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AI workforce for Financial Advisors Operations

AI agents for financial advisor operations teams

Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the platforms and portals your advisory operations team already uses, from chasing every case by hand to a daily status digest.

Operations teams in advisory firms get back the hours lost to provider chasing, pack building, and file checks.

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30 hrssaved on avg per person / month
$1,260avg saved per person / month
29avg scheduled jobs a week
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How it works

AI Employees for Financial Advisors Operations in 4 simple steps

  1. Manual Time

    We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.

  2. Actionist Automations

    We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.

  3. Your Benefits

    How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.

  4. Easy to use

    We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.

01

Where you spend your time

Why Financial Advisors Operations teams switch

We know how your week actually goes

A case stalls because a ceding valuation never arrived, not because the advice was wrong. Your operations team spends the week between provider portals, the CRM, and the client file, keeping a dozen cases honest.

Actionist agents do the chasing, gathering, and checking, and hand every pack and every list to a person. They never write a recommendation and never decide suitability.

What matters to you
  • Every case has a next step and an owner
    Transfers and applications are checked each morning, so nothing sits unchased for a fortnight.
  • Paraplanners start from a complete pack
    Factsheets, existing plan data, and illustrations are gathered before the report is opened.
  • Client files stand up to a compliance sample
    Signed terms, ID, and ongoing service evidence are checked before anyone asks for them.
  • Tax year end does not become a scramble
    Unused ISA and pension allowance is listed by client weeks before 5 April, not on the 4th.
  • Models stay within tolerance
    Drift is listed for the adviser or committee to action, with current and target weights side by side.
  • Built around your back office
    These are examples of what an operations agent can do. Build a custom agent for any job you repeat.

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 Operations team's day.

The problem

Where the hours go

  • A transfer sits for three weeks because nobody noticed the ceding scheme never sent the valuation, and checking Origo Options and four provider portals every morning is the first thing dropped on a busy day.

    An agent reads every open case across your portals each morning, logs the stage, and prepares a chase for any case that has not moved in seven working days, for the case manager to approve.

  • The paraplanner opens a new case and spends the first morning hunting for factsheets, old plan charges, and the illustration, so the suitability report starts late before a word is written.

    An agent assembles the source pack and fills the report data sheet from the file, so the paraplanner starts from a complete set and writes the report themselves.

  • Compliance asks for ten files to sample and each is missing something, a signed terms page, an ID refresh, a delivery date, that nobody could see until now.

    An agent checks every file against the onboarding list on a schedule and lists the gaps by adviser, so files are complete before they are sampled.

  • Early March arrives and nobody knows which clients still have ISA allowance or pension carry-forward room, so the tax-year-end list is built in a panic across three spreadsheets.

    An agent keeps a running allowance tracker from platform and CRM data and produces the year-end list weeks ahead, for advisers to decide who to contact.

02

Actionist Will Automate

Anatomy of an automation

What one automation looks like

Trigger·Every weekday morning before the provider portals get busy
Trigger
Step 1
Actionist
Schedule fires each weekday at 08:15, before the case managers start
read
Step 2
Actionist
Open each live application and transfer in the provider portals and read its current stage
Confirmation
Step 5
Human
You review the stalled cases and approve which provider chases go out
Saved per run
40 min
Runs / week
~1×
Stalled cases are caught the week they stall, not when a client asks where their money is
A week in the life

A week with your Financial Advisors Operations agents

29Scheduled jobs
6Agents at work
24/7Always on
Agents
Mon–Wed
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Apps

Some of the apps for your Financial Advisors Operations team

Some of the operations apps your agent works in for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.

Triggers

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.

WhenA ceding provider returns a valuationfires within about a minute
The agent automatically

When a valuation lands in the shared inbox or case folder, the agent reads it within about a minute, records the value and valuation date on the case sheet, files it under the right client, and notes whether it is inside the practice's validity window. The paraplanner is told in Slack and decides what it means for the case.

Receives this trigger from
What it automates

Use cases for this team

03

Your benefits

Manual vs agent

Where the time goes back

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Case management
    150 min / week
    Tour of provider portals

    Someone opens Origo Options and each provider portal in turn, reading stages from screens and typing them into the tracker, and the last portal is rarely reached on a busy day.

    Case management Agent
    0 min
    Agent reads every portal each morning

    An agent reads each live case, logs the stage on the tracker, and highlights changes, so the case manager starts on the exceptions.

  • Client files
    90 min / week
    KYC refresh from memory

    Refresh dates live in someone's calendar and ID expiry is only noticed when the file is pulled for a review, so refreshes arrive late and in a rush.

    Client files Agent
    0 min
    Agent lists refreshes weeks ahead

    An agent reads dates from the CRM, lists clients due by adviser, and drafts the request for approval, so refreshes are planned, not chased.

  • Paraplanning
    180 min / week
    Hunting for source documents

    The paraplanner collects factsheets, old plan charges, and the illustration from five places before writing a single line of the report.

    Paraplanning Agent
    0 min
    Agent assembles the pack

    An agent gathers the documents, fills the data sheet from the file, and indexes the pack, so the paraplanner starts at the analysis.

  • Portfolio admin
    120 min / week
    Spreadsheet drift check

    Drift is checked when someone has time, comparing holdings to model weights by eye across platforms, so an account can sit outside tolerance for weeks.

    Portfolio admin Agent
    0 min
    Agent lists drift weekly

    An agent compares every account to its model weekly and lists those outside the band with current and target weights for sign-off.

  • Compliance
    110 min / week
    Scramble before a file sample

    When the sample is announced, files are searched one by one for the missing terms page, delivery date, or review note.

    Compliance Agent
    0 min
    Agent checks files on a schedule

    An agent checks files against the onboarding list weekly and lists gaps by adviser, so a sampled file is already complete.

+ 100s of other automations
Average monthly
28 hrs / person / month
ROI

What that's worth

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
3 people
Hourly rate
$42 / hr
Hours saved / week
21
Hours saved / year
1,050
Annual ROI
$44,100

Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~7 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

04

How easy it is to use

Automatic onboarding

We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.

From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.

  1. Step 1

    Enter your website

    • We'll research your business
    • Automatically configure everything for you
    Try the demo
  2. Step 2

    Actionist Auto

    Optional
    • Watches you work
    • Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
    Get the extension
  3. Step 3

    Marketplace

    • Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
    • Pre-configured by other users
    Browse the App Store
  4. Step 4

    Invite your team

    • We'll automatically onboard them too
    • Focus on the things that matter
    Open Actionist

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See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.

Trust & control

You stay in control

An agent touching client files, provider cases, and regulatory records only earns trust if you stay in control. Actionist lets you see everything it touched, approve anything that leaves the firm, and keep every record it creates.

Provider and client sends wait for approval

Every chase, request, and refresh notice is drafted and queued for sign-off. Nothing reaches a provider or client unless you widen that autonomy yourself.

The agent prepares, your people decide

Suitability, recommendations, and compliance judgements stay with advisers and your compliance lead. Packs and lists inform them and never replace them.

A full audit trail of every action

Each case read, figure extracted, and draft created is logged with a timestamp, so you can show what was done, when, and on whose approval.

Your client data stays yours

Client and case data is encrypted and never used to train any model. Self-host on your own VPS if everything must stay on your infrastructure.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does my operations team need to be technical to use Actionist?
No. You describe the job in plain English, for example check every open transfer each morning and list the stalled ones, and connect the tools your team already uses. Nobody needs to write code or learn a developer tool.
How do I get started with an operations agent for my advisory firm?
Book a free demo, connect the CRM, shared drive, and one provider portal, and start with a single job such as the morning case sweep. Add the paraplanning pack and file checks once the first agent is trusted.
How do I make a customised AI agent for how our back office actually works?
Describe the job, the apps it touches, and when it should run, and Actionist builds the agent for you to review. The agents shown here are examples, so build one for your own transfer, file, or return process.
How quickly can I set up an operations agent?
A first agent, such as the morning case sweep, can be running the same day once your CRM and drive are connected. Portal-based jobs take a little longer because each needs a login you approve.
Where does our client and case data live, and is it used to train AI models?
Your data is encrypted and is never used to train any model. Agents read only the files and portals you connect, every action is logged, and you can self-host on your own VPS if client data must stay in-house.
How can an agent check Origo Options and provider portals that have no API?
Actionist operates the screen like a person would, reading the stage on each case and logging it. Computer use runs in the cloud, so the agent works in the same portals your team uses.
Will an agent write to a provider or client without my seeing it first?
No. Chases, Letters of Authority, and refresh requests are drafted and queued for your approval by default. They only go out after a person approves them, unless you choose to widen autonomy in Approval Modes.
Could an agent make a suitability call or write the report?
No. Agents gather source documents, fill data sheets from the file, and flag gaps. The recommendation, the suitability judgement, and every sign-off remain with your advisers, paraplanners, and compliance lead.
Is this replacing our paraplanners and case managers?
No. It takes over the chasing, gathering, and checking that crowd out their real work. Your people spend the saved hours on analysis, client cases, and judgement calls an agent should never make.
Get started

See an agent chase a stalled transfer and build the case pack

Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent read your provider cases, list the stalled ones, and prepare a paraplanning pack, ready for your approval.