Digital Client Engagement and Financial Adviser Portal
Reduce advice prep time by up to 75%
Digital client engagement built for modern financial advisers
The challenge: Manual data collection and fragmented client interactions consume 60-70% of adviser time, increasing your cost to serve and limiting the number of clients each adviser can support.
The solution: Focus provides digital client engagement software that enables firms to deliver structured, compliant engagement journeys across web and mobile. Our onboarding platform combines interactive financial planning tools, personalised journeys, and a secure financial adviser portal—automating fact-finding, risk profiling, and portfolio capture whilst improving data quality and regulatory compliance.
Unlike passive client portals that simply display information, our client engagement software actively guides clients through structured journeys that collect actionable data and feed directly into your advice process.
Book a demoClient engagement software that supports the full advice journey
Our client engagement software is designed to help consumers understand the value of advice by showing them the real-world impact of financial planning. These digital journeys range from education and awareness tools through to account opening, portfolio capture, valuation analysis, quoting, applying, transferring, and re-registration.
Commercial outcomes:
- Reduce advice preparation time by up to 75% - clients complete fact-finding, risk profiling, and portfolio capture before the first meeting
- Increase adviser capacity by 2-3x - spend less time on data collection, more time on advice delivery
- Improve conversion rates - interactive scenarios demonstrate the value of professional advice before clients commit
- Enhance data quality and compliance - structured digital client engagement ensures complete, consistent, auditable data capture
This structured approach reduces friction in the advice process, helping consumers visualise positive and negative financial outcomes whilst moving confidently from exploration to engagement.
Key capabilities include:
- Interactive education tools that demonstrate the value of financial planning
- Digital fact-finding and personal balance sheet capture
- Risk profiling and affordability assessments
- Account opening and AML integration
- Existing portfolio capture and consolidation journeys
- Fund search, valuation, and analysis tools
- Quotation, application, transfer, and re-registration workflows
- Automated “next best action” recommendations
These journeys can operate independently or be connected together, allowing clients to move seamlessly from awareness to action within a structured environment.
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How our digital client engagement software works
Unlike passive client portals that simply display account information, Focus digital engagement tools actively guide clients through structured, data-gathering journeys that feed directly into your advice process.
Embedded journeys within your website
Individual engagement tools can be embedded directly into your website alongside educational content. For example, a retirement planning calculator sits next to content explaining the long-term benefits of advice, demonstrating value whilst capturing client data.
This turns your marketing website into an active lead generation and qualification tool, not just a brochure.
Connected engagement pathways
Journeys connect together seamlessly. A client completing a retirement calculator can be directed automatically to a “next best action” page (perhaps portfolio capture or risk profiling) based on their data and interaction history.
This structured progression moves clients from awareness to engagement to conversion, all whilst collecting the data you need for advice generation.
Integration with the Focus advice engine
Client data flows directly from engagement journeys into the Focus advice engine. This means no duplicate data entry, no transcription errors, and immediate availability of client information for advice generation.
The result: advisers spend less time on administration and more time delivering advice.
Book a demoReal customer outcomes: from 40 competitors to market leader
The challenge: A global investment house entered a highly competitive Asian market (c.40 active competitors) without a native digital channel. Manual onboarding processes created friction, limited adviser capacity, and increased cost to serve.
The solution: We designed and launched their first consumer-facing native mobile application, providing active digital engagement journeys from social media interaction through registration, fact-finding, portfolio capture, and on to active trading.
The outcome: A fully digital acquisition and onboarding channel that eliminated manual data collection, reduced cost to serve, and enabled the firm to compete effectively in a crowded market.
Measurable commercial impact:
- Achieved digital market competitiveness in a landscape of 40+ established competitors
- Eliminated manual onboarding processes - clients complete fact-finding, risk profiling, and portfolio capture digitally
- Full attribution tracking from social media campaign to active client, proving ROI on marketing spend
- Scalable client service - support both new acquisition and existing client servicing through the same platform
- End-to-end digital journeys - from fund search through buy, sell, switch, and withdrawal
This deployment demonstrates how digital client engagement software delivers measurable reductions in cost to serve whilst enabling market expansion.
Case study
Digital client engagement is a crucial element in modern investment distribution. One of our customers faced a crowded market without a native digital channel, and asked us to bridge that gap.
Global investment house
We created their first consumer-facing native app and launched it in Asia, giving consumers a seamless journey from social media interaction through registration and on to being actively trading clients.
Size of market
c.40
Active competitorsMarket position
Digitally competitive
Campaign ID tracking
Fully tracked
Supports new and existing users?
Yes
Fully supportedFund search and trading?
Yes
Search, buy, sell, switch, withdrawInteractive dashboard?
Yes
Holdings, search and moreAt Focus, we combine human empathy and domain expertise to make software that works for people. We'd love to work with you.
Contact usIntegration with the Focus advice engine eliminates duplicate data entry
All digital client engagement journeys connect through the Focus API, ensuring data flows seamlessly from engagement into advice generation.
This eliminates the traditional pain points:
- No duplicate data entry - client fact-finding captured digitally flows directly into advice workflows
- No transcription errors - clients enter their own data, improving accuracy and completeness
- No fragmented systems - engagement, advice generation, and portfolio management share the same data model
- Full audit trail - every client interaction and data change is logged for regulatory compliance
The result: advisers spend less time on administrative tasks and more time delivering advice. Client meetings become advice discussions, not data collection exercises.
This is the fundamental difference between passive portals (which display data) and active engagement tools (which collect, validate, and integrate data into your advice process).
Our digital client engagement tools are
The UI provides rapid access to everything you need, with data at your fingertips.
Sophisticated planning tools and automated advice delivery give excellent client experiences whilst reducing your workload.
Our solutions prioritise human interaction - we make tools that speak to people.
When you buy a Focus product, you're buying a product that comes with as much support as you choose to help you succeed.
To learn more about our standard support agreement, please get in touch.
For the more technically minded
These are single-page and native mobile apps, hosted in Azure
Our digital tools communicate via the Focus API. You can sign up for access here.
We'll send you details of how to access our developer docs site, where you'll find a technical overview of how Advice Engine is integrated with your client relationship management (CRM) / back-office systems, as well as the cloud-based hosting environment and how this co-exists with your own technical infrastructure.
The docs site also covers how initial configuration works, which values you need to pass in to the API, and how you can interpret the results returned to match them back up with your advised case.
Revolutionary, not evolutionary
We've invested millions in API-first cloud technology to provide the foundation for transforming advice delivery.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure built for regulated advice firms
Our digital client engagement platform is built on enterprise infrastructure designed specifically for regulated financial services:
Security and compliance:
- ISO 27001 certified hosting on Microsoft Azure
- Full audit trails of client interactions and data changes
- Role-based access control and multi-factor authentication
- Configurable data retention and GDPR compliance
Scalability and integration:
- RESTful APIs for integration with CRM, back office, and advice systems
- Campaign tracking and engagement analytics
- White-label deployment across web and native mobile
- Full developer documentation and technical support
The difference between engagement and portals
A client portal displays information. Digital engagement collects it, analyses it, and converts prospects into clients.
Active engagement delivers:
- 75% reduction in advice preparation time - clients arrive at meetings with fact-finding complete
- 2-3x increase in adviser capacity - automate data collection, focus on advice delivery
- Higher conversion rates - interactive scenarios demonstrate value before commitment
- Improved client segmentation - engagement data reveals which prospects are ready for advice
- Automated cross-sell opportunities - "next best action" recommendations based on client data
This isn't theory. Our customers report measurable improvements in cost to serve, client acquisition efficiency, and adviser productivity.
The result: Sustainable, scalable advice delivery that improves margins whilst enhancing client experience.
