It’s always nice when financial advisor technology surprises us—and it certainly did so this week.
See, we’re in what we consider the mid-summer news doldrums, and our recent AI & Finance newsletter saw a slowdown in headlines and commentary regarding financial artificial intelligence—this comes after what seems to be at least a year of financial AI being hotter news than wealthtech.
This week, we got a lot of wealthtech news, along a few dominant themes.
Unsurprisingly, first and foremost comes artificial intelligence, where we saw the launch of new tools by technology companies as wealth managers themselves began to remake AI-infused technology stacks from the ground up rather than continuing to bolt on AI-related tools. The sense we get here at DWN is that some of the wealthtech the industry still embraces has become obsolete, and new solutions are beginning to displace incumbents.
A few other themes you’ll see below have become familiar to wealth management in recent years: Consolidation of the industry. Tokenization of financial infrastructure. Issues with recruiting and succession which are now exacerbated by technology. Rising demand for financial advice and financial services in general with relatively stagnant headcounts across the industry.
It all sounds like we’re heading towards more automation in wealth management, not less. By the second, this is becoming a less human, more technology-driven industry.
Before we get to the real news, let’s do a bit of housekeeping. We compile this headlines column using three sources—the announcements sent directly to our inbox, the announcements published via Cision’s PR Newswire, and the announcements published via Businesswire. So, if you have an announcement that you want us to trumpet to the entire wealth managmenet, financial services, wealthtech, AI and fintech universe using our considerable reach, consider sending your announcement via one of those three channels.
One more thing (as Columbo would say): a few weeks ago we gave a rare piece of advice to advisors, that being they stop publishing reports saying AI is not suitable as source for financial advice, as it made them look petty to criticize technology that is directly competing with themselves for clients.
If our pleas made any difference, we sure haven’t seen it yet—wealth managers continue to publish screeds arguing that AI is dangerous or that it delivers substandard advice—which may be true, but they are the wrong source for such material. This week, we’ll give you a new reason for our feelings:
It is disingenuous for wealth managers to publish so much content warning prospective clients about using AI for financial advice when advisors have become increasingly dependent on AI assistants to do much of their work and answer many of their own questions.
It’s like they’re saying “AI for me, but not for thee.”
Let’s get to your headlines…
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4impactdata
4impactdata, the decision intelligence platform that turns a firm’s entire client base into a source of revenue growth, announced the public launch of 4ID Foresight, a strategic foresight layer that cuts through the noise in a firm’s book of business to identify the signals that matter up to 18-24 months before they surface, and the specific actions to take because of them.
Accounting firms are under pressure to do more with fewer people while clients increasingly expect proactive guidance instead of historical reporting. At the same time, firms are struggling to scale advisory consistently across their client base, creating both revenue risk and missed growth opportunities.
4ID Foresight provides firm-wide visibility into at-risk revenue and surfaces new advisory opportunities in the existing client base; the product is built around two core capabilities: the Portfolio Monitor and the Opportunity Map.
Aethon
Aethon Fund (“Aethon” or “the fund”), a new hedge fund that pairs proprietary market signal research with AI-powered trading discipline, today announced that it is launching with $50 million in capital. The raise includes an anchor allocation in a separately managed account from a fund of funds, alongside additional commitments from other ultra-high-net-worth and institutional investors.
The fund is founded and led by George Kailas, who has spent two decades developing a systematic approach intended to identify what quantitative models consistently miss, and building AI-enabled signals to close the gaps. Most recently, he used the signal library he built to found Prospero.ai in 2019 — a retail investor intelligence platform with over 20,000 monthly active users — which has delivered forward-looking newsletter picks that have outperformed the S&P 500 by 7.5x since 2022. Earlier in his career, Kailas landed his first job at a hedge fund at age 17 and sold a mortgage prediction model to a $20 billion hedge fund at age 25.
Aethon runs numerous parallel trading strategies — spanning long, short, mean-reversion, momentum, and stealth-accumulation. Each is built and pressure tested by the investment team before any algorithmic execution. Rather than allocating capital equally, the fund continuously shifts resources toward whichever strategies are performing best in current conditions, with AI handling execution while the team focuses on signal research and technological expansion.
Broadridge
Alpaca, a global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, and global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., (NYSE: BR), today announced the integration of Broadridge’s governance infrastructure for retail and institutional investors into Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network. The partnership brings shareholder governance capabilities including proxy voting, investor communications, voting entitlement reconciliation, and regulatory disclosures across traditional and tokenized equities, helping investors retain the rights, transparency, and protections they expect in traditional capital markets.
Alpaca will continue to provide the regulated brokerage infrastructure that supports the tokenization of equities, including custody and clearing services of the underlying asset. Broadridge complements the infrastructure with shareholder governance services, including proxy voting, investor communications, regulatory disclosures, and voting entitlement reconciliation. Together, the companies enable traditional and tokenized equities to support the ownership rights, transparency, and operational integrity expected in traditional markets.
As tokenized assets are issued and held across multiple blockchain networks and intermediaries, maintaining accurate shareholder records and voting entitlements becomes increasingly complex. Broadridge’s governance platform supports voting delivery and entitlement reconciliation for beneficial and registered holders of tokenized equities, ensuring investors receive required communications and can exercise their shareholder rights regardless of how their assets are held.
CAIA
Global education provider Kaplan and the CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) Association, the leading professional body for alternative investment education and credentialing, today announced a partnership that will help more financial professionals gain access to CAIA.nxt™ certificates and microcredentials. This collaboration expands access to CAIA.nxt™ education through Kaplan’s global learner network, helping more financial professionals build practical expertise to navigate the rapidly expanding $25 trillion alternatives market. As part of this commitment to accessible professional development, the partnership will offer Kaplan students a 10% discount on enrollment, enabling them to build investment credibility through modular, expert-led content.
CAIA.nxt is the CAIA Association’s online learning platform, offering practical education and certificates in alternative investments that equip wealth management and investment management professionals with the knowledge needed to navigate and advise clients on an increasingly important segment of today’s investment landscape.
CRC-Oyster
CRC-Oyster, a full-service consulting firm providing compliance, risk, operational, and technology advisory services for the financial services industry, has acquired Modern Regulatory Services, LLC (“MRS”), a consulting firm specializing in broker-dealer compliance and Financial Operations (FinOp) support. The addition of MRS builds on CRC-Oyster’s momentum as a full-service compliance partner for broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, fintech firms, and other financial services organizations.
MRS was founded by Gregory Levine in 2004, and together with business partner, Steven Bender, bring extensive backgrounds in broker-dealer compliance, including experience with self-clearing firms and outsourced Chief Compliance Officer engagements. The acquisition adds experienced FinOp principals and senior broker-dealer compliance professionals to CRC-Oyster’s team, which will provide an immediate benefit and added depth amid growing client demand for specialized resources in these areas. In addition to his compliance work, Levine operates Gregory Levine Law, a legal practice focused on the formation of financial services organizations, a capability that further expands the services CRC-Oyster can bring to bear for clients.
This is the firm’s second acquisition. In Dec. 2023, CRC received a growth investment from MidOcean Partners, which has supported the organization’s ongoing growth. In June 2025, the firm acquired Oyster Consulting, a combination that nearly doubled the firm’s size and scope. The acquisition of MRS represents the firm’s continued commitment to deepening its broker-dealer vertical and expanding capacity without sacrificing service quality.
Cresset
Cresset announced today that Dheeraj Soni has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He most recently served as Managing Director and Head of Trading at Cresset and previously held senior technology leadership roles at J.P. Morgan Advisors and First Republic Bank. Soni has nearly 30 years of leadership experience spanning wealth management, private banking, prime brokerage, asset management, institutional trading, and investment banking.
As CTO, Soni leads Cresset’s technology organization and is responsible for advancing Cresset’s technology strategy and infrastructure, while also overseeing the firm’s trading platform, cybersecurity strategy and execution capabilities. Drawing on deep experience in multi-asset trading operations, portfolio implementation, and regulatory compliance, Soni’s focus is on building scalable, secure, and technology-driven infrastructures.
Prior to joining Cresset, Soni held several executive leadership roles at prominent financial institutions, including Chief Technology Officer of J.P. Morgan Advisors, where he led enterprise-wide trading modernization and platform integration initiatives. Previously, as Head of Wealth Management Technology at First Republic Bank, he spent more than a decade architecting and implementing end-to-end wealth management platforms that supported the firm’s growth from $35 billion to more than $350 billion in assets.
d1g1t
d1g1t, a leading wealthtech provider, today announced the launch of d1g1t MCP server, a connector built on the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard that links its enterprise wealth management platform directly to general-purpose AI tools including Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. The integration embeds AI natively into advisory workflows, giving financial advisors a live, governed AI assistant that works across every household, eliminating the mechanical work of preparation and reporting so advisors can spend more time with clients.
The d1g1t MCP exposes the platform’s core capabilities as tools that AI agents can call on an advisor’s behalf to search, read and reason over external data sources using natural language. Instead of navigating the platform screen by screen, advisors can ask Claude or ChatGPT in plain language to pull a household’s holdings, summarize year-to-date performance, flag mandate breaches, or assemble a client report and the AI securely retrieves live data from the d1g1t platform and works with it directly.
As advisors and wealth management firms use Claude and other AI tools to help streamline workflows, analyze their business data and identify opportunities, they can use the d1g1t MCP to access a range of high-impact capabilities through natural language.
E*TRADE
E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley today announced the rollout of spot trading in digital assets, giving eligible clients the ability to buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana directly on E*TRADE’s award-winning platform1 in partnership with zerohash, a leading digital asset infrastructure provider.
The launch comes on the heels of several platform enhancements for investors at every stage of their financial journey, from those just starting out, to active traders, to those saving for the long-term.
According to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s most recent Pulse Survey, when asked what matters most when choosing a platform to trade crypto, the top response among investors was an established company they can trust3. With E*TRADE playing a critical role in the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management ecosystem, clients benefit from innovative digital tools paired with world-class research and insights from Morgan Stanley thought leaders.
Envestnet
Envestnet, the leading Adaptive WealthTech company, has released its first list of research-approved interval funds, which have undergone the firm’s rigorous due diligence process by the manager research team at Envestnet PMC. This marks an important expansion of Envestnet’s alternative investment capabilities.
Not only are a growing list of interval funds available through Envestnet’s Unified Managed Account (UMA) platform, but the firm’s manager research team will cover and selectively expand an approved list of interval funds, just as it does for separately managed accounts (SMAs), mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and fund strategist portfolios. Advisors now have access to private market investments and independent research which can help them evaluate interval funds directly within the Envestnet ecosystem.
Envestnet first announced the accessibility of what would become a growing list of interval funds through its UMA platform in March 2026. As part of this offering, the firm provides account administration, trading, rebalancing, and tax management capabilities. Building on this milestone, Envestnet PMC has undertaken the same structured due diligence process for evaluating interval funds as it does for other investment vehicles. The resulting research helps advisors better understand manager quality, portfolio construction, liquidity constraints, valuation methodologies, expenses, and risk/return expectations before committing client capital to funds that merit PMC research coverage. Access to the approved list of interval fund names is available to advisors at no additional cost.
F2 Strategy
F2 Strategy (“F2”), the leading business and digital transformation services firm to the global wealth and asset management industries, today announced the acquisition of Intelligo Partners, a Toronto-based consulting firm specializing in investment technology consulting. The acquisition expands F2’s investment platform implementation capabilities, strengthens its leadership in Canada and advances the firm’s strategy to build the premier North American consultancy focused on asset and wealth management technology.
Founded in 2012, Intelligo helps asset and wealth managers modernize investment technology platforms through advisory, implementation and post-go-live support. Backed by proprietary delivery tools and methodologies, the firm has helped many of Canada’s leading investment organizations successfully execute complex technology transformations.
The transaction follows F2’s recent acquisition of Meradia. As asset owners and managers move beyond AI experimentation toward enterprise-wide transformation, they need partners that can modernize core investment platforms while bridging strategy and execution across increasingly complex technology environments. Together, Meradia’s established presence and Intelligo’s implementation expertise give F2 the local relationships and execution capabilities to help Canadian financial institutions navigate multi-faceted technology initiatives.
Feathery
Feathery, the AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, announced today that it has raised $30M in total funding, including its recently completed Series A, from Portage Ventures, Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures. The company is one of the fastest-growing AI platforms for financial services, serving more than 300 firms across insurance and wealth management.
Feathery was built with the understanding that financial service firms don’t have one workflow problem. They have hundreds, spread across different client segments and product offerings. The market today is full of point solutions that automate a single narrow task and general-purpose AI tools that struggle with the complexities of financial service regulations and scale. Enterprises need a platform flexible and specialized enough to power the entire client and policy lifecycle while fitting seamlessly into the systems they already rely on.
Feathery’s AI Operating System collects and structures client information, synchronizes every major system of record, and normalizes data across all surfaces.
FMG
FMG, the marketing automation platform trusted by more than 80,000 financial professionals collectively serving over 45 million U.S. investors, today announced the appointment of three independent directors and one board observer to its Board of Directors. John Carter, former President and Chief Operating Officer of Nationwide Financial; Janet Malzone, former CEO of Grant Thornton LLP; and Deanna Mulligan, CEO of Ceres Life Insurance and former CEO of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America joined as independent directors. Steve Sloan, VP of AWS Marketing at Amazon and former CEO of Contentful, joined as a board observer.
These new members join a board that includes Executive Chairman Mark Casady, former Chairman and CEO of LPL Financial; CEO and Founder Dave Christensen; and Scott White, former CEO of FMG.
The strategic appointments coincide with FMG’s ongoing expansion across Registered Investment Advisors, broker-dealers, wirehouses, and insurance organizations, as it continues to advance its growth strategy under GTCR’s ownership. This includes the recent acquisition of Testimonial iQ and the appointment of a new executive leadership team. To guide its next phase of enterprise scale and AI-enabled innovation, FMG is onboarding these leaders to bring deep institutional financial services experience, advanced technology leadership, and world-class corporate governance to support the board.
HCLTech
HCLTech (NSE: HCLTECH) (BSE: HCLTECH), a leading global technology company, today announced a new seven-year agreement with The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian), one of the largest mutual companies in the U.S. and a leading provider of insurance, retirement, wealth management and employee benefits solutions. The new agreement builds on the companies’ previously announced partnership and expands their collaboration to advance Guardian’s AI-powered modernization across technology and operations to support long-term business growth.
Through this partnership, the companies aim to accelerate value realization and efficiency for Guardian through differentiated experiences and reduced friction, while creating AI-led solutions and IP for the insurance industry. Additionally, HCLTech will accelerate technology and talent transformation across data, applications and engineering while also driving operational excellence across group benefits, individual protection, retirement and wealth management, resulting in reduced costs, faster time to market and continued delivery of high-quality experiences for customers, advisors and distribution partners.
HCLTech will expand the use of its AI Service Transformation Platform, AI Force to create and deploy agentic capabilities for the business, and further advance AI adoption and innovation. These capabilities will align with Guardian’s product operating model and help create a more resilient delivery foundation that can scale with the business.
Intention.ly
Intention.ly, the growth engine design consultancy serving fintech and financial services firms, is officially launching its Recruitment Marketing offering following a successful pilot program with select RIA, hybrid RIA, and independent broker-dealer clients.
With McKinsey reporting an impending advisor shortage of 100,000 by 2034, the initiative marks a significant transformation in how firms connect with top advisor talent, shifting the focus from a traditionally payout-driven narrative toward strategies based in values, brand, and culture.
Intention.ly’s Recruitment Marketing service is designed to generate meaningful opportunities with advisors who are aligned not just financially, but philosophically with a firm’s mission, ethos, and long-term vision.
IRA Financial
IRA Financial, a leading self-directed retirement platform, today announced the appointment of Clay Cowan as Chief Executive Officer as the company enters its next phase of growth. Tyler Northrup has transitioned to President and Chief Operating Officer of the Trust Company, where he will focus on scaling the platform and supporting the company’s continued expansion.
With more than $19 trillion in U.S. retirement assets, Cowan’s appointment comes at a pivotal moment for both IRA Financial and the broader retirement sector. As investors seek more exposure beyond traditional public markets, IRA Financial has built strong momentum by giving clients a single platform to invest across alternatives, crypto, and public equities.
Cowan brings leadership experience across technology, consulting, and fintech, offering a strong mix of operating and strategic expertise. He has previously held senior roles at Betterment, McKinsey, and leading consumer-focused companies like Gilt Groupe and Starwood Hotels. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Harvard University, and is expected to accelerate growth, sharpen go-to-market execution, and further solidify IRA Financial’s leadership in self-directed retirement solutions
Mariner
Humanity Labs, the AI Workforce company, and Mariner, a national financial services firm, today announced a five-year partnership to scale an AI Workforce to more than 700 full-time equivalents (FTEs) inside Mariner. Unlike traditional AI tools that assist employees with individual tasks, an AI Workforce functions as an embedded team that operates within a firm’s existing systems and workflows, handling operational work alongside Mariner associates so people can focus on the work only humans can do.
The partnership marks the largest AI Workforce partnership in the RIA industry to date and positions Mariner as the first wealth management firm to adopt the model at enterprise scale. It also reflects a broader shift in wealth management from AI experimentation to production use cases embedded directly into the core operations of a national advisory firm, delivering value at scale. As demand for financial advice continues to grow, the partnership establishes a new model for how wealth management firms can expand capacity without sacrificing the personal relationships that define the client experience.
The AI Workforce spans the back office, where high volume operational work is concentrated, while extending into middle and front office functions to accelerate efficiency, growth, and scale. Operating within the systems Mariner teams already use, it completes work across critical workflows including client onboarding, account opening, compliance reviews, client reporting, billing, prospect onboarding, and cross-serve opportunity identification.
Maywood
Maywood today publicly launched Maverick, an agentic platform built for senior bankers, investors, and financial services professionals. Unlike research and drafting tools that a user opens and prompts, Maverick switches the script and prompts the user, operating proactively: it works inside a firm’s existing email, calendar, file storage, and CRM environment, monitors internal and external signals, and surfaces prioritized outreach, relationship context, and personalized ready-to-review drafts directly to the professional.
Maverick runs inside an environment the client controls, connects to existing systems through each user’s existing permissions, and keeps a human approval gate on any external-facing action. The platform is designed to support firms’ compliance with FINRA and SEC requirements and holds SOC 2 Type II certification.
Modera Wealth Management
Modera Wealth Management (“Modera”), a fee-only wealth management firm for individuals, families, business owners, and nonprofit institutions, today announced the appointment of two seasoned executives. The RIA, founded in 1983, named Gaurav Mallik as Chief Investment Officer and Shelly Kapoor as Chief Operating Officer.
With these appointments, the firm strengthens its ability to deliver the advanced investment and planning capabilities, personalized service, and disciplined operational execution that Modera’s clients expect.
Gaurav, who is based in Modera’s Boston office, will lead the firm’s investment strategy and help guide its portfolio allocation, investment solutions, and governance framework. A seasoned investment leader, Gaurav most recently served as managing partner of Fiducia Advisors, LLC, where he led consulting projects for wealth management firms, with a focus on the integration of technology and AI into investment processes.
MoTA
With MoTA’s public beta scheduled for Q3 2026, the Nasdaq-listed AI company is betting that institutional-grade portfolio intelligence should be available to a much broader group of investors – not only the wealthiest.
One figure highlights a fundamental challenge in wealth management: 1.2%, the average annual fee charged by a human financial advisor to manage assets. On a $500,000 portfolio, that translates into $6,000 a year. Investors with smaller portfolios are often offered little more than a questionnaire and a standardized basket of ETFs marketed as “personalized” advice. Waton Financial Limited (Nasdaq: WTF) believes its AI agent platform, MoTA, can offer an alternative.
The premise is straightforward, but the model behind it is more ambitious. MoTA – short for Manager of Trading Agent — doesn’t scale advisory costs by headcount. Instead, it brings together a team of four or more specialized AI agents that analyze cross-market data, monitor portfolio risk, construct portfolios, and translate their findings into clear, actionable insights. Similar multi-agent architectures have been used by hedge funds for years. MoTA’s proposition is to make this approach available to individual investors, with economics that do not depend on whether an account holds four figures or seven.
Psympl
Psympl, the Motivation Intelligence Layer and Psychographic AI™ platform built for consumer financial services, today announced it has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type II examination with a clean opinion from independent auditor ACCORP Partners CPA LLC.
The attestation covers all five American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria – Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy and evaluated the operating effectiveness of Psympl’s controls over a six-month review period from October 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026.
The achievement marks a significant milestone as Psympl continues to expand enterprise partnerships across wealth management, banking, credit unions, and the broader financial services industry.
Quik!
Quik!, a leader in forms and data standardization for financial services, and High Meadow Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in AI strategy, systems integration, and business transformation for wealth management firms, have announced a strategic partnership to launch Quik! for Salesforce.
For years, wealth management firms have invested heavily in Salesforce to manage client relationships, yet forms-based workflows have remained fragmented. Building a seamless experience often required firms to combine multiple third-party solutions, develop custom integrations, or purchase costly overlays that displayed forms outside the Salesforce experience. The result was higher implementation costs, longer deployment timelines, and a disconnected advisor workflow. Quik! for Salesforce is designed to change that.
Quik! for Salesforce delivers a native forms experience that brings Quik!’s forms directly into Salesforce. Advisors can launch forms from a client record, automatically pre-fill trusted CRM data, complete remaining information once, and generate finished documents for electronic signature—all without leaving Salesforce.
TAP Invest
Benzinga, a leading provider of real-time financial news and market intelligence, today announced that TAP Invest has integrated Benzinga’s Why Is It Moving (WIIM) feed and Analyst Ratings data into its investment platform. The integration brings professional-grade market insights directly to investors across stocks, digital assets, and multi-asset strategies.
TAP Invest, a product of TAP, Inc., is a next-generation multi-asset investing platform designed to simplify how individuals interact with financial markets. The platform consolidates stocks, digital assets, ETFs, real-world assets, and automated strategies into a single, intuitive experience available on both web and mobile.
By integrating Benzinga’s Why Is It Moving (WIIM) and Analyst Ratings data, TAP Invest is giving investors deeper market intelligence and real-time context behind market-moving events. The integration pairs TAP Invest’s multi-asset platform with institutional-grade insights from Benzinga, including real-time explanations for market moves driven by earnings, analyst commentary, macroeconomic developments, company announcements, and breaking news, alongside analyst sentiment, upgrades and downgrades, and price target changes across U.S. equities.
Tradable
Tradable, a leading private asset marketplace and tokenization platform, today announced an integration with the Stellar network to tokenize up to $1 billion of private credit assets onchain.
The integration builds on Tradable’s mission to bring blockchain technology to traditional asset managers through tokenized institutional-grade investment opportunities across high-quality asset classes including private credit. The platform supports workflows that matter in real markets, including deal lifecycle management, compliance controls, investor onboarding, and ongoing operations.
In addition to bringing a significant amount of private credit assets into the Stellar blockchain ecosystem, the integration will also help to ensure the assets are interoperable and composable, maintaining the ability to increase liquidity, and enhance user engagement across numerous platforms. Purpose-built to enable adherence to strict data security and regulatory guidelines, the Stellar network has unique buy-in from institutional adopters. The Stellar network’s native asset controls, privacy, and operating cost advantages can all drive significant institutional demand for tokenized private credit assets.
Vanilla
Vanilla, the leading estate planning platform for wealth management firms, today announced the launch of Vanilla Concierge, a professional services offering built around a simple idea: advisors want a team behind their software. Vanilla’s experienced team of trust and estate professionals have been reading and abstracting estate documents and turning them into complete visual plans since the company’s founding in 2019. Vanilla Concierge puts that depth front and center, making it a resource every customer can draw on directly — including new, more hands-on ways to work with them.
Vanilla Concierge’s first category is Abstraction Services, the document abstraction work Vanilla’s in-house team has done since 2019, now expanded with two new ways to engage them directly: guided sessions where Vanilla walks an advisor through a client’s plan, and multi-session training for firms building profiles themselves. It’s the first of several categories planned under the Concierge umbrella as Vanilla continues to expand the ways firms can work with its team.
Vanilla has been abstracting client documents and building estate profiles since 2019, led by Julia Santullano, J.D., LL.M., who has served as the Director of Abstraction Services for the past two years. Santullano brings more than two decades of trust and estate experience to the role, including more than a decade as a practicing attorney and five years directing estate and tax planning for a national broker-dealer’s advanced planning team. This abstraction work has produced more than 10,000 client profiles representing more than $140 billion in client assets across every U.S. jurisdiction and the full wealth spectrum. It also feeds directly back into the platform, shaping how Vanilla’s product team builds and refines the tools advisors use every day.
