The Work, in Three Stages
Organize. Plan. Partner.
01
Organize
Take full inventory of your financial picture and get it working as one system.
02
Plan
Build the integrated plan that guides every decision across all four disciplines.
03
Partner
Meet, review, and adjust, the work that lasts for the life of the relationship.
Stage 01
Organize
Organize
Most families come to us with the artifacts of decades of decisions. A 401(k) at one place, an IRA at another, an old brokerage account, an estate plan that no longer fits. Each piece may be fine on its own. As a system, it is rarely coordinated, often redundant, and almost always under-optimized.
The first 90 days
In the first ninety days, we
- ✓Aggregate every account into a single view, so you see everything in one place
- ✓Consolidate scattered retirement accounts where it makes sense
- ✓Identify overlap in your investment allocations and eliminate it
- ✓Surface tax exposure you can reduce, this year and going forward
- ✓Catalogue your existing estate documents and identify the gaps
- ✓Get the dormant work moving, trusts, college plans, side investments
Most clients are surprised how much simpler their financial life becomes once it is finally organized as one system.
Stage 02
Plan
Plan
Once your financial life is organized, we build the plan that guides every decision going forward. Not a binder on a shelf, a working model of where your money is, where it needs to be, and what decisions today create the highest probability of getting there. We update it as your life changes. It integrates four disciplines.
Financial Planning
We model your full balance sheet, income sources, obligations, and timeline against the life you want to fund, retirement income, education, home purchases, business transitions, legacy. Every dollar has a job, and the plan makes those jobs explicit.
Investment Strategy
Your portfolio, designed with the plan as the guide, seeking the highest probability of funding your goals across every account, structured for tax efficiency. Actively managed and not constrained by model portfolios, so we can respond to changing conditions.
Tax Strategy
Roth conversions, charitable timing, asset location, gains harvesting, QCDs, the year-by-year decisions that compound into real money over a retirement. We coordinate with your CPA and project your tax picture across multiple years, not just the current one.
Estate Strategy
Full estate documents drafted by qualified attorneys, coordinated with your financial plan and updated as your life changes. Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and beneficiary review across every account.
Stage 03
Partner
Partner
Financial life is not static. Markets move, tax laws change, children grow up, parents age, businesses sell, goals evolve. We meet regularly to review the work, update the plan, and stay one step ahead of what is coming, more often than you expected, less often than would feel intrusive.
This is the stage that lasts for the rest of the relationship. The first two stages are foundational. This stage is the work itself.
Start the conversationWhat This Looks Like in Practice
- ✓Quarterly review meetings, in person when possible, by video when not
- ✓Direct access to the CEO, the CIO, and your dedicated team. No call centers, no service tiers
- ✓An open door for the questions that come up between meetings
- ✓Proactive outreach when the markets, tax law, or your situation calls for action
- ✓Annual deep dives, financial plan in Q1, tax in Q3, estate on a multi-year cycle
Your First Twelve Months
What twelve months looks like.
Month 1
Discovery and onboarding
We aggregate your accounts, gather your documents, and complete the initial financial inventory.
Months 2–3
Plan construction
We build the plan, design the investment strategy, identify tax opportunities, and review your estate. A fully integrated plan is in place.
Months 4–6
Implementation
We execute the changes, consolidations, portfolio repositioning, current-year tax moves, and document updates.
Months 7–12
Ongoing partnership
Quarterly reviews, proactive planning, year-end tax work, and the rhythm of the long-term relationship.
Who We Work With
For families who have built real assets and are ready for a coordinated plan.
Typically pre-retirees and retirees with $1M+ in investable assets and the kind of complexity that goes beyond a simple portfolio.
- ✓You have accounts spread across multiple places
- ✓A tax situation that has outgrown a basic return
- ✓An estate plan that has not been touched in a decade
- ✓A sense that your financial life should be more coordinated than it is