Sample Plans
While the financial planning softwares are great calculators, they often need help telling the narrative.
Brody is obsessed with output and spends a lot of time creating and fine-tuning templates and learning about data visualization techniques. We believe this is an underrated component of the planning process as it is critical that the analysis and recommendations are presented in a way that is clean, actionable, and easy to follow.
Some advisors prefer to have a robust deliverable that covers everything and shows off their work (justifying the cost). Others prefer a one page plan that is easy for the client to understand, easy for the advisor to review & present, and focuses on what’s really important without getting lost in the weeds.
We’ve created a number of one page, mid sized, and monster plans using Excel, Word, PDFs, eMoney, Money Guide Pro, Right Capital, and more. We’ve also made a number of custom templates for advisors to suit their needs. Again, if you already have a planning system or output style you love, we’re happy to learn it. We’re flexible.
Comprehensive Plan | This beefy data visualization focused plan is our standard offering. It is designed to cover every area and help 'wow' your client. It's broken into chapters so you can decide which you'd like us to include. Content is continuously improved and refined.
Midsized | Did you find that comprehensive plan (to the left) to be a bit too much, but the one page (to the right) a bit too lean? This plan may be your 'Goldilocks' just right. It uses the same template as the comprehensive plan but leans it down to focus on the essentials.
Verbal One Page | Not a fan of big deliverables? Maybe you present live in the software or do ongoing planning so don't feel the need to cover everything all at once? Here's a straight to the point verbal summary that you can pair with your financial planning software. This only focuses on the big picture and any high priority action items.
Visualized One Page Plan | A different take on a one pager (well one page if you print on two sided paper!) that incorporates some of the data visualization techniques we employ in larger plans.
