Secure Mobile Systems · Wealth & Financial Services

Secure mobile apps for wealth & investment firms.

Secure, beautifully-built mobile experiences for your investors, members and clients — connected to the systems you already run: portfolios, onboarding, documents, approvals.

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Apps investors actually open
AU & NZ delivery
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— Delivery experience across
Fund managers Wealth advisory firms Superannuation & KiwiSaver providers Member-based platforms
01 — The Gap

Most wealth and investment systems weren't built for mobile.

CRMs were built for advisers. Registry and portfolio systems were built for operations teams. Onboarding still travels through email and PDFs. Meanwhile, investors and members expect the same fluency on their phone they get from their bank.

— Today
Fragmented investor & client experience
  • × CRM and registry systems built for staff, not clients
  • × Onboarding stretched across email, PDFs, manual review
  • × Investor portals clunky on mobile, rarely used
  • × Statements and documents handled outside compliance
  • × Investors switching between multiple systems and login experiences
— With PortalForce
A secure mobile experience layer
  • Native iOS & Android apps investors actually open
  • Onboarding and KYC completed end-to-end on mobile
  • Statements, holdings and documents delivered securely
  • Existing systems remain the source of truth
  • One mobile experience across onboarding, documents and servicing
Systems of record
CRM · Registry · Portfolio · Document Store
Client-facing layer
Secure Mobile Experience
— Why Mobile, Why Now

Investor relationships increasingly happen on the phone.

The case for mobile in financial services is no longer experimental. Expectations, workflows and engagement have all moved decisively to the phone.

01
Onboarding is now phone-first
KYC, identity checks and digital signature perform better when designed for mobile from the start.
02
Approvals and documents move faster
Consent, attestation and disclosure flows complete in a fraction of the time on a well-designed app.
03
Investors engage more often on mobile
Balances and statements are checked far more often on a phone than a desktop portal.
04
The app has to be good, or none of this matters
Secure infrastructure only earns its value when wrapped in a mobile experience clients actually want to use.
02 — What we build

Mobile products built around regulated client workflows.

Five focused capabilities. Deployed individually, or together as a coherent client experience layer.

Investor & Client Apps

Branded iOS and Android apps where investors and members view portfolios, holdings and statements — and act on them — behind enterprise-grade authentication.

BIOMETRIC · MFA · SSO

Mobile Onboarding & KYC

Identity verification, AML checks, source-of-funds capture and digital signature — orchestrated as a single mobile-native journey, aligned with compliance.

Client Self-Service

Reduce inbound load. Investors and clients update details, retrieve statements and raise requests — without contacting the office.

CRM-Integrated Experiences

Apps that read and write to Salesforce, Dynamics, HubSpot — and to registry, portfolio and document systems — so your systems of record stay in control.

Adviser & Workflow Apps

Mobile tools for advisers and front-office staff — approvals, file capture, meeting prep — kept in sync with your operational platforms.

03 — Engagement Model

An architecture-first engagement, built for regulated environments.

Four structured phases, each with clear deliverables and sign-off gates. Architecture review and integration discovery sit at the front — where they belong.

01

Discovery & Blueprint

Stakeholder workshops, integration discovery, and a written architecture and scope blueprint your CIO and compliance teams can sign off against.

2–3 WEEKS · FIXED FEE
02

UX & Technical Validation

Interaction design, prototypes, integration mapping and security model — approved before any code is written. Apps that work, but also apps people enjoy opening.

3–4 WEEKS
03

Build & Integration

Agile delivery in two-week increments. React Native for efficiency, native modules where security or regulation calls for them.

8–16 WEEKS · MVP
04

Launch & Phased Rollout

App Store and Play Store deployment, monitoring, and a sustained release cadence. Retained partnership for roadmap delivery beyond launch.

ONGOING
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We work alongside your team, not around them. The best apps we've built came out of architecture workshops with the people who actually run the business — engineering, compliance, operations, the front office. Mobile is the surface; the real work is alignment underneath.

Ash Hart, Founder and Principal of PortalForce
Ash Hart
Founder & Principal, PortalForce
— From the workshop

Every engagement starts with a shared diagram on a wall.

Before code, before scope, before estimates — we run an architecture workshop with your engineering, operations and client experience teams. The blueprint that comes out of it is what the rest of the engagement runs on.

A · 1 Mapping existing systems and integration points
A · 2 Identifying the workflows that move to mobile
A · 3 Agreeing the security and governance model
A · 4 Sequencing phased rollout against operational risk
PORTALFORCE · ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
Investor App · Integration Blueprint
SHEET 01 / 04
REV. B
Mobile experience layer Investor App iOS · ANDROID · REACT NATIVE SECURE / MTLS Secure API Gateway ROLE-BASED ACCESS · AUDIT · OAUTH 2 Registry unit-holders Salesforce CRM Document Store SharePoint biometric + cert-pinning single secure entry point systems of record stay unchanged WORKSHOP DAY 02
Fig. A · Investor app integration sketch, on-site architecture workshop — anonymised
04 — Why PortalForce

A specialist studio for secure mobile delivery in financial services.

Not a generalist agency. We focus on one discipline — mobile experiences for firms that hold sensitive investor and client information — and we treat each engagement as an architecture problem first.

Mobile
native delivery focus — iOS, Android, React Native
Wealth
investment & advisory sector specialisation
Secure
delivery aligned to regulated-industry standards
AU / NZ
based, delivering across both markets

Architecture-first delivery

Every engagement opens with a written blueprint — systems, integrations, security model, governance — before scope is locked.

Integration-led approach

We design around your existing CRM, registry and document systems, not the other way around.

Security and governance built in

Certificate pinning, secure enclaves, MASVS-aligned mobile security, with pen-test partners on every regulated build.

Delivery you can plan against

Phased rollout, clear sign-off gates, and small senior teams — so risk stays low and timelines stay honest.

05 — Use Cases

Primary focus: wealth, investment & financial services.

The pattern repeats across financial services: a complex system of record, a client relationship that matters, and the need for a secure mobile experience that connects the two.

— Wealth & Investment Management

Investor & portfolio experiences

Mobile experiences for fund managers, wealth platforms and investment businesses — portfolio access, holdings, statements, secure document delivery and corporate action workflows.

Investor apps Portfolio access Statement delivery Corporate actions
— Wealth Advisory & KiwiSaver

Member & client account apps

Apps for advisory firms and KiwiSaver providers — member balances, fund selection, contribution changes, document submission and adviser-mediated workflows.

Member accounts Fund selection Contribution changes Adviser workflows
— Professional Services

Client portals & document workflows

For accounting, legal and advisory firms outside financial services — secure document submission, e-signature, engagement letters and structured client requests.

Document submission E-signature Engagement letters Client requests
06 — Security & Integration

Enterprise-grade mobile delivery. Designed around your systems.

Secure mobile delivery your risk and compliance teams can stand behind — integrated with the operational systems your business already runs.

Secure auth

SSO, biometric authentication and MFA.

API integrations

REST, GraphQL, OAuth and event-driven integrations.

Role-based access

Fine-grained permissions and scopes.

Operational visibility

Visibility across approvals, workflows and client interactions.

Mobile workflows

Approvals, onboarding and operational servicing.

Enterprise rollout

App Store, Play Store and enterprise-managed distribution.

— Integrates with
Salesforce
Dynamics
HubSpot
SharePoint
Custom Platforms
Registry APIs
07 — Engagement Example

Modernising the investor experience for an investment management firm.

— Investment Management Firm · Anonymised

From fragmented portal to a coherent mobile experience.

An investment management firm asked us to replace a fragmented desktop investor portal — and three separate document delivery channels — with a single mobile-first experience for a large investor base.

Architecture
A mobile experience layer over the existing registry, portfolio and CRM systems — existing systems remained the source of truth.
Integration
Salesforce and registry APIs unified behind a single secure layer, with role-based access for advisers and operations.
Workflows
Onboarding, KYC refresh, statement delivery and corporate action consent — rebuilt as mobile-native flows.
Existing systems
retained
Registry, CRM and portfolio platforms remained systems of record.
Mobile-first
onboarding
Identity verification, document collection and approvals consolidated into a single experience.
Unified investor
experience
Statements, holdings and investor actions accessible through one mobile experience.
Example engagement summary based on a real investment management engagement. Client details withheld for confidentiality.
Portfolio
Total holdings
$486,210.74
↑ $11,420 (+2.4%) YTD
Top holdings
NZ
NZ Top 50
12,450 units
$184,260
+3.1%
US
US 500
8,210 units
$162,840
+4.2%
GL
Global Bond
5,100 units
$139,110
+0.8%
— Let's talk

Planning a mobile experience for your investors or clients?

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