- Will an assistant ever recommend an adviser?
- Recommendation in the strong sense is rare, because assistants are built to decline personalised financial advice. Naming still happens at the hand-off, where a question about finding an adviser produces examples, and that moment is the one worth being present for.
- How many prompts does an advice practice need?
- Fewer than most proposals assume. The set is the general questions clients arrive with, the fee and process questions, and the find-an-adviser questions in the places you serve, which is a short list. Buying volume beyond it buys allowance a practice cannot use.
- Does the public register affect what assistants say?
- Public registers are checkable and official, which makes them the kind of source a model leans on when a question involves risk. Making authorisation and licence status explicit on your own site, worded consistently with the register, gives an assistant something specific to repeat instead of leaving it to hedge.
- Can we use these tools to write content?
- Drafting is fine and publishing without review is not. Financial copy carries licensing obligations that do not transfer to a vendor, and generated text drifts toward exactly the recommendation-shaped language the rules restrict. Treat every draft as raw material.
- Is sentiment worth paying attention to?
- How a practice gets characterised matters more here than in most categories, because the underlying question is trust. An assistant describing a practice as expensive or as product-aligned does more damage than one omitting it, and knowing that is worth something even where fixing it is slow.