Engagement models
Engagement models and platform scope.
The engagement models
White-Label Platform
Your brand on the Nexus platform, with your program rules, your domain and your commercial model. The fastest route to operating, and the most common starting point.
Prop as a Service
A fuller arrangement where Nexus carries more of the operating load alongside the platform. Priced higher because more of the work is ours rather than yours.
Custom Platform Build
Proprietary infrastructure built on the Nexus core where your model genuinely requires different behaviour. See custom builds.
Fractional Executives
Senior risk, operating or finance leadership embedded in your firm on retainer plus revenue share. See fractional executives.
Fraud Intelligence Network
Cross-firm fraud signal access, available on its own as well as bundled — including to firms running someone else's trading stack. See fraud prevention.
Common questions
- Which engagement is right for me?
- Most firms should start with the white-label platform unless they can name a specific behaviour their model requires that configuration cannot express. Prop as a Service suits firms who want to run a program without building an operations team. A custom build should be justified by a proven product gap rather than a preference.
- Why is Prop as a Service more expensive than the white-label platform?
- Because more of the ongoing work is performed by Nexus rather than by your team. The comparison to make is not licence against licence, but total cost including the headcount you would otherwise hire.
- Are prices fixed, or do they scale?
- The platform price is published: $20 per active trader per month for Nexus Connect with no minimum, $20 for the Operations Platform, $35 for both, plus a $5,000 monthly platform fee on any deployment including Operations. Volume arrangements exist at scale and are written into the contract rather than applied silently. Custom builds and fractional executive engagements sit outside that model. See pricing.
- How does the retainer-plus-revenue-share model work?
- It applies to fractional executive engagements: a base retainer plus a share tied to firm performance, so the operator's incentive is aligned with outcomes rather than hours. Specific terms are agreed per engagement.
- Can I use the Fraud Intelligence Network without the whole platform?
- Yes. Network access is available standalone, including to firms running another trading stack. The network is more useful the more firms participate, so this is deliberate rather than a concession.
- Can I move between engagements?
- Yes, and firms commonly do — most often from white-label into a more custom arrangement as their model diverges, or out of Prop as a Service as they build their own operating team.
- Do you take equity in client firms?
- Not as a standard term. Where an arrangement involves anything beyond fees and revenue share it is negotiated explicitly rather than assumed.
- Do you sign NDAs and exclusivity agreements?
- NDAs, yes, routinely. Exclusivity is considered case by case and is a commercial negotiation rather than a default.
- Where are you based, and where can you operate?
- Nexus Prop LLC is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Where your program can operate depends on your own regulatory posture, your payment and identity providers and your market-data licensing — which is confirmed during scoping rather than assumed.
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