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AI token costs for prospecting: model routing and your own keys
AI token costs for sales prospecting, explained: October 2026 list prices, a worked cost per prospect, model routing math, and six questions to ask vendors.
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AGENTIC DISTRIBUTION
The AI Revenue Appliance for scaling AUM.
Purpose-built. On-premise. Compliance-first.
Wholesalers spend two-thirds of every hour on prep, CRM, and admin. The Alpheous appliance takes that time back: agents work your data overnight, so your team walks in to a ranked queue, a morning brief, and compliant drafts waiting for one click.
Configured to your firm in 90 days.
Your morning brief
Mon 6:00 AM
Good morning. Three meetings today, and Summit Advisory Group moved into your hot list overnight.
3
Meetings
today
7
In your queue
waiting on you
12
New signals
last 24 hours
4
Replies
advisors wrote back
Your day
9:30 Crestline Capital · 11:00 Summit Advisory Group · 2:15 Harbor Point Wealth
Money moving in your funds
Harbor Point Pension added to Small-Cap Value; Anderson & Cole trimmed. 13F, linked to source.
Today’s signals
Summit Advisory Group ranked into your hot list: new 13F, FIT Score 87.
Territory
Three advisors at Meridian Wealth Partners have gone quiet for 90+ days.
Every figure linked to its source. Every delivery recorded in the audit log.
Meet Alph
Introducing Alph.
Alph is your intelligent advisor, sourcing the insights you’ll need every week.
- Calls you with real-time updates
- Identifies risky or adverse scenarios
- Makes recommendations for action
- Tees up approval-ready client communications
Alph speaks from your own systems, on your own appliance. Anything bound for an advisor still waits for your approval.
Distribution Pain Points
AI distribution is here.
The math no longer works without it.
Wholesalers cost $350K each and sell eleven hours a week.
Two-thirds of every hour goes to prep, CRM, and admin.
The top twenty firms collect 80% of the flows.
The top firms hire more wholesalers than you can match.
Every distribution team has the same data and the same tools.
What you do with the data is your primary edge.
The Problem
Distribution is breaking under its own weight.
01
Wholesalers buried in prep
Meeting prep, signal triage, and follow-up admin consume the most expensive sales hour in financial services.
04
Cloud AI fails CCO scrutiny
Multi-tenant SaaS cannot answer where customer data sits or how outputs are governed. The CCO blocks the deal.
02
Compliance gates slow outbound
Every advisor-facing communication runs through manual compliance review. Cycle time kills momentum.
03
Signal noise overwhelms triage
Form 13F filings, ETF flows, news, social, and call notes pile up faster than any team can prioritize.
The Platform
One governed platform. Purpose-built pods.
Distribution outcomes.
Reads your data continuously. Surfaces the accounts worth working. Enables compliant outreach.
Your data
CRM + email
Customer context
Call transcripts
Conversation signal
Firm + product content
Approved source material
Regulatory filings
Rules + disclosures
Market + distribution
Flows, news + signals
ALPHEOUS REVENUE APPLIANCE
On-premise
Core capabilities + pods · included with every deployment
CORE SALES + DISTRIBUTION
Territory intelligence · prospecting · signals · outreach · meeting support
GOVERNED KNOWLEDGE + MEMORY
Grounded knowledge · persistent memory · regulatory intelligence · firm voice
COMPLIANCE GATE + SECURE APPLIANCE FOUNDATION
Local data · audit trail · controlled writeback
Add-on pods · expand capabilities for each deployment
Marketing
Available now
Campaigns · content · nurture
Data Packs
Available now
Normalization · enrichment
Alph
Available now
Internal voice concierge
Outreach
Available soon
Phone dialer · AI calling
Ready-to-use work
Ranked territories + signals
Where to act next
Advisor profiles + briefs
Prepared for the conversation
Compliant outreach + content
Ready for human approval
Alph voice concierge alerts
Internal, timely, actionable
CRM updates + audit trail
Closed-loop execution
External actions remain human-approved.
- 1Connect the data you already ownNo cloud copy. No new system of record.
- 2Start with the governed baseKnowledge, agents, compliance and controls.
- 3Add pods as priorities expandNew capability without rebuilding the platform.
Plugs into the stack your distribution team already uses.
HubSpot
Slack
Gmail
Google Calendar
Fireflies
Notion
Broadridge
FINTRX
SEC EDGAR
FRED
Claude
Gemini
HubSpot
Slack
Gmail
Google Calendar
Fireflies
Notion
Broadridge
FINTRX
SEC EDGAR
FRED
Claude
Gemini
HubSpot
Slack
Gmail
Google Calendar
Fireflies
Notion
Broadridge
FINTRX
SEC EDGAR
FRED
Claude
Gemini
HubSpot
Slack
Gmail
Google Calendar
Fireflies
Notion
Broadridge
FINTRX
SEC EDGAR
FRED
Claude
Gemini
What Alpheous Does
How Alpheous drives distribution.
Targeting & Signals
Watch the universe. Rank the queue.
Continuous monitoring of every advisor and every product. Form ADV amendments, 13F shifts, custodian changes, and territory cold spots surface automatically. The FIT Score recomputes hourly so the queue is always current.
Outreach & Coverage
Pre-meeting briefs and follow-up drafts.
Meeting prep that pulls filings, news, LinkedIn, and call history into one brief. Post-meeting follow-up drafts the moment the call ends. Roadshow planning, events intel, and pitch books built without wholesaler effort.
Compliance & Governance
Every outbound, reviewed before it leaves.
SEC Marketing Rule and FINRA 2210 review on every external communication. Regulatory digest of new filings daily. Enforcement watch on peer actions. A tamper-evident audit log of every retrieval, output, and approval, built for examination.
Research & Intelligence
Performance, attribution, thought leadership.
Quarterly performance reporting and attribution analytics written without a research team. Thought leadership drafts on the topics your advisors are asking about. Investment strategist briefs for client conversations.
Thirteen agents ship in the base platform, coordinated across teams. Continuous monitoring, 24/7.
Meet the agentsA Day With Alpheous
Your team walks in to finished work.
Every morning, the work is already assembled.
Before your day starts, Alph pulls together what you’d otherwise piece together by hand: from your own systems, on your own appliance.
Today
3
Meetings
today
7
In your queue
waiting on you
12
New signals
last 24 hours
4
Replies
advisors wrote back
Your morning brief
Your day
Every meeting in order, pulled from your calendar.
Money moving in your funds
Institutions that bought, added, trimmed, or exited; from 13F filings, each linked to source.
Money moving in peer funds
The same view on the funds you compete with.
Your markets
Headlines on the topics set for your firm, linked to the publisher, never rewritten.
Today’s & this week’s signals
Advisors and firms with fresh activity worth the call.
Territory
Firm by firm, where your book is moving, and who newly ranked into your hot list.
What this replaces
The Monday-morning spreadsheet.
No login required. The brief lands in your inbox every weekday morning: email, or Slack if your firm uses it.
- Alph writes only the opening lines. Everything else is your data or a linked source.
- Any sentence with a figure the brief can’t verify is removed before it sends.
- Every delivery is recorded in the compliance audit log.
Humans In The Middle
Humans stay in control of every action.
1
Agent detects signal.
Form ADV amendment, 13F shift, advisor going cold, or territory event surfaces in the queue.
2
Agent drafts action.
Meeting brief, follow-up email, compliant outreach. The draft arrives with full context already in place.
3
You review and approve.
Every external communication waits for human approval. Approve, edit, or reject with one click: in the app, over Slack, email, or text. Nothing sends without your sign-off.
4
Send and log.
Outbound goes to the advisor. The action is timestamped and written to the tamper-evident audit log.
Approve Edit Reject
The AI does the work. Your wholesaler makes the call.
Compliance Foundation
Compliance built into the foundation of the platform.
S
SEC Marketing Rule gating.
Every outbound communication runs against the SEC Marketing Rule before it leaves the platform.
F
FINRA 2210 references built in.
Rule references and required disclaimers are appended automatically based on subject matter.
A
Tamper-evident, signed audit log.
Every retrieval, every output, and every approval is hash-chained, and each day’s record is cryptographically signed. Built for examination.
D
Hard-coded separation of duties.
Compliance review, draft creation, and approval are enforced as separate roles. No bypass paths.
Built for SEC examination from the appliance up.
The Payoff
Give your most expensive hour back to selling.
A Tier-2 wholesaler costs ~$350K a year and sells roughly eleven hours a week; two-thirds of every hour goes to prep, CRM, and admin. Alpheous is where that hour comes back.
Monday, without Alpheous
- Rebuild the account list from a dozen tabs and a stale CRM export.
- Hunt through filings and news to find what actually changed overnight.
- Guess which advisors have gone quiet and hope none slipped.
- Write each follow-up from scratch, then wait on compliance review.
Monday, with Alpheous
- The ranked queue is already built: who to work today, and why.
- Money moving in your funds and peer funds, each linked to its filing.
- The advisors who went quiet, handed back grouped by firm.
- Compliant follow-ups drafted and waiting in your outbox for one click.
11+
more selling hours per week, reclaimed from admin
$350K
wholesaler cost the platform makes productive
1 click
from surfaced signal to compliant, sent outreach
The Appliance
Installed inside your office.
Hardware on the desk, software inside the firewall.
α
1–3 users
Alpheous Mini
Core agents in targeting, outreach, and compliance for up to four territories.
α
4–12 users
Alpheous Studio
Expanded agent set across all four teams with priority support and broader coverage.
α
12+ users
Alpheous Studio Pair
Every agent across unlimited territories with high-availability redundancy and a premium SLA.
Key properties
- Hardened single-tenant box.
- Tailscale mesh only. No public ports, no open SSH.
- Your data stays in your organization and is excluded from model training.
The Team
Operators with deep distribution and AI experience.
15 years in asset management distribution. We sat in every seat of the wholesaling food chain and saw the same problem everywhere: wholesalers spending two-thirds of their time on everything except advisor conversations.
David Ward
CEO & CTO
Technical founder building Eous and Alpheous. Multi-time founder with deep agency and platform engineering experience.
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Matthew Langie
CMO
Co-founder leading brand, GTM, and demand. Marketing operator with experience scaling B2B SaaS companies into regulated verticals.
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John Gulino
CRO
Co-founder leading revenue. Career operator in asset management distribution with direct wholesale and intermediary sales background.
LinkedInCommon Questions
Alpheous is the AI Revenue Appliance for asset managers and distribution teams. Thirteen agents across four coordinated teams watch your advisor universe and the market continuously. They rank firms against your products with the FIT Score, build meeting briefs, draft compliant follow-ups, and surface the advisors who have gone quiet. Your wholesalers start each day with a morning brief and a ranked queue, the work already done.
Alph is the Alpheous voice concierge. Alph calls your wholesalers with real-time updates, flags risky or adverse scenarios, recommends the next action, and tees up approval-ready client communications. Alph works from your own systems on your own appliance, and never sends anything to an advisor without a person's approval.
Ninety-five percent of asset managers buy their data from the same four sources. If everyone has the same baseline, the only differentiation is what AI does with it. Alpheous layers continuous crawls, unstructured intelligence, multi-signal inference, and ranked next-best-actions on top of the data you already have.
On a hardened Alpheous appliance installed at your firm, behind your firewall, in your facility. Your advisor records, meeting transcripts, and compliance data never leave your building. We manage the system remotely but your data stays on-premise.
No. Your team approves, edits, or rejects agent output with a single click: in the app, over Slack, email, or text. We spec the hardware, install the appliance, and manage everything remotely with no IT burden on your firm.
Every outbound communication is reviewed against the SEC Marketing Rule and FINRA 2210 before it reaches your wholesaler. Nothing sends without human approval. Every retrieval, output, and approval is written to a tamper-evident audit log: each entry hash-chained, each day's record cryptographically signed.
Hardware delivery and installation takes two to three weeks. Agent configuration, data integration, and a supervised calibration period bring total deployment to approximately 90 days. Your team is live and covering more of your advisor universe within the first quarter.
Let's bring the appliance to your distribution team.
Live system walkthrough. Configured to your firm in 90 days.
A live walkthrough of the system, run against your questions.
Or write directly to grow@alpheous.com