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Portfolio Blueprint — Financial Service

Your portfolio page showcases the types of financial engagements your firm handles. This blueprint structures client success stories as a machine-readable collection so AI systems can understand your specializations, the client profiles you serve, and the financial outcomes you deliver — without needing to parse marketing copy.

What this page needs

The portfolio page is where AI learns what your firm has actually accomplished. When someone asks "find a financial advisor who handles business succession planning" or "who specializes in retirement portfolios," this page gives AI the structured evidence it needs to recommend you. Without it, AI treats your portfolio as generic page content with no indexable proof of expertise.

Why these fields matter to AI

Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.

Researched and tested by Minnesota AI

FinancialService

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed entity.
url
AI needs a stable URL to attribute recommendations and route users correctly.

Use This Prompt to Implement Your Schema

Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.

Implementation Prompt · Portfolio
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Financial Service Portfolio page.

AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which
structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether
to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org.

Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list.
Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field.

REQUIRED — do not proceed without these:
1. Client type and financial goal
2. Domain
3. Faq answer
4. Faq question
5. Firm name
6. Portfolio page description
7. Portfolio page title
8. Retirement portfolio description
9. Succession planning description
10. Wealth transfer description

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. Any additional details not covered above

Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block
ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page.

Output requirements:
- Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags
- schema.org vocabulary only
- Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included
- Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org Financial Service Portfolio"
- No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples
- After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation

Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai

Template — fill in your values

Copy this template and replace every YOUR_* placeholder with your own data. Add or remove items from the ItemList to match the number of portfolio entries you want to feature.

JSON-LD · Portfolio
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "CollectionPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#webpage",
      "name": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_PAGE_TITLE",
      "description": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_PAGE_DESCRIPTION",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "about": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
      },
      "mainEntity": {
        "@type": "ItemList",
        "itemListElement": [
          {
            "@type": "ListItem",
            "position": 1,
            "item": {
              "@type": "CreativeWork",
              "name": "Retirement Portfolio Optimization",
              "description": "YOUR_RETIREMENT_PORTFOLIO_DESCRIPTION",
              "about": "YOUR_CLIENT_TYPE_AND_FINANCIAL_GOAL_1",
              "author": {
                "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "@type": "ListItem",
            "position": 2,
            "item": {
              "@type": "CreativeWork",
              "name": "Business Succession Planning",
              "description": "YOUR_SUCCESSION_PLANNING_DESCRIPTION",
              "about": "YOUR_CLIENT_TYPE_AND_FINANCIAL_GOAL_2",
              "author": {
                "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "@type": "ListItem",
            "position": 3,
            "item": {
              "@type": "CreativeWork",
              "name": "Wealth Transfer Strategy",
              "description": "YOUR_WEALTH_TRANSFER_DESCRIPTION",
              "about": "YOUR_CLIENT_TYPE_AND_FINANCIAL_GOAL_3",
              "author": {
                "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
              }
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "FinancialService",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
      "name": "YOUR_FIRM_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com"
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Portfolio",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a portfolio entry for a financial service firm?

A portfolio entry is any engagement that demonstrates your firm's expertise in a specific financial area. This could be a retirement planning engagement, a business succession plan, a wealth transfer strategy, or a tax optimization project. The key is that each entry should highlight a distinct client type, financial goal, and the approach your firm took — without disclosing confidential details.

How do I comply with SEC and FINRA testimonial rules on the portfolio page?

Focus on the type of work performed rather than specific client outcomes or returns. Describe the financial challenge, the strategy category, and the general approach — not dollar amounts, performance figures, or client identities. The SEC Marketing Rule allows hypothetical and case-study content under certain conditions, but structured data should stick to factual, non-promissory descriptions that do not imply guaranteed results.

How is the portfolio page different from a case studies page?

The portfolio page is a high-level catalog — it lists the types of engagements your firm handles with brief descriptions. The case studies page goes deeper into individual narratives with challenge, strategy, and outcome sections. Think of the portfolio as the index and case studies as the full chapters. Both are valuable for AI, but they serve different query intents.

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