For Australian advice practices · 3–25 advisers · $100M–$2B FUA

Advice you can provide and prove.
At scale.

Walk out of every audit. Sleep through ASIC scrutiny. 100+ hours per month back to your clients. Meeting prep in minutes, not hours. Portfolio rebalancing in days, not two weeks. You don’t migrate off anything. Surity360 sits above your existing stack and proves your advice from the systems you already run.

Arkie does the admin — safely. Grounded in dated, sourced evidence; the advice stays the licensed adviser’s. Meet Arkie →

Seven Australian advice systems — XPlan or other advice apps, Worksorted or other CRM, HUB24/Netwealth/North or other wrap platforms, MyProsperity, Advice Designer or other advice-document apps, SharePoint — sit below a unified Surity360 layer (Ontology, Practice Brain, Temporal compliance), reconciled along a BID evidence chain at a point in time.
48%
Adviser decline since 2019
8–12
Hrs/week below-the-line drag per adviser
$115K
Opportunity cost per adviser per year
~4 hrs
Your time for the 30-day pilot

Australian advice practices don’t have a demand problem.

They have a capacity problem.

Designed for the way Australian advice actually works.

Ask Arkie · the four-step adviser workflow

Arkie absorbs the work around the advice.

A 60-minute advice meeting carries 8–13 hours of work around it — before and after, across the whole advice journey. Arkie gets Discuss → Assemble → Prepare into pre-final shape before the meeting; then after it, files the outcome and prepares the implementation paperwork — so the paraplanner and adviser finalise and deliver the advice instead of assembling it from scratch. We prep. We don’t advise. Click any card.

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The adviser advises. Arkie does the admin, grounded in the BID evidence record.

Meet Arkie.

Arkie is the conversational surface for the four-step adviser workflow — Discuss → Assemble → Prepare → Deliver. Advisers ask Arkie in plain English; Surity360 assembles the answer from the governed data layer. Arkie never advises. Arkie never decides. Arkie surfaces what the adviser needs to walk in ready.

The business case — regardless of when you sell

The acquisition multiple is set by your data,
not your story.

What this means for your practice

Capital-backed consolidators are aggressive buyers of Australian advice practices in 2026. Whether you are five years from an exit or fifteen, the dynamic is the same: the multiple they pay is set by what they have to fix after they buy you. A fragmented book is a discount. A practice with a unified client record and an auditable evidence chain is a premium. This is not a retirement question. It is a capital question — and the answer is the same at every stage of a practice’s life.

Discount
Fragmented data, gaps in BID evidence, manual reconciliation. The buyer has to fix it post-deal — and that cost is taken out of your number.
Premium
A unified client record. An immutable evidence chain. Compliance discipline already in place. Nothing to fix — the value flows straight into the multiple.
In Practice

Where senior-adviser time goes.
And where it doesn't have to.

Four workflows that consume capacity in every advice practice. Four problems Surity360 closes.

01
Client meeting prep Review-ready in under ten minutes. Not forty-five.
75–150 hrs/adviser/yr

The adviser opens one screen. Fact find, life plan goals, current portfolio, performance against benchmark and goals, strategy options scored against the client’s circumstances, retirement projections, key SharePoint documents — all dated, all sourced, all in one view.

Before a review meeting, an adviser typically pulls from five separate systems: XPlan or CRM for fact find, risk profile and goals, several platform portals for holdings with sparse performance data (some like industry super require a statement request), a separate tool for projections. The assembly takes 30–90 minutes per client. It is also where errors enter — the goals and facts in XPlan have not been reconciled with the online fact find update the client submitted before the meeting.

With Surity360, prep for a clean file takes under ten minutes. The life plan and fact find are current and in sync. The portfolio view is live. The strategy options are already scored. The meeting starts with the client, not the data.

Time recovered 75–150 hours per adviser per year 30–45 minutes per meeting × 150–200 review meetings annually — the equivalent of two to four weeks of senior-adviser time returned to client work.
02
Advice development and SOA The BID evidence chain built as the advice is built — not reconstructed at audit time.
50–150 hrs/adviser/yr

The review meeting ends. The advice development begins.

Between the client meeting and the SOA presentation, the adviser builds the recommendation: what to propose, what alternatives were considered, and why each was ruled out. That reasoning — invisible to the client — is what §961B(2)(e) requires to be on the file.

In most practices, that process is fragmented. Fact find and risk profile are in XPlan. The current portfolio is across platform portals. The strategy analysis happens in the adviser’s head or in a Word document. Alternatives are summarised in boilerplate rather than scored against the client’s actual circumstances. The SOA is drafted from notes, not from structured data.

The Strategy Explorer draws on the canonical client record — current fact find, risk profile, goals, and portfolio — and scores strategy options against the client’s specific circumstances, objectives, preferences, and time horizon. The ADW captures the reasoning as the advice is developed: what was recommended, what was considered, and why each alternative was ruled out — structured, dated, attached to the SOA. The BID evidence chain is built during advice development, not reconstructed afterwards.

For a Hold No Change or minor further advice ROA, the same infrastructure produces the evidence with materially less effort — the prior strategy is already on record and the scoring is already done.

Time recovered 50–150 hours per adviser per year 60–90 minutes per advice file × 50–100 advice files annually. A complete BID evidence chain on every file also materially reduces remediation exposure at audit.
03
Account rebalancing 100 to 200 ROAs. Half a day, not two weeks.
30–65 hrs/event

The adviser decides to move all Growth clients from VGS to VGAD to add currency hedging, or shift surplus cash into an Enhanced Income product across the book. The decision takes five minutes. Everything else is handled.

For a single-line rebalance — currency hedge adjustment, cash yield optimisation, ETF substitution — the advisory work is straightforward. The administration is not. A book-wide switch can require 100–200 ROAs per adviser: each one drafted, sent to the client for consent, and filed to the client record. Every step runs through a different system, and none of them talk to each other. At that volume, the paperwork takes days.

Surity360 identifies the affected clients from the HUB24 alignment dashboard, pre-populates the rebalance rationale for each ROA, sends them to clients for consent, and files each response to the client record automatically. The adviser makes the call. The platform does the rest.

Time recovered 30–65 hours per rebalance event ~20 minutes per ROA × 100–200 clients, reduced to under half a day. A practice running two or three book-wide rebalances per year recovers four to six weeks of adviser capacity from this workflow alone.
04
SMA oversight and BID evidence Performance monitored. Cost justified. Conflicts on the file.
Evidence on every review

Outsourcing the rebalancing to an SMA manager removes one operational problem. It creates three compliance ones.

Performance monitoring. The SMA manager reports against their own chosen benchmark. The adviser’s obligation is different: to monitor whether the product continues to serve each client’s specific objectives, risk profile, and time horizon — not whether it is performing well in the abstract.

Cost justification. At every review, §961B(2)(e) requires the adviser to demonstrate that the SMA’s additional cost over a low-cost alternative — a direct ETF, a model portfolio — is justified by a quantifiable benefit. Diversification, factor exposure, active return, drawdown management: whatever the claim is, it needs to be specific to this client’s circumstances and on the file. A boilerplate paragraph stating the product is suitable is not an evidence chain. ASIC has reviewed this and said so explicitly.

Conflicts of interest. Where the licensee or practice receives rebates or volume payments from SMA providers, every recommendation of that product carries a conflict. The file needs to show the recommendation was made in the client’s interest despite the conflict — not because of it.

Surity360 monitors each SMA across 1D, 4W, 3M, YTD, FY, 1Y, and 3Y horizons, benchmarked against the indexes and peer funds the adviser selects. The ADW captures the cost justification as structured fields — concentration, correlation, factor exposure against the low-cost alternative — and generates a BID-ready file note paragraph tied to the client’s specific circumstances. Conflict arrangements are flagged at the point of recommendation and tracked through to disclosure.

The adviser still makes every call. The file now shows why.

Risk closed Structured evidence on every SMA review Cost justification, benchmark monitoring, and conflict disclosure — built into the review workflow, not assembled afterwards for the auditor.
Live in production

Three roles. Three days a week recovered.

From NJBFS Financial Services — Hobart, AFSL-licensed, the pilot tenant since 2025.

“Meeting prep used to mean asking offshore support to log into XPlan, build a client review pack, pull the wrap statement, find the MyProsperity fact find. Hours of team time, and I still walked in feeling I had missed something. Now I ask Arkie. Ten to fifteen minutes. I walk in ready.”

Nigel Barling
Principal · NJBFS Financial Services
Meeting prep: hours of distributed team time → 10–15 minutes.

“The team’s workload runs from one screen. Data stays in sync across every platform we use. Quality exceptions surface before the adviser sees them. Turnaround times are measured continuously, not retrospectively. Stuck jobs go to the Hit Squad. Nothing falls through the seam between systems any more.”

Susan Davidson
Head of Operations · NJBFS Financial Services
A day a week back to the practice’s operational capacity.

“I now build the ADW with every potential strategy scored against the client’s goals, persona and mindset — before I draft a word of the SOA. The rationale is right first time. The SOA writes itself: concise, tailored to the client’s needs, objectives and preferences, defensible against any review. Hours of XPlan library editing and consistency checks have come back.”

Lai Devera
Senior Paraplanner · NJBFS Financial Services
Hours of XPlan library editing and consistency checking recovered per SOA.
The Problem

You already know the problem.

If you run an advice practice in Australia, you recognise these. The compliance gaps are the legal symptom. The capacity gap is the management problem.

Today · the status quo Seven systems. Zero single view.
  1. XPlan
    SOA / ROA
  2. Worksorted
    CRM, AAAs
  3. HUB24 / North
    Platforms
  4. SharePoint
    Documents
  5. MyProsperity
    Fact find
  6. Advice Designer / other
    Advice docs / file notes
The partial exception
XPlan and MyProsperity have a real two-way integration that covers ~80–90% of fact-find fields (group members, employment, income/expenses, retirement, assets/liabilities, health, insurance, life goals, estate planning). Useful, real, automated. It does not cover the rest of the stack — file notes, BID consents, AAA/OFA lifecycle, ROA filings, document classification, portfolio holdings, trade execution. The compliance evidence chain still breaks at every other seam.
Connection legend Two-way (fact-find slice only) Limited 1-way (fewer than 20 fields) No integration Storage only

Key takeaway. Each system operates in isolation. The exceptions — a one-way under-20-field push from XPlan into Worksorted, an XPlan ↔ MyProsperity two-way fact-find sync, and a storage-only link between SharePoint and MyProsperity — prove the gap; they don't close it. The compliance evidence chain still breaks at every seam.

The fragmentation tax
Every hour your team spends reconciling XPlan, Worksorted, HUB24, North and SharePoint by hand is revenue going to the integration tax — not to client outcomes, not to growth, not to your senior advisers' time. Each of those systems is excellent at what it does. None of them was built to see across the others. That gap is where your hours, your evidence, and your margin disappear.
Where the tax shows up Six signals principals raise — click to expand.
01
Implementation drift Does this client’s HUB24 portfolio still match the risk profile we set in XPlan? An SOA had them at 50/50. The position moved to 70/30 on platform. Nobody will notice until audit.

When the SOA is written, every system is in sync. Drift starts the moment an interim change hits the platform — a model upgrade, an ROA, an adviser-initiated rebalance — without simultaneous edits to four other system fields. The static risk-profile records in XPlan, Worksorted and MyProsperity sit untouched until next year’s review. For up to twelve months the firm has a HUB24 implementation that disagrees with three of its own records of who the client is.

Historically, advisers shrugged at this — the CRM was a contact database, not the source of truth. Now the CRM is the firm’s compliance monitoring tool and the audit-evidence system of record. When ops staff need to act on a client — process a withdrawal, vary a fee, update a beneficiary — they hit four different stated risk profiles and cannot tell which is correct. Every contradiction slows the team down.

02
Review pipeline slippage That review has slipped again — the client cancelled twice, then we were waiting on the accountant, then the SOA sat on the adviser’s desk for three weeks while the team was buried in other files.

Worksorted holds the renewal date. Nothing holds the running narrative — what is outstanding, who owns the next step, why the meeting keeps slipping, how close the AAA clock is. Each handover (research → ADW → paraplanner draft → adviser sign-off → client meeting) lives in someone’s inbox or head. The partner finds out at the next pipeline meeting, or at renewal.

03
Adviser capacity My senior adviser is doing data entry again.

Below-the-line drag eats 8–12 hours per week per adviser, even with offshore paraplanning. That is roughly $115,000 per year of lost client-facing time.

04
BID evidence chain If ASIC walked in tomorrow, could I evidence every BID decision in 2025 — what we knew about the client at the time, the alternatives we considered, and why we recommended what we did?

Probably not without weeks of file-rummaging. The temporal-compliance bar is not new — what was known about the client at the time, the specific alternatives considered (not a generic boilerplate list), and a file-note evidence chain that hangs together end to end. A signed ATP or a disclosure paragraph in the SOA was never enough on its own.

In the paper era it was carried by handwritten fact-find notes and diary entries from phone calls. In a modern team practice — multiple advisers, paraplanners, offshore implementation, support — that evidence is supposed to live in XPlan or Worksorted file notes. Often it does not. Even when it does, surfacing it for one client at one moment in time, months later, is a coordination problem fragmented stacks were never built to solve. Fact finds full of numbers and broad goals miss the qualitative texture (preferences, options ruled out, why) that BID actually wants. ASIC’s October 2025 offshore review and BID intensification raised the cost of getting it wrong, not the bar.

05
Compliance at scale We grew, and now compliance feels heavier, not lighter.

Each new client multiplies documents, renewals, signatures, and follow-ups. Manual oversight does not scale — and a fragmented book is what costs you one to two turns of multiple when it is time to sell or transition.

06
SMA materiality How do I justify every SMA against a cheaper ETF, every review, at the $50 materiality bar?

Compliance lawyers now treat $50/year as the BID materiality threshold for product cost comparisons. Every SMA in every review must show that the fee differential over a cheaper alternative is offset by quantifiable diversification benefit and satisfies the other key BID criteria — return objectives, time horizon, tax/CGT position, liquidity, turnover suitability, ESG preferences, client familiarity. Spreadsheets cover the cost half. Nobody has the rest — and certainly not in a paragraph the BID file note can use.

The Platform

One layer above your entire stack.

Surity360 sits above your planning software, any CRM, any wrap platform, any digital fact find and your document store — and gives you four things those systems individually cannot:

It reads from each system, reconciles contradictions on a per-field basis, and writes back where the source-of-truth says it should. Ontology-first, not warehouse-first — a typed object model the AI was always meant to operate on, not a dashboard layered on the data you already have.

With Surity360 · one control plane Existing stack in. One auditable record out.
Your existing stack
XPlan
Financial planning / CRM
Limited sync
Worksorted / CRM
Workflow & tasks
Two-way
HUB24 / North / etc
Wrap platform data
Two-way
SharePoint
Documents
Feed-only
MyProsperity / other
Digital fact find
Two-way
Advice Designer / other
Advice docs / file notes
Feed-only
Surity360
Control plane
  • Ingestion
  • Reconciliation
  • Orchestration
Surity360 outputs
Client 360 View
One screen per client
Compliance Cockpit
AAA / Fees / BID evidence / SOAs
Audit Trail
Every change, every source
BID Evidence + ROA Filing
Capture, classify, file
Connection legend Two-wayBi-directional sync Feed-onlyOne-way ingest LimitedSpecific data only
The Opportunity

Automate below the line.
Operate above it.

The adviser’s job hasn’t changed. What’s changed is which half of it the platform handles. The firms that win operate above the line — they know the client, the family, the goals, the anxieties. Surity360 automates below the line so your advisers have the bandwidth to get there.

Above the Line
The person
  • Goals, family, life transitions
  • Retirement timing and anxieties
  • An eight-dimension life-wellbeing map
  • The conversations that win clients for life
"Know me, know my family, understand me, simplify me, reduce my anxiety."
Below the Line — automated by Surity360
The product
  • AAA expiry tracking and alerts
  • Risk profile reconciliation across platforms
  • Fee consent and OFA lifecycle
  • BID evidence filing and audit trail
  • Document classification and gap detection
Capabilities · What Arkie sits on top of

What Surity360 gives you.

Six capabilities — the answers Arkie surfaces when an adviser asks, and the work Discuss → Assemble → Prepare runs upstream of every advice conversation. One platform. No stack migration required.

01
Client 360 View Walk into every review meeting knowing the picture in 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.
~50 hrs saved/adviser/yr

Compliance health, portfolio state, life-plan context, fee status, recent activity — one screen, one source. An adviser typically pulls from five separate systems before a review: CRM for fact find and goals, platform portals for holdings, a separate tool for projections. The assembly takes 30–90 minutes per client and is where errors enter.

With Surity360, prep for a clean file takes under ten minutes. The life plan and fact find are current and in sync. The portfolio view is live. The meeting starts with the client, not the data. Tab-switching across seven systems goes away.

02
AAA & Fee deadlines · BID evidence · Surity360 Guardian Compliance posture on every client, every night — before the auditors ask.
Every client. Every night.

Three different problems, one system. AAAs and fee consents have deadlines — every expiring one surfaces before it becomes the silent enforcement event. BID does not have a deadline: it is the standard the advice must meet under §961B every time personal advice is given.

Surity360 Guardian closes the loop: a deterministic rules engine that evaluates all your licensee’s or your own audit scorecard questions per client, nightly, and emits a per-client compliance posture report with severity flags, evidence citations, and plain-English remediation hints. When the auditors walk in, the answers are already on the screen.

03
Bulk Rebalance with Personalised ROAs Fifty clients rebalanced in days, not weeks. Every one compliant.
Full rebalance cycle, fully compliant

When the investment committee changes a fund — VGS to VGAD, STW to AAA — Surity360 identifies every affected client, generates personalised ROAs, captures BID consent, and tracks execution across HUB24 and North. A workflow that previously required an adviser to process each client individually becomes a supervised batch operation.

Fifty clients in days, not weeks — with every ROA personalised, every BID consent recorded, and every execution tracked.

04
Fact Find Extraction Eight-dimension life-wellbeing data from your existing MyProsperity fact finds. No new platform.
No new platform required

Surity360 extracts an eight-dimension life-wellbeing map — money confidence, work and purpose, health, family, environment — directly from your existing MyProsperity fact finds. No second subscription, no double data entry.

The above-the-line life-plan conversation, on the data you already collect. The structured extraction feeds the Client 360 view and forms the evidential basis for goals-based advice under RG 175.

05
Palantir-Grade Audit Trail Every BID decision, evidenced. Every field change, sourced. One click away.
Every BID decision, evidenced

When a senior adviser leaves, the relationship knowledge stays. When ASIC asks, the evidence chain is one click away. Every field change, every source, every timestamp — across every system. Bronze, Silver, Gold data lineage.

Immutable. Exportable. ASIC-ready. The audit trail is not a retrospective exercise — it is built continuously as the advice operates.

06
Model Portfolio Monitoring & Benchmarking Your model, your benchmarks, six period horizons — on the adviser’s screen before the client review.
Six period horizons, your peer set

At review time, “it’s gone up” is no longer enough. Most advisers see one of two things: client account performance after the fact, or Morningstar articles about the asset class — not your model. Surity360 sits in the middle, monitoring your model portfolios across 1D, 4W, 3M, YTD, FY, 1Y, and 3Y horizons, benchmarked against the indexes and peer funds you choose.

Drift, drawdown, and relative return surface on the adviser’s screen before the investment-committee call and the client review — review-time evidence the BID file note can rest on.

Outcomes before software

Built agent-native.
From Day 0.

Same ontology-first data architecture as Palantir’s government and enterprise platforms.

Every platform promises to fix the fragmentation. Most add to it. Surity360 was designed from the compliance outcome backwards — the evidence chain an ASIC review requires, then the architecture to produce it continuously across every system you already run. That is what agent-native means: not AI layered on a data warehouse, but operations that execute against a live ontology. AI on clean, governed data beats AI on fragmented tables. Every time.

  1. Ontology

    We model reality, not tables.

    Every concept in Surity360 — a client, an SOA, a fee consent, a portfolio drift event, a BID obligation — is modelled as a typed object with its own state machine, sources, and obligations. Not a row in a CRM. Not a screen. A real-world object the system understands. Bronze, Silver, Gold lineage. Every field carries source, date verified, and conflict status. When a compliance auditor asks "was the risk profile current when you issued the SOA?", the answer is a query against versioned objects — not a forensic exercise across three systems.

    "We didn't build a CRM and bolt AI on top. We built a reality model that AI was always meant to operate on."
  2. Practice Brain

    Synthesis, not chat.

    Every client gets a synthesised brief refreshed nightly — summary, recent activity, open commitments, tensions, and sources. One page, not three systems. Read in two minutes before the meeting. This is not retrieval-augmented chat over scattered documents. It is a structured per-client file tree where every claim cites its source, enforced by a 98% citation-rate gate at write time. Conflicts are pre-resolved by a documented order. Stale facts are flagged before the adviser sees them.

    "RAG retrieves text. We model reality."
  3. Temporal compliance

    What was true, when, and who decided.

    Every field change — every value mutation, every source-of-truth shift, every override — is logged with old value, new value, source, and trigger. When ASIC asks what you knew, when, and how you knew it, the answer is a query, not a fortnight of file-rummaging. A 365-day rolling change log today. A 7-year statutory evidence chain on the roadmap. The architecture that makes both possible is already live.

    "Most software answers what is true now. Surity360 answers what was true, when, and who decided."
Why this is structurally different

Ontology, not tables.

XPlan, Plutosoft, AdviserLogic, Worksorted and Practifi are excellent at what they do. They are also built on traditional CRUD databases — rows, columns, tables. That architecture is right for storage and reporting. It is the wrong architecture for AI to reason over reliably, or for a defensible BID evidence chain to reconstruct what was true at a specific moment in the past.

Surity360 is built the way Palantir built its government and enterprise platforms. Every concept — a client, an SOA, a fee consent, a BID obligation, a portfolio drift event — is a typed object with sources, state and history, not a row in a table. The AI operates on objects with provenance, not strings with hopes. The audit trail can reconstruct any moment because the objects know their own past. An agent can take a defensible action because the object model knows what is allowed, by whom, and on what evidence.

Adding a data warehouse or BI layer does not solve this. A data warehouse can query your existing systems faster — it is a better search engine over a folder of linked spreadsheets where someone has been adding columns for years without a changelog. It inherits whatever each source says is currently true. It cannot resolve the conflicts between them. It cannot reconstruct what the fact find said on the day the advice was given. It cannot file the note, flag the expiry, or execute the compliance action. A data warehouse is a read layer built on broken inputs. Surity360 fixes the inputs.

That is what “Palantir-grade” means on an Australian advice file. Not the brand — the architecture.

Why “Palantir-grade” is defensible, not branding

Four principles hold the architecture together.

Modelled to the regulated reality. The objects in the system are Fact Find, SOA, ROA, AAA, Fee Consent, BID Consent, Strategy Matrix — the things on the file. Not generic CRM rows. The language in the code is the language ASIC, AFCA and your licensee already use.

Every regulated fact lives in one place. “Risk profile”, “AAA period”, “in-scope advice”, “active client” each have one canonical definition, resolved from the Gold layer, never re-implemented per feature. The platforms and CRMs you already run are sources, not truths.

The model grows without breaking. A new attribute, a new relationship, a new object type — these extend the schema. The Ontology Manager refuses to deploy a breaking change against records that have not been migrated. The system evolves at the pace of regulation without rewriting itself every quarter.

Ingest is wide; consumers are narrow. Source systems deliver whatever they deliver — raw, verbatim, immutable. The Practice Brain, the Guardian rules engine and the Strategy Matrix read against a narrowed, validated, citation-gated structure. Swap a source system (a different CRM, a different wrap platform) and no downstream consumer breaks.

Software engineers will recognise these as Domain-Driven Design, DRY with the Rule of Three, Open/Closed, and Producer-Extends / Consumer-Super — the canon Palantir's government and enterprise platforms are built on. “Palantir-grade” is the discipline, not the brand.

AI bolted onto a CRM
  • Tells a confident story from one system's data
  • Hallucinates when the data is partial — and the data is always partial
  • Sees only the current state. The past is a PDF
  • Sells more seats and more prompts per month
Surity360 · agent-native from Day 0
  • Reconciles seven systems into one auditable record, then runs synthesis on top
  • Pre-resolves conflicts. Cites every fact. Rejects the output if a claim cannot be sourced
  • Replays the past — what changed, when, why, and which document or agent triggered it
  • Delivers outcomes — see below
  • Your advisers talk to Arkie — the AI assistant built on that record

CRMs model what happened. Surity360 proves it was right.

A New Category

System of Responsibility.

CRMs store data. Workflow tools track tasks. Both are static — the actual prep work happens outside them, in inboxes, scratch documents and offshore admin queues. Neither tells you whether the resulting advice is defensible either. Surity360 closes both gaps: it runs the prep upstream, and it proves the advice downstream.

System of Record
Stores client data
Salesforce · XPlan · Worksorted
Excellent at storing and retrieving data. Cannot tell you whether the advice built on that data is correct, complete, or defensible.
System of Workflow
Tracks tasks
Fin365 · Plutosoft · Worksorted
Excellent at recording task state. The work itself happens outside — in inboxes, scratch documents and offshore admin queues. Cannot see across multiple systems or verify the quality of the evidence those tasks produce.
System of Responsibility
Does the prep. Proves the advice.
Surity360
The layer above CRMs and workflow trackers, which capture state but never do the work itself. Surity360 runs the agentic workflow upstream of every advice conversation — Agents assemble the picture, prepare the brief, pre-populate the SOA, so the adviser walks in ready. It also manages obligations, surfaces gaps, coordinates evidence, and produces a provable compliance chain across every system in your stack — so the advice the adviser delivers is defensible by construction.
Risk Reframe

The risk isn't trying it.
The risk is standing still.

Most principals worry about the risk of trying a new platform. The bigger, quieter risk is the cost of not trying anything.

The trade Invisible risk now. Or a bounded pilot for ~4 hours of your time.
30-day pilot
Bounded, reversible risk · one quick win
Status quo
Invisible risk
High, silent, unknown timing
You will not see it before audit
$0 cash, ~4 hrs
Of your team's time, total
Free pilot. Sleep-at-night ROI.
Surface hidden gaps, prove the value, then scale with confidence.
Make the invisible visible
Surface silent compliance gaps before they impact clients or surface in audit.
Save a day or two of team time
Replace manual reviews and guesswork with cross-system automation.
Protect $100K+ events
Catch material gaps early. Reduce financial and reputational exposure to ASIC.
Sleep at night
Know your clients are covered and your compliance chain is provable on demand.
Outcome Confidence, time back, and zero-dollar surprises. Pilot it. Prove it. Scale it.

Three risks of standing still

01
A silent compliance gap surfaces in audit.
One ASIC enforcement event costs $100K–$1M+ in legal, remediation, PI premium uplift, and reputation damage. ASIC's October 2025 offshore review has made fragmented evidence a real, auditable liability — not a theoretical one.
02
Below-the-line drag eats your best advisers.
8 hours/week × $300/hour × 48 weeks = $115,000 per adviser per year of lost client-facing time. With 48% fewer advisers in the industry since 2019, every hour has never been more valuable.
03
The acquisition multiple is set by your data, not your story.
Capital-backed consolidators are aggressive buyers of Australian advice practices in 2026. The multiple they pay, and the seat they offer your senior advisers, is set by what they have to fix afterwards. A fragmented book is a discount. A practice with a unified client record and an auditable evidence chain is a premium. With a large share of principals approaching retirement, this is a pricing question, not a technology one.

Six reasons it is genuinely safe to pilot

Read-only first.
The default ingest layer only reads from your systems. Nothing in Worksorted, XPlan, HUB24 or SharePoint is altered until you explicitly turn on a write-back feature.
Bring your own stack.
We do not ask you to migrate off XPlan, Worksorted, HUB24, North, MyProsperity, SharePoint, or Advice Designer. We integrate with what you already have.
Free 30-day pilot, scoped to one quick win.
Pick one: AAA expiry dashboard, HUB24 alignment, or SMA cost-vs-diversification justification at the $50 BID materiality bar. Delivered on your live data inside 30 days. Walk away at any time — no migration cost, no obligation.
No data lock-in.
All data is exportable on demand (CSV, JSON, Parquet). Your client data is yours. The Gold layer is a copy of what already lives in your source systems.
Palantir-grade governance, not a startup hack.
Bronze/Silver/Gold data layering, immutable audit logs, role-based access, Google Cloud Secret Manager, Cloudflare Access on the perimeter. Built to ASIC scrutiny standard from day one. Australian data residency (Sydney region).
Bank-grade security underneath.
Surity360 sits on the same infrastructure global banks rely on — Google Cloud (Sydney) and MongoDB Atlas (Sydney), both independently certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, both encrypted in transit and at rest. Cloudflare Access guards the perimeter with mandatory two-factor authentication on every login. Application access is then gated by bcrypt-hashed passwords and role-based permissions. Secrets live in Google Cloud Secret Manager, never in code. Australian Privacy Act compliant; a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) forms part of the standard contract.
The Pilot

From zero to live data in 30 days.

Day 30 deliverable: a working Client 360 plus one of AAA expiry dashboard, HUB24 alignment, or SMA cost-vs-diversification justification at the $50 BID materiality bar — on your live data, with a written ROI estimate based on what we found.

1
Discovery call
30 minutes
We learn your stack, top pain points, and pick the quick-win deliverable.
2
Read-only credentials
1–2 hours
Least-privilege credentials for Worksorted, HUB24, SharePoint, MyProsperity.
3
Ingest + build
0 hours of yours
We do this. You do not. Typically 2–3 weeks to first usable dashboard.
4
Adviser walkthrough
45 minutes
One session showing your live data on the new screens.
5
Principal review
1 hour
Written ROI estimate. Continue or walk away — your call.
Total elapsed
~30 days · ~4 hours of your team's time

Implementation is a refundable A$5,000 fee credited against your first month's Steward bill if you convert at Day 30. Forfeited if you walk away — covers the founder's setup time. Waived for the first 3 practices per quarter, until further notice. To qualify: complete a discovery call, complete an initial assessment, and submit an application that we approve.

Why Now

Four forces are converging in 2026.

The window to put this foundation in place — quietly, on your own terms, without a forced migration — is closing now, not in twelve months.

01 Regulatory
ASIC's October 2025 offshore outsourcing review and the parallel Best Interests Duty intensification have made fragmented evidence a real, auditable liability. The cost of an enforcement event: $100K–$1M+. Fragmented evidence across seven systems is no longer tolerable. The bar applies to this year's reviews, not next year's.
02 Demographic
48% fewer advisers since 2019. Each remaining adviser carries more clients, more complexity, more compliance burden. Meanwhile, $4.5 trillion in superannuation means demand is surging. The only answer is leverage — and software is the lever.
03 Competitive
Capital-backed consolidators are aggressive buyers of Australian advice practices in 2026. The multiple they pay reflects what they have to fix post-deal: a fragmented book is a discount, a practice with a unified client record and a clean evidence chain is a premium. The premium is set on the day a buyer audits your stack — not on the day a competitor's roadmap ships. The regulatory bar above is already live for this year's reviews, so the only stack that earns a premium is one that is in place now.
04 Track record
Australian financial-services technology programs slip. The ones that ship often arrive narrower than promised. Waiting for a US data product to be adapted to Australian compliance — on a Phase 1 release a year out, then "rolled out over time" — is a bet against a long historical pattern. Meanwhile, the audit, the AAA renewal, the BID file note all happen this quarter. The compliance bar does not pause for a transformation program. Surity360 is live now.
About Surity360

Built in the practice.
Not in a pitch deck.

Surity360 is built by Australian advisers for Australian advice. Not adapted from a US RIA tool, not localised from a UK paraplanning platform — designed from day one against ASIC's BID standard, the FAAA's stewardship language, and the live Australian platform stack. It was specced, broken, and rebuilt inside a Tasmanian advice practice for two years before a single line of marketing copy was written. Every workflow on this page was carved out of a real Tuesday afternoon — not sketched on a whiteboard.

25+
Years operating as a Tasmanian advice practice
1,000s
Clients under advice across the live stack
100s
Comprehensive SOAs delivered every year
6
Live systems we run on every day — XPlan, Worksorted, HUB24, North, SharePoint, MyProsperity
We did not set out to build a software company. We set out to build the layer we kept wishing existed — the one that would let our team walk out of every audit, give our senior advisers their week back, and let us scale without scaling the integration tax. The version we ship to other practices is the version we use ourselves on Monday morning.
— The founders, Nigel Barling Financial Services

The founders

Founder · CEO
Dermot Crean
Platform architect · financial services technology
Dermot designed and built the Surity360 platform — the data layer, the integrations, the audit trail, the AI synthesis. He owns the engineering decisions that make the platform defensible to ASIC scrutiny on day one, and the product decisions that keep it usable on a busy Tuesday afternoon.
LinkedIn →
Partner
Nigel Barling
Senior financial adviser · 25+ years building NJBFS
Nigel founded Nigel Barling Financial Services in Hobart and has run it for over two decades. He has personally lived every workflow Surity360 automates — fact find to ROA, AAA renewal to BID evidence — across thousands of client engagements. He is the reason every feature is grounded in what an adviser actually does on a Wednesday morning.
njbfs.com.au →
The implementation team
Behind the founders sits an experienced onshore and offshore implementation team that runs the practice every day — the same team that uses Surity360 to file ROAs, reconcile portfolios, and prepare review packs. When we ship a feature to you, it has already survived a week of their scrutiny.
Why this matters to you
Most adviser technology is built by software companies. Their strength is polish; the gap is that they have never traced a missing BID consent across five inboxes or watched a senior adviser disappear into data entry on a Friday. Surity360 was built by people who do — in Australia, against the standards your licensee actually audits against.
Pricing

Less than the cost of one onshore admin. Replaces the equivalent of three to ten.

Per-adviser pricing anchored to true operational value: A$150–200K per adviser (1–2 onshore support staff). Standard pricing at A$900 / adviser captures ~5.4% of that value. Early adopters get 40% off, locked in for 3 years (with CPI adjustments).

All prices on this page are stated excluding GST.

Steward — Standard
A$900 / adviser / month
A$1,800 monthly practice minimum (2 advisers). Early adopter pricing: 40% off (A$540/adviser), locked in for 3 years with CPI adjustments.
  • Cross-system reconciliation (XPlan + Worksorted + HUB24 + North + MyProsperity + SharePoint + Advice Designer)
  • Practice Brain — synthesis layer over all client data
  • Surity360 Guardian — your licensee’s or your own audit scorecard questions evaluated per client, nightly; per-client compliance posture with evidence citations and remediation hints
  • Surity360 Mission Control dashboard
  • Client 360 (full)
  • Ask Arkie — meeting briefs and annual review prep. Arkie assembles the client picture, surfaces what matters, and walks the adviser in ready. SOA and ROA advice prep available with the Advice Module.
  • ROA filing automation (M365 → SharePoint → Worksorted)
  • AAA & fee-consent expiry monitoring; BID evidence chain integrity — all surfaced in the Action Register
  • Audit trail with full provenance
  • Email + chat support, founder-led during the early-adopter window
Custodian
Steward + any 2 add-ons
10% off the add-on prices. Pick the two that match the work you actually do.
  • Everything in Steward
  • Pick any 2 from: Advice Module, Portfolio Monitoring, Investment Roundup, Management Cockpit
  • 10% bundle discount on the add-ons
Sovereign
Steward + every add-on
20% off the add-on bundle. The Insurance Module joins free at launch for any practice already on Sovereign.
  • Everything in Steward
  • Advice Module — extends Ask Arkie to SOA & ROA; ADW, Strategy Explorer, ASIC Report 818 alignment, narrative drafting
  • Portfolio Monitoring — performance, model-vs-Morningstar benchmarking, attribution and price freshness across 4 model portfolios (additional portfolios on request, at extra cost)
  • Investment Roundup — daily + weekly macro briefing, white-labelled for client distribution
  • Management Cockpit — Action Register, Management Meeting log, firm-wide metrics
  • Insurance Module at launch — included for existing Sovereign customers
  • 20% bundle discount

Add-ons (à la carte)

  • Advice Module — A$1,500 / month Extends Ask Arkie to SOA and ROA advice prep — ADW, Strategy Explorer, ASIC Report 818 alignment, narrative drafting
  • Portfolio Monitoring — A$750 / month Performance, benchmarking, freshness — 4 model portfolios; more on request at extra cost
  • Investment Roundup — A$150 / month Daily + weekly briefing, adviser + client distribution
  • Management Cockpit — A$500 / month Partner-level dashboard + digest email
  • Insurance Module — tentative ~A$500 / month Pricing finalised at launch

Add-ons are flat per practice — the price does not scale with adviser count.

How we count advisers: relevant providers currently registered on ASIC's Financial Advisers Register. Provisional advisers in their Professional Year, paraplanners, client services, and support staff are not counted.

A 5-adviser practice on Sovereign (early adopter rates, locked 3 years)
Steward (5 × A$540)A$2,700
All four live add-ons (A$2,900 × 0.8)A$2,320
Infrastructure pass-through (typical)~A$1,000
All-in monthly (early adopter)~A$6,020
Standard monthly (A$900/adviser)~A$9,020
Cumulative 3-year early-adopter savingsA$72K

Two things most platforms hide. We do not.

Infrastructure pass-through. Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas costs are billed at our cost, no markup — typically around A$1,000 / month, depending on practice size and how much data changes each day. Itemised on the invoice. Each practice runs in its own dedicated Google Cloud project and MongoDB Atlas cluster — completely independent infrastructure; we are honest about what that costs.

No surprises. No usage meters, no overages on documents processed, no per-API-call surcharges, no automatic price rises mid-contract. Annual prepay earns one month free. Multi-year and licensee pricing is available on request.

Book a discovery call First 3 practices per quarter (until further notice) — implementation fee waived, A$540/adviser locked in for 3 years with CPI adjustments. Qualify by completing a discovery call, an initial assessment, and an approved application.
Whitepapers

Two papers. One for principals, one for the tech-DD team.

Both are gated — one human reads each request before the link goes out, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics, no cookies dropped.

For principals · ~12 pages

The BID Evidence Chain.

Five recurring failure modes mapped against the live Australian advice stack — XPlan, Worksorted, HUB24, North, MyProsperity. Click for the abstract.

The §961B safe-harbour test hasn't changed since 2012. The systems an Australian advice practice runs on have. ASIC's October 2025 Review of offshore outsourcing of financial services by advice licensees made the consequence explicit: the licensee carries the evidence chain, regardless of which CRM, platform or workflow tool holds the work. This paper diagnoses five recurring failure modes — unfindable evidence, stale fact find, unrecorded alternatives, implementation gap, expiry blind spot — against the live Australian advice stack: planning software (XPlan, Plutosoft, AdviserLogic, Midwinter), workflow CRMs (Worksorted, Practifi, Salesforce FSC), platforms (HUB24, North, Netwealth, BT Panorama, Macquarie, Praemium, CFS), client portals and document repositories.

For Australian advice practices, 3–25 advisers, $100M–$2B FUA.
Request the paper
For CTOs, CIOs, compliance directors and acquirer DD teams · ~10 pages

The Ontology-First Difference.

The engineering case for ontology-first over feed-first warehouses — DDD, DRY, Open/Closed, PECS — mapped to live Surity360 code. Click for the abstract.

Adviser-tech platforms split cleanly into feed-first warehouses (which answer “what is the portfolio”) and ontology-first evidence graphs (which answer “does the file evidence that the §961B standard was met for the advice that was given”). This paper makes the engineering case for the second architecture from canonical software-engineering doctrine — Domain-Driven Design (Evans), DRY with the Rule of Three, Open / Closed (Martin), and Producer-Extends / Consumer-Super (Bloch) — which Palantir codified at DevCon5 in March 2026 as the four ontology design principles its government and enterprise platforms are built on. Each principle is mapped to live Surity360 code. Five concrete tests for a 30-day pilot.

For technical evaluators. Closes the gap between “Palantir-grade” as branding and “Palantir-grade” as defensible architecture.
Request the paper

Submissions go through a short form on surity360.com.au. We reply from pilot@surity.com.au within one working day.

FAQ

Common questions.

What does it cost?

Standard Steward pricing is A$900 / adviser / month (A$1,800 monthly practice minimum for 2 advisers). Early adopters get 40% off — A$540 / adviser / month, locked in for 3 years with CPI adjustments (A$1,080 minimum). Add-ons are flat per practice. Infrastructure (Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas) passes through at our cost — typically around A$1,000 / month, depending on practice size and how much data changes each day. The pilot itself is free; implementation is a refundable A$5,000 fee credited against your first month if you convert (waived for early adopters). We count only relevant providers currently registered on ASIC's Financial Advisers Register — Professional Year provisional advisers, paraplanners, and support staff don't count toward your headcount. Full pricing →

What's the catch?

The honest one: we are early-stage and we want lighthouse SMB customers. Each quarter, the first 3 practices to qualify get the implementation fee waived and a 36-month 40% discount lock (early-adopter pricing held at 40% off whatever standard pricing is that year, with CPI adjustments). To qualify: a discovery call, an initial assessment, and an approved application. The cohort runs until further notice.

What if a consolidator buys us?

Surity360 makes you a more attractive acquisition, not a less. Capital-backed consolidators pay a higher multiple for practices with clean data, structured evidence, and a unified client record, because they do not have to fix it post-deal. That is exactly what Surity360 produces. Whether you sell to a consolidator, run an internal succession, or pass the practice to family, you walk into the conversation with the operational discipline that sets the price.

How does it integrate with XPlan and Worksorted?

We do not currently write back to XPlan. XPlan reconciliation is read-only and currently depends on the practice running MyProsperity alongside XPlan — we read fact find data and key client records from MyProsperity, then reconcile against Worksorted and HUB24. XPlan stays the SOA production engine. Worksorted has native API integration — bi-directional once you opt in, read-only by default during the pilot.

We don't use Worksorted. Can you support a different CRM?

Yes — any CRM with a documented API can be connected. Worksorted is what we run out of the box; SuiteCRM and a small number of others have working connectors today. Beyond that, integrating a new CRM is bespoke implementation work, scoped at the discovery call. The same applies to investment platforms outside the standard set: Netwealth, CFS, MLC, BT Panorama, Praemium and others can all be wired in — but as a custom build, not as a checkbox at sign-up.

What about HUB24, North, Netwealth, BT Panorama, CFS, MLC?

HUB24 — full integration out of the box including SFTP daily reports, alignment dashboard, and Playwright automation for portal-only workflows. North — full integration: Playwright automation plus client list ingest. Netwealth, BT Panorama, CFS, MLC, and Praemium — read-only daily report ingest is straightforward; deeper integration is custom implementation work on top of the standard pilot. Listed on the 2026 roadmap as productised connectors but available now via custom build.

How do you handle the $50 BID materiality test for SMAs?

Compliance lawyers now treat $50/year as the materiality bar for product cost comparisons. Every SMA in every review has to demonstrate that the fee differential over a cheaper alternative (a direct ETF, a model portfolio) is offset by quantifiable diversification benefit and satisfies the other key BID criteria — client return objectives, time horizon, tax/CGT position, liquidity, turnover suitability, ESG preferences, client familiarity. Surity360's data layer holds your live HUB24 and North holdings today, and the ADW (Advice Development Worksheet) module captures all the BID criteria as structured fields. The cost-vs-diversification view that computes concentration, correlation, and factor exposure for each SMA against a chosen alternative — and emits a BID-ready file-note paragraph that ties the cost gap to every key criterion — is a candidate Phase 1 pilot deliverable. Live data ingest and structured BID capture now; the standardised cost-justification engine is on the 2026 roadmap.

How do you support best-interest evidence at SMA review time?

The SMA sector has grown roughly 24% per year since 2019, and the regulator has noticed. ASIC has broadened its managed discretionary account review to cover SMAs, and at the December 2025 Professional Planner Researcher Forum, Count's head of investments said he had recently been asked by the regulator how an adviser can make a sound best-interest review decision on an SMA without standardised performance and look-through data — and acknowledged the question was not easy to answer. Surity360 closes the data half today: each model portfolio is monitored across 1D, 4W, 3M, YTD, FY, 1Y, and 3Y horizons, benchmarked against the indexes and peer funds you choose, with drift, drawdown, and relative return on the adviser's screen before the review meeting. Combined with the ADW module's structured BID criteria capture, the file note can show — on live data — that the SMA still aligns with the client's risk profile, return objectives, and the alternatives available. Live today; a productised review pack export is on the 2026 roadmap.

Where does my client data live?

Your practice runs in its own dedicated Google Cloud project (australia-southeast1, Sydney) and its own dedicated MongoDB Atlas cluster (Sydney) — provisioned exclusively for you, never pooled in a shared vendor datalake. No data is co-located with another practice at any layer. No data leaves Australia. All connections encrypted in transit and at rest. You can see it, query it, export it, and take it: you own the asset outright — freehold, not leasehold.

How secure is it?

Surity360 runs on the same infrastructure global banks rely on. Compute sits in Google Cloud (australia-southeast1, Sydney); structured data in MongoDB Atlas (Sydney) — both independently certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, both encrypted in transit and at rest. Cloudflare Access guards the perimeter with mandatory two-factor authentication and email verification on every login. Application access is then gated by bcrypt-hashed passwords and role-based permissions. Secrets live in Google Cloud Secret Manager, never in code or environment files. Each practice runs in its own dedicated Google Cloud project and its own dedicated MongoDB Atlas cluster — completely independent infrastructure, not a logical partition of shared hardware. No shared databases, no cross-practice access possible. The cluster is yours: you can query it, export it, and take it — you own it freehold, not leasehold. The isolation that once required institutional capex now runs for a single practice on a subscription, billed to you at cost. Surity360 is built for Australian advice practices and adheres to the Australian Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). All data resides in Australia; no client data ever leaves Australia. Offshore admin staff (for example Manila-based paraplanning) access the platform through the same Cloudflare 2FA, role-based permissions, and per-action audit log as onshore users — every read and write attributable to a named identity, aligned with ASIC's October 2025 expectations on offshore outsourcing. A Data Processing Agreement (DPA) forms part of the standard contract, setting out controller / processor obligations, breach notification commitments, and the security measures we maintain against unauthorised access.

Will my licensee approve this?

We provide a licensee briefing pack covering data handling, hosting, security, audit, and ASIC alignment. To date, every licensee that has reviewed the pack has approved a pilot. If you are self-licensed, even simpler — you make the call.

What if it doesn't work for our team?

The pilot is scoped to one screen, one workflow. If your team does not use it after 30 days, that is the answer — and you have lost nothing. Source data stays in your existing systems. Worst case, you stop syncing to Surity360 and you are exactly where you started. It cannot break anything — read-only by default.

What's on the 2026 roadmap?

Practice Brain — an adviser-ready synthesis layer that produces structured summaries per client before every review meeting. Expanded platform connectors for Netwealth, BT Panorama, and Praemium. Tighter Lumiant integration. Salesforce and Dynamics connectors. Productised agent workflows for ROA filing, rebalance execution, and BID consent capture — all included in the Steward subscription.

The Trade

You are not being asked to bet the practice on a new platform.

You are being offered four hours of your time, a free 30-day pilot, and a written ROI estimate on your own data. If it does not earn its keep, you walk away. Your stack is unchanged.