Research and development with UK IFA firms

Help shape the onboarding andcompliance platform your firm actually needs.

IFA firms managing £50m to £500m spend hundreds of hours each year on manual compliance admin and onboarding. Kyvera is pre-product R&D. We are working with early firms to define what gets built first.

What we are building
KYC workflowConcept
In progressPlanned output
What Kyvera automates
Client information captured once
Checks completed with less manual handling
Planned integrations to key back-office systems
Audit history prepared for review

WHY WE'RE BUILDING THIS

Four problems every IFA operations team knows.

We've been speaking with compliance leads and COOs at IFA firms across the UK. The same four issues come up every time.

New client onboarding takes days

The same information gets collected, re-entered, and checked across multiple systems by hand. A process that should take minutes routinely takes 3–5 hours per client.

Compliance admin never ends

KYC checks, suitability reviews, and Consumer Duty documentation keep growing while compliance team size often stays the same.

Client data lives everywhere

Your CRM, back-office system, email threads, shared drives, and spreadsheets all hold pieces of the same client record. Teams re-enter the same information repeatedly.

Audit prep is always a crisis

When the FCA requests information, assembling a coherent audit trail can still mean days of manual work across multiple systems.

OUR APPROACH

We're building this with IFA firms, not for them.

Most compliance software is built by people who've never worked in an IFA firm. We're doing this differently.

Deep research first

Before writing a single line of code, we're conducting in-depth interviews with compliance leads, COOs, and principals at IFA firms. We want to understand the problem completely.

Connects to the tools you already use

Kyvera is being designed to connect with the CRMs and back-office systems firms already use. Planned integrations include platforms such as Intelliflo, Salesforce, and Curo.

Designed for the FCA environment

UK-specific from the ground up. Consumer Duty, PROD, ongoing suitability, and audit requirements are part of the design from the start.

WHO'S BUILDING THIS

Why I am building Kyvera now.

Kaiyun - Founder of Kyvera

I'm Kaiyun, the founder of Kyvera.

I spent months speaking directly with compliance and operations leaders at UK IFA firms. The same issue kept coming up. Strong teams were losing too much time to manual onboarding, rekeying, and audit preparation.

I am not claiming to have all the answers from day one. This is exactly why Kyvera is in R&D. Early partner firms shape the workflow, priorities, and integration roadmap before anything is final.

If you lead compliance or operations, your input is useful right now. The goal is to build software that works in real firms, not just in a product demo.

Founded:2026
Stage:Research & Development
Based in:United Kingdom

HOW IT WORKS

One workflow. Every system updated automatically.

This section shows the workflow we are building with early firms. It is not a live product.

Step 1: Client details captured once

A client completes one structured intake flow. The aim is to avoid duplicate requests and repeated data entry.

Step 2: Checks run in a consistent process

KYC and onboarding checks follow a clear process with less manual chasing and less risk of missing steps.

Step 3: Planned integrations reduce rekeying

Planned integrations target common IFA systems such as Intelliflo, Salesforce, and Curo so firms can avoid repeated data entry.

Step 4: Audit history prepared as work happens

Each workflow step is recorded to make reviews easier and reduce last-minute audit preparation work.

Integrations are planned and prioritised with early partner firms.

WHAT WE HEAR IN DISCOVERY CALLS

Common pain points from UK IFA leaders.

These are anonymised quotes from research calls with compliance and operations leaders.

"Onboarding a new client takes us months, not weeks. We bring on around 300 to 400 clients a year and the same friction shows up every time."

- Compliance Officer, UK IFA firm

"LOAs are the real reason our onboarding takes as long as it does. If I could change one thing tomorrow, it would be the compliance paperwork."

- Operations Director, UK IFA firm

"The platform has to make people want to invest with the firm. That's the part most compliance software forgets."

- Chief Compliance Officer, UK IFA firm

"Manual rekeying is a real risk. An adviser put a client's email in wrong once and the documents went to the completely wrong person."

- Chief Compliance Officer, UK IFA firm

"We deliberately limit how many clients we onboard each year so we can give every one of them the personal touch. The process just doesn't scale the way it currently works."

- Operations Director, UK IFA firm

Let's have a conversation.

If you run or work at an IFA firm, we would value 20 minutes of your time. No pitch. Just a conversation about how your firm handles compliance and onboarding today.

Your details will only be used to arrange a conversation. We will never pass them to third parties or add you to a mailing list.

Common Questions

No. We don't have a product to sell yet. We're at the research stage and we're looking for IFA professionals willing to share their experience of compliance and onboarding workflows. There is nothing to buy and no obligation of any kind.