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Abacus Industry Blog Series · Post 1May 18, 2026 · 7 min read

Why Wealth Tech Is Crowded — And Why None of It Solves the Real Problem

Every product in our category is a rendering on top of data somebody else assembled by hand. The data layer underneath is mostly empty, mostly manual, mostly held together by very expensive humans.

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Abacus Industry Blog Series · Post 2May 19, 2026 · 6 min read

The Hidden Labor Underneath Every Wealth Management Platform

The structured database of a family’s financial life exists today — built by $100K analysts, $500/hr CPAs, and principals logging into GP portals at 11pm. The supply of qualified humans isn’t keeping up with the complexity of weird assets.

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