How to build a client advisory service using AI to automate and maintain

Building a successful client advisory service using AI automation requires a clear understanding of the customer’s needs, knowledge of the right tools and technologies, and an effective strategy. In today’s business world, AI-enabled client advisory services are gradually becoming the norm. With AI automation, advisors can provide more efficient and personalized services, create more opportunities for upselling and cross-selling, improve client satisfaction, and increase revenue.

The first step in building an AI-powered client advisory service is identifying the needs of your clients. Assess their pain points, preferences, and communicate with them regularly to understand how you can satisfy their expectations better. Based on this understanding, you can develop client personas and create targeted services that cater to client needs better. You can use conversational AI chatbots to make client interactions more conversational, allowing clients to receive answers to simple inquiries, and resolving common support issues more quickly.

The next step is to identify the right tools and technologies that are needed for an effective AI-driven advisory service. Start with researching and evaluating the various AI tools and technologies available on the market. Consider factors like ease of adoption, the sophistication of the algorithms, performance compared to your own data sets, and ethical considerations.

The AI service should have a holistic view of the client’s financial situation by integrating all relevant data sources in the back-end. This includes bank account information, investment portfolios, credit scores, and other financial information. Comprehensive client financial data helps in providing an accurate financial status that leads to timely and insightful advice.

Once the tools and technologies are in place, you can develop a comprehensive AI-based advisory service strategy. The development needs to address the following aspects – onboarding customers, understanding investment goals, investment risk profiling, asset allocation, portfolio monitoring, rebalancing, and reporting.

Onboarding can be automated using AI technology that guides clients through basic questionnaires and gathers essential data required for initial analysis. The confirmation of specific data from other financial institutions can be automated using electronic banking system API integration.

Investment goals can be discovered utilizing client data and understanding what they value in a personalized investment vehicle. Risk profiling can be analyzed using statistical models, history, and current market conditions.

Asset allocation methodologies can be pre-defined for different client profiles with varying investment objectives, risk appetite, and liquidity requirements. These methodologies can be crafted from the support of human experts combined with AI modeling.

Portfolio monitoring can be automated so that the advisory service can continuously analyze the performance of the clients’ portfolios. Additionally, this can be programmed to