Customer Story: Rebecca Van Gundy, Abundant Life Planning

About Rebecca

Rebecca Van Gundy is the Client Relationship Manager at Abundant Life Planning, an EverSource Wealth Advisors team based in Jacksonville, Florida. Before joining an independent RIA, Rebecca spent years in operations and analysis at Merrill Lynch, EY, and Deutsche Bank — environments where the systems were complex, the standards were high, and manual inefficiency was something you noticed immediately.

At Abundant Life, the mission is different. The practice centers on values-driven financial planning: helping families align their resources with the life they actually want to live. Rebecca's job is to make sure the operational side of that practice lives up to the same standard — so advisors can stay focused on the families in front of them, not the admin behind them.

She came in knowing exactly what good operations looked like. She also knew exactly what they cost when they were missing.

The challenge

Rebecca arrived at the RIA world with a clear frame of reference. She'd seen what well-resourced operations looked like at scale. At a smaller firm, the same problems show up differently: less infrastructure, fewer people to absorb the manual work, and a mission that makes every wasted hour feel more personal.

Before Quin, CRM maintenance was a constant drain. Meeting notes had to be entered manually. Follow-up tasks had to be created by hand. Keeping advisors and the operations side in sync required more coordination than it should have. For a team trying to lead with values, too much time was going toward the mechanics of running a practice.

How Rebecca uses Quin

Rebecca works within the EverSource Salesforce ecosystem, and Quin slots into that environment without requiring a separate workflow. After client meetings, Quin handles note capture, follow-up drafts, and task extraction — the things that used to require manual entry now happen as a byproduct of the meeting itself. Advisors and ops stay aligned without a separate round of coordination to make it happen.

What changed most visibly was the CRM. Rebecca describes Quin as a kind of secret weapon for keeping Salesforce current — not through a time-consuming update process at the end of the day, but through assisted follow-ups and extracted tasks that flow naturally from each interaction.

She's also been an active voice in shaping the product. When accidental recordings became a workflow issue, Rebecca flagged it and worked directly with the Quin team. Her feedback has helped inform how meeting management and privacy features are being developed. That kind of feedback loop between users and product isn't something you get at a large institution.

The result is 10 or more hours back each month — time that goes toward client relationships and the Abundant Life mission rather than CRM maintenance and administrative catch-up.

The results

A practice built on values now has operations that reflect them. The specific outcomes:

• Manual CRM data entry has been replaced by assisted follow-ups and task extraction that flow directly from client meetings
• Advisors and operations stay in sync inside the EverSource Salesforce ecosystem without a separate coordination layer
• Feedback from Rebecca is actively shaping Quin's meeting management and privacy features
• 10+ hours a month have been reclaimed and redirected toward client-facing work
• The operational standard Rebecca built across institutional environments now runs at RIA scale, without institutional overhead

"Reclaiming that time means we can focus on what we're actually here to do."

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