For small RIAs & financial advisors
Prep more client meetings. Document more reviews. Keep the fiduciary obligations ironclad.
Small RIAs, fee-only planners, and advisor teams under $500M AUM. Compliance burden is a full-time job the firm is already paying for; we make the advisory work more efficient without adding regulatory risk.
Serving North America jurisdiction-specific requirements confirmed during scoping
Small RIAs operate under a fiduciary standard that makes AI adoption carefully-paced. Anything that approximates investment advice, recommendations, or client communication has SEC or state regulatory implications that must be respected. At the same time, small RIAs genuinely need operational leverage, advisor time is expensive, meeting prep is time-intensive, and documentation requirements around client reviews, suitability, and fiduciary process are substantial.
The specific workflow pain points in small RIAs: client meeting preparation (pulling prior meeting notes, recent account activity, current holdings vs allocation, major market events since last meeting); client review documentation (the paperwork side of the fiduciary process); onboarding new clients (KYC/AML, risk tolerance, suitability documentation, account transfer logistics); and compliance deliverables (ADV updates, code of ethics attestations, compliance calendar items). Most small RIAs handle all of this with one CCO who often wears multiple hats.
AI-assisted workflows in this vertical focus on meeting-prep packet assembly (pulled from existing systems, reviewed by advisor before meeting), client review documentation drafting (advisor approves before finalizing), onboarding process automation (document collection, transfer paperwork tracking), and compliance calendar management. We stay entirely out of investment recommendations, model changes, and anything that could constitute advice. We work with your compliance officer or outside compliance consultant on anything that touches regulatory reporting.
This page is not legal, regulatory, tax, or professional advice. Data handling and jurisdiction-specific requirements are documented in the engagement scope; no control or certification is implied. Read the scoped data-handling approach.
What we'd automate first
Where a carefully scoped workflow may earn its keep.
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60-80% prep time reduction
Meeting prep consuming 1-2 advisor hours per client per quarter
Assembling prior notes, current holdings, performance, and discussion topics takes time. Automated packet assembly with advisor review cuts this 60-80%.
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Fiduciary documentation around client reviews
Quarterly/annual review notes, action items, and suitability reconfirmation all require documentation. Drafted documentation from the meeting plus advisor review speeds the close.
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Onboarding paperwork dragging across weeks
KYC/AML, risk tolerance assessments, account transfer paperwork, tracked manually, slow to complete. Automated workflow with document collection and progress tracking speeds onboarding.
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Compliance calendar management
ADV updates, code of ethics attestations, testing, examinations, the calendar is full. Structured tracking reduces miss risk.
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Client communication between reviews inconsistent
Market volatility events, major news, or portfolio changes warrant proactive communication, often missed because of bandwidth. Structured drafted communication (advisor approves) fills this gap.
Small RIA, 4 advisors, 180 clients: meeting prep and review documentation
A four-advisor RIA with about 180 households and $280M AUM had advisors spending roughly 1.5-2 hours per client per quarterly review on prep and post-review documentation. We built meeting-prep packet assembly pulling from their custodian and CRM, plus drafted review documentation for advisor approval. Per-client prep + documentation time dropped to about 30-40 minutes. The firm grew to 240 households over 12 months without adding advisors because per-client capacity expanded.
Result: Per-client prep/documentation time -70%; capacity +33%Rough numbers first
Estimate the opportunity in your own numbers.
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Common questions
Questions to resolve before implementation.
Do you work with Orion, Tamarac, Redtail, Wealthbox, Salesforce FS?
Yes, all the common RIA stacks.
How do you handle compliance risk?
We explicitly do not build anything that touches investment advice, recommendations, or client-facing communication that hasn't been reviewed by the advisor. For regulatory deliverables we work with your CCO or outside compliance consultant.
Will AI replace my advisors?
No, and that would be both a regulatory problem and a value-destroying problem. Client relationship is the product; we just remove the non-client-facing overhead.
Small firm (<$100M AUM), applicable?
Often yes, particularly for meeting prep where solo advisors have no one else to delegate to.
Describe what is actually happening in this workflow.
Glen replies in writing with whether a Nano-Pilot fits or the honest answer is “not yet.”
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