FP Alpha
FP Alpha sells advanced planning software to financial advisers, accounting firms and estate attorneys, addressing the three areas where a generalist adviser is least equipped: tax, estate and personal insurance. Its premise is that the expertise gap is really a document reading problem, since the answers already sit inside papers the client has and nobody has time to read. An adviser uploads the documents and machine reading extracts from them, then an expertise layer the company describes as trained by specialist professionals turns the extracted data into observations and recommended next steps.
The tax module summarizes a return across sixteen areas including modified adjusted gross income tiers, federal and state position, conversion analysis, charitable deductions, qualified business income treatment and pending legislative changes. The estate module reads wills, trusts, powers of attorney and healthcare directives, gathering hundreds of data points and rendering asset distribution and the significant individuals named as visual flowcharts an adviser can use in a legacy conversation. The insurance module reads home, umbrella and motor declaration pages to surface coverage gaps and over insurance.
Commercial terms are published in full and structured as an annual license carrying a bank of credits, one credit per tax document reviewed and one per estate household regardless of document count, with credits reloading annually and shared across every seat in the firm. Founded in New York by Andrew Altfest, president of an established wealth management firm, and Luis Quiroz, previously an artificial intelligence development leader at the Mexican Stock Exchange.
Capability Axes
Capability grades
15 of 15 axes rated · 3 graded A or B
Machine reading of wills, trusts and tax returns carries all the throughput, and without it nothing exists to analyze. The insights layer applies expertise contributed by dozens of specialists to extracted fields, encoded human knowledge rather than model reasoning.
Outputs are described as adviser verified, which places review correctly but supplies no confidence measure or flag on an ambiguous passage. No view sets an extracted value beside its source text, so an adviser checking a clean trust flowchart cannot see which reading of a conditional provision was chosen.
A misread distribution provision produces a flowchart confidently showing a family the wrong inheritance, with no signal to the checking adviser that anything went wrong. No extraction accuracy, error rate by document type or validation method is published, especially for ambiguous instruments where risk concentrates.
The vendor's pages claim more than eight hours saved per client, with no attribution visible, so no named reference supports it. Editorial coverage at a major research house and the founder's own advice firm lend credibility without amounting to a customer outcome.
Marketing calls the capability adviser trained and expert trained, a training claim with no account of the training material. If that means real client wills and tax returns, it concerns a great many families, and nothing says whether uploads improve extraction or train any model.
Each household analysis is stored for later use by any seat in the firm, so uploaded documents and their extracted contents persist somewhere. How long they persist, and how a firm deletes them, is undescribed.
A single household upload can combine a tax return with government identification numbers, a will naming beneficiaries, powers of attorney and a healthcare directive. No attestation, security standard or trust page appears for a system concentrating that much about one family.
Analysis that finds problems in a will looks like legal work, and coverage gap findings look like insurance advice, while the buyers include attorneys and accountants as well as advisers. Nothing draws the line between analysis and advice or says what a professional must add before an output leaves.
Extraction likely reads a templated will from a large firm better than an old or small practice document, so households with plainer paperwork may get weaker analysis. Complex estates also generate fuller reports than simple ones, steering adviser effort, and neither effect is evaluated.
Calling outputs adviser verified allocates responsibility in a phrase rather than a term: the reviewing professional owns them. Estate flowcharts and coverage gap summaries are built to be shown to families, so an error acted on may surface years later, and the family has no route to see or correct what was extracted.
Capability is attributed to the company's own engine and its specialists, which describes ownership of the logic rather than who performs the reading. Whether a third party model reads a family's legal documents is unanswered, though a firm needs that before its first upload.
Third party reviews say the product integrates with existing financial software without naming one system. No client relationship platform, planning tool or interface is named, so whether findings reach the plan or stay in the product is unknown.
Documents are uploaded through a browser, and no hosting provider, storage location or residency statement is published. Where legal and tax documents are processed is therefore unknown to the firm uploading them.
A public pricing page gives annual figures for the combined license and a single module, with a discount for two year billing and scaling from one adviser to a firm. Credits are spent one per tax document and one per estate household, reload annually and can be topped up, so a buyer can model cost against case volume before calling.
Sole practitioners, advisory teams and multi office firms buy licenses, and accounting firms and estate attorneys use the same reading for their own purposes. Tax, estate and insurance are all covered, but the design is bound to one country's tax code and estate instruments.
Product updates
Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at FP Alpha, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.
FP Alpha released Tax Projector Scenario Insights, which models forward looking client decisions such as Roth conversions, asset sales, income changes and state relocations and returns the projected tax consequences. A Tax Projector Agent lets advisers build and adjust those scenarios conversationally.
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Pricing
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$1,995 a year for the All In One license, per advisor. A single module is also sold alone.
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Annual license per advisor, with firm pricing for full office logins and a lower rate for two year billing. The license carries a bank of credits: one credit per tax document reviewed and one per estate household regardless of document count, reloading annually and shared across seats in the firm, with additional capacity purchasable. The All In One license is reported to include 35 tax, 10 estate and 10 insurance snapshots. | Not tiered on the pricing page. Enterprise clients have controls over user roles, access permissions and data usage on the platform. | No implementation fee is published. | Vendor Published |
Price as listed on the vendor's pricing page and reported in trade coverage in 2026. The credit mechanics let a firm model cost against expected case volume before contacting sales.