AI for financial services — RIAs, fund administrators, and family offices.

KYC automation, compliance, client reporting, surveillance, and advisor operations — built on custom AI for audit-grade environments and the systems your firm already runs.

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You are losing time and revenue in predictable places

We have mapped operations at RIAs, fund administrators, family offices, and broker-dealers. The specifics change. The friction points do not.

Investor onboarding takes weeks, not minutes

01

KYC, accreditation, suitability, AML — each step asks for documents the investor has already sent twice. Forms get re-collected, signatures get re-chased, and a $5M commitment waits two weeks while ops chases a missing W-9.

Onboarding cycle · 7–21 days, friction-loaded

Compliance is a paper trail held together with spreadsheets

02

Disclosures, attestations, supervisory reviews, trade attestations — every line of policy maps to a row in a spreadsheet that someone reconciles by hand once a quarter. Audit-ready only on Audit Day.

Comp/audit prep · multi-week sprints, recurring

Client reporting is a manual assembly job

03

Quarterly reports require pulling positions, fees, attribution, and commentary across three systems. Analysts spend a week formatting PDFs that clients open, scan, and forward to their accountants without comment.

Reporting prep · 40–80 hrs / quarter / team

Data lives in silos that do not talk

04

CRM, portfolio accounting, custody, document management, compliance — five systems, three vendors, two homegrown extracts. Asking 'how exposed are we to X?' takes a week and a senior analyst.

Cross-system question lag · days, not seconds

Advisor and PM time goes to assembly, not advice

05

Senior people spend hours each week pulling prep packets, writing meeting notes, and reconciling positions. The work that earns the fee — judgment, relationships, strategy — gets the leftover time.

Advisor admin · 30–45% of working week

Fraud and surveillance signals lag the activity

06

Suspicious trading, unusual transfers, anomalous communications — reviewed days after the fact, in batches, by exception. Recovery is a fraction of prevention.

Detection latency · days to weeks behind activity

The operational lifecycle of an RIA, fund administrator, or family office

Before we talk about AI, we map the machine. Every firm we work with starts here — the four operational surfaces every client and entity touches, and the work that happens on each.

01

Onboarding & KYC

From first touch to funded account. Where new business is won — or lost to friction.

  • Investor intake. Suitability, accreditation, qualification
  • KYC / AML. Identity, screening, source of funds
  • Document collection. Subscription, W-9/W-8, ID, formation
02

Compliance & operations

The systems of record that keep the firm audit-ready and the regulators satisfied.

  • Disclosures & attestations. Quarterly, annual, employee-level
  • Surveillance & monitoring. Trade review, comms, transfers
  • Policy & procedure. Updates, distribution, attestation
03

Client servicing & reporting

The ongoing relationship — quarterly cycles, statements, queries, and the work between meetings.

  • Statements & confirms. Generate, deliver, archive
  • Performance reporting. TWR, IRR, attribution, commentary
  • Client requests. Distributions, statements, queries
04

Investment & advisory ops

The work that actually moves the portfolio — and the operational tail it leaves behind.

  • Research synthesis. Memos, comparables, models
  • Trade workflow. Allocation, execution, settlement
  • Cap table & SPV ops. Issuance, ledgers, waterfalls

AI is infrastructure, not a replacement for your advisors and compliance team

We do not believe in an "AI advisor." We believe in an AI operations layer that takes the predictable, repetitive, system-to-system work off your team so your licensed staff can spend their time on the work the regulation requires.

AI handles

Repetitive work that slows your team down.

  • KYC packet collection. Conversational intake, doc parsing, gap detection
  • Document classification. Subs, IDs, W-forms, entity docs — auto-filed
  • Disclosure & attestation cycles. Distribute, track, escalate, evidence
  • Surveillance signal aggregation. Trade, comms, transfer pattern detection
  • Reporting assembly. Performance, attribution, draft commentary
  • Cross-system retrieval. Single-question answers across CRM/PA/custody
  • Investor communications. Statements, confirmations, lifecycle nudges
Your team handles

The judgment, strategy, and relationships.

  • Suitability & advice. What the client should do — and why
  • Investment decisions. Allocation, position sizing, exits
  • Compliance sign-off. CCO approves attestations and policies
  • Trade execution authority. PM directs, trader executes
  • Client relationships. Tough conversations, lifecycle planning
  • Audit & regulator response. Final answers, attested by an officer
  • Anything irreversible. Trades, transfers, accepted KYC, signed reports

Anything regulated passes through a human.

Trades, transfers, KYC sign-off, compliance attestations, accepted disclosures. The AI drafts, organizes, and surfaces — your licensed advisors and CCO decide and sign.

What we actually build

Six systems that map to the operational realities of running an audit-grade firm. None of them are chatbots in the marketing sense. All of them are operational infrastructure.

System / 01

KYC & Onboarding Engine

Conversational AI walks investors through KYC, AML, accreditation, and subscription — collecting ~150 compliance variables per investor and pushing structured data to ops.

Outcome

Web portal

System / 02

Disclosure & Attestation Cycles

Quarterly and annual disclosure cycles run as orchestrated workflows — distributed, attested, evidenced, and audit-ready without spreadsheets.

Outcome

HRIS

System / 03

Client Reporting Assembly

Quarterly performance, attribution, fees, and commentary drafts assembled from portfolio accounting and custody — analysts review and polish instead of pulling and pasting.

Outcome

Portfolio accounting

System / 04

Investor & Cap-Table Operations

Subscription tracking, SPV ledgers, waterfall calculations, and investor communications run as a system — every event has a state, every action has an audit trail.

Outcome

Cap-table mgmt

System / 05

Cross-System Knowledge Assistant

Advisors and PMs ask questions of the firm's actual data — exposures, comps, prior memos — and get cited answers in seconds, not days.

Outcome

Drive

System / 06

Surveillance & Anomaly Aggregator

Suspicious trades, communications, and transfers are surfaced to compliance with cited reasoning — pre-trade where possible, near real-time everywhere else.

Outcome

OMS

In production.

One example of what we've shipped in the financial services space.

Financial Services · Case study

Fund Administration Software Replacement — AI KYC for 1,000+ SPVs

How a fund administration firm replaced fragmented, manual investor onboarding with a custom AI KYC platform — KYC automation across 200+ LLCs and 300+ entities, built to scale to 1,000+ SPVs. A fund administration software replacement that turned a multi-week onboarding cycle into an audit-grade workflow.

Read the case study →
200+
LLCs onboarded
~150
Compliance variables
1,000+
SPVs supported

Fits into the stack you already run

We do not ask firms to migrate. We build AI compliance software and operational layers on top of the RIA software and fund administration software you already run — AI for Addepar, Orion, Black Diamond, Tamarac, SS&C, Allvue, Salesforce, Wealthbox, and Redtail. Your CRM stays the relationship system, your PA stays the portfolio system, and the AI lives in the seams between them.

CRM & client data

  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Wealthbox
  • Redtail
  • Affinity
  • Custom CRM

Portfolio & accounting

  • Addepar
  • Orion
  • Black Diamond
  • Tamarac
  • SS&C
  • Allvue

Compliance & docs

  • ComplySci
  • MyComplianceOffice
  • DocuSign
  • iManage
  • NetDocuments
  • Drive

Workflow & data

  • Custodian APIs
  • Plaid
  • n8n
  • Slack
  • Vector DB
  • Airtable

How we think about AI inside a financial services firm

01

AI is operational infrastructure.

Not a feature, not a chatbot, not a magic button on a marketing page. The work it does is the same work your staff has always done — moved into a system where it runs reliably.

02

Accuracy is the floor.

Financial services is a regulated, audited business. If a system is not measurably more accurate than your current process, we do not ship it. We measure, calibrate, and disclose drift to compliance.

03

Operational fit beats novelty.

The best AI system is the one that disappears into the firm's actual workflow. If staff have to change how they work to use it, it is the wrong system.

04

Humans stay in the loop on advice and execution.

Suitability, allocation, trade execution, KYC sign-off, attestations — all go through a licensed human. The AI prepares, drafts, and surfaces.

Questions,
answered.

The stuff we hear most on the first call. Don't see yours? Book a 30-minute conversation.

How long does AI implementation take for an RIA or fund administrator?
A first system — typically KYC/onboarding or reporting assembly — is in production inside 4 to 8 weeks. We start with a workflow audit, ship a single high-leverage system end-to-end, and only then expand.
What is involved in implementing AI compliance software at a financial services firm?
A weekly working session with the CCO, COO, or head of ops, async access to advisors or analysts for workflow questions, and read-only credentials into the systems we are integrating with. No new platform to learn until the system is live.
How is client and investor data protected with AI?
Data stays inside your existing systems. We do not store firm data in our infrastructure. Models we use are configured to not retain prompts, access is scoped per role and per entity, and audit trails are written to your CRM, PA, and compliance system.
How accurate is AI in audit-grade financial services?
Every system has a human checkpoint at the regulated decision — submitting a KYC, sending a statement, attesting a disclosure, executing a trade. The AI surfaces and drafts; a licensed person accepts. Every AI write is timestamped, attributed, and reversible so SOC 2 and SEC examinations see a clean trail.
Does AI replace your RIA software or fund administration software?
No. Your CRM, portfolio accounting, custody — all stay systems of record. We build on top of them. The operational layer is additive.
How much does AI for financial services cost?
Fixed-fee for the initial audit and the first system. Retainer for ongoing operations, optimization, and additional systems. We do not bill hourly for AI work — outcomes, not seat time.
What is the best KYC software for fund administrators?
There is no single best KYC software for fund administrators — most firms run KYC on top of a CRM, a document management system, and a custodian portal, with manual coordination between them. The bigger leverage is not switching tools but adding AI KYC automation that orchestrates the existing systems: conversational intake, document parsing, sanctions and PEP screening, and audit-grade evidence packets, all written back to your CRM and compliance system of record.
How does AI work with Addepar, Orion, or other portfolio systems?
We build AI for Addepar, Orion, Black Diamond, Tamarac, SS&C, Allvue, and most modern portfolio accounting systems — using API access and structured data exports where the system supports it. The AI reads positions, attribution, and performance data to assemble client reports and answer cross-system queries. We do not replace the portfolio system. It stays the system of record.
What does compliance automation actually automate?
Compliance automation handles the recurring, evidenced work that consumes a CCO's quarter — distributing disclosures and attestations, tracking responses, escalating non-compliance, archiving evidence per cycle, and running trade and communications surveillance against pattern signals. Every regulated decision — approving a disclosure, attesting a policy, closing a cycle, escalating to SIU — stays under the CCO. The AI surfaces, drafts, and routes. A licensed person signs.

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