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Sherpas

Sherpas sells AI agents that do the analytical work behind financial advice for wealth management firms. Intake pulls and structures client data from any document. Paraplanner drafts a narrative financial plan with observations, risks and strategies, and Portfolio Analyst prepares investment proposals matched to a client's goals and risk profile.

Sherpas says advisers stay in control and that the agents learn each adviser's voice. It claims a 95 percent cut in time to advice, from 8 to 10 hours to about 20 minutes per client, without naming a customer. The platform runs on Fly.io in Equinix data centers, and a SOC 2 Type 2 report is in progress.

Sherpas raised a $3.2 million seed round in February 2026. The company's legal name is Sherpas Wealth Technology, Inc.

Last VerifiedOctober 3, 2026
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Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Categories
wealth-and-advisory, customer-banking-agents, capital-markets-ai
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

Intake, Paraplanner and Portfolio Analyst are agents that take over paraplanning, from structuring client documents to drafting the plan and the investment proposal.

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

Outputs arrive as drafts, a narrative plan, observations and investment proposals, for the adviser to finish. There's no described approval step, confidence flag or record of what the adviser changed.

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

Speed is measured but accuracy is not, with no error or validation figures for extracted data, plans or proposals.

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

Time to advice drops from 8 to 10 hours to about 20 minutes per client, by Sherpas' account, but no firm is named alongside the figure. The homepage offers partner logos instead.

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

Agents learn each adviser's voice, yet nothing says whether client data trains the models or how one firm's data is kept apart from another's.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
Vendor Published

Social security numbers and financial details fall under the April 11, 2023 privacy policy, which keeps data no longer than the user's account. It doesn't say whether Sherpas processes that data on the advisory firm's behalf.

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

A SOC 2 Type 2 report is still in final review, and the SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certificates it cites belong to Equinix, its data center host, rather than to Sherpas.

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

Plans and investment proposals drafted by the agents reach clients under the adviser's fiduciary duty, and Sherpas cites no rule or registration that shapes the product.

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

Consistency is sold as a benefit, but no testing across client groups or governance process for the agents backs it up.

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 adviser and the firm carry responsibility for every plan they deliver, and no contractual remedy for a wrong agent output is published.

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

Language models power all three agents, and neither their provider nor any subprocessor is named.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
CC on Core Systems and Integration DepthIntegration claimed through standards or connectors with no system named and nothing to verify.
Vendor Published

Fitting into existing workflows is the promise, though no CRM, custodian or planning tool is named and there's no API documentation.

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

Fly.io hosts the service in Equinix data centers with 30 day backups at a second site, but no region or residency commitment is given.

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

Pricing stays off the site, leaving open whether it runs per adviser, per plan or as an enterprise license.

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

Wealth management and advisory firms are the only buyers named, which keeps the reach to one segment.

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Commercial

Pricing

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AI FinTech Index

The AI FinTech Index is an independent index that tracks changes to AI vendors in financial services. It holds 610 vendors across banking, lending, insurance, wealth, capital markets and financial crime compliance, each graded on the same 15 capability axes from public sources. No vendor pays for inclusion, placement, or rating.

Index Status
Last index update
October 20, 2026
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