Account opening · maintenance · onboarding

Submit it Once,
in good order.

Stop sending NIGOs to your custodian. Sluice validates and routes every account before it can be rejected — so it opens in good order the first time. AI proposes; the rules engine disposes.

SEC 17a-4 retentionAES-256 PII vaultFail-closed isolationNFS · Fidelity-cleared
  • Holding the score
  • Non-US client · AML lockdown-10
  • Funding ≥ $1M · supervisor-8
  • OFAC screen · verifying-4
100
9 affirmed
0 blocking

The reading

One score you trust at a glance. It reads 100 only when every check is affirmed and zero holds are open — never progress-theatre.

Summit Holdings
Apex Sub60%Jane60%
David40%

Who actually signs

Beneficial owners are computed by multiplying ownership through every sub-entity, down to the natural people. CDD ≥ 25%, enforced.

  • HoldNon-US client · AML
  • ReviewFunding ≥ $1M · supervisor
  • ScreenOFAC · verifying

Decided up front

Rules trigger holds and reviews off the data — deterministically, before anything reaches the custodian.

Standards enforced · systems connected
NFS registry · 39 types
FinCEN CDD · BO ≥ 25%
OFAC / CIP screening
17a-4 retention
Dynamics 365
Envestnet
DocuSign
ACAT / TOA

Every rule is transcribed from a production account-opening system — the 39-type matrix, the entity beneficial-ownership bubble-up, the fail-closed gate. Not a greenfield guess.

The thesis

Others clean up NIGOs after the custodian rejects them. Sluice shifts quality control upstream — validating documentation and data before submission, so only in-good-order business enters the flow.

Proposed, then disposed

AI proposes. The rules engine disposes.

The model drafts every field in seconds. Then a deterministic engine checks each one against the custodian's registry and your firm's policy — and affirms it or holds it. Nothing posts on the model's word.

AI proposes
Registration type
Joint WROS
The engine disposes
verifying…
The gate

One gate. Every account clears it before it moves.

Validation, screening, and routing all resolve at a single fail-closed checkpoint — live in the browser as you work, and again on the server as the source of truth. Nothing reaches the custodian until the gauge reads 100.

The rules don't advise; they decide. AI proposes the answers — the engine verifies every one against the custodian's registry and your firm's policy before anything posts.

0registration types, day one
4engine layers, one verdict
1fail-closed gate, every path
0the only score that ships

Quality control, moved to where it's cheap — the front of the flow. Caught up front, an issue is a field to fix; caught downstream, it's a rejected account and a phone call.

Every check, up front

The gate clears an account check by check — before it posts.

Sanctions screening, beneficial-ownership CDD, signer resolution, documents, ACAT eligibility — each resolves deterministically. The account only reads good order when every one is green.

  • Sanctions / OFAC screenVerifying
  • Beneficial ownership · CDDVerifying
  • Signer bubble-upVerifying
  • Documents · in good orderVerifying
  • ACAT eligibilityVerifying
01

Validation and routing, decided up front.

Rules trigger holds and reviews off the data — deterministically, before anything proceeds. Nothing reaches the custodian until the gauge reads 100.

  • Non-US client → AML lockdown
  • Entity → beneficial-ownership CDD
  • Funding ≥ $1M → supervisor review
Sluice review gate — a dark verdict cockpit holding an account for AML review

/review · AO-4821 · Margaret Chen — a fail-closed verdict, derived from the findings.

Sluice account structure — ownership tree, resolved signers via bubble-up, and a CDD panel

/structure · FinCEN 31 CFR 1010.230 — the ownership math done for you, on the white-label light canvas.

02

Entity-of-entity, resolved to who actually signs.

Signers bubble up through entity chains. Beneficial owners are computed by multiplying ownership through sub-entities. Control persons and the regulatory invariants — enforced, not assumed.

  • Signer bubble-up through sub-entities
  • CDD owners ≥ 25%, ownership multiplied
  • Control-person invariant · ownership ≤ 100%
03

One custodian baseline. Every firm's policy on top.

A shared NFS baseline of 39 registration types, transcribed from the real custodian registry. Each firm layers append-only holds — tighten the floor, never lower it. Onboarding is three inputs.

  • 39 registration types, day one
  • Append-only firm overlay
  • Same client, different firms — your policies
Sluice onboarding — inherited baseline vs firm overlay with a two-firm side-by-side proof

/onboarding — the same application under two firms; Cedar holds her for AML, Northpoint doesn't.

Sluice maintenance worklist — changes to open accounts running the same gate

/maintenance — the same instrument, inverted: resolving, not building.

04

Every change re-runs the same gate before it posts.

A citizenship update, an address synced from the CRM — each runs the same gate before it posts back to the custodian. Inbound diffs are gated, not trusted. In good order stays in good order.

  • Citizenship update → re-gate
  • CRM address sync → re-gate
  • Post-back only in good order
Your whole back office

Not just new accounts — every request your firm runs.

Account opening, cashiering, address changes, transfers — each lands in the right queue and only goes out once it's in good order. Need to track a new kind of work? Add a queue yourself, in minutes — no IT project, no waiting on a vendor.

Your firm's work — today live
Account opening
New Roth IRA · Jane O.
Queued
Joint account · the Castellanos
Queued
Cashiering
Wire · $85,000
Queued
Check deposit · $12,400
Queued
Address changes
Moved · Marco C.
Queued
New email · Priya N.
Queued
Transfers
Transfer in · $1.2M
Queued
Partial · 4 positions
Queued
Add any queue yourself
Spin up a new kind of work in minutes — not a vendor ticket.
Checked before it leaves
Nothing goes out until it reads in good order.
One board, whole firm
Every team's work in one place, scoped to who should see it.
Bring your book

Pull relationships in. Interpret them. Feed good order anywhere.

Households and entity structures arrive however your firm holds them — a CRM, a custodian feed, a spreadsheet, the data a moving advisor brings from their last firm. Sluice ingests them, interprets the members, accounts, and ownership chains into one relationship, and pushes the in-good-order result wherever it needs to live.

Pull inCRM — Dynamics 365Envestnet — managed accountsCustodian feed / fileSpreadsheet / prior firm
100Interpretone relationship
Feed anywhereCRM — Dynamics 365Envestnet — managed accountsCustodian — NFSDocuSign / book of record

Enter a household once. Reuse it everywhere. No re-keying, no copy that drifts.

Built for the firm

More than a gate — a platform your firm runs on.

White-label, per firm

Make it the firm's own — the wordmark and the whole palette derive from one accent, toggled on for the firms you onboard. No rebuild, just a token.

Secure self-profiling links

Send a client a secure link to profile themselves. Their answers land straight in the relationship — gated, deduped, ready for the advisor to review.

Team-scoped visibility

Advisors, principals, and the OSJ each see exactly their book. Supervision and signing roles map to the org and are enforced per user.

Onboard a firm

Three inputs, then it's live.

01

Custodian

Load the NFS baseline. 39 registration types, day one.

02

Policy

Upload the firm's holds. Append-only — never editing the floor.

03

Client data

Point at the CRM. Maintenance re-gates on every sync.

Effective policy = baseline + overlay — live in one session.

The instrument

One reading you can trust at a glance.

  • In progress — data still missing, nothing blocking yet.
  • Verifying — impure checks running: OFAC, CIP, ACAT.
  • Blocking — a hold is open; the arc caps below 100 and the account cannot post.
  • In good order — zero blocking, every check affirmed; the arc completes in teal.

It measures good order, never progress-theater. It never reads 100 while a single hold is open.

Built for compliance

Evidence-grade by design.

Isolated by the database

Every record is row-locked to your firm in the database engine itself — isolation is enforced below the application, not filtered above it.

Append-only evidence

The audit trail, signed baselines, and verdicts are tamper-evident, hash-chained ledgers. History is added to, never rewritten.

PII sealed at rest

Tax IDs are envelope-encrypted and vaulted. Screens, logs, and the audit ledger carry last-four only — a leak of any of them leaks no identifier.

AI that never decides

Models propose; the deterministic engine verifies every value against custodian and firm rules. Your data is never used to train models.

In Good Order, the first time.

Built for the front office that can't afford a NIGO — validated and routed the first time, or held before it can do damage. That's the whole product.