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For established advisory teams · Advisory partners and service-line leads

Extend advisory attention beyond the clients already receiving it

Your practice may deliver strong reporting and advice to selected clients. CORE Insights can help identify where other connected clients may warrant attention and which opportunities should be routed to the right specialist.

The question for your practice

“Which clients outside our existing advisory programme should we speak to, and why?”

Review clients beyond the current advisory programme, then route only checked opportunities. Select suitable connected clients who are not receiving that service, investigate relevant portfolio signals with their relationship manager, and pass a documented need to the right specialist when the evidence and client context justify it.

A way to approach it

The challenge

The advisory team already has a defined service, but the wider client base is not reviewed in the same way. A valuable opportunity might sit with a compliance relationship team until the next annual meeting.

Portfolio triage

Use agreed criteria to review the connected portfolio and narrow attention to clients with a relevant need and readiness for a conversation. An Opportunity Card is a starting signal. It should be checked against the accounts, the client relationship and the specialist service available.

Route the right work

A finding may call for a simple check-in, a Business Overview conversation or a referral to an existing advisory, tax or other specialist service. Define the handoff and record the next action so opportunities do not disappear into a dashboard.

Practical questions, answered

How do we separate an opportunity from an interesting metric?

Check the source figures, timing, materiality and what the relationship manager already knows. A finding becomes a potential client conversation only when there is a plausible question or decision the client may value.

Can we tailor the review to capacity?

Agree suitable clients, criteria and thresholds before reviewing the cards. Revisit them if the shortlist is too broad or too narrow; the practice still decides which findings deserve a human investigation.

How do we avoid overwhelming specialists?

Let the relationship manager verify and qualify a finding first. Send a short handoff with the evidence, client context, suggested question and proposed next step; close or defer weak signals.

See the portfolio-to-conversation process

The recorded CORE Insights demonstration shows the product workflow from portfolio review through client investigation, meeting preparation and actions. Use it to check the illustrative example above, then test the process with your own clients.

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These questions may also be relevant elsewhere in your firm.

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Try this with your practice

Choose five clients who are not already in the advisory programme and test whether a portfolio review reveals conversations worth investigating.

The trial is 28 days, permits up to five clients and provides CORE Insights access only. No payment card is required.

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