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Raymond James Financial, Inc.

New CEO Paul Shoukry is focused on tech, products and AI for advisors

RJFFinancial Services/Capital Markets/Investment Banking & Brokerage(40203020)HQ St. Petersburg, FLResearched Oct 25, 2026Unverified
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Diversified financial services firm covering Private Client Group (about 8,800 advisors), Capital Markets, Asset Management and Raymond James Bank.

Talking points

  • A new CEO focused on tech and AI is a good fit for an advisor AI roadmap.

Likely opportunities

  • Advisor experience and AI. Bank platform.

Outreach plans

1 plan for the main opportunities, in outreach wave 3. All budgets, deal sizes and dates are planning estimates made from the public brief, not from client data or Accenture financials. Executive names are used only where the brief also names them; verify roles and names before outreach.

1Advisor experience and AIAI & agentsIdentified$4.4M–$14M

The Raymond James Financial brief flags this opportunity: Advisor experience and AI. Lead with a fixed-scope 6-week entry offer that proves value quickly, then grow it into the advisor platform roadmap and the AI assistant rollout across the field.

From opportunity: Advisor experience and AI

Why now
New CEO Paul Shoukry is focused on tech, products and AI for advisors.
Buyers
Head of Wealth / Advisor Platform · CIO · COO · Head of Client Experience
Our sponsor
Accenture Wealth Management MD, with the Data & AI lead as co-sponsor
Entry
A 6-week advisor productivity sprint: shadow 10-20 advisors, quantify time lost to admin, and ship one gen-AI assistant feature (meeting prep or follow-up) into a pilot branch.. No CAL account team today. Enter through the sponsor's network, Salesforce, Microsoft or the client's CRM and LLM partners and a short point-of-view note to the Head of Wealth / Advisor Platform.
Proof points
Advisor and client platforms case studies
Deal size$4.4M–$14M
Pursuit cost$105K
Win probability15%
Estimate: Estimate. Pursuit cost is about 21 person-weeks of account, sponsor and SME time at a blended $5,000 per person-week, including extra effort to win a first meeting without an account team. The entry offer itself is a fixed fee of roughly $150k, or an Accenture investment if the pursuit is contested. The deal range is the 12-24 month follow-on (the advisor platform roadmap and the AI assistant rollout across the field), scaled for a large client from a reference range of $8-25M. It is not based on client budget data. Win probability of 15% is a planning assumption for an account without a CAL tier.

Outreach sequence

  1. Week 1Size advisor time lost to admin and the revenue per advisor that capacity is worth. Map the buying group (Head of Wealth / Advisor Platform, CIO, COO) and known Accenture relationships.Industry MD with an industry SME
  2. Week 2Confirm the sponsor, pick two reference clients, and line up support from Salesforce, Microsoft or the client's CRM and LLM partners.Sponsor
  3. Week 3-5Reach the Head of Wealth / Advisor Platform with a one-page note on advisor experience and AI, through a warm introduction or an industry event.Industry MD
  4. Week 6-7Executive meetings with the Head of Wealth / Advisor Platform and the CIO: test the hypotheses and offer the entry offer.Sponsor and industry MD
  5. Week 8-9Run a design session with advisors and the platform team using a working assistant prototype.Industry and technical SMEs
  6. Week 10Scope and price the entry offer with the client's working team; agree success measures.Pursuit lead
  7. Week 11-12Proposal review with the economic buyer (COO) and procurement.Sponsor
  8. Week 13-14Sign the entry offer and mobilize the 6-week team.Delivery lead
  9. Week 20Read out results and propose the follow-on: the advisor platform roadmap and the AI assistant rollout across the field.Sponsor and delivery lead

Timeline

Mar 2027Aug 2027
Prepare and engageFirst executive meeting held with the Head of Wealth / Advisor Platform
ShapeEntry offer scoped with the client's working team
ProposeEntry offer signed
Deliver entry offerResults read out and follow-on proposal submitted
ExpandFollow-on program signed

Success measures

  • Sprint signed
  • Advisor admin time down 20%+ in the pilot (target)
  • Net new assets or client satisfaction lift (client's measure)

Risks

  • Wealth-tech vendors and in-house AI teams build the same assistant
  • Compliance review of client-facing AI slows adoption
  • Competition (from the brief): Not confirmed.

01Strategic priorities

  • Paul Shoukry (CEO since February 2025) is prioritizing advisor recruiting, tech, products and AI (Bloomberg, April 2026), and organic growth.

02Financial health and spend signals

  • Record client assets. Rate-sensitive bank sweep income.

03Leadership changes

  • Shoukry succeeded Paul Reilly as CEO. Butch Oorlog is CFO.

04Regulatory pressure

  • SEC and FINRA advisor oversight. Reg BI.

05M&A and restructuring

  • Selective (TriState Capital, 2022; Charles Stanley in the UK).

06Tech stack and vendor footprint

  • Advisor platform and AI tools.

07Competitor engagements

  • Not confirmed.

08Risk disclosures

  • Market sensitivity and advisor attrition.

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Regulatory actions

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Recent public signals

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