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Defined terms governing The SAVI Capital Model. Used consistently across institutional materials, fund documents, and published research. Each term is binding inside SAVI fund structures, not expressive language.
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The SAVI Group is a private equity asset-management firm founded in 2002 by Santiago Vitagliano. Its mandate covers private equity, healthcare, social capital, and real estate across Europe and the Americas. All fund structures operate under The SAVI Capital Model and are restricted to Qualified Purchasers under U.S. securities law.
See also: About The SAVI Group
The SAVI Capital Model is the architectural framework governing every fund operated by The SAVI Group. It comprises four tenets encoded in the legal terms of each fund document, a bifurcated distribution waterfall, two investment platforms (SAVI Capital Partners and Alitheia Capital Partners), and two proprietary technology systems (Sylvanus AI and the Alitheia Ecosystem). The model treats commitments as binding fund terms rather than expressive values statements.
See also: The SAVI Capital Model
A foundational distinction across all SAVI institutional materials. Conventional firms express values in mission statements and ESG reports. The SAVI Capital Model encodes values in fund governance documents — limited partnership agreements, bylaws, distribution waterfalls — where they become enforceable under the same legal terms as the preferred return to limited partners. The difference between encoded and expressed is the difference between binding commitment and intention.
See also: From Extraction to Integration
The structural commitment that distinguishes The SAVI Group from conventional asset management. The mandate is to deploy capital architectures in which the financial outcome of an investment and the welfare of the workforce that produces it are not in tension. This is treated as an architectural conclusion — not a values preference — and is enforced through fund governance documents rather than discretion.
See also: The SAVI Capital Partners Mandate
The four binding commitments encoded in every fund governance document The SAVI Group issues: Equitable Profit-Sharing, Fair and Transparent Compensation, Ethical and Principled Stewardship, and Sustainable and Social Impact. Each is verifiable, each is measured through defined portfolio governance metrics, and each is legally enforceable under the same terms as the preferred return to limited partners.
See also: The Four Tenets
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Fifty percent of net corporate profits from every financed portfolio company are distributed equally among all employees, separate from salary, encoded in the fund governance documents rather than left to board approval each cycle. The mechanism is ownership, not generosity. Equal distribution removes seniority-weighted distortion. Encoding in fund documents removes board discretion.
A maximum CEO-to-lowest-worker pay ratio of fifteen to twenty times, codified in fund governance documents rather than subject to board discretion. The ratio is the visible part of the tenet. The encoding in fund documents is what makes it survive a leadership transition. Reference point: the U.S. CEO-to-worker pay ratio was 21:1 in 1965; by 2023 it was 290:1.
See also: Why Compensation Ratios Must Be Encoded
A governance accountability standard that evaluates leadership decisions against long-horizon consequences for employees, communities, and institutional health, not only against quarterly metrics. Encoded in governance terms rather than expressed as a leadership preference. The investor case rests on reducing the category of long-horizon risk that quarterly metrics cannot measure until it becomes a portfolio event.
See also: Stewardship as Verifiable Governance
Returns above the 5x investor threshold flow to The SAVI Ministries Endowment under the legal terms of the applicable fund document. Tenet 4 is a distribution term, not a philanthropic preference. It eliminates the principal-agent problem in institutional philanthropy by removing leadership discretion over the commitment.
See also: The Tenet 4 Mechanism
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The brand-name profit-distribution architecture of every SAVI fund. Operates as a bifurcated waterfall: every net profit dollar from a financed portfolio company splits 50/50 at the top, before any conventional distribution mechanic runs. Half flows to a Human Capital Pool; half flows through entirely conventional LP/GP waterfall mechanics, unmodified from market conventions.
See also: The 50/50 Distribution Architecture
The defining mechanic of The SAVI Capital Model. Every net profit dollar from a financed portfolio company splits at the top of the waterfall — before preferred return, before catch-up, before carry — into two pools: 50 percent to the Human Capital Pool, 50 percent to the Financial Capital Pool. The split is binding under the fund document, not a discretionary allocation.
The half of every net profit dollar that bifurcates at the top of the SAVI waterfall to the workforce. Distributed equally among all employees of the financed organization, separate from and additional to their customary salaries. The pool reflects the architectural recognition that labor is structurally equivalent to capital in producing the returns that LP/GP conventions distribute.
The half of every net profit dollar that bifurcates at the top of the SAVI waterfall to the financial side. Runs through entirely conventional LP and GP waterfall mechanics: preferred return to limited partners, GP catch-up, and conventional carry split. No modifications to market conventions occur within this pool, with the single exception of the 5x outperformance threshold that activates Tenet 4.
The legal trigger inside SAVI fund documents at which Tenet 4 activates. Once investor returns from a fund structure exceed five times invested capital, the overage above 5x directs to The SAVI Ministries Endowment per the binding terms of the fund document. The threshold is a distribution term, not a philanthropic commitment — it activates by contract, not by management discretion.
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The conventional-vehicle investment platform of The SAVI Capital Model. Operates standard limited partnership agreements with 5-to-7 year holding periods, deploying across four asset classes: private equity growth equity, commercial real estate, healthcare, and social capital. Geographic mandate covers the United States, Europe, and the Americas. Restricted to Qualified Purchasers.
See also: Investment Platforms
The tokenized-vehicle investment platform of The SAVI Capital Model. Deploys across the same four asset classes as SAVI Capital Partners, but through fund structures built on the Alitheia Ecosystem smart-contract infrastructure. Provides on-chain distribution events, NFT-based document management, real-time investor transparency, and native KYC/AML verification.
See also: The Business Case for Alitheia
Proprietary algorithmic trading platform developed in-house by The SAVI Group. Generates income streams uncorrelated with traditional equity and fixed-income markets, providing portfolio companies with cash-flow certainty independent of debt-market conditions. When a portfolio company does not need to service leverage from operational cash flow, it can invest in workforce development, product quality, and market expansion.
See also: Sylvanus AI
Proprietary blockchain-based tokenization platform for SAVI fund structures that require tokenized capital architectures. Provides smart-contract automation of distribution events, on-chain transaction recording, NFT-based document management, real-time investor transparency, and native KYC/AML verification. Tenet 4 overage distributions can execute on-chain via smart contract conditions inside structures running on the platform.
See also: Alitheia and the Intelligence Alpha
The philanthropic institutional implementation of Tenet 4. A faith-centered nonprofit church and humanitarian institution with its own governance architecture, endowment foundation, and three coordinated operational engines. Capital received from SAVI fund structures (the Tenet 4 5x overage) is governed under institutional endowment standards. The SAVI Ministries operates independently from The SAVI Group; the structural link is the Tenet 4 distribution term.
See also: The SAVI Ministries
The structurally-funded endowment that receives Tenet 4 overage from SAVI fund structures. Governed under institutional endowment standards by The SAVI Ministries' own governance framework. The endowment is not funded by discretionary corporate giving — its capital flow is encoded as a binding distribution term in every SAVI fund document, activated automatically when investor returns exceed the 5x threshold.
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A U.S. securities-law term defining the eligible investor class for SAVI fund structures. Generally requires natural persons to hold at least $5 million in investments, or institutional investors to hold at least $25 million. All SAVI investment platforms (SAVI Capital Partners and Alitheia Capital Partners) are restricted to Qualified Purchasers and Accredited Investors. This restriction is imposed by applicable securities law, not by firm preference.
See also: Engagement
Two structurally different private equity strategies. Leveraged buyouts force operating decisions inside debt-service constraints — when a portfolio company must service significant leverage from operational cash flow, capital allocation gets compressed toward debt repayment. Growth equity does not. The architectural difference, not management quality, explains the persistent return differential between the strategies documented across third-party institutional research.
See also: The Growth Equity Thesis
The conventions of capital distribution between Limited Partners (LPs — the investors) and the General Partner (GP — the fund manager) inside a private equity fund. Typically includes a preferred return to LPs, a GP catch-up provision, and a carry split (commonly 80/20 LP-to-GP). The SAVI Capital Model does not modify these conventions within the Financial Capital Pool. Bifurcation at the top occurs before LP/GP mechanics begin.
The original brand name for The SAVI Capital Model, in use through early 2025. The framework was renamed to The SAVI Capital Model in September 2025 to align with the firm's broader institutional identity. All current materials use The SAVI Capital Model exclusively. References to Conscious Capital in third-party citations from 2024 or earlier describe the same architectural framework under its prior brand designation.