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Protocol Wealth

Can a fiduciary RIA for complex, concentrated wealth operate like a software company — with open-source compliance primitives, AI-assisted advisory, and a full financial OS — to serve ultra-high-net-worth clients at scale?

HQDelaware (registered), USA
IndustryFintech / Investment
The story

Protocol Wealth is a Delaware-registered SEC investment adviser (CRD #335298) targeting ultra-high-net-worth families, founders, and institutional treasuries. Distinctively, it has built a proprietary technology layer — the Protocol Wealth Operating System (PWOS) — with open-source compliance primitives and a client portal, positioning itself as a 'financial OS' for complex wealth rather than a traditional RIA. The firm emphasizes AI-assisted advisory with human fiduciary accountability, and publishes a detailed subprocessors list and security attestations in the spirit of a software company rather than a traditional wealth manager.

Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2026
Launched PWOS (Protocol Wealth Operating System), an advisor portal at pwos.app, alongside PWPortal client portal and PW Nexus research API/MCP server.· pivot
2026
Published open-source compliance primitives including @protocolwealthos/compliance v0.3.0 on GitHub, adding vendor-document advisory metadata schema for SOC 1/SOC 2/ISO/DPA/pen-test records.· banking
Regulated entities
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regulatory licence held by Protocol Wealth
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
1 layer disclosed in Protocol Wealth’s embedded-finance stack
KYC
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Accounting gap: none