What's keeping you
up at night?
When looking to start his next company, veteran fintech entrepreneur Larry Shumbres asked hundreds of financial advisors and compliance officers one direct question.
What's keeping you up at night?
The answers were strikingly similar. Off-channel communication. Fragmented supervision workflows. Rising review volume. Advisor and client communication preferences changing faster than many systems were built to support.
Archive Intel was founded to bridge the gap between off-channel communications and regulatory recordkeeping requirements. One platform for communications supervision and archiving.
Built Around the Realities Firms Face
The supervision challenges financial firms navigate today are not new. But the pace at which communication channels evolve has changed how firms need to approach them.
Advisors and clients communicate on personal devices using native apps. Capturing that communication requires a different approach than traditional email archiving, and one that does not disrupt how advisors already work.
When review processes span disconnected tools, oversight becomes harder to manage and audit trails harder to document. Firms need supervision that consolidates across channels, not one workflow per platform.
More channels and more content means more to review. Supervision workflows need to surface what matters, not add to the volume.
How advisors and clients prefer to communicate continues to shift. Firms need the ability to support those preferences without rebuilding their compliance program each time a new channel becomes relevant.
Compliance requirements do not look the same for every firm. Archive Intel is built to support different sizes, structures, approved channels, and team configurations. The platform adapts to the firm, not the other way around.
A Unified Platform for Communications Supervision and Archiving
Archive Intel captures, reviews, archives, and retrieves regulated communications across the channels financial firms use today.
Built for Firms of Different Sizes, Structures, and Communication Needs
Archive Intel works with registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, wealth management firms, and enterprise organizations across the financial services industry.
Registered Investment Advisors
Independent advisors and multi-advisor practices managing off-channel communications and growing supervision requirements.
Broker-Dealers
Firms supervising advisor populations across text, email, social media, and LinkedIn with audit-ready records.
Wealth Management Firms
Organizations with varied communication preferences across advisor generations and client segments.
Enterprise Organizations
Large, complex firms requiring configurable supervision workflows, centralized oversight, and enterprise-grade retrieval.
Multigenerational Firms
Practices with advisors at different stages of adoption, supporting different channels with consistent compliance coverage.
Teams with Varied Communication Preferences
Firms where advisors and clients use different channels. One platform. One archive. Consistent supervision across all of them.
Leadership
Larry Shumbres
Founder and CEOA three-time fintech founder with more than 20 years in financial services, Larry has held leadership roles at Morningstar, Charles Schwab, and New York Life Investments.
Larry founded Archive Intel after identifying a consistent, industry-wide gap in how regulated firms handle off-channel communications. The question he asked hundreds of advisors and compliance officers became the foundation for the platform. That conviction is shared by Archive Intel's investors, including Social Leverage, Grayline Partners, and Garuda Ventures.
Leads brand, marketing, and go-to-market strategy at Archive Intel. Brings deep experience in financial services communications and how compliance technology reaches the market.
Leads enterprise and technical strategy at Archive Intel. Brings extensive experience in deploying technology infrastructure for financial services organizations at scale.
Leads sales and client partnerships at Archive Intel. Works directly with compliance officers, CCOs, and operations teams across RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth management firms.
Senior Principal Engineer at Archive Intel. Leads core platform engineering with deep expertise in building secure, scalable infrastructure for regulated data environments.
Leads client experience at Archive Intel, guiding firms through onboarding and ongoing success so compliance teams realize value from day one.
Built for the Way Communications Evolve
Communication preferences continue to evolve. The channels advisors and clients use today are different from five years ago, and they will be different five years from now. Archive Intel is built to help firms adapt to those changes while preserving compliance control, advisor adoption, privacy, and audit readiness.