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Financial Reporting Completed 3x Faster With AI-Powered Digital Assistants
Case Study

Financial Reporting Completed 3x Faster With AI-Powered Digital Assistants

How a leading UK financial planning firm scaled efficiently and saved £388K annually by reducing reliance on temporary support and reallocating 10 full-time employees.

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IndustryFinancial Planning
LocationUnited Kingdom
SolutionAI-Powered Intelligent Automation
Client Profile

Who We Helped: Air Rey Services

A prominent UK-based independent financial planning firm, offering tailored advice on savings, investments, and retirement. The firm’s team includes Chartered Financial Planners and specialists in later-life care and complex pensions, helping clients secure long-term financial clarity and confidence.
Who We Helped section
The Challenge

CHALLENGE

At a baseline level, the firm was manually processing 1,500+ data entries each month—a repetitive task that consumed valuable time and resources. The firm’s rapid client growth drove reporting volumes beyond this baseline and was more than its permanent team could handle, forcing them to bring in temporary staff as a short-term fix. While this helped manage new business, it came at significant cost. Specific key challenges included :
  • Reliance on ~20 temporary staff to handle new business.
  • Manual processes that risked human error and delayed reporting.
  • Scaling pressures with a rapidly growing client base and limited resources.
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Identifying Inefficiencies

Manual processing, delayed decision loops, and systemic bottlenecks created elevated operational risks, capping volume expansion and shifting critical bandwidth to daily overhead.

The Solution

PROCESS & AI-POWERED INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION

Valenta implemented a custom-built Digital Assistant to automate the firm’s monthly income reporting process. The automation replaced manual effort with a streamlined, accurate, and scalable workflow:

Data Collection & Consolidation:

Gathers client data each month and centralizes it in one dashboard.

Data Collection & Consolidation

Standardization & Formatting:

Applies consistent formats, organizes reports, and secures sensitive data.

Automated Distribution

Automated Distribution:

Delivers finalized dashboards directly to advisers based on their status.

Standardization & Formatting

Accuracy & Transparency:

Generates summary reports to ensure error-free results and clear oversight.

Solution Pillar

Valenta’s intelligent automation has streamlined Intelliflo’s wealth management platform, reducing manual effort, improving process efficiency, accuracy and overall user experience.

Business Impact

BUSINESS IMPACT

The implementation of AI-Powered Intelligent Automation delivered measurable outcomes, transforming the client's operations.

Key Performance Gains

  • With the Digital Assistants handling the mundane, repetitive reporting process, employees can shift focus from repetitive tasks to higher-value client work.
  • 100% accuracy achieved, eliminating manual errors.
  • Can scale to meet the needs of a rapidly growing client base accurately, without increasing their labor cost base

RETURN ON INVESTMENT: 5.7X

$96,400 Saved Annually

£388,000 in Labor Costs Saved Annually

10 FTEs reallocatedNumber of temporary hires reduced by 90% with AI-Powered Digital Assistants

Digital Assistant Replaced…

65% Reduction in Processing Time

14 min → 5 min

Credit Processing Completed 87.5% Faster

3x Faster Workflow Execution

Validated post-implementation metric.

Payback Period

Payback Period

Within 3 weeks after implementation, validation, and go-live assurance phase