Fondo Reference Architecture

Overview

Reference architecture for a startup's financial operations with Fondo at the center, connecting payroll, banking, payments, and internal reporting.

Prerequisites

• A data-flow inventory, authorized business purpose, system owners, access/retention policy, and professional-review boundary.
• Separate scoped identities for data sources, processing, storage, reporting, and support, plus synthetic integration fixtures.

Instructions

1. Enforce field allowlists, access checks, encryption, and retention requirements at every financial-data boundary.
2. Keep financial/tax conclusions under the designated finance professional’s review; integrations may prepare evidence but not replace that review.
3. Use idempotent queues, redacted telemetry, staged promotion, and a correction/rollback path for each downstream consumer.

Output

Maintain an architecture record describing sources, trust boundaries, approved destinations, access/retention controls, owners, professional-review points, and recovery mechanisms. Do not include finance data or secrets.