10 Practical AI Prompts to Help You Work Smarter in Cloven

10 Practical AI Prompts to Help You Work Smarter in Cloven

Artificial Intelligence is most valuable when it helps you spend less time searching for information and more time building relationships with your clients.

The AI Assistant in Cloven can analyze information stored throughout your CRM—including client records, notes, activities, emails, meetings, tasks, insurance policies, investments, and more—to provide meaningful insights in seconds.

Whether you're preparing for a meeting, reviewing a client's portfolio, or deciding what to work on next, the prompts below can help you get the most out of your AI Assistant.


1. Prepare for Today's Client Meeting

When to Use

Before meeting with a client to quickly understand their complete relationship with your firm.

Prompt

I'm meeting with this client today. Prepare a complete meeting briefing by summarizing their insurance policies, investments, beneficiaries, family details, financial goals, recent meetings, emails, phone calls, notes, open activities, outstanding service requests, and any important life events. Highlight anything that requires discussion and recommend an agenda for today's meeting.

Why It Helps

Instead of opening multiple modules to gather information, the AI prepares a comprehensive briefing in seconds. This allows you to walk into every meeting fully informed and focused on delivering value to your client.


2. Discover Cross-Selling Opportunities

When to Use

During annual reviews, client check-ins, or whenever you're looking for ways to better serve a client.

Prompt

Analyze this client's current insurance coverage, investments, household information, dependents, life stage, and financial objectives. Identify gaps in their financial plan and recommend cross-selling opportunities, explaining why each recommendation would be appropriate.

Why It Helps

The AI reviews the client's financial picture as a whole and identifies products or services that may complement their existing portfolio, helping you uncover opportunities while providing more complete financial advice.


3. Recommend My Highest-Priority Clients

When to Use

At the beginning of your workday.

Prompt

Review my clients and identify who should be contacted first today. Prioritize clients with overdue follow-ups, upcoming renewals, pending applications, unanswered emails, recent inquiries, expiring policies, or clients who haven't been contacted recently. Explain why each client deserves priority.

Why It Helps

Rather than deciding where to start, the AI builds a prioritized workload based on urgency and client needs, allowing you to focus your time where it matters most.


4. Prepare an Annual Financial Review

When to Use

Before annual or semi-annual client review meetings.

Prompt

Create a comprehensive annual review summary for this client. Include policy changes, investment performance summaries, completed activities, outstanding recommendations, recent life changes, new beneficiaries or dependents, upcoming renewals, and suggested discussion topics for the meeting.

Why It Helps

Preparing annual reviews can take considerable time. This prompt gathers the information into one organized summary, making meeting preparation significantly faster.


5. Summarize the Entire Client Relationship

When to Use

Before taking over an account or responding to a long-time client.

Prompt

Summarize this client's complete relationship with our firm, including all notes, emails, meetings, calls, completed tasks, policy changes, investment activity, service requests, major milestones, and important historical events. Highlight anything another advisor should know immediately.

Why It Helps

Instead of reading years of CRM history, you receive a concise overview of everything that has happened throughout the client relationship.


6. Identify Missing or Outdated Client Information

When to Use

Before submitting applications or during client review meetings.

Prompt

Review this client's record and identify missing, incomplete, inconsistent, or outdated information. Check contact details, beneficiaries, family information, employment, income, risk profile, investment objectives, insurance coverage, compliance records, and important dates. Recommend what should be updated first.

Why It Helps

Maintaining accurate records is essential for both client service and compliance. This prompt helps identify gaps before they become issues.


7. Recommend the Next Best Actions

When to Use

After completing a meeting or reviewing a client's profile.

Prompt

Based on this client's products, financial goals, recent interactions, pending activities, and historical relationship, recommend the next best actions I should take over the next 30 days. Prioritize recommendations based on urgency and client value.

Why It Helps

Rather than simply presenting information, the AI recommends practical next steps that help you continue moving the client relationship forward.


8. Review Upcoming Renewals and Service Opportunities

When to Use

During weekly planning or monthly portfolio reviews.

Prompt

Review this client's insurance policies and investments. Identify upcoming renewals, maturing investments, policy anniversaries, scheduled reviews, premium changes, or other servicing opportunities within the next 12 months. Recommend when and how I should contact the client.

Why It Helps

Staying proactive strengthens client relationships and ensures important reviews aren't overlooked.


9. Summarize My Business Pipeline

When to Use

At the beginning of every day or before team meetings.

Prompt

Summarize my current pipeline by highlighting high-value opportunities, pending applications, stalled deals, overdue activities, upcoming meetings, renewals, referrals awaiting follow-up, and clients requiring immediate attention. Recommend how I should prioritize today's work.

Why It Helps

This prompt provides a complete overview of your business, helping you focus on the work that will have the greatest impact.


10. Explain This Client at a Glance

When to Use

Immediately before making a phone call or replying to a client.

Prompt

Give me a concise executive summary of this client's relationship with our firm. Include their primary insurance and investment products, household information, financial goals, recent interactions, open activities, upcoming commitments, and any risks or opportunities I should be aware of before speaking with them.

Why It Helps

Within seconds, you'll have the context needed to confidently engage with the client without manually reviewing their record.


Bonus Prompt: Identify At-Risk Clients

When to Use

As part of your weekly or monthly client retention strategy.

Prompt

Analyze my client portfolio and identify clients who may be at risk of disengagement. Consider the time since last contact, overdue follow-ups, unresolved service requests, policy lapses, inactive investments, unanswered emails, cancelled meetings, or declining engagement. Rank them by urgency and recommend the best outreach strategy for each.

Why It Helps

Strong client relationships require proactive communication. This prompt helps identify clients who may benefit from timely outreach before they become disengaged.


Tips for Getting the Best Results

To maximize the quality of the AI Assistant's responses, keep these best practices in mind:

  • Be specific. The more context you provide, the more relevant the response will be.
  • Ask for recommendations. Don't just request summaries—ask the AI to suggest next steps or identify opportunities.
  • Use AI before meetings. A quick briefing can save several minutes of preparation and help you have more productive conversations.
  • Review AI suggestions. The AI is designed to assist your decision-making, not replace your professional judgment.
  • Keep your CRM up to date. The AI can only analyze the information available in your records, so maintaining complete and accurate client data leads to better insights.

Make AI Part of Your Daily Workflow

Many advisors already spend time reviewing notes, searching for emails, checking activities, and planning follow-ups. With the AI Assistant, these routine tasks can often be completed in seconds.

By incorporating these prompts into your daily workflow, you can:

  • Prepare for meetings more efficiently.
  • Identify opportunities to better serve your clients.
  • Stay on top of follow-ups and renewals.
  • Improve CRM data quality.
  • Prioritize your workload with confidence.
  • Deliver a more personalized client experience.

The more you use the AI Assistant, the more naturally it becomes an extension of your daily workflow—helping you spend less time searching for information and more time building lasting client relationships.