Claude Enterprise · GFG Securities
GFG Securities Confidential
The Recommendation

AI for the Securities team, under the controls FINRA expects.

Claude Enterprise for the seven-person GFG Securities team. Nothing more, nothing less. Live in one to two weeks.

$49,800 a year, capped roughly half the fully loaded cost of one analyst hire
The Money

The cost, capped.

Not an estimate. A ceiling we set ourselves.

$4,800
Seat fee, fixed
Billed at the tier's twenty-seat minimum
$45,000
Usage cap, set by us
Prepaid credits. Work pauses at the cap.
$49,800
Year one ceiling
The most this can cost
Seats: $4,800 fixed
Usage: capped at $45,000
Most of the spend is work performed, not licenses.
The Seat
$20 per seat, per month
  • The Claude app for each person
  • Activity records and Compliance review access
  • Retention control and our single company login
  • Encryption keys held by GFG, US-only processing

$20 × 12 months × the tier's 20-seat floor = $4,800 a year, fixed. The seat is the license and the governance around it.

The Work
~$536 per person, per month, at the cap
  • Pages read and drafts written
  • Contracts reviewed, models audited
  • Heavy deal months cost more, quiet months less
  • The cap holds the line at $45,000

$45,000 ÷ 7 people = about $536 a month each. Sized for daily use as a working tool, not an occasional one.

$57
Seat share
+
$536
Work performed
=
$593
Per person, per month, all-in

All-in at the full cap. For context, one Bloomberg terminal runs about four times that per person.

What are the credits, and why prepay them?

A credit is simply pre-purchased work. Every time someone asks Claude to read, draft, review, or analyze, it draws down credits, the way a phone plan draws down data. We buy them upfront so Compliance can cap the total, and so the tool is ready the moment the team needs it. The seat unlocks the door. The credits are the actual work done inside.

Due diligence on a target

Weekly

Read a data room of hundreds of pages and surface the risks, the comparables, and the questions to ask, in an afternoon instead of a week.

Heavy draw. Large documents in, detailed analysis out. The single biggest use of credits.

Contract review and synthesis

Ongoing

Compare a Credit, HMA, or franchise agreement against our standard terms and flag every deviation before it reaches counsel.

Medium draw. Runs many times a week across the team, so it adds up steadily.

OM and Credit Memo drafting

Per deal

Turn a template and deal inputs into a first draft, then proofread the subscription booklet, so people edit instead of starting from a blank page.

Medium draw. Concentrated around live deals, lighter between them.

Investor reports and market studies

Monthly

Build the Puntamar, Cacique, and Venado investor updates, and pull sector and tourism trends into a clean brief.

Lighter draw. Predictable, scheduled work that fills the quieter weeks.

This is why usage, not seats, is the larger number. Seven people using Claude as a daily working tool consume far more in work performed than in licenses. The $45,000 cap sizes that work for a busy year and guarantees it never exceeds it.

Usage is prepaid in credits and capped centrally, so the ceiling cannot be exceeded. If the team's workload ever justifies more, raising the cap is a deliberate leadership decision, not an overage.

Where the money comes from

The team already spends on individual Claude accounts today. That spend is unmanaged, expensed person by person, and invisible to Compliance. Enterprise replaces those accounts, so part of this budget is reallocation of existing spend, brought under supervision. The current figure is being pulled from expense records.

The Seats

Seven seats. One per person.

The Securities team, mapped. Nothing more, nothing less.

7 seats · GFG SecuritiesThe regulated workspace. Audit logs, retention, and supervision apply to every seat.

Pricing note: this tier bills at a twenty-seat minimum, so the seat fee is $4,800 a year fixed. We activate our seven. More seats would be a future decision.

The Data

One tool. Two doors.

Everyday work and live deal data never travel the same path.

Door One

The Claude app

The chat window the team types into for everyday work: research, comparables, drafting, contract review. Every session is governed by activity records, retention settings, and Compliance review.

Regulated workspace
Door Two

A direct data pipeline, with Zero Data Retention

Live deal data and MNPI never touch a chat window. They run system to system through the API, a direct pipeline, under Zero Data Retention: the vendor keeps nothing after the session ends.

ZDR terms, contracted with Anthropic sales

Chat sessions never see live KYC, client account numbers, SSNs, or live MNPI. That work goes through door two.

API and Custom Integrations

Beyond the app: building on the platform.

The seven seats are the tool people use. The API is how we wire that intelligence into our own systems later.

Already included: the secure data pipeline for MNPI (door two) runs on this same API, and its usage is drawn from the same $45,000 cap, no separate line item. The difference from the app: app credits are spent by a person typing a question, API credits are spent by a system calling Claude automatically, with no person in the loop. Same pool of credits, two ways of drawing on it.
Phase Two · Optional · Outside the seven-seat number
Starter
$5K to $10K one-time

A single proof-of-concept. One narrow task automated end to end, for example first-pass document review, to prove the value before we build wider.

Single System
$15K to $25K one-time

One GFG system connected to Claude, so intelligence flows directly into an existing workflow rather than a person copying between windows.

Multi-System
$30K+ scoped per build

Several systems working together. Sized only after a starter proves out, so we commit to the larger build with evidence, not a guess.

These are build estimates, not committed spend. Each would carry its own metered usage on top, and each is a deliberate future decision. Nothing here is needed to launch the seven seats.

The Controls

Same $20 seat as Team. The difference is the controls.

We are not paying more. We are choosing the version built for books and records.

What it gives usTeamEnterprise
A FINRA exam asks for these four
A record of who did what, and whenAudit logs
Compliance can pull and review every conversationCompliance API
We decide how long conversations are keptCustom data retention
Seats switch on and off from our own directorySCIM provisioning
Additional Enterprise controls
We hold the encryption keys, not the vendorCustomer-managed encryption keys
Processing never leaves the United StatesUS-only inference

Both tiers: the vendor never trains on GFG data, passes independent security audits, and uses our single company login. Only Enterprise carries the books-and-records controls.

The Rollout

Eleven use cases, sorted by risk.

Green goes first. Amber waits for Compliance. One gets reframed.

Weeks 1 to 2

Set up. Compliance drafts the policy while the purchase completes. Both run in parallel.

Weeks 3 to 6

Green work begins: research, comparables, contract review, closed-deal models.

Week 7 onward

Amber workflows pilot under Compliance review.

Go · Weeks 3 to 6

Public-source research and confidential review

Market studies, hotel comparables, sector trends, due diligence on prospects, legal contract review, financial models on closed deals, internal knowledge base.

Pilot with Compliance · Week 7 onward

MNPI and books-and-records workflows

OM and Credit Memo drafting, subscription booklet automation, investor reports for Puntamar, Cacique, and Venado, shared contract repository, financial models on pipeline deals.

Redesign

KYC live-data automation

Reframed to AI-assisted form structure, with PII handled by humans. Full automation of live KYC data is not viable at our risk profile.

The Compliance Officer is involved at the design stage for amber items, not after the fact.

The Guardrails

Nothing turns on before Compliance signs off.

Four prerequisites, consistent with FINRA Notice 24-09. Examiners will ask for each.

AI Acceptable Use Policy

Two pages. Defines who may use AI tools, what data classes are permitted as input, and how outputs are reviewed and retained.

Owner: Compliance Officer

Data Classification Rule

No live KYC, no client account numbers, no SSNs, no live MNPI in chat sessions. Live MNPI work runs through the API with ZDR.

Owner: Compliance Officer + IT

Supervisory Review Process

FINRA Rule 2210 principal pre-approval extended to AI-drafted communications with the public. Existing review workflow updated, not duplicated.

Owner: Designated Principal

Retention Policy

Workspace retention set per data policy. AI-assisted records flow into our existing 17a-4 archive: three or six years by record type, first two years easily accessible.

Owner: Compliance Officer + IT
Approval and Next Steps

Two decisions.

1

Approval to purchase Claude Enterprise

Seven seats, all Securities, via self-serve checkout. Seats fixed at $4,800 a year. ZDR terms pursued with Anthropic sales for the data pipeline.

2

Compliance Officer designated to draft the AI policy

Two-page document, two weeks. Runs in parallel with the purchase.

From decision to people working: one to two weeks.

Confidential. Prepared by David Ramos for GFG Securities. July 2026

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