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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.

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Strategy

Is your tech strategy actually right? Let's check.

A lot of firms have a technology roadmap on paper. It doesn't reflect where they're actually headed, what they can actually execute, or what the market is demanding right now. That misalignment is expensive.

Aplodex sits down with your leadership team, digs into your current strategy, stress-tests the assumptions, and helps you 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 know how to translate between what's technically possible and what's actually strategically valuable.

This is the conversation you should be having 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
FAQ

Frequently Asked

What firms ask before they engage Aplodex.

What does technology advisory mean for a wealth management firm?
Technology advisory at Aplodex means helping the firm decide what to build, buy, or rip out next, then helping them actually do it. The work spans roadmap design, AI governance, vendor evaluation, integration architecture, hiring the right technology leadership, and running platform conversions. The focus is firms in the $500M to $20B AUM range and broker-dealers of similar scale, where the technology spend is large enough to matter 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, the firm is integrating an acquisition, the firm wants to move from spreadsheets and manual workflows into a unified CRM and automation layer, or the firm needs to stand up an AI program with the right governance to satisfy compliance. Aplodex is engaged most often at the inflection points where the existing team has done their best but needs senior outside perspective and execution help.
What does AI governance for financial services involve?
It involves writing the AI policy the firm will actually follow, defining the roles (AI risk owner, model owner, business owner), setting the meeting cadence and decision logs, building a model inventory, defining escalation paths, and aligning all of it to NIST AI Risk Management Framework and where relevant the EU AI Act. The deliverable is a governance program a regulator can understand and the firm can actually run, not a binder that sits on a shelf.
How do you integrate Salesforce Financial Services Cloud with custodial and portfolio systems?
By treating Salesforce FSC as the system of record for the relationship and the custodial or portfolio platform as the system of record for the data. Aplodex designs the integration patterns (cert-auth REST, Microsoft Graph, SFTP for batch where needed), maps the object models, defines the bidirectional sync logic, and builds the Salesforce Flow and middleware that keeps 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. Aplodex maps the data models on both sides, builds validation agents that flag discrepancies before they hit clients, automates the reconciliation work that normally drowns the ops team, and runs the cutover. Conversions Aplodex has worked through include Pershing, Fidelity, Schwab, LPL on the custodial side and Orion, Eclipse, Addepar on the portfolio side.
How should an RIA or broker-dealer get started with AI?
Start with governance, not models. Decide what categories of AI the firm will and will not use, who owns the risk, and how decisions get logged. Then identify the two or three workflows where AI moves the needle (often onboarding, document generation, billing, or M&A reconciliation), and pilot those with the governance program already in place. Aplodex helps firms get both halves right — the policy framework and the production pilots — so AI becomes a real operational lever instead of a demo that never ships.
Does Aplodex work with broker-dealers as well as RIAs?
Yes. Aplodex works 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?
Engagement pricing depends entirely on scope. Aplodex offers advisory retainers for ongoing strategic guidance, fixed-fee project work for defined deliverables, and hourly engagements for shorter discrete work. The Aplodex team scopes the engagement first based on what the firm actually needs, then prices it. The chat agent on this site can route a conversation to the team so the team can follow up with a tailored scope and quote.
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