Case Study
Financial Services
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The Client
A behind-the-scenes partner for high-net-worth individuals focused on management of financial and legal needs.
We can guarantee you've never heard of this client by name — neither had we. Their under the radar operations are by design, intended to protect the anonymity of their clients.
This team handles back office operations, tax matters, and more for hundreds of celebrities (athletes, movie stars, musicians, etc.) and dozens of ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs and business folks. They’re not a bank, a legal firm, or an accounting firm, but they sit at the nexus of all of these services (and more).
The Challenge
Create a bespoke platform to move all communications off email, align internal processes, maintain accountability, and optimize efficiency in operations.
When we began working with this client, their internal communications and processes were handled via email. Given the hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of transaction requests handled daily by this small but growing team, email was quickly becoming a bottleneck in their operations leading to missed requests and unhappy clients.
Apollo 21 was tasked with evaluating internal processes and designing software that would securely store sensitive client data while moving transactions from email to a structured system. We focused on streamlining communications, approvals, and task assignments while maintaining a detailed audit trail of every action.
The Plan
Evaluate the team's core workflows and utilize Mission Control to create a workflow management and automation platform.
The Apollo 21 team worked closely with stakeholders through our Discovery process to understand and document the current processes and workflows and to identify the key pain points that led to missed communications and opportunities. Through this Discovery phase, we identified three key processes that accounted for the majority of internal needs.
Once identified, we followed a crawl → walk → run strategy (a core principle at Apollo 21) that focused on rolling out solutions to each process over time. Built on our Mission Control platform, these workflows would help manage the process from request to approval to action while maintaining a detailed audit trail at every step.
The Solution
Automate the most taxing workflows and eliminate email as a primary communications method.
Using the Mission Control platform as a foundation, Apollo 21 built a workflow management system for the clientthat put their unique process at the forefront ensuring that requests are controlled at every step and remain consistent based on the constraints of the system.
The experience centers around the dashboard which functions kanban-style, displaying transactions as they move from request to approval to closure.
In addition, Mission Control acts as a data store, managing client records, legal entities, and bank account information (all stored securely to HIPAA-level compliance standards). These records can be referenced in transactions to auto-populate the request data, and new records can be added during the request creation process.
Access to any given client or data is managed via role-based access on a user-by-user and client-by-client basis.
Security and accountability are of the utmost importance when dealing with clients of this caliber. Mission Control logs every action taken within the system at both the global and transaction levels.
Admins have access to review these logs at any time to aid in answering client concerns or tracking mistakes that may occur as hundreds to thousands of transactions flow through the system, daily.
The Outcomes
Mission Control is being rolled out across the organization on a client-by-client basis with resoundingly positive feedback. Those using the platform have noted a dramatic decrease in daily email communications as well as a clear, controlled workflow that makes day-to-day activities significantly easier to manage, track, and execute on.
In Their Own Words
“Communication from Apollo 21 is always top notch. We appreciate their focus on problem solving and their willingness to offer creative solutions to our complex problems. I would not hesitate to work with A21 again, and I would enthusiastically recommend them to someone with similar needs to our own.”
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