# How do wealth managers and brokerages use AI agents? > Wealth managers and brokerages use AI agents for research and compliance work that ran by hand. Source: https://www.homodeus.co/answers/ai-agents-for-wealth-managers-and-brokerages | Language: en | Updated: 2026-10-31 --- Wealth managers and brokerages use AI agents for research and compliance work that ran by hand. Sterling is the AI inside a US wealth manager's own wealth management system: it answers the advisor from approved sources and runs the firm's research around the clock, in place of a rented black box. Scribe turns a US brokerage's month of onboarding paperwork into a packet a compliance officer signs. ## What stays with a person Neither agent acts alone on what a regulator or a client would hold the firm to. Sterling does the research and shows its work, and it never moves a client's money on its own. Scribe never files on its own: a compliance officer reads the finished packet and signs. ## Sterling, A US Wealth Manager Sterling is the AI inside a US wealth manager's own wealth management system. It reads each client's portfolio and risk profile, answers the advisor from approved sources and live calculations, and runs the firm's own research around the clock, so the firm owns the intelligence behind its portfolios instead of renting a black box. An advisor asks about a client, a portfolio or a strategy. The AI reads the client's risk profile and positions, runs the calculation and answers from approved sources, with every answer checked against the compliance rules and logged. An always-on agentic layer runs hundreds to a thousand experiments a day, each one testing a way to sharpen the firm's own strategies, while a model layer retrains overnight. The firm's theses are encoded, so the engine runs the firm's own logic. Crash protection works strategy by strategy. The engine pulls back on the part of the portfolio that is exposed and leaves the rest at work, instead of hedging the whole book on one signal. The engine does the research and shows its work; it never moves a client's money on its own. The partners make the call that a client is paying a person to make, with an engine behind them in place of a black box. - [Read the full case](https://www.homodeus.co/sterling.md) ## Scribe, A US Brokerage Scribe turns a brokerage's client onboarding from a month of compliance paperwork into a packet built in minutes by a team of agents, with a compliance officer signing at the end. Onboarding a client meant filling and checking the same forms by hand, custodian by custodian, back and forth for weeks. The client waited, and the advisor spent the time on forms instead of the relationship. A team of agents does the work together: each reads the client's data, fills its part of the packet, and checks it against the rule it has to satisfy, across every custodian the client needs. The month of forms is built in minutes. The agent never files on its own. A compliance officer reads the finished packet and signs, so the speed never costs the firm its standing with a regulator. - [Read the full case](https://www.homodeus.co/scribe.md) ## Questions ### Can a wealth manager own its research engine? Yes. Sterling encodes the firm's own theses and thresholds, runs hundreds to a thousand experiments a day and retrains overnight, so the firm runs its own logic on an engine it owns. ### How long does client onboarding take with agents? At the US brokerage behind Scribe, three to five analysts spent up to a month per client. A team of agents now builds the packet in minutes, ready for review the same day. ### Does automated onboarding satisfy compliance? Every form is built to the rule it has to satisfy, and the evidence behind each field is kept. A compliance officer signs before anything is filed. ## Related - [How do you capture tribal knowledge with AI agents?](https://www.homodeus.co/answers/capture-tribal-knowledge-with-ai-agents.md) - [Should I hire an AI consultancy or build an internal AI team?](https://www.homodeus.co/answers/ai-consultancy-vs-internal-team.md) - [Who builds production AI for insurance companies, broker-dealers and financial services?](https://www.homodeus.co/answers/ai-for-insurance-and-financial-services.md) - [How do law firms use AI agents?](https://www.homodeus.co/answers/ai-agents-for-law-firms.md) --- [Site index](https://www.homodeus.co/llms.txt) | [Ask this site](https://www.homodeus.co/api/llms?query=HomoDeus)