AI for financial advisers: client files stay in the practice.

An advice practice runs on documents that regulators expect you to produce on demand: statements of advice, file notes, review records, years of client correspondence. AI is built for exactly this work, and client financial information is exactly what should not be pasted into cloud tools. Ermos hardware puts the drafting and retrieval capability inside the practice, where the client files already live. Our current unit is Dominion.

What your team does with it

Advice document drafting support

First drafts of SOAs, ROAs and review letters in your templates, grounded in the client file, for the adviser to review and own.

File notes from meetings

Turn meeting notes into structured file records that evidence the advice process, ready for adviser sign-off.

Review preparation

Pull together a client's position, prior advice and correspondence into a review pack the adviser verifies.

Client correspondence

Draft update letters and responses grounded in the client's actual file rather than boilerplate.

Paraplanning support

Summarise product information and prior positions from your own research library, cited to the documents.

Practice knowledge

New staff query templates, processes and past treatments instead of interrupting a senior adviser.

The compliance frame, plainly

An AFS licensee's general obligations under section 912A of the Corporations Act 2001 include adequate risk management systems and competent provision of services; how client data moves through third-party tools sits squarely inside that. Advice record-keeping obligations mean the file has to show your work, and the best interests duty makes the documentation trail the evidence. Alongside all of it, client financial information is personal information under the Privacy Act 1988, with the APP 8 cross-border question raised by any offshore AI processing. None of these instruments prohibits AI; all of them make you accountable for where client information travels. Processing that stays inside the practice keeps that answer short.

Advisers comparing cloud tools should read our ChatGPT Enterprise comparison, which covers what the enterprise tier genuinely gets right and what it cannot change.

Built for how a practice actually runs

Your Ermos unit is installed on your network and fully managed: monitoring, model updates and support included, with ErmosIQ tuning the models to your templates, your advice style and your processes. Advice remains the adviser's: the unit drafts and retrieves, people decide.

The use case library

Process-level guides to running specific workflows on an Ermos unit, each on its own page. We add to this library as clients show us new ways they work.

Dominion is priced per unit, per month on a 12-month term, sized to your practice: unlimited users, no per-user licences, no usage charges. Exact pricing is confirmed in the scoping consultation.

Common questions

Can financial advisers use ChatGPT with client information?
Client financial information is personal information under the Privacy Act, and a licensee's s912A risk management obligations extend to how tools handle it. Sending it to an offshore cloud service raises questions many licensees prefer not to carry; keeping the processing in-practice removes them.
Does the unit produce compliant advice documents?
It drafts from your templates and the client file; advisers review, complete and own every document. Compliance lives in your advice process, and the unit is drafting support inside it, not a substitute for it.
Will our licensee approve it?
Licensees typically assess tools on where data goes, who can access it and how it is secured. A no-egress unit inside your office gives short answers to all three, and we support licensee due diligence during scoping.
What about our existing planning software?
The unit sits alongside it as the drafting and knowledge layer over your documents and correspondence. It does not replace your planning, modelling or CRM systems.

See Dominion answering from your own documents.

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