CPA Collaboration Overview
Expanding Client Planning Without Expanding Your Workload
Who This Is For
This collaboration is designed for CPAs and tax professionals who want to offer additional planning solutions to select clients — without adding tax prep, audit, or compliance responsibilities. You remain the primary advisor. We operate in the background as a planning and implementation partner.
The Problem We Help Solve
Many CPAs encounter clients who:
Have strong income but limited tax-efficient retirement options
Need advanced deductions beyond basic qualified plans
Could benefit from cost segregation or specialty planning but lack execution support
Are asking broader "what else can we do?" questions outside pure tax preparation
In many cases, the opportunity is clear — but the bandwidth or infrastructure to implement it is not.
How the Collaboration Works
You identify appropriate clients
We design and implement the planning strategy
You retain full control of the client relationship
No added tax prep, audit, or administrative burden on your firm
We work alongside your existing advisors. Nothing is displaced or replaced.
Planning Strategies We Support
Defined Benefit and Cash Balance retirement plans
Cost Segregation studies
Tax-advantaged insurance planning structures
Select advanced wealth and retirement strategies
All solutions are implemented in coordination with you and fully disclosed.
Revenue & Structure
Collaboration structured under a broker/partner agreement
Revenue typically shared 50/50, depending on the strategy
No upfront costs or obligations
You choose when and if to engage
Why CPAs Choose This Model
Expands services without expanding staff
Strengthens client retention
Keeps you at the center of the advisory relationship
Adds incremental revenue without operational drag
Next Step
If this is relevant, the next step is a brief conversation to walk through how CPAs typically introduce this to clients, which client profiles tend to be the best fit, and a few real-world examples. If it's not a fit, no problem at all.