The most common question about Aurora isn't about features — it's whether it's meant to replace working with an advisor. It isn't, and understanding why clarifies what Aurora is actually for.
Two Different Jobs
A financial advisor's value is concentrated at specific moments: interpreting complex tax and legal considerations, building a comprehensive plan, providing an outside perspective on major decisions, and holding you accountable to a strategy over time. Aurora's value is concentrated everywhere else — the ongoing, day-to-day decisions that happen between those moments, which an advisor relationship isn't structured to cover in real time.
What This Looks Like for an Existing Advisory Client
If you're already working with an advisor — through Right Path or elsewhere — Aurora is built to sit alongside that relationship, not compete with it. Your advisor builds and periodically reviews the overall strategy; Aurora gives you a way to keep testing everyday decisions against that strategy in the meantime, so you're not waiting until the next scheduled meeting to find out whether a decision fits the plan.
Bringing More to the Conversation, Not Less
In practice, this can make advisor meetings more productive rather than less necessary. A client who's been using Aurora to track scenarios and questions between meetings often arrives at the next conversation with more specific, better-informed questions — rather than starting from a general check-in, they're refining decisions they've already started thinking through.
What Aurora Deliberately Doesn't Try to Do
Aurora isn't built to replace tax advice, estate planning, investment management, or the kind of judgment-heavy guidance that requires a licensed professional and genuine back-and-forth conversation. Those remain squarely advisor territory, and Aurora is designed to point users toward that kind of professional guidance when a scenario clearly calls for it, rather than pretending it can substitute for it.
Why We're Building It This Way
Building Aurora as a complement rather than a replacement wasn't the only option — plenty of fintech products are built explicitly to disintermediate advisors. We built Aurora differently because the people building it have spent careers on the advisory side and don't believe the in-person relationship is the part that should be automated away. The daily gaps are.
The Practical Summary
Use Aurora for the everyday modeling and decision-testing. Use your advisor for the complex, high-stakes, and judgment-dependent decisions. Used together, each does the part it's actually built for.