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Atlas Wealthsimple Case · Alex McKenna-Ayres
Director, Advice Innovation & Experience · Case Study

One client.
One system.
Two surfaces.

Atlas is an advice OS that puts Wealthsimple's product, the advisor, and the client on the same path.

The dedicated advisor surface already exists in the Wealthsimple app. Meetings, Tasks, and the Financial Plan card are all ready to be filled in.

Atlas doesn't propose a new platform. It fills the empty containers, segment-aware throughout, across three segments: Builders, Compounders, Stewards. Same data, two surfaces, three motions, one engine.

See the system, both surfaces.

A clickable prototype of Atlas. Toggle between client view and advisor view, and watch the same data become two experiences. Built as a single self-contained HTML artifact.

Live · Atlas demo

Open the demo
in a new tab.

Best on a laptop. The toggle in the top-right switches between three views: Client (the mobile app the household sees), Advisor (the dashboard the CFP sees the same morning), and Both (side-by-side).

Open the demo

Good morning, Sarah.

Tuesday · April 21
Atlas · for you today
You're $8,400 under your TFSA contribution room. Filling it before market open could save your household roughly $1,260 in tax this year.
Your living plan
On track for 2034
94% conf
Net worth
$2.4M
Target by 65
$5.8M

Three questions.
Three answers.

The full case answer to the three questions in the brief: end-to-end client journey, AI tools for advisors and service, and digital advice feature priorities. Available as a 3-slide deck or a 2-page leave-behind.

DOC 01

The deck

3 slides · 16:9

The presentation deck used during the 20-minute walkthrough. Slide 1 is the journey, slide 2 is the AI tooling, slide 3 is the feature priorities. Each slide is a complete answer to one of the case study questions.

DOC 02

The leave-behind

2 pages · A4

A 2-page written summary of the same three answers. The version printed and handed to the panel. Same content as the deck, in prose form, designed to be read in 5 minutes.

DOC 03

The one-pager

1 page · A4 · personal

A timeline of an obsession. My financial life from 2016 (the first trade on GetStocks) through today: servicing Wealthsimple from London during the 2020 lockdown ramp, building sales orgs from scratch globally, five years of Revenue Growth at Snapchat shipping AI tooling for the team, building Polybacker (a personal trading bot for prediction markets), and why this role.

A timeline of an obsession.

I placed my first trade in May 2016 on GetStocks. I was 22. I traded actively for two years before they went under.

Joined Snapchat in 2017, where Wealthsimple was one of my early advertiser accounts. In 2020 I serviced the account from London through lockdown as you initially onboarded and scaled paid acquisition on the platform. In 2021 I helped build Snapchat's first dedicated performance marketing team for the Canadian market.

Across that career I've managed hundreds of sellers and helped build dedicated sales orgs from scratch across the globe. For the last five years specifically I've held a product-facing role at Snapchat called Revenue Growth, pulling sales and product into one direction through tooling and in-product notifications. Shipped multiple AI executions for the team (email outreach agents, meeting-prep agents, and a customer guidance hub powering recommendations in-platform and through Salesforce), plus white-glove onboarding for new enterprise customers.

On the side: built polybacker.com as a personal project, a trading bot for prediction markets. Multi-agent automation in n8n and LangGraph. The Pre-Meeting Brief from Q2 of this case is running as a working prototype after I read the brief. Happy to demo Polybacker live in the interview if useful.

I invest every month across UK ISAs, a US 401(k), GIAs at multiple brokerages, and crypto. I'd be a non-traditional hire for an advice role (sales rather than financial services), but ten years of personal investing and the recent product and automation work bridge it.

The chapters
  • MAY 2016
    First trade.
    GetStocks. Age 22. Active for two years.
  • 2017
    Snapchat. Wealthsimple becomes a client.
    Joined Snapchat as Wealthsimple ramped on the platform.
  • 2020
    Scaling Wealthsimple on Snapchat.
    Serviced from London through lockdown as you onboarded and scaled.
  • 2021
    Building Snapchat's Canadian team.
    First dedicated performance marketing team for the market.
  • 2022–25
    Revenue Growth at Snapchat.
    Managed hundreds; built sales orgs globally; AI tooling for the team.
  • 2025
    Polybacker.
    Personal project. A trading bot for prediction markets.
  • TODAY
    Why I'm here.
    The loop closes. I am the user.
The big idea

The advised client experience and the advisor's tools should be one product, viewed from two angles. Segmentation is the precondition. Without it, consistency is impossible. Build that, and consistency becomes a property of the system.

By Alex McKenna-Ayres · For Wealthsimple · April 2026