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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.

Before
Days
After
About 10 minutes
to an adviser‑ready draft of a complex Statement of Advice, in your firm’s template. More4Life reported 90% less time per SoA.

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.

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Specimen document

See 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.

End‑to‑End Draft

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.

Record of Advice

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.

Fact‑Find Capture

Structured intake of client goals, dependants, risk profile, super, debt, and existing products. Becomes the spine for every downstream artefact.

BID Library

Pre‑approved best‑interest reasoning patterns. Reused, not re‑typed. Surfaces relevant precedents when the adviser drafts a similar strategy.

Replacement Product Logic

Specific reasoning trail for product‑replacement recommendations. Comparison, rationale, and BID captured against ASIC’s anti‑churn expectations.

Template Governance

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.

Ongoing Fee Consent

Annual consent letters and renewal artefacts drafted on schedule. The firm never relies on the adviser remembering the date.

Supervision Trail

Every draft, every revision, every approver captured. The licensee’s file review becomes a thirty‑minute job instead of a two‑week one.

Client‑Ready PDF

Signed PDF in the firm’s brand, watermarked, signature‑ready. Plain‑language summary on page one for the client.

Clause Library

Upload completed SoAs to extract reusable reasoning patterns. Pre‑approved clauses surface automatically when the adviser drafts a similar strategy. Institutional knowledge compounds.

AI Chat Editor

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.

Presentation Deck

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.

Paraplanner & Licensee Review Gate

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.

Meeting Transcript Bridge

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.

Platform Independence

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.

Template Builder

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.

Figure Integrity Check

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.

Cashflow Projections

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.

Product Comparison

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.

Insurance Quotes

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.

Strategy Templates

Reusable strategy wording the practice has already approved, so the tenth transition‑to‑retirement recommendation starts from the nine before it.

ASIC Compliance Audit

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.

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1200
4hrs
1 hrs20 hrs
$80
$30$200
Estimated annual savings
$172,800
Hours saved / year
2,160
SoAs per year
600
Time reduction / SoA
90%

The standards this capability answers to.

Every output carries an evidence trail mapped to the relevant Australian regulatory standards. Tap any chip to see what each standard requires.

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Questions advisers ask first.

End‑to‑end draft, in your template. The adviser reviews, edits where needed, and sends. The platform captures the trail (fact‑find inputs, modelling rationale, scope of advice, basis of advice) for supervision and audit.

BackPro is the drafter. The adviser is still the author. Every SoA goes out under the adviser’s sign‑off, and the trail captured satisfies supervision reviews and gives the licensee continuous evidence rather than a quarterly catch‑up.

Same flow, with the additional disclosure templates baked in. BackPro doesn’t replace the adviser’s judgement on whether a strategy is appropriate. It makes sure the documentation around the decision is complete.

Versioned. Every revision is tracked alongside the rationale for the change. BIDs and replacement product reasoning are preserved across versions. Useful at supervision, and unavoidable at IDR.

That depends on the plan. Lite, Digital and Practice run on BackPro’s servers and use BackPro’s AI providers. On‑prem runs inside your own GCP, AWS or Azure environment, where documents stay inside your perimeter and there’s no data egress to BackPro or anyone else.

Because advice software that belongs to a platform is only ever as portable as the platform. BackPro works whichever platform, CRM and product set the practice uses, so the documents, the approved wording and the supervision trail stay yours if you move. A licensee running advisers across several platforms gets one standard rather than one per platform.

Yes. The savings calculator at backpro.ai/resources/tools/savings-calculator takes your own volumes, hours and paraplanner rate and works it out, and it will email you the estimate with a note on which hours it assumes go and which stay with the adviser. No call required, and nothing happens afterwards unless you ask for it.

Six to eight hours per SoA is the figure the Australian advice industry quotes, and it is repeated widely enough that we treat it as a starting point rather than a measurement of our own. What we can point at is a licensee result: Frazer Walker reported roughly a 60 per cent reduction in the time to produce an SoA. The work that disappears is retrieval and first drafting. Review, suitability judgement and sign-off stay with the adviser, and should.

No, and a practice that treats it as a headcount question usually ends up disappointed. Paraplanning is judgement plus assembly. Automation takes the assembly: finding the approved wording, filling the template, checking figures against the client record, keeping the version trail. A paraplanner reviewing three drafts is doing the part that needed a person. Outsourced paraplanning moves the bottleneck offshore; this removes a different part of it.

The duty sits in sections 961B to 961J of the Corporations Act, with ASIC RG 175 as the guidance on meeting it. It attaches to the advice and the adviser, not to the software that drafted the document, and no drafting tool moves it. What the software can do is make the duty easier to evidence: scope, basis of advice, the reasoning behind each recommendation and the version trail are captured as the document is built rather than reconstructed at review.

Yes. The same engine drafts ROAs for ongoing reviews and the annual fee consent letters. Same audit trail, same supervision rigour, leaner output.

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.
James Walker Powell
James Walker Powell
Founder & Financial Adviser · More4Life

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.