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Built for Wealth Management

Your clients expect a portal. Give them one worth logging into.

We build client portals, digital onboarding, and reporting dashboards for financial advisors and RIAs. They can connect to Schwab, Fidelity, and Pershing custodians via API, or run standalone. DocuSign e-sign and automated performance reports keep the client experience polished. We also design and build the firm's marketing site.

Glowing cracks and drifting steam across dark forged rock, like the onboarding and reporting gaps a wealth management client portal closes
02Sound familiar?

Why wealth management firms still run on email and paper

8.8 hrs

of a 43-hour advisor week is actually spent with clients

Kitces Research measured it: barely 20% of the week goes to the work clients pay for. The rest is prep, admin, and systems that don't talk to each other. (Kitces Research, 2019)

70%

of financial institutions lost clients to inefficient onboarding in the past year

Fenergo's 2025 study, up from 48% in 2023. Onboarding is now a revenue event, and a client portal is where it's won or lost. (Fenergo, 2025)

40%+

of clients now prefer virtual consultations as their advice channel

EY's Global Wealth Research tracked the jump from 12% in 2021. The relationship is moving onto screens; the firms with real client portals are where it lands. (EY, 2023)

03The shift

The same wealth management business. A different machine.

Shift 01

Today

Paper forms, wet signatures, onboarding takes days

With Upforge

Digital onboarding with e-sign and custodial pre-fill

Shift 02

Today

Cobbling performance reports from multiple systems

With Upforge

Automated, branded client-facing dashboards

Shift 03

Today

No self-service, clients call for every statement

With Upforge

24/7 client portal with statements, reports, and messaging

04What we build

Built for how wealth management actually works.

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Client Portals & Onboarding

Digital onboarding, e-sign, a document vault, and custodian sync, with statements and reports open to clients 24/7. We build onboarding flows that pre-fill custodial account opening forms from intake data, so advisors aren't retyping the same client details. The document vault organizes statements, tax forms, and agreements with search and version history. From the first login, the portal looks and feels like your firm.

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Reporting & Dashboards

Automated performance reports, fee transparency, and client-facing dashboards, branded to your firm and delivered on schedule. We pull portfolio data from Schwab, Fidelity, or Pershing via API and render it in custom visualizations that match your reporting methodology. Clients see holdings, performance against benchmarks, and fee breakdowns in real time. Scheduled email delivery keeps clients informed without any advisor effort.

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Compliance & Workflow Automation

Automated audit trails, approval workflows, archiving, and compliance checks that reduce manual oversight and keep you examination-ready. We build communication archiving that captures every client interaction for SEC and FINRA review. Approval workflows route account changes and trade authorizations through the right compliance checkpoints. When regulators call, an examination preparation dashboard surfaces the required documentation instantly, so nobody's scrambling.

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Free wealth management audit

Want to know what your current setup is costing you?

The free audit checks your website the way your wealth management customers experience it (speed, mobile, accessibility, and search visibility) and puts what's worth fixing in writing. It's automated and free, and the report is specific about what it finds.

06What changes

How the machine removes each problem.

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Client onboarding

Collect the agreed onboarding information through a guided client flow.

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Client statements

Give authorized clients access to the documents they need.

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Administrative time

Establish a baseline for repetitive tasks and compare it after launch.

04

Referrals

Record referral sources and follow their progress through your pipeline.

Wealth Management FAQs

Common Questions From Wealth Management

We integrate with Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing, and other major custodians via their official APIs or automated data feeds. Account opening forms pre-fill from intake data, performance metrics pull nightly for dashboard updates, and holdings sync in real time. For custodians with limited API access, we build secure SFTP and flat-file ingestion pipelines. See our application development integration approach.

We build with SEC and FINRA compliance in mind from day one: comprehensive audit trails, role-based access controls, communication archiving, and configurable disclaimer management. We work directly with your Chief Compliance Officer during the design phase to document every requirement and build examination preparation tools with searchable archives. See our application development approach.

Yes. Automated performance reports pull portfolio data from Schwab, Fidelity, or Pershing and render it in custom visualizations branded to your firm. Clients see holdings, performance against benchmarks, and transparent fee breakdowns in real time, 24/7. Scheduled report delivery via email keeps clients informed without advisor effort. See our application development services.

A focused portal with digital onboarding, DocuSign e-sign, and a document vault is typically 10 to 14 weeks. Full reporting dashboards with custodian data integration and automated performance reports extend to 4 to 6 months. We deliver in phases, so your team can start using the onboarding portal with new prospects while reporting features are still being built. See our application development timeline.

Yes. We design and develop financial advisor websites on Next.js that put your firm's credentials up front, rank for local searches like "financial advisor in Hyde Park," and bring in consultation bookings. Each site includes advisor profiles, service pages by specialty, and integrated scheduling. Branding and performance optimization are included.

Most wealth management portal projects range from $5,000 to $50,000 depending on custodian integrations, reporting complexity, and compliance features, and most land between $18,000 and $35,000. A focused portal with onboarding and document vault sits at the lower end, while a full platform with automated performance reporting and multi-custodian data aggregation runs higher. See our application development page for pricing context.

We build with regulatory requirements baked in: communication archiving, audit trails, access controls, and disclaimer management. We work with your Chief Compliance Officer during design to document every requirement. The platform supports examination preparation with searchable archives and compliance dashboards. See our application development security approach.

We build with React or Next.js on the frontend, Node.js on the backend, and PostgreSQL with encryption at rest. Custodian data flows through official APIs from Schwab, Fidelity, and Pershing. E-signatures use DocuSign or a compliant alternative. All infrastructure runs on SOC 2-eligible cloud services. See our web development page for more.

We provide ongoing maintenance and support covering custodian API updates, compliance feature additions, security patches, and performance monitoring. Financial software needs active maintenance as custodian APIs evolve and regulatory requirements change. It runs on a retainer: you put down a deposit, the work is billed against it at $150 an hour, and you get a monthly summary.

Yes. We build multi-advisor architectures with team-based client assignments, hierarchical reporting, and advisor-specific dashboards. Each advisor sees only their clients while firm leadership gets portfolio-wide analytics. Branch offices and satellite teams are supported within a single platform. See examples on our portfolio page.

Wealth Management: key facts (with sources)

  • 8.8 hrs of a 43-hour advisor week is actually spent with clients (source: Kitces Research, 2019)
  • 70% of financial institutions lost clients to inefficient onboarding in the past year (source: Fenergo, 2025)
  • 40%+ of clients now prefer virtual consultations as their advice channel (source: EY, 2023)

Sources

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  1. · The typical financial advisor works about 43 hours per week but spends only 8.8 of those hours, barely 20%, actually meeting with clients, per Kitces Research's 2019 study of 1,000+ advisors.
  2. · 70% of financial institutions lost clients in the past year due to inefficient onboarding, up from 48% in 2023, and onboarding abandonment now averages around 10%, per Fenergo's 2025 global survey of 600 senior decision-makers across banks, asset managers, and fund administrators.
  3. · The share of wealth management clients naming virtual consultations as their preferred advice channel jumped from just 12% in 2021 to over 40%, per EY's 2023 Global Wealth Research Report.

Your wealth management business, running on your terms.

Tell us where the hours are going, and we’ll show you what a system built for your operation looks like, with a fixed price before any work starts.