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Gradax

Trust, evidenced, before the first meeting

Websites and onboarding for financial advice firms, built around a purchase nobody makes casually.

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Financial advice is bought slowly and almost entirely on trust. The prospect will read about the firm, check regulatory standing, look for real people rather than stock photographs, and decide before contacting anybody whether this is somewhere they would put their money.

Onboarding is the operational weight: identity checks, suitability questionnaires and disclosures, most of it handled as paperwork and email, which is slow and creates exactly the wrong first impression for a firm selling competence.

The search side is not separate from that. Advice-type searches such as pension advice or retirement planning, plus a location, from people who will read for weeks before calling. Ranking for those means the pages exist, the business is verified where it operates, and the reviews are real and recent.

How a client relationship moves through an advice firm

Advice is a long relationship, and every stage depends on documents moving between adviser and client.

  1. First enquiry

    Prospects read for weeks and then send a one-line form, so a short fact-find on the site makes the first meeting about advice.

  2. Fact-find and suitability

    Questionnaires go back and forth as attachments, so the client completes them online and the adviser sees the answers before meeting.

  3. Recommendation and sign-off

    Suitability reports wait for a signature in the post, so they are signed electronically and filed with the client record.

  4. Annual review

    Reviews slip when the diary fills, so each client's review date sends the invitation and the update questionnaire automatically.

What people in this trade ask us

Is a client portal secure enough?
Access controlled per client, everything logged, EU hosted, and we will put the specifics in writing for your compliance file.
Should we write about financial topics?
Yes, and carefully. Useful, compliant writing is how this market is found.
Can onboarding really be digital?
Most of it, including identity verification. The suitability conversation stays a conversation, and it should.
Can we record which disclosures a client has seen?
Yes. Each document carries a dated acknowledgement from the client, which is the record you want when somebody later asks what was disclosed and when.
Can the portal show holdings from the platforms we use?
It depends on whether each platform offers a usable data feed. We check that per platform before quoting, rather than promising a dashboard we cannot fill.

The infrastructure under it

Managed by the engineers who build the software, on the same contract and the same bill.

Cyber Security

An adviser's mailbox holds valuations, account numbers and identity documents, which makes it a target for impersonation fraud.

Two monitors showing security logs in a dark room.

Backup & Recovery

Advice records must be produced years later if a recommendation is ever questioned.

A storage unit with a row of drive bays.

What one contract covers

  • One contract. The build, the infrastructure and the work that brings people to it, on one invoice.
  • A named team. The person on the first call stays on the project. No account managers, no handoffs.
  • Operated, not delivered. We keep it running after launch: patching, backups, monitoring and the phone when it breaks.
  • European hosting. Servers in Europe, run by us, with the data staying where you expect it to.
  • Monthly reporting. What changed, what it cost and what it produced, in language you can forward to a board.
  • No lock-in. The code, the domains and the accounts are yours. Leaving is a handover.

See what is costing you customers before you spend anything.

A senior engineer walks your site, your search presence and the way enquiries reach you, then writes down the three things worth fixing first.

  1. 01You tell us what is not working
  2. 02We review the site, the search presence and the enquiry path
  3. 03You get the three fixes worth doing, and what each is worth