Every week, someone at your firm spends hours downloading custodian files, cleaning up columns, combining reports, and reformatting everything for billing or review. I set that up to run automatically, so finished Excel files are waiting in a folder instead.
What I do
If your team runs the same process every week, it's worth looking at whether it can run on its own.
How it works
Your team keeps working exactly as they do today. The only change is that finished files appear in a folder instead of at the end of a manual process.
Your team saves Excel or CSV files into a dedicated OneDrive folder, the same way you'd save any file. No upload buttons, no portals.
A process built around your firm picks up the files, applies the same logic every time: combining, filtering, cleaning, and formatting. It runs without anyone pressing a button.
Completed Excel files land in your output folder. Originals are archived. Every input and output is logged and retained for seven years.
Why Fluid Processes
A lot of automation is built by developers who haven't spent much time around a billing run. I'm a CFA charterholder who builds automation, so I have some useful context about the financial logic behind the data, not just the file formats.
Every process I build is custom. I'll sit down with you, go through the inputs, the outputs, and the edge cases that only show up at quarter-end, and build something around how your firm actually works.
CFA charterholder. I have a decent grasp of RIA operations, fee structures, custodian data, and the compliance context around client reporting. That tends to matter when the details get into financial specifics.
Everything is built from scratch around your firm's exact process. You don't adopt my system. I build around yours.
Encrypted in transit and at rest. Hosted on U.S. infrastructure. Every input and output logged. Full data handling policy available on request.
Custodians change their export formats. Your process evolves. When that happens, I update the automation. That's part of the engagement.
Every output lands in your folder for review before it goes anywhere. The automation handles the repetitive part. The rest stays with you.
Book a short call and we'll walk through one of your recurring processes together. By the end, you'll have a clear sense of whether it's a good candidate and roughly what it would take to automate it.