For aggregators and acquirers
Every acquisition arrives with its own five vendors, its own custodial relationships, its own billing logic and its own decade of unreconciled history. Do that eight times and you are not running a platform — you are running eight of them, plus the integration debt between them. That debt is where the return on the deal quietly goes.
What we do instead
You sold advisors on keeping their independence — which means you cannot force a hundred firms onto one system without breaking the promise that closed the deal. We remove the force. The platform brands at every level of the hierarchy: URL, logo, colours, statements, disclosures — for the enterprise, and separately for every firm inside it.
The advisor keeps
Their nameplate, their URL, their colours, their client relationships — the brand they were promised they could keep when they sold.
You gain
One ledger under every firm: consistent technology, real-time visibility, scale economics and platform margin — without a re-platforming fight per acquisition.
The result
A hundred independent storefronts running on the same rails. Three enterprises operate this way today.
On acquisition
The acquired firm's subscriptions end rather than getting absorbed. One migration path you run repeatedly, instead of a bespoke integration project per deal.
On the history
Our longest transition was a billion-dollar book whose custodian retained three years of history when more than ten were needed. Reconstructing it is a capability, not a promise.
On economics
One fee structure covering platform, desk, research and service across every practice you own — instead of inheriting whatever each seller happened to negotiate.
On the advisors you bought
Advisors run their own strategies at no platform fee. Retention after an acquisition depends on the advisor not feeling flattened, and investment identity is where that usually breaks.
Where this already runs
Three aggregators operate on their own instance today. If you are integrating practices and the technology is the part eating the return, that is the conversation worth having — and it is a different conversation from the one on the rest of this site.