Part of our HR & People agents
AI agents for HR teams in financial advisors
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your advisory firm's HR team uses, from hand-checking adviser CVs and reference chasers to ready drafts for your approval.
Advisory firms get back the hours lost to screening, reference chasing, starter paperwork, and CPD spreadsheets.
AI Employees for Financial Advisors HR & People in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
A small advisory firm hires slowly and carefully, because one regulated adviser carries a client book and the firm's reputation with the FCA. That makes every vacancy a pile of qualification checks, reference requests, and paperwork on top of the interviewing.
Actionist agents prepare that pile: shortlists, check trackers, starter packs, and renewal reminders. Every draft waits for the hiring partner or compliance officer. The agent prepares, a person decides.
- Shortlists built against your adviser barCVs read against Level 4 Diploma, chartered status, and book experience, with the gaps noted for you.
- Regulatory references chased to the endEach request tracked until the former employer replies, so no hire starts with a missing reference.
- Starters ready before day oneRight-to-work, contract, access, and supervision plan tracked as one checklist per joiner.
- CPD and renewal dates never a surpriseHours logged against the annual target and membership renewals flagged weeks before they fall due.
- Probation and appraisal dates keptReview dates surfaced to managers with the notes already gathered, so reviews are not skipped at year-end.
- Leavers closed out cleanlyAccess, equipment, handover, and leaver references tracked from notice to last day.
And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..
An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Financial Advisors HR & People team's day.
Where the hours go
Each adviser vacancy buries the hiring partner in CVs that have to be checked one at a time for the diploma, chartered status, and book transferability, so shortlists arrive late and good candidates accept elsewhere.
An agent reads every application against the bar you set, looks the candidate up on the FCA Register, and drafts a ranked shortlist with the gaps noted, so the partner meets candidates rather than sorts the inbox.
Regulatory references and right-to-work documents trickle back over weeks, and nobody is sure which hire is still missing which piece when the start date approaches.
An agent keeps one tracker per candidate, drafts each chaser for approval, and flags any hire whose checks are incomplete as the start date nears, so nobody starts with a gap in their file.
Joiner paperwork repeats every time: contract, logins, compliance system login, supervision plan, and a welcome diary, each a separate email that someone has to remember to send.
An agent builds the joiner checklist when the offer is signed, drafts the access requests and welcome pack for your review, and posts the countdown to the people channel until day one.
CPD hours, SPS renewals, and annual certification dates live in a spreadsheet nobody updates until the deadline is a fortnight away, and a lapsed membership becomes the compliance officer's emergency.
An agent keeps the CPD and renewal sheet current from the certificates it finds, flags every date sixty days out, and assembles the annual certification pack for the compliance officer to review and sign.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Financial Advisors HR & People agents
Some of the apps for your Financial Advisors HR & People team
Some of the HR apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens
Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.
When an application lands in Recruitee or the careers inbox, the agent reads the CV, checks it against the diploma, chartered status, and experience bar the partner set, and logs the applicant with a fit note within about a minute. Borderline CVs are flagged for a person, and no reply goes to the candidate until you approve it.
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- HR & People160 min / weekScreening adviser CVs
Opening each application, hunting for the Level 4 Diploma and chartered status, then looking the candidate up on the FCA Register before the partner has asked who is worth meeting.
HR & People Agent0 minAgent reads and ranks CVsAn agent reads each CV against the bar the partner set, notes the qualification gaps, and drafts a ranked shortlist in the tracker for the partner to work from.
- HR & People90 min / weekChasing regulatory references
Remembering which former employers have been written to, and when, then re-emailing a firm's HR contact for the third time as the start date nears.
HR & People Agent0 minAgent tracks each request to the replyAn agent logs every request by firm and date, drafts the chaser when a reply is late, and gives the compliance officer a summary of each reference that arrives.
- HR & People120 min / weekSetting up a new starter
Rebuilding the joiner list from memory every time: contract, logins, compliance system login, supervision plan, welcome diary, each emailed separately.
HR & People Agent0 minAgent builds the checklist and drafts the emailsAn agent creates the starter record when the offer is signed, drafts the welcome pack and access requests for approval, and posts the countdown to Slack until day one.
- HR & People75 min / weekTracking CPD and renewals
Chasing certificates by email, updating a spreadsheet at year-end, and discovering a membership lapsed because nobody looked at the date.
HR & People Agent0 minAgent keeps the log and flags renewals earlyAn agent files each certificate, updates every adviser's hours against the annual target, and flags renewals sixty days ahead to the adviser and the compliance officer.
- HR & People70 min / weekLeave and probation admin
Copying holiday requests into the shared calendar, checking them against the year-end crunch, and working out from start dates whose probation ends this month.
HR & People Agent0 minAgent flags clashes and review datesAn agent compares requests with the 5 April crunch, lists clashes by week, and reminds each manager of probation reviews with the feedback gathered so far.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
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See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
An agent working with candidate and staff records only earns trust if you stay in control. Configure it so you approve anything that reaches a candidate or colleague, and so you can see what it touched.
Use Ask each time for anything addressed to a candidate, referee, or colleague. Chasers, offer drafts, and welcome packs stay as drafts until you approve them.
Hiring, pay, offers, probation outcomes, and fit and proper judgements stay with the partners and the compliance officer. A tracker showing complete is not a regulatory sign-off.
Removing access, closing a starter record, or marking a leaver complete stops for explicit approval, whatever autonomy you have granted elsewhere.
Every record the agent read and every draft it made is logged. Staff data is encrypted, never used to train AI models, and can be self-hosted on your own VPS.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my HR team need to be technical to use Actionist?
How do I get started with an HR agent for my advisory firm?
How do I make a customised AI agent for how my firm actually hires and onboards?
How quickly can I set up an HR agent for my practice?
Where does our candidate and staff data live, and is it used to train AI models?
How does an agent work with an HR system or portal that has no API?
Will the agent email a candidate or a former employer without me seeing it first?
Could an agent make a regulatory mistake, such as passing a bad reference?
Is this replacing our office manager or HR lead?
See an agent turn a stack of adviser CVs into a ranked shortlist
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent screen applicants against your qualification bar, track the reference chase, and draft a joiner pack for your approval.