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You have Claude. Now let's give your clients more of you.

Anthropic built Claude to do real work inside a financial services practice. It reads your spreadsheets, edits your decks, drafts the client review, distills the research, and source-attributes every number it produces. The next step, configuring it for how your firm actually runs and the way you serve your clients, is implementation. That gap is what we close.

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The work that runs the small advisory practice.

In a small advisory practice the same handful of tasks pull at every team we talk to. Different books of business, same shape: deadline-driven, judgment-heavy client work that scales by adding hours, not by getting smarter. And underneath all of it, the gap between an advisor who knows Claude could help and an advisor who has the time to figure out how.

Quarterly portfolio reviews
Pulling holdings, performance, and the right context into a review deck for every client meeting. Hours that should be spent in front of the client, spent assembling what to walk in with.
Meeting prep
Getting back up to speed on a client's situation, recent activity, and outstanding items before each call. The work that determines whether the meeting feels routine or feels like advice.
Follow-up notes
Turning the conversation into the file note compliance expects and the email the client expects, in the same afternoon. The work that gets pushed and then has to be reconstructed from memory.
Financial planning deliverables
Building the plan, the proposal, or the recommendation in the firm's template, customized to the client's specific situation. The work that wins or loses the relationship.
Research and product synthesis
Making sense of market commentary, manager updates, and product literature so the right point lands in tomorrow's meeting. Reading that piles up faster than any small team can clear.
The advisor who does everything
In a small practice the principal is the relationship, the planner, the analyst, and the compliance reviewer. AI adoption stalls because that person has no time to figure out where to start.
Where we fit

Anthropic built the capability. We configure it for your practice.

Anthropic built Claude to do real work in financial services. It works inside Excel and PowerPoint where the practice already lives, synthesizes documents and research, and source-attributes its outputs so the numbers are traceable. We are squarely behind the product.

What a small advisory practice needs on top of that is implementation: the same capability, configured for how your firm actually serves its clients. The way the quarterly review reads for the kind of client you work with. The meeting-prep rhythm your team already uses. The plan deliverable in your firm's format and voice. The follow-up note that fits both the file and the client. That is the layer where capability becomes daily practice, and it is the layer we build.

Claude does the assembly. The advisor owns every recommendation, every number, every word that goes to a client. Outputs are source-attributed, so any figure in a review deck or a plan can be traced back to the underlying data before the meeting. That is not a limitation, that is the design, and it is the right one for advisory work.

What configured Claude actually looks like.

Specific workflows, configured for the way your practice already serves its clients. Not generic capability lists.

01
Client portfolio reviews
Holdings, performance, and allocations assembled into a review deck in your firm's format, with the talking points that matter for this client surfaced and the source for every figure attached. You walk into the meeting ready to talk, not still building the deck.
02
Meeting prep
A pre-meeting brief on the client's situation, recent activity, outstanding items, and the questions you should be ready for. Built from the records the practice already keeps, in the format your team reads.
03
Financial planning deliverables
A draft plan or proposal in your firm's template, customized to the client's situation, with the assumptions called out and every number traceable to its source. The advisor owns the recommendation; the document build is not the bottleneck.
04
Client reporting and follow-up
Meeting notes turned into the file documentation compliance expects and the follow-up email the client expects, in the same afternoon. The work that used to get pushed lands the day of the conversation.
05
Research and product synthesis
Market commentary, manager updates, and product literature distilled for what is relevant to this client meeting, not a generic monthly memo. The reading that piles up gets read, in the form your team will actually use.
Proof
Why us, specifically

We implement Claude for financial services firms. It is what we do.

Shannon Advisory is built around one job: getting Claude actually working inside small and midsize organizations. For an advisory practice, that means the quarterly review deck is ready when you walk into the meeting, the follow-up email is in the client's inbox the same afternoon, and every number in the plan can be traced back to its source before it lands in front of the client.

We are building the firm around formal Claude certification, with our team pursuing Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect credential.

Start with one workflow.

For most practices, the right first step is a scoped engagement: one high-leverage workflow, fully configured, with a fixed timeline and a money-back guarantee. If the practice needs ongoing implementation capacity, the fractional Head of AI retainer takes over from there.

Recommended entry point
Scoped Engagement

One high-leverage workflow, fully implemented. Four to six weeks from kickoff to handoff. From $7,500. If the workflow does not work as scoped, you pay nothing.

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Not sure where to start? The call is the right next step. See the fractional Head of AI retainer for ongoing capacity.

FAQ

Questions advisors ask before the first call.

We're a small advisory practice. Is this built for us?

Yes. This page is for the independent practice: the RIA, the wealth manager, the financial planner running a book of business with a small team. The work the page covers, portfolio reviews, meeting prep, planning deliverables, client reporting and follow-up, is the work that pulls at a small advisory practice. We configure Claude for how your firm actually does that work and how your clients expect to hear from you.

Can Claude work with our client data and reporting securely?

Anthropic operates the infrastructure that handles enterprise security and compliance for Claude. Our work is the configuration layer on top. For an advisory practice, that means we map data flow before writing a prompt: where client information lives, what stays inside the firm, what gets sent to Claude, and which deployment posture matches your obligations. We do not make compliance claims on our own behalf. We design the workflow around the posture your practice needs.

How does Claude handle accuracy on client-facing numbers?

Source attribution is part of the configuration, not an afterthought. Every number Claude produces is traceable back to the underlying data: a cell in the spreadsheet, a line in the statement, a row in the report. The advisor verifies the numbers before anything goes to a client; that is the design, and it is the right one for advisory work. We build the workflow so verification is a five-minute review, not a rebuild.

Where does Claude actually help an advisor day to day?

The work between client meetings. The quarterly review deck assembled in your firm's format, ready for you to walk in. The pre-meeting brief on the client's situation, recent activity, and outstanding items. The follow-up note and the file documentation drafted from the meeting. The planning deliverable built in your template, customized to the client. The market or product research distilled for what is relevant to this client, not a generic monthly memo. The advisor still owns the recommendation. Claude does the assembly.

Pick one workflow. Ship it in six weeks.

An honest conversation about your practice, the work that is eating your week, and whether we can help.

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