# AI for financial advisors and RIA firms Ship AI Studio builds AI workflows for financial advisors at independent RIA and wealth management firms with 10 to 500 people. It prepares onboarding paperwork, meeting notes, and service requests for your team to approve. Advisers keep every advice decision. Start with a $1,500, one-week AI Assessment that ends with a fixed build scope or a clear no. Last updated: 2026-10-27 ## Published prices - [AI Assessment](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/assessment): $1,500 for one week. One week on one workflow or agent: what to build, and what it is worth. - [AI Build Sprint](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/build-sprint): $5,000 for two weeks. One workflow or agent live in two weeks, with approvals and monitoring. One flat price. - [AI Operations](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/operations): $999 a month. We run your workflows and agents: monitoring, fixes, upgrades, and a monthly report. ## Workflows we look at first ### New client onboarding - Today: Operations re-reads each account packet, chases the missing signature, and retypes the rest into the CRM and the custodian forms. - With the system: Fields are pulled from the forms, conflicts are flagged, and one request for the missing pieces is drafted for the client. - Your part: Operations works from one review list. No account opens until a person checks the packet. ### Meeting notes and follow-up - Today: After each review meeting, the adviser writes notes from memory, creates tasks by hand, and drafts the follow-up email late in the day. - With the system: Notes, tasks, and a follow-up email are drafted from the adviser's notes, or a recording the client agreed to, and the client file. - Your part: The adviser edits and approves the email and the notes before they are saved or sent. ### Client service requests - Today: Address changes, distribution requests, and document requests arrive by email and wait in a shared inbox. - With the system: Each request is matched to the client, the right form is prepared, and anything unclear is flagged. - Your part: A person checks and submits every form. Money movement always waits for approval. Advice and suitability: Advisers make every advice and suitability decision. The system prepares the file. ## The AI Assessment One week on one workflow. For an RIA, the week usually starts with onboarding or meeting follow-up. We sit with operations and one adviser, look at the CRM and custodian steps, and count the hours. - A map of where leads, hours, and paperwork get stuck today - What it is worth, in dollars - Workflow or agent: which one fits, and what it needs access to - A ranked plan with the tools, checks, and approval points - A fixed Build Sprint scope, or a clear reason not to build ## Controls - **A person approves.** Anything that goes out in your name, changes a record, or moves money waits for your yes. - **Every action on record.** Each draft, edit, and approval is logged with its source, so your chief compliance officer can review it. - **Scoped data access.** The system reads only the records the job needs. Nothing is copied out to train a model. We build on the tools you already use: the CRM, custodian portals, planning software, document storage, and email you already use, such as Redtail, Wealthbox, Salesforce, or Orion. The Assessment confirms which ones we can reach and how. ## Questions and answers ### How much does AI cost for an RIA firm? With Ship AI Studio, the first step is the AI Assessment: $1,500 for one week. A Build Sprint is $5,000 flat for one workflow or agent, live in two weeks. AI Operations is $999 a month to keep it running. The Assessment fee is credited in full toward a Build Sprint that starts within 30 days. ### What do we get from the $1,500 AI Assessment? In one week we review one workflow with your team. You get a map of where the hours go, what the fix is worth in dollars, whether a workflow or an agent fits, a ranked plan with the approval points, and a fixed Build Sprint scope or a clear reason not to build. ### Will AI give advice to our clients? No. The system drafts paperwork, notes, and emails for your team. Advisers make every advice decision, and nothing goes to a client until a person approves it. ### What will our chief compliance officer see? The approval rules, the list of systems the workflow reads, and a sample of the log before go-live. Your compliance team signs off on the controls. We do not claim a certification we do not hold. ### Which tools do you work with? We build on the tools you already use: the CRM, custodian portals, planning software, document storage, and email you already use, such as Redtail, Wealthbox, Salesforce, or Orion. The Assessment confirms which ones we can reach and how. ### We are a 12-person firm. Is that too small? No. We work with firms of 10 to 500 people. Under 10, there is usually not enough repeat work to pay for a build. ### Do you guarantee results? No. The Assessment puts a dollar number on the workflow before you spend more. If the number is too small to pay for a build, the readout says so and you stop there. [Free search and AI visibility report](https://www.shipaistudio.com/opportunity?src=ai-for-ria-firms-md&industry=wealth) · [Book a call](https://www.shipaistudio.com/contact) · hi@shipaistudio.com Ship AI Studio, a DBA of desic · 5227 N 7th St #42323, Phoenix, AZ 85014-2802