Ninety percent of the SoA time, back on your desk.
A Statement of Advice is the most regulated document the advice industry produces, and the most expensive to draft. BackPro drafts in your firm’s template from the fact‑find, captures the best‑interest reasoning, scope of advice, basis of advice, and replacement product logic in one pass. The adviser reviews, signs, sends.
The paraplanner workload is the bottleneck.
- Pressure 01
Recruiting a paraplanner takes months.
Experienced paraplanners are scarce, expensive, and turnover is high. Every adviser in the network is one resignation away from a four‑week backlog.
- Pressure 02
Every SoA needs a complete BID trail.
Best‑interest duty obligates documented reasoning for every recommendation. Missing reasoning is a supervision finding, an IDR escalation, or worse.
- Pressure 03
Templates drift across the network.
Each adviser ends up with a personal version of the firm template. The licensee’s supervision team chases formatting, not advice quality.
From days of drafting to about ten minutes.
SoA Automation, at work.
Fig. SoA Automation producing a draft from a fact‑find. Best‑interest reasoning, scope, and basis of advice all captured automatically.
Book a private demoSee what a finished SoA looks like.
A specimen Statement of Advice in a firm template, for fictional clients: scope, personal situation, the reasoning behind each recommendation, alternatives considered, fees, commissions and risks. Read it the way your licensee would. Watermarked for you and marked specimen.
Everything that goes into one Statement of Advice.
The whole document in your firm’s template, from fact‑find to signed PDF. Captures scope, basis of advice, BID reasoning, and replacement product logic in one pass.
Short‑form ROA for ongoing reviews, fee resets, and minor changes. Rebalance a book against one model portfolio in bulk, with the holdings stated before and after the trades. Same engine, leaner template, full supervision trail.
Structured intake of client goals, dependants, risk profile, super, debt, and existing products. Becomes the spine for every downstream artefact.
Pre‑approved best‑interest reasoning patterns. Reused, not re‑typed. Surfaces relevant precedents when the adviser drafts a similar strategy.
Specific reasoning trail for product‑replacement recommendations. Comparison, rationale, and BID captured against ASIC’s anti‑churn expectations.
Your firm’s template is the source of truth. Adviser drafts conform automatically. No more personal versions of the master template drifting across the network.
Annual consent letters and renewal artefacts drafted on schedule. The firm never relies on the adviser remembering the date.
Every draft, every revision, every approver captured. The licensee’s file review becomes a thirty‑minute job instead of a two‑week one.
Signed PDF in the firm’s brand, watermarked, signature‑ready. Plain‑language summary on page one for the client.
Upload completed SoAs to extract reusable reasoning patterns. Pre‑approved clauses surface automatically when the adviser drafts a similar strategy. Institutional knowledge compounds.
Surgical section‑level editing in chat. Ask it to tighten a paragraph, add a disclosure, or rework a recommendation. A flagged figure links straight to its sentence with the fix ready to apply, and the last edit is always undoable. Multi‑thread memory, protected‑section enforcement, voice dictation.
Client‑ready PPTX or PDF presentation generated from the SoA data. Editable slides, key insight selection, adviser overrides. Advisers present the advice, not just hand it over.
Two‑stage sign‑off before any SoA can be delivered. Compliance checklist, decision notes, state machine from paraplanner review through licensee approval. Download blocked until approved.
Record the client meeting or upload the transcript. AI extracts goals, concerns, risk cues, and action items. Feeds directly into the SoA engagement, no re‑keying.
Works whichever platform, CRM and product set the practice uses, whether BackPro hosts it or it runs in your own tenancy. The template, the approved wording and the supervision trail belong to the firm, so changing platform does not mean rebuilding the way you write advice.
Point it at a completed SoA in your own format and it derives the template: which brackets are facts, which are conditions, and which are instructions to whoever writes the section. Change your document without asking an engineer.
Every dollar amount is bound to the concept its sentence names and checked against what the client record holds for that concept, which catches the income stated where the balance belongs. Flags are graded, so a rounding difference does not interrupt anyone.
Retirement and household modelling run inside the engagement and the projection lands in the document, so the numbers in the strategy section and the numbers in the chart are the same numbers.
Comparison built as part of the document rather than pasted in from a spreadsheet, with each comparison reproduced in the section that relies on it.
Quotes read into the engagement, one policy block per life insured, and a recommended insurer drawn from the quotes on file rather than typed in again.
Reusable strategy wording the practice has already approved, so the tenth transition‑to‑retirement recommendation starts from the nine before it.
Post‑generation compliance scan across s947, s961B, s962, RG 175, and INFO 255. Per‑section flags with overall score. The supervision trail starts before the adviser even opens the draft.
Ninety percent of the SoA time, back on your desk.
Drag the sliders for your practice. The estimate applies the 90% reduction in time per Statement of Advice that More4Life reported. Frazer Walker reported 60%, so treat the result as the upper end of what to expect.
- Hours saved / year
- 2,160
- SoAs per year
- 600
- Time reduction / SoA
- 90%
BackPro plans for financial advisers.
Lite, Digital and Practice start with a free trial and bill each month. Prices exclude GST. On‑prem puts every module on your own servers in GCP, AWS or Azure.
Upload an SoA you have written and get it back formatted to your template and compliance screened.
3 modules includedRecommendedBackPro DigitalA$399per user per monthFact find, SoA and RoA generation, formatting and sign-off, hosted by BackPro.
9 modules includedBackPro PracticeA$1,249per monthIncludes 3 users, then A$299 per extra userEverything in Digital plus modelling, compliance, comparisons and every other adviser module, for the whole practice.
17 modules includedOn‑prem deploymentCustomquoted for your deploymentEvery BackPro module, including the ones built for funds and mortgage brokers, running on your own servers in GCP, AWS or Azure.
20 modules includedThe full list of what each plan includes is on the Financial Advisers page.
Who uses SoA Automation, and how.
Questions advisers ask first.
Our reporting quality improved while our turnaround time dropped. Clients notice the difference, and our advisers are finally doing what we hired them for: client relationships, not document formatting.

See SoA Automation with your hands on it.
Thirty minutes on video. You drive and we guide you through drafting a Statement of Advice, the checks it runs before you read it, and the review and sign-off that stay with you.