Due-diligence assessment
Understand the advice quality and where risk is concentrated in a book before you buy it, not after.
For consolidators
Stand behind the advice in every book you acquire.
Every firm you buy brings its advice history with it, and its liability. Bedrock lets you assess the advice in a book before you sign, and hold every acquired firm to one standard of oversight afterwards.
Every acquisition is a book of risk you cannot fully see.
Growth by acquisition means taking on other firms’ advice, and the liability that comes with it. Diligence on a sample and a promise of good process is not the same as knowing what you are buying.
- Inherited liability
- Unsuitable advice in an acquired back-book becomes your redress bill, sometimes years after the deal closes.
- Diligence blind spots
- A sample of files during diligence tells you little about the thousands you are actually buying.
- Mixed standards
- Every firm you acquire arrives with its own process, its own checklists and its own gaps.
- Regulatory scrutiny
- The FCA is looking closely at how consolidators manage the advice, and the risk, they take on.
From diligence to a supervised group.
Bedrock gives you one standard for assessing, onboarding and overseeing the firms you acquire.
Assess the book
Understand the quality and concentration of risk in a target firm’s advice before you commit to the deal.
Bring it onto the platform
Onboard the acquired firm and its advisers onto one shared standard of review and evidence.
Standardise oversight
Apply the same checklists, SLAs and risk rules across every firm under the group.
Evidence the group
See advice quality across every acquired book from one view, and produce evidence per firm on demand.
What your group compliance function gets.
Group-wide oversight
One view of advice quality and review status across every firm you have acquired.
A defensible record
A complete, permanent record of the advice you have taken on and exactly how it is being supervised.
One standard, every firm
Replace a patchwork of inherited processes with a single, consistent way of working.
AI is already in the books you are buying.
The firms you acquire are adopting AI to draft advice at different speeds and with different controls. Bedrock gives you one place to see where AI is being used across the group and to keep human review in front of it, so you are not inheriting a risk you cannot see.
- See where AI is being used to produce advice across every acquired firm.
- Hold AI-assisted advice to the same human review as everything else.
- Catch a model’s mistake before it compounds across a newly acquired book.