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Synseus Intelligence — Platform Overview
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Synseus Intelligence — Platform Overview
What Synseus Is
Synseus is an AI-powered practice intelligence platform purpose-built for independent financial advisors and RIA firms. It surfaces growth opportunities, succession signals, revenue diagnostics, and M&A intelligence derived from public SEC IAPD data and practice-level inputs.
What Synseus Is Not
- Not a CRM (it is designed to work alongside CRMs, and CRM connections are coming soon)
- Not a robo-advisor or client-facing tool
- Not a compliance platform
- Not a portfolio management system
Who Uses Synseus
- Independent RIA principals ($25M–$500M AUM)
- Breakaway wirehouse advisors building new practices
- OSJ network administrators monitoring advisor fleets
- Growth-oriented advisors seeking acquisition targets
- Advisors preparing for succession or exit
Core Capabilities
- Precision Tools across 10 practice intelligence modules
- Succession signal detection across 23,927 SEC-registered and exempt reporting advisers (five of the seven signal types are currently evaluated for these firms)
- Practice valuation computed from the advisor's own assumptions (user-adjustable weights)
- Archetype-based personalization (5 advisor growth profiles)
- M&A acquisition target identification within geographic radius
- Peer benchmarking against same-size firms (AUM-band percentile position)
- SEC ADV Part 2 brochure fee intelligence (effective fees, structures, minimums, custodians)
- Own-firm profile — your firm's SEC firmographics, succession exposure, and peer-cohort percentile
- CRM write-back to Wealthbox and Redtail — coming soon; connections cannot be started yet
- Evidence of Value PDF generation for client retention
Key Statistics
- 23,927 advisory firms in database (17,212 SEC-registered RIAs + 6,715 exempt reporting advisers)
- 8,725 firms with extracted SEC ADV Part 2 brochures (intelligence overlay on the 23,927 advisory firms)
- Precision Tools
- 10 intelligence modules
- 7 succession signal types
- 5 advisor archetypes
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- 15% of firms that filed an employee count have one or two employees; ~28% of the 23,927 universe filed no employee count
- 156 firms with a recorded city and state have been registered 20+ years and filed an employee count of two or fewer (10 of them filed 0)
- NEW YORK, NY leads the nation with 13 firms meeting that same filter (largest metro concentration)
- Source: synseus.com/research/2026-ria-succession-report
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Pricing
- Growth: $199/mo or $1,990/yr — ONE USER, not per seat. The entry plan — all 10 modules and every working tool; Architect adds the team layer, role-based access and firm dashboard
- Architect: $499/mo flat or $4,990/yr — up to 5 users linked under one firm with shared data
- Enterprise: contact us — for firms needing more than 5 users
- Free trial: 14 days on GROWTH — one user, every module, every working tool. No credit card. Architect and Enterprise are not trialled.
Primary URL
https://synseus.com