Wealth & Advisory AI
C

Catchlight

Catchlight sells prospect prioritization to wealth management firms, answering two questions an adviser faces every morning: which prospect to call next, and what that person is likely to care about. A firm loads its leads and the platform enriches each one into a full profile, drawing on public records and on first party marketing data from its corporate parent, gathering up to two thousand attributes per person, then scores the lead against a proprietary conversion model the company states was built on more than 170,000 recorded client conversions and over 100,000 adviser and client interactions.

The resulting score ranks the pipeline by likelihood of becoming a client. Alongside it the platform produces a projected client revenue range for an individual lead using a methodology derived from the parent group's business data, which is a wealth and value estimate produced without the adviser asking the person anything. Around the scoring sit segment building for groups such as pre retirees, recipients of company stock and business owners, campaign personalization to those segments at scale, lead routing to the right adviser or business development representative, and funnel analysis showing which acquisition sources actually produce clients.

Batches of up to 2,500 leads process at once, and the product reaches firms directly, through an application on a major customer relationship platform, through an interface, and through a large custodian's provider marketplace. Founded in Boston as Catchlight Insights, incubated in and wholly owned within Fidelity Labs, it opened broadly in 2023 and trade reporting put adoption at roughly 300 firms by late 2024. Sold in the United States only.

Last VerifiedAugust 22, 2026
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Founded
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Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Website
catchlight.ai
Categories
wealth-and-advisory
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 4 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

A predictive conversion model trained on more than 170,000 client conversions carries the proposition, telling an adviser which prospect to call next. Without it an enriched but unordered list remains, which is not what anyone buys this for.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Each lead carries a confidence mark showing where attributes are missing, so a user sees which scores rest on a thin profile before acting. The mark reflects profile completeness rather than the model's confidence in its prediction, and no approval step or audit record follows a low score.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
CC on Model Risk Management and TransparencyTransparency is claimed in general terms with no mechanism a model validator could interrogate.
Vendor Published

Over 100,000 adviser and client interactions describe what the model learned from, but no accuracy rate, calibration statement or holdout result says how well it predicts. Describing the data as institutional grade puts an adjective where a figure belongs.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
Vendor Published

An executive at a named advisory firm is quoted by full name and title, and trade reporting put adoption near 300 firms in late 2024. The two to three times conversion lift, the figure this product lives on, is self reported, tied to no firm and measured against nothing stated.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Scoring is said to get smarter with adviser use, which in one shared model means a firm's conversion results improve predictions sold to its competitors. Whether uploaded leads and outcomes train that model, and on what terms, is never stated.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
Vendor Published

Profiled prospects have no relationship with the searching firm and never supplied the two thousand attributes assembled about them, and nothing indicates they learn a wealth estimate exists in their name. Data a person gave the parent group for marketing is reused to estimate their value to someone else, and no consumer notice, deletion route or state privacy position appears.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
Vendor Published

Product pages, support material and third party listings show no named attestation, audit report or trust page. For a firm uploading prospect lists, that leaves the vendor's controls to be established in diligence.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

A marketing technology subsidiary inside a regulated asset management group needs no license, and the group's authorizations do not extend to it. Its disclaimer is unusually precise, disavowing any endorsement of advisers or recommendation to prospective clients, a line drawn because ranking consumers by value to an adviser sits close to steering.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

A model trained on who became wealth management clients learns advisers' historical choices, shaped by inherited wealth, geography, race and gender, so people resembling existing clients rank higher and the rest stop getting calls. That loop feeds the next model across every subscribing firm at once, and no fairness evaluation or score distribution test is published.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

The vendor disclaims responsibility for the accuracy of its information and for outcomes of interactions relying on it, allocating all risk to the buying firm. The profiled individual has no published way to learn a score exists, see its attributes or correct an error, and meets the consequence only as an adviser who never called.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
Vendor Published

Calling the models proprietary discloses that no external model provider does the scoring. The data brokers feeding a wealth estimate about named individuals matter as much here, and no source, aggregator or record type is named.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

A customer relationship platform application, a programmatic interface and bulk loading of up to 2,500 leads cover the routes into a firm's estate, and a large custodian's marketplace adds distribution. No connection is named to the client relationship systems independent firms typically run.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

The hosted application publishes nothing on hosting provider, region or residency. A single domestic region is the expected answer, but it is not a published one.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Support material mentions pricing plans in the plural, yet no rate, tier or unit appears. Since the product enriches leads in batches, whether a firm pays per seat or per lead enriched changes the economics for high volume acquisition.

Institution and Segment Coverage
CC on Institution and Segment CoverageSegments claimed broadly, banks, fintechs, credit unions, without evidence any of them has its own maintained surface.
Vendor Published

Independent advice firms in the United States are the only buyers, and only for acquisition, with nothing in planning, servicing or compliance. A separate program for small firms spreads it across the size range within that one buyer type.

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Commercial

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