About
About Wealth Systems
Intelligent workflow design and AI systems orchestration. We help firms like yours consult on the right AI tools, train the team to use AI, and build custom AI solutions. Built by a former Head of Trading and Research at an RIA.
Most AI consultants have never touched a rebalance. Most people who have run an RIA back office cannot build with AI. This work exists because one person has done both.
Operating role
Head of Trading and Research, Alder Financial Group, 2012 to 2017
Reported to
CIO and CEO
Credential
Passed Level II of the CFA Program
Education
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, finance
Who runs the work
Douglas Schwartz
Former Head of Trading and Research at an RIA. Passed Level II of the CFA Program. One person for the Map, the training day, and the build.
Five years as Head of Trading and Research at Alder Financial Group (2012 to 2017), reporting to the CIO and CEO. Model portfolios by asset class and sleeve, Schwab and TD data feeds, and a daily Trade Order list tracking per-account variance against targets, with reconciliation and drift review finished before the market opened. He passed Level II of the CFA Program, then spent the next decade at the intersection of finance and technology building the systems he wished he had on that desk. UGA Terry finance.
When we ask how your firm handles a drifted sleeve or a stuck transfer, we are not learning. We are comparing.
Signature case
The portfolio-ops morning, rebuilt with a human at the trigger
At Alder, the job was not "run the rebalancer." It was reconcile the custodian file, chase exceptions, surface cash and RMD needs, honor household constraints, think about tax lots, and put a Trade Order list in front of the people who owned the fiduciary trigger. That analytical glue is still manual at most firms. Today the same morning is a supervised pipeline: feed in, exceptions and draft list out, a named person releases it, and the record shows who. That is the portfolio-operations session in training, and usually the first system we build.
The firm
What Wealth Systems is, and what it is not
Wealth Systems is the wealth management practice of Expert AI Labs. The work is intelligent workflow design and AI systems orchestration for independent firms: RIAs, hybrid advisors, and independent broker-dealer affiliates who control their own technology decisions.
We are not an RIA, a broker-dealer, a custodian, or a law firm. We do not sell software licenses and we do not take referral fees from vendors, so when the right answer is to buy an existing product we say so. Anything the AI writes stays a draft until a person approves it, and the record shows who approved it.
One person does the Map, the training day, and the build. That is the whole pitch and the whole constraint.
Start with the RIA AI Opportunity Map
A two-week review of how your firm actually runs. $2,500. You keep the written map and the ranked 90-day plan whether or not you hire us next.