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How we work with you

Four engagement areas. Pick where you are. We’ll show you what we do, who we do it for, and what you walk away with.

Strategy

Is your tech strategy right for where the firm is headed? Let's check.

A lot of firms have a technology roadmap on paper. It often doesn't match where they are headed, what they can execute, or what the market demands right now. That gap is expensive.

We sit down with your leadership team, dig into your current strategy, stress-test the assumptions, and build a roadmap that's honest about your capacity and clear on your priorities. We've built and presented technology roadmaps to executives and boards. We translate between what's technically possible and what's strategically valuable.

This is a conversation to have every year, not just when something breaks.

What you get

  • Strategy review and gap analysis
  • Roadmap evaluation
  • Vendor landscape analysis
  • Prioritization framework
  • Updated multi-year technology plan
  • Executive-ready presentation

Frequently asked questions

What firms ask before they work with us.

What does technology advisory mean for a wealth management firm?
Technology advisory means helping a firm decide what to build, buy, or rip out next, then helping them do it. The work spans roadmap design, AI governance, vendor evaluation, integration architecture, hiring technology leadership, and running platform conversions. We focus on firms in the $500M to $20B AUM range and broker-dealers of similar scale, where the technology spend is large but the in-house team is too lean to do everything.
When does an RIA need to bring in a technology consultant?
Usually when one of four things is happening: the firm is going through a custodial or portfolio platform conversion, it's integrating an acquisition, it wants to move from spreadsheets and manual workflows to a unified CRM and automation layer, or it needs to stand up an AI program with governance that satisfies compliance. We're brought in most often when the existing team has done its best and needs senior outside perspective and hands-on help.
What does AI governance for financial services involve?
We write the AI policy the firm will follow, define the roles (AI risk owner, model owner, business owner), set the meeting cadence and decision logs, build a model inventory, define escalation paths, and align all of it to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and, where relevant, the EU AI Act. The result is a governance program a regulator can understand and the firm can run.
How do you integrate Salesforce Financial Services Cloud with custodial and portfolio systems?
We treat Salesforce FSC as the system of record for the relationship and the custodial or portfolio platform as the system of record for the data. We design the integration patterns (cert-auth REST, Microsoft Graph, SFTP for batch where needed), map the object models, define the bidirectional sync logic, and build the Salesforce Flow and middleware that keep the two in sync. The firm sees one client record with accurate data, even though the data lives in multiple platforms.
What is involved in a platform conversion for an RIA?
A conversion is the orchestrated move of households, accounts, positions, performance history, and operational workflows from one platform to another. We map the data models on both sides, build validation agents that flag discrepancies before they reach clients, automate the reconciliation work that normally drowns the ops team, and run the cutover. We've worked on conversions involving Pershing, Fidelity, Schwab, and LPL on the custodial side and Orion, Eclipse, and Addepar on the portfolio side.
How should an RIA or broker-dealer get started with AI?
Start with governance. Decide what categories of AI the firm will and will not use, who owns the risk, and how decisions get logged. Then pick the two or three workflows where AI can help (often onboarding, document generation, billing, or M&A reconciliation) and pilot those with the governance program already in place. We help firms build both, the policy framework and the production pilots, so the pilots run with governance in place from day one.
Do you work with broker-dealers as well as RIAs?
Yes. We work with RIAs, hybrid firms, broker-dealers, asset managers, family offices, and multi-family offices. The technology fundamentals carry across, even though the regulatory environment and platform mix differ. Engagements range from advisory retainers for the leadership team to full implementation and conversion projects.
How are engagements priced?
Pricing depends on scope. I offer advisory retainers for ongoing strategic guidance, fixed-fee project work for defined deliverables, and hourly engagements for shorter discrete work. We scope the engagement first, based on what your firm needs, then price it. The chat agent on this site can pass your conversation to me, and I'll follow up with a scope and quote.
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