It appears that the wealth management industry’s verdict on artificial intelligence is at least partially in.
Welcome to another Advisor Tech Talk, where once again we’ll talk a little bit about the goings on in wealth management before swinging into a big list of headlines.
Actually, buried within our headlines this week is evidence of what we’d like to talk about regarding AI and wealth. We’ll draw your attention to data from Docupace and Jump (within an item from Asset-map) regarding the amount of time saved last year using specific AI-infused wealth management tools.
Of course, companies tend to cherry-pick the best data when they’re blowing their own horns, but there’s at least some evidence being reported that yes, AI is a problem solver. It’s also a time saver.
Which means, at some point, the technology should come out as a money saver, too, for wealth management firms.
Right, at least, for the right kind of wealth management firms using the right kind of technology. For the time being, at least, AI-infused wealthtech isn’t going to be any more “one-size-fits-all” or “all-in-one” than non-AI wealthtech was.
Which is why statistics from the Jumps and Docupaces of the world—both of which seem to be great companies, by the way—can be both true and a little misleading for financial advisors at the same time.
They’re not telling us the story of everyone’s experience, or everyone’s potential experience, with a technology. It’s the story of firms and advisors who have already found a match and selected a technology provider. It’s also a story of due diligence, proper implementation and ongoing support. Probability suggests that we’re receiving results biased towards success stories, an optimistic view of AI wealthtech, which, if you’re marketing your software, is what you want.
And, in fact, if you look across wealth management journalism, the one thing missing from wealthtech coverage in general is negativity. We write regularly about wealth managers who run afoul of the law, state and federal regulators, and industry regulators.
There isn’t really much about technology screwing things up, is there?
Surely, an enterprising reporter at one of our trade publications could write a story about technology gone wrong—where a firm selected technology that was a bad fit, or failed in an attempt to develop its own technology.
Surely there are stories about failed or bad relationships between wealthtech providers and wealth management firms, or issues with substandard service and support, or broken integrations beyond the pap wealthtechs offer up in their press releases. Surely there are more stories about hacks and breaches—and near misses—that someone out there wants to talk about.
From the other side, surely there are stories out there about wealth managers and advisors so technologically inept that they are a danger to their clients, co-workers and firms, not to mention their wealthtech partners.
Schwab says advisor AI use has doubled since 2023. Surely someone is screwing it up royally.
Yet wealthtech news is like weather forecasts that predict nothing but sunny days. Are we to expect that everything with wealth management technology going right?
Let’s get to your headlines.
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Advyzon
Advyzon Investment Management (AIM), a seamlessly integrated unified investment solutions platform through the comprehensive wealthtech platform Advyzon, announced an exciting new relationship with Schwab Asset Management®, offering Wasmer Schroeder® Strategies, a provider of a broad host of portfolio strategies across the duration, credit, and tax-efficiency spectrum. Schwab Asset Management and its Wasmer Schroeder Strategies will be the first fixed income focused strategist available in AIM’s Manager Traded Strategy program.
As the first manager traded strategies available on AIM’s Nucleus Model Marketplace, Schwab Asset Management will manage the day-to-day trading. The AIM investment team currently builds and trades individual bond strategies, but the Wasmer Schroeder Strategies will be AIM’s first actively managed strategies by an outside fixed income manager.
In addition, Schwab Model Portfolios, including Core Enhanced ETF and Passive-Active strategies, are available within Nucleus. Schwab Model Portfolios are designed to be straightforward, transparent, and easy to understand. Leveraging Schwab Asset Management’s ABC asset allocation framework, they use a behavior-based approach to encourage positive investor behavior and help clients stay invested through all types of markets.
Aithon
Aithon today announced the launch of its AI native go-to-market (GTM) platform purpose built for revenue teams at regulated financial services companies including in FinTech, InsurTech and Enterprise Technology. Aithon’s proprietary RevenueGPS solution enables tech companies selling into banks and insurers to identify expansion opportunities (“whitespace”), prioritize the right accounts and buying centers, and execute faster. All data, insights and agent actions are backed by traceable evidence and a financial services domain layer that understands how regulated buyers make decisions.
Aithon’s proprietary IntelliMatch algorithm builds a customer context graph bringing together a company’s first-party GTM data and external financial services signals. The context graph is enhanced by a combination of financial services datasets, workflows and agents. Traceability comes built-in with enterprise-grade controls designed for regulated environments.
Aithon’s domain layer is backed by the Aithon Expert Network – a human network of fintech industry experts who are training its AI to understand the nuances of selling Fintech solutions. Aithon’s list of fintech industry experts is growing and already covers solutions like Anti Money Laundering, Fraud, Lending, Payments, Banking, Insurance Underwriting, Insurance Claims, Asset Management, and Wealth Management.
Allvue Systems
Allvue Systems, LLC (“Allvue”), a leading software technology provider for the private capital markets, today announced its first customer win for its newly launched document extraction product, Allvue Document IQ, with leading investment firm BC Partners. The solution streamlines portfolio monitoring and financial spreading by combining AI-enabled data extraction technology with human-in-the-loop quality assurance, delivered as a fully managed service.
Allvue Document IQ is powered by an array of best-in-class document extraction AI technology providers, starting with an integration with Claira for financial document spreading. It addresses a core challenge for investment firms, whose analysts often spend a significant amount of time manually entering data from various sources into their systems. This fundamental but labor-intensive process slows decision-making, increases the risk of manual errors, and diverts valuable team focus from business-critical operations. Now, the seamless integration of AI-powered document extraction technology across the Allvue platform means firms like BC Partners can transform raw documentation into refined, actionable data without leaving their existing workflows—shortening reporting cycles, enhancing transparency, and driving operational efficiency.
To support this transformation, Allvue has strengthened its senior leadership team with the strategic hire of Brad Small as Head of Product for Credit. He brings over two decades of institutional finance and fintech leadership to the role. A veteran of JP Morgan, Bear Stearns, and ING, Brad most recently served as a Fixed Income Product Manager at Millennium, where he streamlined software development across the trade lifecycle. At Allvue, Brad will leverage his deep expertise in fixed income, credit trading systems, and enterprise data to drive product innovation and excellence.
Apex Fintech Solutions
Apex Fintech Solutions Inc. (“Apex”), an innovation launchpad for the global investing ecosystem, today announced the launch of its Apex AI Suite featuring one of the first Agentic Development Kits (ADK) in the clearing and custody industry. This revolutionary tool accelerates developer integration with the AscendOS™ clearing, custody, and trading platform through natural language commands – enabling engineers to ramp up more quickly while empowering non-technical users to build and test proof-of-concepts. The result: wealth platform prototypes that can potentially be developed in days rather than the weeks typically required for traditional integration approaches.
The ADK operates alongside Ask Ascend, Apex’s established AI assistant launched in 2025. Together, they form the developer and builder-focused foundation of the overarching Apex AI Suite. This release marks the first step in Apex’s strategy to embed AI across additional use cases in the future and transforms the custodial platform evaluation from a process reserved for engineers into a hands-on experience for product managers, executives, and business stakeholders.
The ADK is one of the first comprehensive AI-powered toolkits in the clearing and custody industry. It bundles AscendOS API references, guides, code samples, SDKs, and knowledge base into downloadable files that integrate directly into a developer’s terminal or IDE, providing complete AscendOS context while giving users flexibility to work through the Developer Portal or their preferred development environment. This abstraction makes it easier for non-technical users to download and get started quickly.
Asset-Map
Asset-Map Holdings, Inc. (“Asset-Map”), the premier visual financial planning conversation tool for advisors, today announced its new integration with Jump, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for financial advisors and other financial services providers. This is one of Asset-Map’s first AI integrations; the partnership with Jump and AI notetakers will expand in the coming year.
As a result of the integration, mutual users can leverage Jump’s AI technology to capture and process client meetings, automatically extracting prioritized insights and intelligently suggesting updates within the Asset-Map household framework. This closes the gap between what’s said in meetings and what gets acted on, keeping household maps current, compliant and conversation-ready.
According to a recent Jump financial advisor survey, more than 60 percent of users save over one hour every single workday from utilizing its capabilities, reclaiming more than 250 hours annually. With over 90 percent of advisors reporting that automated post-meeting notes significantly reduced their workload, half are now using that time to deliver more services to clients.
Docupace
Docupace, the premier provider of back-office software to streamline operations of wealth management enterprises and financial advisors, today announced that its AI-enabled client data gathering and onboarding platform, PreciseFP, and its workflow automation operating system, Hubly, delivered unprecedented impact on advisor productivity and client engagement in 2025, collectively eliminating greater than 200,000 hours of manual tasks and automating roughly 4 million tasks across the wealth management industry.
According to newly released year-end statistics, PreciseFP saved 198,012 hours in 2025, the equivalent of $29.7 million in productivity gains — by automating client data collection and eliminating redundant manual entry across more than 400,000 client accounts. This represents a 28% increase.
Industry research indicates that financial advisors spend approximately 28% of their time on administrative tasks rather than client-facing activities. Much of this burden stems from the tedious process of capturing client information across multiple touchpoints, then manually rekeying that data into various systems like CRMs, portfolio management platforms, financial planning software and custodial systems.
FINNY
FINNY Inc. (“FINNY”), the AI-powered prospecting and marketing platform built specifically for financial advisors, today announced a new relationship with Osaic, Inc. (“Osaic”), one of the nation’s largest providers of wealth management strategies.
Osaic has made FINNY’s prospecting technology available to its more than 270 financial institutions and 11,000 financial professionals. With over $700 billion in assets under administration (AUA) and one of the largest advisor networks in the United States, Osaic’s financial professionals will now be able to leverage FINNY’s technology to accelerate organic growth by tracking life events, powering personalized, automated outreach and reducing the manual work associated with prospecting — increasing client acquisition while reducing time and effort.
Through this relationship, Osaic’s advisors gain access to FINNY’s advanced data intelligence and automation to help them prioritize and engage high-intent prospects. Alongside FINNY’s predictive F-Score matching engine, advisors can utilize FINNY’s Intent Search, which leverages 1.8 billion daily-updated intent signals to identify prospects based on real-time online activity, and Multi-Channel Campaigns, which enables fully automated outreach across LinkedIn, email, voicemail and direct mail. Together, these tools give advisors a cohesive prospecting engine that accelerates organic growth.
Focal
Focal, the AI-powered productivity platform purpose-built for financial advisors and enterprise wealth teams, today announces an integration with Shaping Wealth, the leading provider of behavioral science-based learning and engagement solutions for the wealth management industry. The integration brings Shaping Wealth’s research-backed behavioral coaching directly into Focal’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered meeting workflow platform, enabling advisors and teams to receive structured, actionable insights across all client conversations, upleveling the performance of every Focal advisor.
While AI meeting assistants have gained widespread use among wealth managers, many tools lack insights that can improve advisor performance. Focal’s integration with Shaping Wealth provides actionable behavioral intelligence scaled through original AI agents, enabling Focal to go beyond AI note-taking and meeting prep. For the first time, research-guided AI agents have been embedded into advisor workflows to deliver real-time behavior-based personalized coaching for individual advisors and team-level insights for management. This partnership will help individual advisors prospect more effectively, improve conversion of AUM across existing clients and build deeper trust with better scenario-specific questions that more effectively guide clients through complex financial decisions. Management teams gain centralized visibility into team-wide performance, with trend insights, sentiment tracking and precise callouts on in-meeting talking points to systematically improve results.
By analyzing behavioral patterns across meetings, leadership teams can better understand what top-performing advisors do differently, identify coaching opportunities at scale and match training initiatives with client needs.
InspereX
InspereX, the tech-driven distributor of fixed income, structured products, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and alternative investments, today announced the addition of three senior sales professionals to its RIA and Private Markets teams, further strengthening the firm’s national coverage model and positioning the platform for continued expansion in 2026.
Bob Graziano and Samantha Murphy have been named Vice Presidents, RIA Sales, reporting to Brandon Laczkowski, Managing Director and Head of RIA Sales.
Additionally, Daniel Church has been appointed Regional Vice President, Private Markets Solutions, reporting to Mark Whyman, Managing Director, Private Markets Solutions, and will support advisors across all of InspereX’s distribution channels.
Laserfiche
Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management — today announced major enhancements to its AI-powered data extraction tool, Smart Fields. The update introduces automated document classification and tagging, allowing organizations to move from unstructured content to informed decisions in seconds.
Using natural language prompts instead of rigid, ruled-based OCR, Smart Fields can now identify document type — such as invoices, taxpayer identification forms, or student transcripts — and automatically apply the correct metadata template using AI. Users can also use Smart Fields to automatically add informational and security tags to files that meet certain criteria, defined using a natural language prompt. Users can capture key details, route documents, and apply the proper metadata tags instantly and at scale.
Traditional capture methods often require specialized technical knowledge and complex configuration. Laserfiche Smart Fields, first launched in 2025, eliminates this barrier by allowing users to describe the data they need using natural language.
PPB Capital Partners
PPB Capital Partners, a leading alternative investment platform that connects wealth advisors to private markets solutions, announced a major enhancement to PIX — the Private Investments Exchange, PPB’s technology platform. This enhancement to PIX allows advisors to explore, transact, and monitor private market strategies clearly and efficiently. Advisors will gain access starting next month and will experience a significantly upgraded digital environment as PIX transitions to its new underlying technology provider, Delio.
With the rapid evolution of technology in alternatives, many providers and competitors have made significant investments to meet advisors’ expectations. PPB has done the same—but in a way that is strategic, efficient, and cost-effective, delivering state-of-the-art technology without sacrificing quality or service.
Built on the foundation of PPB’s 2024 technology portal rebrand, PIX delivers a modern, efficient, and transparent alternative investing experience. The enhancements allow PPB to remain nimble in a rapidly changing tech landscape, enabling the firm to leverage advanced, enterprise-grade infrastructure like Delio — a partner that delivers fully configurable, white-label, modular technology and gives clients complete control over their private markets offering. This move exemplifies PPB’s ability to pivot quickly to meet advisors’ evolving needs.
TIFIN
TIFIN Give, the modern donor-advised fund platform designed for wealth organizations to drive growth through philanthropy, today announced a new partnership with SEI® to deliver a white-labeled donor-advised fund (DAF) solution to SEI’s bank and affiliated wealth clients. This collaboration expands on SEI’s 2024 strategic investment in TIFIN to advance innovation and growth across the industry.
Through the partnership, TIFIN Give serves as a solution provider for SEI, powering a digital, branded charitable giving experience that banks and trust organizations offer directly to their clients. Purpose-built for banks and trust operating models, TIFIN Give combines a branded donor experience with end-to-end administration and investment flexibility in a single platform. The solution enables SEI’s network of bank, affiliated wealth, and independent trust companies to launch proprietary charitable funds under their own brand with streamlined onboarding, grantmaking, and reporting workflows built for day-to-day operations.
Many bank and trust organizations have seen charitable assets migrate outside their ecosystem to large national providers due to the absence of a modern, in-house DAF offering. This partnership addresses that gap by giving banks a turnkey solution that allows them to retain assets, deepen client relationships, and engage the next generation through philanthropy.
TradingBlock
Online broker TradingBlock today announced that prominent data scientist Michael “Dr. Data” Rechenthin, PhD, has joined the company as Chief Innovation Officer to lead the firm’s AI, big-data analytics and quantitative research initiatives, and the advancement of its customizable online trading platform.
Rechenthin, who brings more than a decade of experience at the intersection of trading and technology, has been tapped to design and build transformative systems for idea generation and research, execution, trade, and portfolio analytics. He will develop new data science models to power TradingBlock’s internal dashboards, enhancing customer service and operational transparency.
Rechenthin will also serve as a conference speaker and leading contributor to TradingBlock’s weekly data-driven market research newsletter, “The Strike Zone.”
Transient.AI
Transient.AI, a fast-growing AI platform for capital markets, has selected the Arango AI Data Platform as its AI data infrastructure to power explainable, real-time intelligence for hedge funds, asset managers, and investment banks. The decision underpins Transient.AI’s Declarative AI Operating System, enabling financial institutions to model complex market relationships and automate decision-making while maintaining full transparency into how AI-driven outcomes are produced.
By unifying data models and preserving shared context within a single platform, Transient.AI can deliver deeper market intelligence while significantly reducing the time required to deploy and scale AI-driven capabilities.
As hedge funds and asset managers accelerate the adoption of AI, they are under increasing pressure from regulators, investors, and internal risk teams to ensure that AI-driven decisions are not only accurate, but also explainable and governable. Traditional data architectures—often built around siloed systems and linear analysis—are struggling to meet these demands at institutional scale.
Wealth.com
Wealth.com, the modern planning platform for wealth management firms, today announced the launch of Wealth.com Tax Planning, a next-generation solution that unifies tax planning, estate strategy and execution workflows within a single platform for advisors. The announcement was made during the keynote address at Wealth.com’s inaugural EstateCon, delivered to a sold-out in-person audience and more than 1,000 virtual attendees nationwide.
As advisors navigate increasingly complex client lives, including multi-state residency, concentrated equity, Qualified Small Business stock considerations, advanced trusts, evolving tax legislation and multigenerational planning needs, fragmented tools and disconnected workflows have struggled to keep pace. Wealth.com Tax Planning is designed to close this gap by connecting tax strategy, legal intent and execution inside one integrated system.
Wealth.com Tax Planning enables advisors to model forward-looking tax strategies while understanding their downstream impact on estate outcomes, gifting capacity, charitable planning and long-term family legacy. Rather than optimizing for a single tax year, the platform connects tax decisions to multigenerational outcomes.
Wealth.com
Capital Financial Partners, LLC, a private wealth management firm based in Baltimore, today announced the launch of a new estate planning service offering through its relationship with Wealth.com, a leading digital estate planning platform.
Through this new offering, Capital Financial Partners clients will have access to Wealth.com’s technology-driven platform, which is designed to help individuals and families create, organize, and update essential estate planning documents in collaboration with licensed attorneys. Capital Financial Partners does not provide legal advice or practice law; rather, the firm facilitates access to Wealth.com as part of its growing capabilities and service offering.
The addition of this service reflects Capital Financial Partners’ ongoing commitment to helping clients address the full scope of their financial lives, including legacy and wealth transfer planning, in a more streamlined and coordinated manner.
Zephyr
Zephyr, a subsidiary of Informa plc (LSE: INF), and a recognized leader in asset and wealth management software has entered into a strategic partnership with Aapryl to provide investment professionals with sophisticated tools, isolating the impact of active investment decisions, distinguishing true skill from market-driven performance, and delivering factor-based analysis trusted by institutional investors.
Aapryl’s Manager Skills Reporting is located on the Zephyr dashboard and leverages a proprietary regression methodology and portfolio replication technique that allows asset managers can present clear, quantifiable evidence of their value-add beyond market exposure.
With features such as style analysis, clone portfolio creation, and factor-based insights, Aapryl is transforming the way asset managers craft compelling narratives that resonate with investors.
Zocks
Zocks, the privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors, today announced it has raised $45 million in Series B funding co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, along with participation from Illuminate Financial and all existing investors, including Motive Partners, Expanse Venture Partners, Entrée Capital, and 14Peaks Capital. The round brings total funding for Zocks to $65 million, and follows its $13.8 million Series A in March 2025.
With the new funding, Zocks will continue to expand its agentic AI capabilities beyond automating administrative work. It can help advisors identify new planning opportunities across their entire book of business and act on them faster by suggesting what to do next, based on contextual insights.
Additional investments will scale the company’s enterprise capabilities through expanded integrations, security, and compliance features. Zocks will also deepen its enterprise-level capabilities, enabling every firm to use agentic AI to better understand its customers and business.
