For prop trading firms. Thousands of accounts, and a rule set that has to hold.
A prop firm runs a rule set at scale. Thousands of accounts move between challenge, funded and breached every week, affiliates are paid on structures that get renegotiated, and every payout decision has to be defensible months later. The work is repetitive, high volume and unforgiving of a mistake.
- Typical size
- 5,000 to 60,000 accounts
- Staff
- Often under fifteen
- Measured on
- Payout ratio, affiliate cost, challenge conversion
- Usually starts with
- Partners and Support
What this costs you specifically.
Affiliates paid on a structure that moved
Introducer terms are renegotiated continuously and calculated from a sheet that is updated occasionally. The gap between those two facts is a recoverable liability, and it surfaces at audit rather than before the run.
CPA that looks cheap until the cohort is modelled
A qualification bar is a specification handed to a counterparty paid to satisfy it. Plot first deposits against the bar and the spike at the threshold tells you how much of that affiliate book was engineered rather than acquired.
Breach decisions that have to be reconstructed later
When an account is failed, the evidence has to hold up to a trader disputing it weeks afterwards. Reconstructing what the rule saw at the moment it fired is a data joining problem, and it is usually done by hand.
The agents that earn their keep here first.
All eight run on Atlas from day one. These are the three that usually pay for the whole thing in a firm shaped like yours.
Partners agent
Recalculates every payout against the signed agreement before the run, and holds anything on the wrong tier with the evidence and the difference attached.
What it does, line by line →Support agent
Answers the repeated questions about rules, resets and payouts that make up most of a prop firm queue, in the trader language, before anyone arrives.
What it does, line by line →Compliance agent
Prepares the record behind every decision, so a disputed breach is answered with what the rule saw at the time rather than a reconstruction.
What it does, line by line →Caught in books like yours.
- Clients agentFunded clients who never traded84 deposited and never placed an order. The window is closing.
- Partners agentA partner on the wrong rebate tierThe agreement changed. The spreadsheet driving the payout did not.
- Finance agentA provider settles shortNovaPay reported $2 463 897 against $2 482 317 expected.
What firms like yours ask first.
- Do you understand challenge and funded account lifecycles?
- Atlas holds accounts, their rule state and every trade against them as one graph, so a question that crosses challenge, funded and breached is one query rather than three exports. The rules themselves stay yours; we read the state, we do not set it.
- Can it check affiliate payouts before we pay them?
- That is what the Partners agent does on every run. It recalculates each payout against the signed agreement, and anything on the wrong tier is held with the accounts affected, the difference and the lines behind it, waiting for a named person.
- We are nine people. Is this too heavy for us?
- The firms that get most from it tend to be small relative to their account count, because the work is volume driven rather than headcount driven. Rollout is one to three weeks and takes about half a day of your team on day one.
See it on your own book.
Two weeks of read access and you get one list of what we found in a prop trading firm shaped like yours, with the amounts and the records behind every line.