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Dream helper or worst nightmare? We looked at the AI tools you've heard of, where your client information goes when you use them, and four ideas to use AI safely in your business.

Here are the slides and four free tools to take back to your office. Nothing to sign up for.

Slides: PDF, 12 pages, 1.9 MB. Or download all five files (ZIP, 2.6 MB).

Cover slide: AI for advisors, dream helper or worst nightmare? Presented to the Tumblers by Steffen deGraaf

From the day

10 takeaways worth keeping.

  1. Your login decides where your data goes.

    A work login is a green light for client work, with rules. A personal ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude account, even a paid one, is never for client work. AI inside social media is for your personal life only.

  2. You still own the result.

    Privacy law and the investment rules still apply when AI helps. Client information you send to an outside tool is still your responsibility.

  3. Map your doors before you connect AI.

    Email, calendar, your CRM, your files, your finance apps: every tool you connect is a door, and AI can walk through any door you leave open. Know where client data sits and who, or what, can open it.

  4. Climb the four levels one step at a time.

    Chat, then chat with your tools, then agents, then agent teams. Each step up saves more time, and each step needs stronger rules.

  5. Let AI sort your inbox into four piles.

    Needs me, Hand it off, Waiting on, Just noise. For the first two weeks, check the piles each morning and fix anything sorted wrong. That's how you tune the rules.

  6. Teach AI to sound like you, on purpose.

    Give it a short rule book: how you sound, what it should always do, what it must never do. Skip it and you get AI slop, bland writing that sounds like everyone else.

  7. AI never decides. You do.

    AI can sort, draft and suggest. You decide and you hit send. Nothing goes to a client without your eyes on it.

  8. Keep a company brain inside your walls.

    A private AI model on your own computer or server, fed with your own policies and guides. The AI comes to your data, and client data doesn't go out to the internet.

  9. Write your house rules, and review them every 3 months.

    One list of approved tools. Work accounts only. No client information in personal AI. A person checks everything before it goes out. Train your whole team.

  10. Start with one task you did three times this week.

    The goal is confidence, not chaos. Pick one task, set it up with rules, and build from there.

General information from the talk, not legal or compliance advice. Your province's, dealer's, MGA's and firm's rules come first.

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Steffen deGraaf

Steffen deGraaf
Founder, BotLogix

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