AFSL COMPLIANCE · AI WORKFLOW · 2-MIN DIAGNOSTIC

The AFSL Compliance Time Leak Calculator.

See how many billable hours your Australian advice firm may be losing to manual compliance and operations work, and which workflow is safest to fix first.

Built by an engineer with 20 years of infrastructure work at JPMorgan, Bank of Tokyo, Crédit Agricole, Stanwell, and currently in Australian regulated financial services.

FIVE INPUTS · TAKES TWO MINUTES

Client-facing advisers only. Not paraplanners or support staff.

Including support, paraplanning, operations, and admin.

Including new SOAs, ROAs, and major variations across all advisers.

Best estimate is fine. Most firms underestimate this by 20-30%.

Or paraplanner equivalent rate if you charge differently.

YOUR ESTIMATED ANNUAL LEAK

Your firm is estimated to be losing

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per year to manual compliance and operations work.

Estimate based on conservative recovery rates against your inputs. Range provided to reflect normal year-one variability.

YEAR 1 CONSERVATIVE
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Realistic captured value from one Microsoft-native AI workflow in the first 12 months.
18-24 MONTHS
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Three to five workflows in production. Compounding capacity recovery.

Which workflow to fix first.

Ranked by annual recoverable value for your specific inputs, weighted by AI safety and compliance risk.

Workflow
Hours/yr
Annual value
Priority
Annual review and FDS preparation
0 hrs
$0
Fix first
Fact-find and client intake processing
0 hrs
$0
Fix second
Review meeting prep and document pack assembly
0 hrs
$0
Fix third
Compliance monitoring, exceptions, and licensee reporting
0 hrs
$0
Fix fourth

Most advice firms reach for AI to draft Statements of Advice first. That is the most-regulated workflow in your business and where compliance defensibility matters most.

Your firm has lower-risk, higher-ROI workflows where AI can recover meaningful capacity without touching advice judgement. Fix those first. SOA drafting support comes later, if at all, and only as assisted preparation rather than automated drafting.

AI should remove the administrative drag around advice production, not replace the professional judgement inside advice.

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Estimates produced by this calculator are based on conservative recovery-rate analysis against your inputs. They are not a guarantee of savings, capacity recovery, or specific outcomes. Real-world results depend on workflow design, change management, and execution. Hard Pivot makes no representation about specific dollar outcomes for any individual engagement.