Advisors present plans instead of building them.
How normalized household data lets advisors spend their time in the meeting rather than preparing for it.
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- Days
- Onboarding, not weeks
- +35%
- Households per advisor
- Every qtr
- Proactive plan checks
Where It Starts.
The challenge. Multi-custodian households are consolidated by hand before every review, capping how many relationships an advisor can hold.
A new household arrives with accounts across several custodians, a trust, a business interest, and an old plan built on assumptions nobody has revisited. Consolidating it is manual, and it happens again before every review.
Onboarding stretches to weeks, and the first substantive conversation waits behind data entry. Between reviews, plan drift goes unnoticed because checking it requires the same manual rebuild.
Advisor capacity is therefore set by preparation time, not by relationship depth.
The Sequence.
- 01Phase 1
Define the household record
We set one data standard for a household: entities, accounts, holdings, cash flows, goals, and risk parameters, with a fixed way of representing business interests and trusts. Consolidation becomes a mapping task instead of a judgment task.
- 02Phase 2
Standardize onboarding
Discovery, document collection, and plan assembly become a defined sequence with a set deliverable — the base plan — so every household enters the practice the same way.
- 03Phase 3
Automate consolidation
The Household Onboarding Agent ingests statements across custodians, normalizes holdings to the firm's taxonomy, reconciles the totals, and assembles the base plan and meeting pack for advisor review.
- 04Phase 4
Run a review calendar
Quarterly plan checks are scheduled with a standard agenda. Because the data refreshes automatically, each review is a comparison against the plan rather than a rebuild of it.
Household Onboarding Agent
The solution systemizes onboarding and review cycles; the agent consolidates statements, normalizes holdings, and assembles the base plan and meeting pack.
See the agent- 01Ingests statements and positions from every custodian in the household.
- 02Normalizes holdings and account types to the firm's taxonomy and reconciles totals.
- 03Flags gaps, stale valuations, and unclassified assets for the advisor to resolve.
- 04Assembles the base plan — allocation, cash flow, goal funding — with assumptions listed.
- 05Produces the meeting pack, including drift against the plan since the last review.
The Results, Explained.
Onboarding, not weeks
Consolidation and base plan assembly run in parallel with discovery instead of after it, so the first real planning conversation arrives within days.
Households per advisor
Preparation stops scaling with relationship count, so advisor capacity is set by meeting time rather than by data work.
Proactive plan checks
Refreshed data makes a quarterly drift check inexpensive, which turns reviews from annual retrospectives into ongoing course corrections.
What We Would Tell Your Firm.
- One household data standard is the prerequisite; without it, every consolidation is a new decision.
- Keep the advisor on assumptions and recommendations — the agent should never own the judgment.
- Automated refresh is what makes a quarterly cadence affordable.
Wealth STAR
This result comes from one solution and the agents that run inside it. The same sequence is how it would be installed in your firm.