Every advisor, team, and RIA that joins the platform moves through the same documented workflow, run by a dedicated transition team with milestones, tasks, and execution deadlines. The conversation starts under NDA. Your clients sign digitally. Your reporting and billing are live before the transition is called done.
Join our RIA under your own brand, let us incubate your team while your own firm registers, or bring your whole RIA onto the platform. Whichever you choose, the ten weeks below are how it gets done.
Register with Axxcess and run your brand and your practice from inside our RIA. Compliance oversight, billing, reporting, trading, and model management are handled. You own your clients, your data, and your business. Axxcess takes no equity.
The IAR model →We transition you and your team onto our books and records while your RIA registers in parallel. Once the registration is approved, we port the fully transitioned business to your firm with no break in service and no disruption to your clients.
How incubation works →Your own RIA, the whole firm on one platform. Our team runs operations, billing, reporting, trading, compliance support, and investments under your brand, for established firms replacing legacy systems and for wirehouse teams forming a new one.
The enterprise TAMP model →People who understand every functional area of the move: wealth planning, investment strategy, regulatory, compliance, and business operations. They have transitioned wirehouse advisory teams, broker-dealer hybrids, and standalone RIAs.
A custom transition project with precise milestones, tasks, and execution deadlines, launched on the first call and reviewed with you every week until the first billing review.
Transitions are discussed only under NDA, so your plans are known to you and Axxcess alone. Then a memorandum of understanding puts the economics and the client-support commitment in writing before you resign.
Client documents are prepared in advance and sent for e-signature on resignation day through your branded portal. Clients can also link their outside accounts and self-onboard there.
Our digital workflows mean most transition documents are signed by clients without a meeting or a courier, which is what makes a 15-day transition possible when the custodian and the contract allow it.
Broker Protocol transitions follow the standard workflow. Non-protocol transitions and restrictive covenants add a legal review first and rely on client self-onboarding. Both are routine for the team.
If your employment agreement prevents you from using firm data, the transition data comes from the people who own it. Your clients self-onboard through your branded portal, volunteer their information, and link the very accounts they will transition. Their documents are pre-filled from what they provided, not from anything you carried out the door.
Legal review happens before anything else, with your counsel and ours. Then the workflow proceeds as it would for anyone else, with resignation day planned to the hour.
How a wirehouse transition worksTen steps, one per week in the standard plan. Faster transitions compress the same steps; non-protocol transitions add legal review before week one.
Transition call kick-off. Custom transition project launched, with your own segregated database created.
Transition paperwork preparation. Branding and client communications drafted for compliance review.
Investment and trade review. Registration prep for you and your team.
Finalize transition paperwork. Billing and reporting overview, so you know how your first invoice will be built.
Technology and data-feed set-up complete. Website and client communications final.
Resignation and registration complete. Client documents sent for digital signature.
Technology and process training. Database clean-up and client set-up as accounts arrive.
Introduction to service and continued training. Client portal and financial planning walkthroughs.
Service and support set-up and hand-off to your ongoing team. Historical data project kick-off.
First billing review. Transition ends; the platform relationship begins.
Step names match the plan your transition team will work from. The sequence is the same for IAR affiliation, incubation, and enterprise TAMP relationships.
Your current firm's relationship with you, your custodians, and your client account structure set the pace. These are the three cases we see most often.
Independent custodian, no restrictive covenants in your employment agreement, and clients who sign digitally. The same ten steps, compressed.
A Broker Protocol firm and a conventional book. One step per week from child database set-up to the first billing review.
A non-protocol firm or restrictive covenants. Legal review comes first, then client self-onboarding through your portal, then the standard workflow.
Timelines are estimates from completed transitions, not commitments. Your plan and its dates are set in the memorandum of understanding.
By week six the paperwork is staged, the data feeds are connected, and the website and communications are final. On the day, your resignation is delivered and your registration transfers, then client documents go out for digital signature under your brand. Accounts populate in your database as they arrive. Your transition team is with you throughout the day.
You do. Client communications are drafted with you during the pre-approval and marketing step, compliance-reviewed, and sent under your name and your brand. Our team handles the paperwork, the data, and the technology behind the conversation, not the conversation itself.
Proprietary feeder funds and other non-transferable positions are billed and reported inside the same client statement as the assets that did move, so your clients see their whole picture in one place. For clients staying on a legacy custodian, the same reporting engine consolidates the view.
Your clients' performance history does not start on the day they arrive. In week nine we kick off a project to load and reconcile prior history into your database, so reports and performance calculations carry back before the transition. The scope and the sources are agreed in the plan.
Your first billing cycle has been calculated, reviewed with you, and posted; your clients are reporting in the portal and the app; and your day-to-day support has been handed from the transition team to the team that will serve you going forward. That is week ten, and it is when the transition formally ends.
Adrienne owns onboarding and transitions for every advisor and firm joining the platform. Her team runs each transition on a documented plan with milestones, tasks, and execution deadlines, and has moved wirehouse advisory teams, broker-dealer hybrids, and standalone RIAs. Before Axxcess she spent ten years as a senior vice president at Redhawk Wealth Advisors running growth, operations, and compliance.
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