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Financial Advisor CRM + Task OS

Complete operational system for managing leads, clients, compliance tasks, and follow-up cadences.

Finance automation case study featuring lead management and workflow automation.

4×

Follow-Up Consistency

Never Missed

Compliance Tasks

10 hrs/week

Advisor Time Saved

Overview

A financial advisory practice needed to streamline lead intake, client communication, compliance reminders, and advisor workflows. The system improved follow-up consistency 4× and advisors regained 10 hours/week.

Business Context

The financial advisory practice had grown to multiple advisors managing over 400 client households, but their CRM had become a disorganized repository of notes and contact information rather than an operational tool that drove activity. Follow-up tasks fell through the cracks when advisors got busy, compliance deadlines were tracked in scattered spreadsheets, personal calendars, and sticky notes, and advisors spent hours each week on administrative work that didn't directly serve clients or generate revenue. Lead response times averaged over 48 hours, causing potential clients with substantial assets to go elsewhere to advisors who responded faster. The compliance officer was constantly anxious about missed suitability reviews and KYC updates that could trigger regulatory issues. The practice recognized that their operational chaos was limiting growth, creating compliance risk, and contributing to advisor burnout, but individual advisors were too busy managing their books day-to-day to implement the systematic improvements they knew were needed.

How We Built It

We designed a comprehensive operational platform that transforms the CRM from a passive database into an active workflow engine that drives advisor behavior and ensures nothing falls through the cracks. The Salesforce integration synchronizes client data bidirectionally while adding structured workflows, task management, and automation capabilities that Salesforce alone couldn't provide without extensive custom development. The lead management module automatically scores incoming leads based on stated assets under management, stated timeline to act, engagement behavior like email opens and website visits, source quality based on historical conversion rates, and fit with advisor specializations, then routes them to appropriate advisors with suggested talking points based on the lead's profile and likely needs. The task orchestration engine manages follow-up cadences for both prospects and clients, ensuring that every client receives appropriate periodic contact based on their service tier and that no prospect goes cold due to forgotten follow-up, with automatic escalation to practice managers when tasks remain incomplete. Compliance automation tracks suitability review deadlines by product type, KYC update requirements based on risk rating, form ADV delivery requirements, form filing dates, continuing education deadlines, and license renewals — generating reminders with escalating urgency starting 30 days before deadlines and blocking certain client-facing actions if prerequisites aren't completed. The AI email assistant drafts personalized communications in each advisor's established voice and style, pulling relevant context from CRM records, recent interactions, portfolio performance, and life events to create messages that feel genuinely personal. Advisors review and send with one click rather than composing from scratch, or edit as needed for special situations. The pipeline dashboard provides conversion analytics, activity metrics by advisor and team, production tracking against goals, and capacity analysis that helps both individual advisors and practice leadership understand performance and identify coaching and improvement opportunities.

Challenges

Disorganized CRM records

No structured follow-up system

Advisors forgetting compliance renewals

Slow onboarding steps

Manual emailing causing delays

What We Delivered

Salesforce → Custom OS integration

Automated lead scoring (interest, assets, timeline, engagement)

Task orchestration engine

Compliance reminders for KYC, suitability, renewals

AI email writer generating advisor-style templates

Pipeline dashboard with conversion analytics

Tech Stack

Salesforce API, Node backend, PostgreSQL, OpenAI, Slack API, Retool

Results

4×

Follow-Up Consistency

Never Missed

Compliance Tasks

10 hrs/week

Advisor Time Saved

Strategic Impact

The 4× improvement in follow-up consistency directly improved conversion rates on both prospects and cross-sell opportunities with existing clients, adding measurable revenue without requiring new lead generation spend. The 10 hours per week that advisors regained is now spent on client-facing activities, proactive outreach to top clients, and business development rather than administrative overhead — activities that directly drive satisfaction, retention, and revenue growth. Compliance task automation eliminated the anxiety and risk of missed deadlines — the practice now has a perfect record on regulatory requirements since implementation, and the compliance officer's role has shifted from chasing down delinquent tasks to proactive program improvement. Lead response times dropped from days to under 4 hours on average, dramatically improving prospect conversion rates and the practice's reputation among centers of influence who refer clients. The AI-assisted communications maintain relationship quality even as advisors manage larger books of business, ensuring clients feel attended to without proportional time investment — client satisfaction scores have increased measurably since implementation. Practice leadership now has visibility into activity and production metrics that enable informed decisions about capacity, hiring, territory assignment, and which advisors need coaching on specific skills. The operational consistency has also simplified onboarding for new advisors, who benefit from structured workflows and clear expectations rather than having to develop their own systems or struggle to learn undocumented processes from busy colleagues. Several top advisors have noted that the reduction in administrative burden was a significant factor in their decision to stay with the practice rather than joining larger firms that were recruiting them, and the improved work-life balance has reduced burnout across the team.