Run Ceviche on your own invoices before you commit.
Your entities, your allocation rules. We configure a sandbox on your data in about a week. On a live call your team runs an invoice from upload to export, then keeps the logins for two weeks.
What do you send us?
Two or three example invoices
Pick the ones that are hard to split. A legal bill with mixed lines, or a shared vendor charged across several funds.
Your allocation spreadsheet
The file you close with today. It tells us the methodologies you run, the exceptions you carry and where the pennies get plugged.
Your entity list
The management company, the GP, the funds, the SPVs, blockers and feeders, with the relationships between them. This becomes the structure the sandbox is built on.
We sign an MNDA before any data moves.
What do we build?
- Your entity structure as you sent it, so the intercompany paths look like yours.
- Invoices loaded the way they arrive from your AP system, with the PDFs attached.
- Your allocation methodologies configured, so you can compare the sandbox split against the split in your spreadsheet before you change anything.
Multi-level approvals and the GL connection are onboarding work, not sandbox work. The sandbox is about whether the allocation is right.
How do the two weeks run?
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Step 1: Walkthrough
A live session where your team drives, not a screen share. Someone on your side uploads an invoice, allocates it, approves it and exports the entries while we narrate.
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Step 2: Your own hands
Two weeks with logins for your team. The sandbox has done its job when your team runs its own invoices without us on the call.
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Step 3: Review
A call at the end to go through what worked and what did not, and to price the annual subscription for the setup you just ran.
Why a sandbox instead of a longer demo?
A demo shows Ceviche on someone else's structure. Only your own data answers the questions that decide it. Does the intercompany export match your tracker? Does a 25-line legal bill land on the right entities? A methodology only proves out once a system is enforcing it.
FAQ
Yes. It is how we scope the subscription, so there is no charge for building or running it.
Collecting the three inputs is a short job for your controller, since the files already exist. Add one live walkthrough, then whatever your team spends during the two weeks. Most of the configuration work is ours.
Send it anyway. Custom methodologies, LPA caps and exclusions are what we configure most weeks, and the sandbox is where we find out how yours behaves.
No. The sandbox proves the allocation. Connecting QuickBooks Online, NetSuite or Sage Intacct for write-back happens during onboarding.
Bring the invoices you argue about.
Tell us who you are and pick a time. On the call we agree the data list and the MNDA, and we start building as soon as the files land.