Zocks
Zocks is a privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors that automates meeting notes, client emails, CRM updates, financial planning workflows, and book-wide intelligence. Trusted by 5,000+ firms including top RIAs, broker-dealers, and US life insurance carriers.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2022
- HeadquartersSan Francisco, United States
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Zocks does
Zocks Communications, Inc. is a privately held software company founded in 2022 in San Francisco by CEO Mark Gilbert (formerly VP of Product Management at Twilio and an executive at Microsoft) and CTO Ákos Ratku (formerly an engineering leader at Hearsay Systems). The company sells a privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors organized around three architectural layers: a Meeting Assistant that joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and other conferencing platforms to transcribe calls (without recording audio or video) and apply speaker attribution; a Client Intelligence layer that structures conversation, document, and email data into a persistent, searchable client memory; and 40+ bi-directional integrations that read from and write structured data back into CRMs (Salesforce, Wealthbox, Redtail, HubSpot, Practifi), financial planning tools (eMoney, RightCapital), portfolio systems (Orion, Black Diamond), and tax/estate platforms (Holistiplan, Wealth.com). Around this core sit named modules — Note-Taking, Meeting Preparation, Form Fill, Client Email, Client Profile Management, Client Signals (life-event detection), Document Intelligence, Client Queries (agentic AI for book-wide intelligence), and Advisor Coaching — plus a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects general-purpose AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) to the Zocks client data layer, and REST APIs for custom integrations.
Zocks monetizes via annual or multi-year SaaS subscriptions delivered through a hybrid go-to-market: a self-serve 14-day free trial for individual advisors and small practices, direct enterprise sales (led since March 2025 by CRO Drew DiMarino) targeting large RIAs, broker-dealers, and life insurance carriers, and exclusive or strategic channel partnerships with major broker-dealer and RIA platforms (Hightower, Cetera, Osaic, Commonwealth, Kestra, RFG, Carson, Cambridge) that distribute Zocks to their affiliated advisors. The company reports being trusted by 5,000+ financial services firms — including 6 of 9 Barron's Top Mega RIAs and 2 of the top 3 US life insurance carriers — and has expanded its platform from wealth management into the US life insurance market (March 2026) and into Canada via a Conquest Planning integration (June 2026).
The company has raised $65 million in total funding across a seed/Series 1 ($5.5M, February 2024), a $13.8 million Series A (March 2025), and a $45 million Series B (January 2026) co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, with Illuminate Financial, Motive Partners, Expanse Venture Partners, Entrée Capital, 14Peaks Capital, and a strategic investment from RFG Advisory. Self-reported growth metrics include 8x year-over-year revenue growth, 6x year-over-year employee growth, 101–250 employees, and quantifiable outcomes such as advisors saving 10+ hours per week, post-meeting admin reduced from 45–60 minutes to under 5 minutes, and same-day financial plans versus a 10–15 hour industry average.
Zocks firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Zocks
- Legal name
- Zocks Communications, Inc.
- Website
- https://zocks.io
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2022
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Short description
- Zocks is a privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors that automates meeting notes, client emails, CRM updates, financial planning workflows, and book-wide intelligence. Trusted by 5,000+ firms including top RIAs, broker-dealers, and US life insurance carriers.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Zocks industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Wealth Management AI Software
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Industry-Specific CRM (Vertical CRM Suites) (HDAEAFAH)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- CRM Data Quality, Enrichment & CDP-Adjacent CRM (HDAEAFAJ), B2B SaaS & Enterprise Personalization (CRM, Sales, Support) (HDAAAGAJ), Customer Service/Support CRM & Contact Center Platforms (BPAFAFAK)
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Where Zocks is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- San Francisco
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Zocks business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations
Revenue model
- Annual / multi-year SaaS subscriptions: Zocks sells subscription access to its AI Assistant platform under annual or monthly order forms, with auto-renewal terms and the ability to increase fees for renewal periods with 60 days notice. The Terms of Service contemplate enterprise services agreements and free trials (up to 14 days) that convert to paid subscriptions.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Freemium | Pay-as-you-go | Free Trial — 14 days, full platform access |
| Subscription | Annual | Paid subscription (annual or monthly Order Form) |
| Subscription | Multi-year contract | Enterprise tier |
Go-to-market motion5 records
Distribution channels6 records
Marketing channels9 records
Zocks product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Zocks is a privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors that joins client meetings on Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet to transcribe conversations (without recording audio or video), attribute speakers, and capture structured notes with every number, date, and percentage. It then writes this intelligence back into CRM, financial planning (e.g., eMoney, RightCapital), portfolio, and document systems via 40+ bi-directional integrations, while drafting follow-up emails, filling forms, surfacing life-event signals, and answering natural-language Client Queries across the advisor's book of business.
Product overview
Zocks offers a single unified privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors, organized as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core Zocks Platform combines a Meeting Assistant (transcription with speaker attribution, no audio/video recordings), a Client Intelligence layer that structures conversation, document, and email data into a persistent client memory, and 40+ bi-directional integrations with CRMs (Salesforce, Wealthbox, Redtail, HubSpot, Practifi, etc.), financial planning tools (eMoney, RightCapital), portfolio and tax/estate systems (Orion, Holistiplan, Wealth.com, PreciseFP). Around this core sit named feature modules — Note-Taking, Meeting Preparation, Form Fill, Client Email, Client Profile Management, Client Signals, Advisor Coaching, Document Intelligence, and Client Queries — plus the Zocks MCP server that connects general-purpose AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) to client intelligence, and REST APIs for custom integrations. The Zocks Enterprise tier adds enterprise-grade security, reporting, and hierarchical permissions, while the Zocks AI Assistant for Life Insurance extends the same architecture into the life-insurance vertical, and the Zocks Mobile Application and Zocks Academy round out delivery and enablement.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Zocks Platform A unified AI platform for financial advisors that captures meetings via transcription (no recordings), structures client data into a persistent memory, and synchronizes 370+ fields with CRM, financial planning, and portfolio systems through bi-directional integrations; saves advisors 10+ hours per week.
- Zocks Enterprise Enterprise-grade tier providing organization-wide controls, security and compliance features, hierarchical permissions, and dedicated deployment for broker-dealers, RIAs, and insurance carriers.
- Zocks MCP Server A Model Context Protocol server that exposes Zocks client intelligence to general-purpose AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), enabling retrieval-augmented AI workflows over an advisor's actual client conversations and structured data.
- Zocks AI Assistant for Life Insurance Vertical-specific AI solution for the life insurance industry that captures producer meetings, auto-completes carrier applications and intake forms in under 60 seconds, processes underwriting documents, and syncs case data into CRM and planning tools.
- Zocks REST APIs A suite of REST APIs that exposes Zocks structured and unstructured client data for custom enterprise integrations with data warehouses and internal tools.
- Zocks Mobile Application iOS and Android mobile application that enables advisors to capture meetings and access client intelligence on the go, distributed via the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Quantifiable outcome
- 10+ hours saved per advisor per week on administrative work
- +9 more outcomes
Companies that use Zocks
Customer profileNamed customers7 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Zocks technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration41 records
AI capability15 records
Feature9 records
Zocks partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
21 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.
- Conquest PlanningcoreTwo-way AI integration connecting Zocks' conversation intelligence and structured data agents with Conquest's Strategic Advice Manager (SAM) AI expert system, enabling advisors to create or update financial plans in seconds; marks Conquest's first AI assistant integration and Zocks' entry into Canadian wealth management. Available in Canada and the US.
- HightowerflagshipZocks and Hightower announced an exclusive AI partnership making Zocks the sole AI assistant offered to Hightower financial advisors nationwide. The platform captures meeting notes, automates admin tasks, and syncs data across Salesforce and portfolio management tools. Zocks was selected following a pilot with positive advisor feedback on reduced administrative workloads.
- CeteraflagshipCetera selected Zocks to offer its AI Assistant to 12,000 financial professionals across the Cetera network, expanding Zocks' broker-dealer distribution.
- Wealth.comcoreTwo-way AI integration that automates data capture between advisor-client conversations and Wealth.com's estate planning workflows, replacing hours of manual data entry with tasks completed in minutes. Also part of Wealth.com's EstateCon platform integrations with Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions, Dec Law, Jump, Zocks, and Arch.
- eMoney AdvisorflagshipBi-directional integration with enhanced AI-powered Document Intelligence that automates data extraction from client documents (PDFs, statements, tax returns, estate documents) into eMoney's financial planning platform. Zocks fills 370+ fields into eMoney from a single conversation, enabling same-day plans.
- RightCapitalcoreAI-powered integration to automate data entry and streamline financial planning workflows; transfers client data directly from conversations to RightCapital's planning platform to save time and accelerate advice delivery.
- Kestra FinancialcoreKestra Financial partnered with Zocks to implement AI Assistant solution for its affiliated advisors. Kestra is listed as a top broker-dealer customer across the website and is among Zocks' named enterprise customers.
- CreativeOnecoreStrategic partnership deepening commitment to advisor-centered innovation across CreativeOne's affiliated advisor community.
- HolistiplancoreStrategic partnership to streamline advisor workflows through AI-powered automation; Holistiplan handles tax planning and integrates with Zocks' meeting intelligence for end-to-end tax-aware financial planning.
- Orion Advisor TechnologycoreBidirectional integration enabling AI-powered access to portfolio data during advisor-client communications; brings portfolio insights into every client interaction.
- PreciseFPcorePartnership to automate client onboarding and data collection workflows directly from conversations; enables 'input once and use everywhere' and dramatically increases operational velocity.
- Commonwealth Financial ServicesflagshipCommonwealth chose Zocks as its exclusive AI partner to bring AI-powered client intelligence to affiliated advisors. Commonwealth's SVP/CDIO Chris Blotto cited Zocks' enterprise controls and compliance embedded from day one as the reason it 'quickly emerged as the clear choice.'
- Ameritas Investment Company / Ameritas Advisory ServicescorePartnership to power advisor efficiency and deliver greater client value across Ameritas's investment and advisory businesses; Ameritas President Jeremy Robson publicly endorsed Zocks.
- The Wealth Engineering Expert Sourcing ConsortiumminorZocks joined The Wealth Engineering Expert Sourcing Consortium, a community of wealthtech and service-provider partners aligned with Wealth Engineering's research and sourcing network for advisors.
- OsaicflagshipOsaic partnered with Zocks to give its 11,000 advisors access to an AI-driven edge in productivity. Osaic's Chief Data & Analytics Officer Clayton Chandler called the feedback 'extremely positive' and 'truly changing the way they work.'
- Carson GroupflagshipZocks partnered with Carson Group to accelerate client intelligence across its nationwide network of RIAs. Carson deployed 400+ advisors within about a month, achieving 97% weekly active usage; Carson CSO Dani Fava publicly endorsed Zocks.
- Salesforce (Financial Services Cloud)coreIntegration with Salesforce CRM (including Financial Services Cloud) for bi-directional sync of meeting notes, action items, client profile data, and tasks. Featured in customer logos and Hightower deployment materials.
- WealthboxcoreBi-directional CRM integration that auto-creates events, notes, and tasks in Wealthbox from analyzed client conversations; Wealthbox's Head of Product Partnerships Charlie Fargo publicly endorsed Zocks.
- Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, RingCentral, GoTo Connect, Webex, IntulseflagshipNative meeting platform integrations allow Zocks to join live calls, transcribe without recording, identify speakers, and feed structured notes into downstream workflows.
- Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Google, GmailcoreCalendar and email integrations that connect Zocks to advisors' scheduling and email systems for AI-assisted meeting prep and client email replies.
- Amazon Web Services (hosting)coreAWS is the primary hosting provider for Zocks Subscriber Data; GCP and Microsoft Azure are referenced as alternative reputable hosting providers of similar caliber.
Scale indicators12 records
Recent moves8 records
Expansion highlights7 records
Zocks competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Jump: Jump is a privacy-first AI meeting assistant built specifically for financial advisors that transcribes client calls and syncs structured notes/action items to CRMs. It is the closest direct competitor to Zocks in the advisor AI-note-taking category.
- Holistiplan: Holistiplan is an AI-powered tax-planning platform for financial advisors that analyzes client tax returns automatically. It is both a Zocks integration partner and an adjacent competitor for advisor workflow automation and pre-meeting planning intelligence.
- Conquest Planning: Conquest Planning provides AI-powered financial planning software (Strategic Advice Manager) for advisors. It is both a Zocks partner (two-way integration launched June 2026) and an emerging competitive planning-intelligence platform, particularly in Canada.
- Wealth.com: Wealth.com is an AI-powered estate planning platform for financial advisors. It is both a Zocks integration partner and a direct competitor in the broader advisor workflow/intelligence stack, particularly for estate planning automation.
- Vanilla: Vanilla is an AI-powered estate planning platform for financial advisors, offering smart wills, trusts, and planning documents. It competes with Wealth.com (and indirectly with Zocks via the Wealth.com partnership) for the same advisor planning-intelligence workflows.
Broad incumbents
- Otter.ai: Otter.ai is a horizontal AI meeting transcription and summary tool used widely across functions. It competes with Zocks for advisor meeting-note workflows but lacks Zocks' vertical financial-advisor CRM integrations and compliance posture.
- Microsoft Copilot for Sales: Microsoft Copilot (including Copilot for Sales and Dynamics 365 integration) embeds meeting intelligence, CRM updates, and email drafting inside Microsoft 365 and Teams — a stack many large RIAs already use. It competes with Zocks as an embedded incumbent.
- Salesforce Einstein / Sales Cloud: Salesforce Einstein adds AI-driven conversation intelligence, note summaries, and CRM auto-update capabilities directly into Salesforce CRM, a system many enterprise RIAs run. It is both a Zocks integration partner and a competitive incumbent for advisor productivity workflows.
Emerging players
- Gong: Gong is a conversation-intelligence platform originally built for B2B sales teams that captures and analyzes customer meetings. While focused on sales rather than financial advisors, its underlying AI meeting intelligence overlaps materially with Zocks' core capability.
- TIFIN: TIFIN builds AI-driven platforms for wealth management and asset management, including advisor productivity, investment personalization, and client engagement. It is an emerging competitor in the broader AI-for-advisors category that overlaps with Zocks' value proposition.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Zocks leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles6 records
Zocks funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds3 records
Investors10 records
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Frequently asked questions about Zocks
What does Zocks do?
Zocks is a privacy-first AI platform for financial advisors that joins client meetings on Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet to transcribe conversations (without recording audio or video), attribute speakers, and capture structured notes with every number, date, and percentage. It then writes this intelligence back into CRM, financial planning (e.g., eMoney, RightCapital), portfolio, and document systems via 40+ bi-directional integrations, while drafting follow-up emails, filling forms, surfacing life-event signals, and answering natural-language Client Queries across the advisor's book of business.
Is Zocks a public or private company?
Zocks is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Zocks founded?
Zocks was founded in 2022. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is Zocks based?
Zocks is headquartered in San Francisco, United States, in the North America region.
How does Zocks make money?
One revenue line is on record: annual / multi-year SaaS subscriptions.
Who are Zocks's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Jump, Holistiplan, Conquest Planning, Wealth.com and Vanilla. Broad incumbents are Otter.ai, Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Salesforce Einstein / Sales Cloud. Emerging players are Gong and TIFIN.
Does Zocks have an API?
Yes. Zocks offers a suite of REST APIs for custom system integrations such as data warehouses and internal tools. Additionally, Zocks MCP (Model Context Protocol) is available, allowing clients to connect general-purpose AI tools — including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini — directly to Zocks client intelligence and conversation data.
What industry is Zocks in?
Zocks's product category is Wealth Management AI Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEAFAH, Industry-Specific CRM (Vertical CRM Suites), with a secondary code of HDAEAFAJ, CRM Data Quality, Enrichment & CDP-Adjacent CRM. Its NAICS code is 5132 and its SIC code is 7372.