Use cases

See every meeting request and seminar sign-up, and what each one became.

Built for an independent advisory firm or RIA, whoever runs the marketing. TruLata reads your Google accounts, your Business Profile and the requests from your own site's forms, runs the watching and the drafting on a schedule while you are in client reviews, and leaves approvals and compliance review with the firm.

Illustration: a compass on a round meeting table between two empty chairs.

Is this built for a financial advisory firm?

Yes. TruLata is built for an independent advisory firm, a registered investment adviser or a planning practice that takes on clients across the area it serves, and a firm with several advisors or several offices fits the same way. The marketing often falls to the founding advisor or the operations lead, done between client review meetings, and a firm with a marketing hire gets the same screen. Search, ads, content and the counting run on a schedule whether or not anyone had time this week, every request is counted from your own site, and one screen shows what happened and what it cost.

A prospective client usually arrives after an event. A retirement date on the calendar, an inheritance, the sale of a business, a new job and an old plan to decide about, a spouse who always handled the money. They search, read who you work with and how you are paid, look at the people on your team page, and book an introductory meeting or register for a seminar, or they move on. A referral from a client or a CPA starts with the same search, to check the name they were given, so the site is where both kinds arrive.

A prospect from a matching service is a shared lead, the same person introduced to several advisors at once, and the first meeting starts as a comparison. A request from your own site's form is yours alone, and it is the kind the Leads view counts. The comparison with bought leads is on mechanism, not on a price we would have to invent. Approvals and compliance review stay with the firm: the screen counts, watches and drafts, and what the firm publishes is the firm's decision.

A prospect from a matching service

  • The same person introduced to several advisors at once
  • The first meeting starts as a comparison

A request from your own site's form

  • Yours alone
  • Counted in the Leads view the day it lands
  • What the firm publishes stays the firm's decision

What does the screen show an advisory firm?

It leads with the requests. When someone asks for an introductory meeting or registers for a seminar on your site, the form handler appends the row to a lead sheet server-side and emails your team, whether or not a tracking tag fired. The Leads view reads that sheet newest first, and each row carries what your form recorded: the name, the contact details, what they asked about, retirement planning, a business sale, a second opinion or the seminar date, and the source. A registration for a Tuesday evening workshop lands on the same list as a meeting request, the day it comes in. Set what each request became from the screen, contacted, quoted, won or lost, or not a lead with the reason, and it stays on the row. The leads page covers the ledger and the daily watch behind it.

What the screen counts is people: requests, meetings, registrations and what each one became, next to what the marketing cost. Google Ads gives spend, conversions and cost per conversion by campaign. Search Console gives the queries you appeared for, impressions, clicks and average position, two to three days behind; the positions are Search Console's own averages, not a rank tracker. GA4 gives sessions, sources, which pages were read, the team page, the page on how you are paid, the seminar page, and the key events you count as a request, hours behind intraday. Google Business Profile gives your reviews, your rating and your listing performance through a manager invitation you can revoke; what the firm does with reviews, and whether and how it replies, stays with the firm and its compliance review.

Where the firm runs its pipeline on a CRM with an API, it connects during setup and the pipeline appears live, stage by stage, with a coming-soon card rather than a number until the data is trustworthy. Your email platform's campaign statistics are read live, so the newsletter and the seminar invitations sit on the same screen as the registrations they produced. Your custodian, portfolio and planning systems stay in your own systems today, so account values and returns do not appear on the screen; a source with an API can be connected during setup. Your inbox and calendar stay outside the screen today and connect during setup where your engagement calls for them, and a phone call counts as a lead where your CRM records it.

The Leads view for a fictional advisory firm, Northgate Financial Planning: a Meeting requests and seminar registrations table with retirement planning in Scottsdale, a seminar registration in Chandler, a business sale in Mesa and a second opinion in Scottsdale, newest first.
The Leads view for an advisory firm: meeting requests and seminar registrations, newest first. Example data for a fictional firm.
Illustration: a blank calendar, a row of empty seats and a sealed envelope.

What the screen counts is people.

What runs while you are in client meetings, and what waits for the firm?

Your Google Ads account is watched every morning. At 7:05 Eastern the ads change watch reads the account's change history and its user list, sets our own writes and routine churn aside, and raises a material change made by anyone else the same morning, including the recommendations Google applies on its own. Where we manage your search campaigns on all tiers, a budget or bid change is made within the limits set for your engagement and lands in the account's own change history. In the two weeks before a seminar, that is what keeps the registration budget pointed where you put it, and a new address given access to the account reaches your team the next morning.

On Launch, Growth and Command, the content engine researches and drafts on your cadence: what to bring to a first planning meeting, the questions to ask before choosing an advisor, how the firm works with a family through a retirement date. Each topic passes a demand gate on real search volume and what already occupies the result page, the research cites current sources, the dedupe reads the titles already published on your site, and each piece is filed as a Google Doc in your Drive with a featured image. Auto-publish is a per-client setting and approval is optional. Approvals and compliance review stay with the firm: with auto-publish off, each piece waits as a draft until the firm approves it. On Command, the outbound engine sources prospects weekly to the target profile set with you, finds a deliverable address or routes the prospect to a contact-form path, and drafts into a review-first queue; a person releases each send, or the queue releases on the schedule set for the engagement, and every send is logged with the draft, the mailbox and the time.

Every day at 7:20 Eastern, on an instance whose forms feed the sheet, the lead watch runs five checks across the sheet, GA4 and Ads: the tracking tag still loads, requests with no GA4 form event, paid requests with no Ads conversion, a campaign that was spending and has gone to zero, and organic traffic with no requests at all. The registrations that landed on your sheet are checked against the conversions Google counted, so a seminar form that stopped submitting is flagged the next morning rather than on the night of the seminar. Every night at 12:01 Central a fallback snapshot is baked, and a failed pull leaves the previous page up rather than an empty one.

What stays with the firm is the judgement: the limits on spend, what the firm publishes, and anything that answers a prospect or a client. A content piece with auto-publish off waits as a draft until the firm approves it. From the screen you can set a lead outcome, request a website change, and request a content, keyword, category or targeting change; each request goes to the team as a logged ticket, and the engine's writes to your ad accounts and your site go through their APIs and land in each account's own change history, so the firm has a record of every change to review.

While you are in client meetings

  1. Ads change watchReads the change history and the user list, raises material changes the same morning
  2. Lead watchFive checks across your form sheet, GA4 and Ads
  3. Content draftsOn Launch, Growth and Command; with auto-publish off, each waits as a draft until the firm approves it
  4. Prospect sourcingOn Command, into a review-first queue
  5. Fallback snapshotBaked nightly, so a failed pull leaves the previous page up

What stays with the firm is the judgement: the limits on spend, what the firm publishes, and anything that answers a prospect or a client.

Can I see it before I talk to anyone?

Yes, with your name and email in front of it. The demo is the same engine code every client runs, pointed at a fictional company called Meridian so it can be public. Every number is invented, and the screen says so. Open the Leads view, the Google Ads view and the search view and you are looking at the screen an advisory firm gets, with your sources in place of Meridian's.

Then put your own firm in the seat; that part is yours. You meet with the clients you advise, you take on new ones across the area you serve, and whoever runs the marketing does it between review meetings. That is the firm this page, the setup and the tiers are written for, and what changes is the evening work: the scheduled work runs whether anyone had time, every meeting request and registration is counted from your own forms, and one screen shows what happened and what it cost. Part of it runs on your own numbers during setup: the first pull, the answer-engine baseline and the ads watch run on your accounts in the first two weeks, before most of the engines are switched on. If you want the work done as a service rather than run as a system, the services side is the other door.

One thing about the search view is worth knowing before you open it. Ranking is not earning, so the view puts the requests your own forms took beside the queries and positions that earned them. A position there is Search Console's average for that query, not a rank tracker's guess. That is what the screen holds the work to: which searches became a meeting on your calendar, not where a keyword sat.

TruLata Overview for a fictional advisory firm: meeting requests, seminar registrations, intro meetings held and cost per request across the top, a funnel from site visitors to new clients, and a card for each workstream including email marked Running.
One screen for the firm, counted in requests and meetings. Example data for a fictional firm, Northgate Financial Planning.

Which tier fits an advisory firm?

Starter includes the TruLata dashboard, full analytics, leads, search visibility, the AI visibility program, managed Google Ads search, the assistant and briefings and support tickets. The content engine is on Launch, Growth and Command. Meta ads are on Growth and Command. The outbound engine is on Command. Command adds the outbound engine, ad creatives and your full marketing team, always on.

Seats are three on Starter, three on Launch, ten on Growth and unlimited on Command, so every advisor and the operations lead can sign in with a seat of their own. Starter is $400 a month, Launch $650, Growth $1,200, and Command is scoped per engagement. Every tier is month to month with nothing metered, and committing annually takes twenty to twenty-five percent off the monthly. The pricing page carries the same figures as every other page.

  1. Starterthe TruLata dashboard, full analytics, leads, search visibility, the AI visibility program, managed Google Ads search, the assistant and briefings and support tickets
  2. Content engineOn Launch, Growth and Command
  3. Meta adsOn Growth and Command
  4. Outbound engineOn Command
  5. CommandAdds the outbound engine, ad creatives and your full marketing team, always on

Want it run for you?

You have two doors. Managed TruLata is our team running the program on your accounts, and every change we make lands in your account's own change history, which the same 7:05 Eastern watch reads and sorts as ours. Approvals and compliance review stay with the firm on that door too: a content piece with auto-publish off waits as a draft until the firm approves it. Local services marketing is TruLata's agency work for the same buyer, search and paid search with a daily account watch among it.

Illustration: two frosted glass doors side by side, one slightly open.
The spec

What an advisory firm's screen reads, and how fresh it is.

WhatWhere it comes fromHow fresh
Meeting requests and seminar registrationsYour site's forms, appended to a lead sheet server-side and emailed to your team; the Leads view reads it newest firstLive, the moment the form is submitted
Spend, conversions, cost per conversionGoogle Ads, by campaignIntraday lags hours; change history read daily at 7:05am ET
Sessions, sources, pages, key eventsGoogle Analytics 4Hours behind intraday
Queries, impressions, clicks, average positionSearch Console; its own average positions, not a rank tracker2 to 3 days behind
Reviews, rating, listing performanceGoogle Business Profile, with our Google account as a manager you can revokeRefreshed on its own schedule, separate from the Ads and GA4 lag
Newsletter and seminar invitation statisticsYour email platformLive
Prospect pipelineYour CRM, where the firm runs its pipeline on one with an APILive; a coming-soon card until the data is trustworthy
The page itselfSnapshot on open, live pull behind it when older than 5 minutes, nightly bake at 12:01am CTHeader stamp says when the data was pulled
Seminar week, stated honestly

In the week before a seminar the registrations from your forms are live, the Google Ads numbers still run hours behind, and Search Console runs two to three days behind. The header stamp says when each pull ran, the Refresh button forces a new one and never shows an error, and a failed pull leaves the previous page up rather than a blank one.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Who approves what goes out under the firm's name?

The firm does. Approvals and compliance review stay with the firm. Auto-publish is a per-client setting and approval is optional; with auto-publish off, each content piece waits as a draft, filed as a Google Doc in your Drive, until someone at the firm approves it. On Command, prospect emails leave from a review-first queue that a person releases, or that releases on the schedule set for the engagement, and every send is logged with the draft, the mailbox and the time.

Does the screen show account values or investment performance?

It counts people and marketing spend: meeting requests, seminar registrations, what each request became, and Google Ads spend and cost per conversion by campaign. The sources it reads are your site's forms, your Google accounts, your Business Profile, your email platform and your CRM where you run on one. Custodian, portfolio and planning systems stay in your own systems today, so account values and returns do not appear on it; a source with an API can be connected during setup.

Do seminar registrations and phone calls count as leads?

A registration made through a form on your site counts the moment it is submitted: the form handler writes it to the lead sheet server-side and emails your team, and the Leads view shows it newest first beside the meeting requests. A phone call counts when your CRM records it as a lead, and a call-tracking platform you already run connects during setup like any other source with an API.

Can I see which campaign or page a request came from?

The page it came from is one click into the request, and the sheet behind it records the source and, where the form captures them, the traffic source, the landing page, the referrer and any UTM or gclid for each submission. You set what the request became on the same row. Google Ads shows conversions and cost per conversion by campaign, hours behind during the day, and GA4 shows sessions by source on the same lag.

Will anyone change our ad budget without us knowing?

A budget or bid change is made within the limits set for your engagement, and every change in the account lands in Google's own change history, which the watch reads at 7:05 Eastern every morning and sorts by who made it. Recommendations Google applies on its own are raised the same morning. Who has access to the account is read directly every day, because change events do not log it.

What does it cost for an advisory firm?

Starter is $400 a month, Launch $650, Growth $1,200, and Command is scoped per engagement. Seats are three on Starter, three on Launch, ten on Growth and unlimited on Command. Every tier is month to month with nothing metered, and a managed strategy retainer sits on top of any tier, scoped with you rather than priced on this site; <a href="/product/managed">the managed page</a> says what our team takes on.

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  • Refreshed when you open itLive data on page load, never a monthly PDF
  • Counted from your own formsLeads recorded server-side, compared daily with Ads and GA4
  • Seen in AI answersHow often ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok name you, measured
  • Every send loggedProspect emails leave from a review-first queue, and every send is logged.