Automated Investment Due Diligence and Audit-Ready Compliance Files

Buckler, operating as Buckler Compliance Inc., is a compliance software company that automates investment due diligence for wealth management firms. Its buyers are heads of business, compliance officers, and individual advisors at firms regulated by the Canadian Securities Administrators and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization, plus cross-border wealth managers. All of them face the same obligation: document why each security in a portfolio was selected, and re-document it on a defined review cadence.

The platform is organized in three layers. A data layer normalizes fundamental market data for mutual funds, ETFs, and equities into one consistent source. A workflow layer walks reviewers through the same steps every time, constructing peer groups and then comparing holdings on performance, risk, cost, and structure. An AI engine generates those peer groups, calculates a proprietary Buckler Score, and drafts the review narrative from verified data rather than free-form generation.

Every output lands in an audit file with traceable methodology, documented access governance, data residency controls, and scheduled review cadences, so a regulator's request is answered from the record instead of reconstructed after the fact. The company states this compresses a review cycle traditionally running 40 to 50 business days per advisor per year into hours. Its stated focus is the ground between raw market data and the recommendation: the screening, the comparison, the scoring, the narrative, and the resulting file.