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Nexum Fiducia

Portfolio intelligence built for
evidence before action.

Nexum Fiducia is the institutional expression of the Nexum architecture: deterministic portfolio artifacts, review-gated document drafts, and a strict API contract designed for private banks, family offices, RIAs, and fiduciary teams.

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A CognitionHive product. Commercialized from the IWMPAS capstone, defended with an exceptional review in April 2026. Nexum Fiducia is pending USPTO registration in Classes 36 and 42.

What the implemented engine proves today

Deterministic Portfolio Evidence

A synthetic-data engine produces sealed forecast, constrained-allocation, trade, recommendation, and four-dimension CRI artifacts.

Review-Gated Drafts

Fiducia-only workflows generate supplied-facts IPS, Form ADV Part 2A, and ERISA fiduciary-process drafts with source and review boundaries.

Replayable Audit Contracts

Hash-linked artifacts support deterministic replay, signed audit records, and configured Prufs event delivery with strict receipt validation.

Preview status: the engine is an engineering demonstration using entirely synthetic data. It is not deployed, connected to a live Fiducia client, or connected to a broker, custodian, or real-market data feed.
Platform

One ordered evidence chain,
with clear ownership boundaries.

The implemented Nexum Engine separates evidence construction from the institutional controls that remain the product consumer's responsibility.

Forecast Artifact

A deterministic Random Forest forecast over an entirely synthetic factor fixture, sealed with model, data, training, background, and explainer hashes.

Constrained Allocation

Long-only optimization exposes expected-return and covariance inputs, constraint residuals, binding bounds, sensitivities, and counterfactual solves.

Trade Explanation

Fractional-share rebalance evidence reconciles starting holdings and cash to target weights, turnover, ending cash, and total value.

Recommendation Bundle

A hash-linked manifest preserves forecast context, allocation basis, and trade implementation without claiming one explanation substitutes for another.

Regulated Drafts

IPS, Form ADV Part 2A, and ERISA process documents are supplied-facts drafts that remain blocked from filing or execution pending authorized review.

Consumer Contract

A strict authenticated API handshake pins product identity, entitlements, operation sequence, engine version, and the exact OpenAPI digest.

What integration still has to provide

  • Authenticated end-user sessions, role mapping, tenancy, and account persistence
  • Validated client facts, mandate collection, suitability, fiduciary judgment, and legal review
  • Real-market and portfolio data, monitoring, rate limiting, and operational key management
  • Broker or custodian execution, durable product-edge workflows, and production acceptance
Explainability

Explain each decision at
the layer that made it.

Nexum does not stretch a forecast explanation into a claim about allocations or trades. Each layer emits its own typed evidence.

Forecast — TreeSHAP
Interventional TreeSHAP explains only the trained synthetic forecast-model output, with an additivity check and ordered feature contributions.
Model layer
Not allocation rationale
Allocation — Optimization evidence
Constraint residuals, return and risk contributions, binding bounds, risk-aversion sensitivity, and one-at-a-time constraint counterfactuals describe the allocation.
Decision layer
Separate artifact
Trade — Reconciliation evidence
The trade artifact shows the exact buys, sells, holdings, cash, target weights, turnover, and value reconciliation implied by the sealed allocation.
Action layer
No execution claim
Recommendation — Evidence manifest
The bundle hash-links the three layers and supports deterministic replay without asserting investment truth, suitability, or future performance.
Review layer
Human decision required
Precise claim: TreeSHAP currently explains one synthetic forecast model. Nexum does not claim that SHAP explains every allocation, trade, or portfolio recommendation.
Institutions

Designed for teams that must
show their work.

Nexum Fiducia is being designed around the evidence and review needs of fiduciary organizations. Institutional discovery will shape the consumer workflow that sits above the engine.

Private Banks

Explore auditable portfolio evidence for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth mandates.

Family Offices

Evaluate consistent evidence and review boundaries across complex investment operations.

Registered Investment Advisers

Assess how deterministic artifacts could support adviser review without displacing adviser judgment.

Trust Departments

Examine supplied-facts documentation and ordered review workflows for fiduciary processes.

A useful first conversation

  • Which mandate and approval constraints must be machine-verifiable?
  • Which recommendation evidence must reach portfolio, compliance, and client reviewers?
  • Where must source facts, approvals, and execution authority remain human-controlled?
  • Which audit receipts and replay checks would your examiners expect to inspect?
Pricing

Institutional evaluation,
scoped before it is priced.

Nexum Fiducia is not generally available and has no public production license. Evaluation scope depends on the institution, mandate, data boundary, and required integration evidence.

Discovery
Discuss
institutional fit
Mandate, control, evidence, and integration requirements.
Evaluation
Scope
synthetic-data pilot
A written evaluation boundary and acceptance criteria before commercial terms.
Production
Not GA
no public license
Production availability and pricing have not been announced.
About the Principal

Four decades of AI,
from econometrics to agents.

Wade Lovell is principal of CognitionHive. His AI journey began in a 1981 doctoral seminar in Econometrics at the College of William & Mary. Today he builds measurement and evidence frameworks for agentic AI in regulated settings.

Wade Lovell

Across CTO, Technical Architect, and AI Architect roles in banking, insurance, and enterprise software, Wade has led multi-million-dollar technology transformations for Fortune 500 clients. His work at Salesforce placed him at the intersection of enterprise architecture, data strategy, and agentic AI.

His doctoral research at Walsh College develops the Claim Reliability Index: four dimensions—Correctness, Faithfulness, Stability, and Constraint Compliance—for evaluating implemented engineering gates around agent outputs.

Wade is a published author on ethical AI in education and is developing practical product architectures that keep evidence, review, and human authority visible.

PhD CandidateMS, Artificial IntelligenceColumbia MBACPAEnterprise Architect
Contact

Start with the mandate,
the controls, and the evidence.

Tell us what your institution would need to evaluate. This form opens a discovery conversation; it does not enroll you in a production service.