AI Fee Billing Agent
A single wrong fee schedule repeats across every account and every quarter, quietly. A Fee Billing Agent calculates fees against each schedule, reconciles against custodian data, and flags exceptions before anything posts. It runs the cycle; a person approves the run.
Tecla builds and operates it in your environment, across your billing rules, custodians, and portfolio systems, under the controls your firm answers to.
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The shift underway
Advisory fee billing is quietly one of the highest-risk operational tasks a firm runs, because a small error repeats across every account and every quarter. The numbers show what that costs and where automation helps.
0.05–0.15%
of AUM a year lost to billing errors: underbilled fees and missed adjustments.
Source: Cerulli, industry estimates
$50–150k
a year in revenue never collected at a $100M firm from billing errors alone.
Source:
3,300+
advisory firms now run dedicated fee billing platforms, up sharply year over year.
Source: AdvicePay
How the agent works
Fee billing is a chain of calculation, reconciliation, and posting, and a single wrong schedule quietly repeats across every account and every cycle. The agent runs the whole chain, holds at the points that need a person, and leaves an auditable trail.
Fee Calculation
Reconciliation
Exception Check
Invoice & Debit
Audit Record
Human in the loop
The agent runs the calculation and reconciliation, but it holds at the gate that matters: a person reviews the flagged exceptions and approves the billing run before any invoice or debit posts. Nothing bills a client without that sign-off.
Scoped to you
This is a typical fee billing build. The exact steps are scoped to how your firm runs: your fee schedules and householding rules, which custodians you debit against, and how billing feeds your accounting and reporting.
Related agents
Built, run, and owned, one phase at a time
A billing tool that works in a demo can still repeat one wrong schedule across a thousand accounts. A scoped brief, a named team, and someone accountable at each stage are what make this one safe to run every cycle.
Scope, fixed price
Built into your environment
Monitored and improved
Yours, improving
It starts with a fixed-price Tecla Sprint that scopes and prices the build before you commit.
Reliable enough to bill real client fees
A billing error done once repeats across every account and every quarter, so the agent is built to check rather than assume. What makes it safe to run is the structure around it: what it reconciles, what a person approves, and the record it leaves.
Every fee leaves a record
Nothing posts without approval
It keeps the schedules straight
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Run every billing cycle with the checks built in
A scoping call maps your onboarding chain and returns what the agent would handle end to end, what escalates to your team, and the fixed-price Sprint to build it.
Fixed-price AI Systems Sprint. No commitment until scope is confirmed.