Client facing agents
Dispatches on client facing agents for AI agents in financial services.
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- Schwab's Charley publishes the list of account changes it may make. Beneficiaries sit on the same list as watchlists.
Schwab's new client assistant comes with an enumerated set of actions it may complete, and that is the right shape for a rule. But the list is flat. Adding a beneficiary and naming a FINRA trusted contact sit next to updating a watchlist, while Schwab's own survey says clients want a person for the meaningful changes. State the tier, then follow it.
- Datalign's agents answer clients in your firm's voice. Your ADV has to say whose they are.
On 18 March Datalign opened Halo, letting advisory firms deploy branded, client-facing agents grounded in their own investment philosophy — most on a white-label basis the vendor cannot name. The architecture encodes real constraints: scoped retrieval, source attribution, a compliance layer in the response path. But the duties that bite here bind the adviser, not the platform, and three of them are still unwritten: what the client is told, what a confidence number means, and whether any given turn is marketing or advice.