An agent can act on a customer's behalf and still not be on their side. On NAB’s customer-authorised agents, and which side of the table yours sits on.

A summer watching AI in the art market: record money the auction houses banked without shipping one tool, and 'certainty' sold from products that don't exist.

Read every document in the deal room and you still don’t know the person. On the family-office AI operating system, and depth built from one.

Oversight keeps a human above the transaction, never inside the question beneath it. On the EU AI Act, human oversight, and who to be with what you hold.

Family offices were born to steward whole estates — not just to track portfolios. Modern wealth-data platforms industrialised the ledger and quietly left the steward’s seat empty. AI could finally fill it, if we build the right thing.

Point an assistant at your accounts and it reads the portfolio, never the person. On wealth platforms opening to ChatGPT and Claude, and where to begin.

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Sometimes, growth on a personal level can lead to forming a foundation for a business idea. Three years ago, I started a self-discovery journey related to my roots and ancestry. This not only led me to solving the mystery of my background and birth but also allowed me to uncover my three capabilities — vision, intuition, and logic, — which I always had but was not consciously aware of. I used all three in my family-related investigations, and later realised this VIL approach