not a season.

How the partnership works

Three steps from first conversation to a book on Zive.

1

Start with one client

Pick a fund from your book, usually the most complex one. We onboard it together so your team learns the platform on real work.

2

Certify your team

Your accountants get trained and supported directly by Zive. Delivery standards, escalation paths, and platform access are set up for your practice.

3

Migrate on your timeline

Bring clients over fund by fund as engagements renew. Each new fund onboards in hours; your capacity grows with every migration.

Is this you?

Who the partner program is built for.

A strong fit

  • Third-party fund administrators serving VC and PE clients
  • Fractional and outsourced CFO practices with a fund book
  • Firms hitting a capacity wall with a pipeline they can't staff
  • Practices competing for complex mandates against bigger admins

Probably not yet

  • Practices with no private-fund clients today
  • Firms looking to white-label without operating the work
  • Teams unwilling to change how delivery runs, the leverage comes from the new model

Bring one client fund. See the capacity math yourself.

Partner conversations start with a working session on a real fund from your book, your documents, your workflows, your delivery standards.