The Platform for Advisors & Growth Teams

SherpaIntelligent systems that grow practices,
power agencies, and replace your entire marketing stack.

We don't sell services. We solve problems and build systems.
From discovery to deployment to ongoing growth — Sherpa delivers the infrastructure, intelligence, and automation your business needs to scale.

See how it works

Sherpa is a technology and growth partner for financial advisors, local businesses, and marketing teams who've outgrown the agency model. Founded by an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience spanning FinTech, turnkey asset management platforms, recordkeeping and administration, and practice management coaching — Sherpa was built from the inside out. We know the systems, the pain points, and the gaps because we've lived on both sides of the table. That experience is now embedded in every tool, workflow, and automation we deliver.

The Foundation

The Segovia Engine

Named for the Roman aqueduct at Segovia, Spain -- freestanding stone, no mortar, functional for 1,900 years. Every engagement starts here. We build the system before we build anything else.

"We're not for hire. We work together. We solve and build."
I
Clarify
Core positioning. Who you serve. What problem you solve. What genuinely differentiates you. Three words that describe how the brand feels.
II
Architect
Competitive recon and market intelligence. Style guide, color system, typography, logo generation. Full brand and strategy document delivered to you.
III
Activate
Your system goes live — whether that's a performance-first website, a full Sherpa O/S deployment, intelligence tools connected to your data, or an existing tech stack integrated and running.
IV
Automate
Marketing, data pipelines, reporting, operations, and client communications — running continuously without manual intervention. Systems that compound over time, not just execute once.
Segovia Discovery
Whether you need a website, a marketing engine, an intelligence platform, or a full operating system — it all begins with a competitive audit, brand strategy, system architecture, and a complete blueprint scoped to your goals.

Service Tiers

Base Camp. Ridge Line. Summit Push.

For local businesses and growth-stage companies. Three packages that stack — start where you are, add as you grow.

Base Camp

Website Development
Segovia Discovery & Site Build
Initial builds are scoped after discovery based on complexity and system requirements.
  • Adaptive and Responsive site through full Segovia discovery process
  • Astro + Cloudflare CDN -- PageSpeed 95+, global edge
  • Technical foundations: schema, JSON-LD, sitemap, robots.txt, structured data
  • AI-generated brand guide, logo variants, favicon, style system
  • Blog with webhook auto-rebuild pipeline
  • Unlimited content edits -- revised within 3 business days
  • Mobile-first, accessibility-checked

Ridge Line

Agentic Marketing Package
Requires Base Camp
Retainer tailored to your growth goals during discovery.
  • Stay visible with continuous blog content auto-published via webhook
  • Build local search authority through citation development and backlink strategy
  • Reach customers everywhere with AI-generated posts to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Nextdoor
  • Keep your audience engaged with monthly email newsletters on your domain
  • Own your local presence with Google Business Profile optimization and ongoing management
  • Know what's working with monthly performance reports — traffic, rankings, and email metrics
  • Turn job site photos into content — snap, upload, auto-publish across all channels
  • Full access to Sherpa Portal (web app + PWA)

Summit Push

Ad Management Package
Ad Spend: Client-funded (separate)
Management engagement structured around your campaign objectives.
  • Google Ads: campaign setup, keyword targeting, bid optimization
  • Meta / Facebook Ads: audience building, creative, retargeting
  • Nextdoor: full presence management -- organic posting, neighborhood engagement, paid placement
  • Dedicated landing pages tuned per campaign
  • Conversion tracking, A/B testing, and transparent spend reporting — delivered weekly
  • Coordinated with organic strategy and content for compounding returns
  • Seasonal and geo-targeted campaigns for local dominance
Add-Ons

Echo

Reputation Management
Standalone — does not require Base Camp
Monthly engagement scoped to your review volume and platform needs.
  • Automated review generation -- prompts happy customers for Google reviews after service
  • Review monitoring across Google, Yelp, BBB, and industry platforms
  • Negative review alerts -- instant push notification when a bad review drops
  • AI-generated response drafts for quick turnaround
  • Monthly reputation scorecard with trend tracking

Sherpa Portal

Client Dashboard -- Web App + PWA
Included withRidge Line and above
  • Photo upload from job sites -- snap, submit, auto-publishes to all channels
  • Feed of all posts made on their behalf (social, blog, newsletter)
  • Performance rankings and traffic dashboard
  • Email campaign stats -- opens, clicks, bounces, deliverability
  • Google Business Profile insights
  • Request system ("update hours," "add a service") -- replaces email
  • PWA push notifications: configurable per client -- inactivity triggers, scheduled nudges (Mon/Wed/Fri), smart triggers (weather + calendar)

Technical Differentiators

The Stack

Every architectural choice optimizes for speed, performance, and competitive advantage. Purpose-built infrastructure that outperforms legacy platforms at every level.

Astro + Cloudflare

Static-first framework for performance and content. Global CDN. Sub-second loads. PageSpeed 95+. Used by Google, Visa, Microsoft.

Global edge. Sub-second delivery.

Webhook Auto-Rebuild

Blog content generates via AI, pushes through webhook, Astro redeploys on Cloudflare in seconds. No WordPress. No plugins. No caching. Instant publish.

Publish in seconds. Not days.

Resend Email Relay

Campaign email on client domain. DKIM authenticated. Tracking pixels, open/click/bounce metrics. Warm-up automation built in.

Your domain. Full deliverability.

Agentic Content Pipeline

Multi-model AI architecture for strategy, copy, imagery, and quality control. Every piece of content runs through brand voice enforcement and hallucination checks before it reaches your audience.

Automated quality at scale

Segovia Discovery Engine

Proprietary AI skills orchestrating the full discovery-to-deployment workflow. Competitive audits, market recon, brand systems, and site scaffolding — delivered in a single session, under two hours.

Discovery to deployed in hours, not weeks

Lead Intelligence & Enrichment

Automated prospecting that scans public web presences, classifies businesses, and generates personalized outreach. Every lead arrives enriched with context your team can act on immediately.

Qualified leads on autopilot

Advisor Data Infrastructure

SEC filings, 401(k) plan data across 883,625 plans, custodial feeds, and firm performance metrics — unified into a single intelligence layer. Powers the RIA Dashboard, 401(k) Plan Intelligence, and the Valuator in real time.

883K+ plans. Real-time data.

Sherpa O/S Architecture

Modular platform built on a single codebase. CRM, planning, compliance, marketing, and operations — all connected through shared data and a unified API layer. Integrates with custodians, CRMs, and the tools advisors already use.

One platform. Zero silos.

Event Automation Engine

End-to-end seminar lifecycle in one system — invitation design, registration capture, email sequencing, attendee tracking, presentation delivery, and post-event follow-up. Every touchpoint automated. Every attendee accounted for.

From invite to follow-up. One workflow.

Competitive Advantage

The Old Way vs. The Sherpa Way

Most firms run on fragmented tools, manual workflows, and vendors who disappear after the invoice clears. We built the alternative.

The Old WaySherpa
DiscoverySkip it. Template the site. Start billing.Full Segovia Engine — positioning, competitive recon, and brand strategy before a line of code.
PlatformWordPress templates. Squarespace. Webflow. Plugins on top of plugins.Astro on Cloudflare CDN. Static-first, sub-second loads, PageSpeed 95+. No plugins. No bloat.
ContentManual everything. Maybe one blog post a quarter. No social strategy.Agentic content pipeline — auto-published blog posts, social distribution across four channels, email campaigns. Systems run on autopilot.
Data & IntelligenceNo data layer. Decisions based on gut feel or a spreadsheet someone forgot to update.SEC filings, 401(k) plan data across 883K+ plans, custodial feeds, and firm analytics — live, searchable, and integrated.
Tech StackCRM here. Email there. Planning tool somewhere else. Nothing talks to anything.Sherpa O/S — CRM, planning, compliance, marketing, pipeline, and operations in a single platform with a unified API.
EventsEventbrite for registration. Mailchimp for follow-up. Canva for signage. A spreadsheet to track it all.Sherpa Seminar System — invitations, registration, email sequences, presentations, signage, and follow-up in one workflow.
ReportingOpaque. Can't tell what's organic vs. paid. Monthly PDF that nobody reads.Transparent reporting by tier — traffic, rankings, email metrics, ad spend, and conversion tracking. Delivered weekly.
Custom BuildsOut of scope. "We just do websites."Client portals, financial calculators, reporting dashboards, compliance workflows — if you can describe it, we can build it.
Speed4-8 weeks for a basic site. Sometimes months.Discovery to deployed site in under two hours. Production-ready in a day.
Cost EfficiencyHigh labor. Hosting fees. Plugin licenses. Overhead stacks fast.Zero-cost hosting. Sub-penny email delivery. Infrastructure built to scale without scaling costs.

Financial Advisor Products

Sherpa for Advisors

Purpose-built tools for independent and breakaway financial advisors. Marketing that sounds like you, intelligence that gives you an edge, and technology that scales with your practice.

Sherpa Stack Autopsy

Diagnostic Protocol

Most financial practices are paying for tools they don't use, running workflows nobody designed, and calling it a tech stack. The Stack Autopsy is a full forensic review of every platform, integration, and subscription in your operation — what's working, what's redundant, what's costing you money for nothing. No vendor affiliations. No upsell. Just a verdict. The findings become the foundation for everything Sherpa builds next.

Sherpa SEO Audit

Comprehensive diagnostic — 45-page deliverable

A deep-dive analysis across nine SEO categories — technical crawlability, indexation strategy, on-page optimization, content quality and E-E-A-T signals, performance, authority, GEO/AI visibility, and search presence. Every page scored. Every issue ranked by severity with root cause analysis and a prioritized remediation roadmap. Built specifically for YMYL financial sites where Google applies its strictest scrutiny. You'll know exactly what's broken, why it's broken, and what to fix first.

The Sherpa Valuator

Your guide to the summit

Know what your advisory firm is actually worth — not a guess, not a multiple on revenue, but a living valuation built from the metrics that matter. The Valuator connects directly to your tech stack — CRM, custodian, planning tools, billing — and synthesizes AUM growth, client retention, fee structure, and operational efficiency into a real-time picture of firm value. Solo practice or enterprise RIA, the math scales to fit. Updated continuously so you always know where you stand and what moves the number.

RIA Intelligence Dashboard

Enterprise licensing available

SEC-sourced advisor data powering firm analytics, AUM tracking, competitive intelligence, and prospecting. Built for distribution hubs, broker-dealers, and wholesalers who need real-time visibility into the advisor landscape.

401(k) Plan Intelligence

Enterprise licensing available

Benchmarking and diagnostics across 883,625 retirement plans nationwide. Fee comparisons, fund lineup analysis, plan health scoring, and provider market share — all searchable by plan size, geography, or advisor. The toolkit retirement advisors need to walk into every prospect meeting with leverage.

Content Engine

Monthly engagement

Not generic AI content. Every advisor gets a custom persona document that captures your voice, philosophy, client base, and differentiators. The engine then generates compliant blog posts, newsletters, social content, and drip campaigns that sound like you — not a robot. Plugs into your existing stack or runs standalone.

Email Campaign Engine

Included with Content Engine or standalone

Automated sequences on your domain with full tracking — open rates, click-throughs, bounce metrics, and warm-up automation built in. Replaces Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or any other email service — at a fraction of the cost.

Sherpa Lead Gen Automator

Automated sequences that convert

Dedicated landing pages paired with multi-step email sequences that do the follow-up for you. Lead capture, automated nurture, drip cadence, and conversion tracking — all running on your domain. Every prospect gets the right message at the right stage without anyone on your team touching a button. Feeds directly into the Content Engine so your pipeline never goes quiet.

The Sherpa Seminar System

One system. Every touchpoint.

Stop stitching together six tools to run one event. The Seminar System handles the entire lifecycle from a single platform — branded invitations, registration capture, automated confirmations, email sequences before and after, presentation deck, and event signage. Follow-up doesn't fall through the cracks because there is no gap between steps. Every attendee is tracked from open to RSVP to seat to follow-up. One login. One workflow. One system that turns a seminar into a pipeline.

"We've spent 25 years watching advisors pay for platforms that weren't built for them. Sherpa is what we wish existed."
— The Sherpa Team

The Platform

Sherpa O/S

Every tool above lives inside a single operating system built for advisory firms. Stop paying for nine platforms that don't talk to each other. Sherpa O/S replaces the stack.

CRM & Client Management

Core module

Every client relationship in one place — contact records, household mapping, interaction history, and task management. No more toggling between systems to remember where a conversation left off.

Investment Tracking

Core module

Portfolio views, allocation summaries, and performance reporting pulled from custodial data. Give clients the transparency they expect without logging into three different portals.

Planning Tools

Core module

Financial planning workflows built into the same system where your client data already lives. Retirement projections, goal tracking, and scenario modeling — no exports, no imports, no broken links between tools.

Operations & Compliance

Core module

Workflow automation, document management, audit trails, and compliance tracking in one view. Every action is logged. Every document is versioned. Every review cycle is on schedule — not in someone's inbox.

Marketing & Content

Core module

The Content Engine, Email Campaign Engine, and Lead Gen Automator — unified inside the O/S. Create, distribute, and track every piece of marketing from the same dashboard where you manage clients.

Pipeline Management

Core module

Visual pipeline from first touch to signed agreement. Every lead, every stage, every follow-up in one view. Know exactly where your next client is coming from and what it takes to close them.

Practice Management

Core module

Revenue tracking, fee billing, capacity planning, and team performance. Run the business side of your practice with the same clarity you bring to client portfolios.

Learning & Development

Core module

CE tracking, onboarding workflows for new team members, and a knowledge base that grows with your firm. Training and professional development without another login.

Sherpa O/S is scoped and delivered as a complete engagement. Licensed with annual renewal so your platform evolves as your practice grows.


Vertical Pipelines

Four Markets. One System.

Different industries, different buyers, different language — but the same infrastructure underneath. Each vertical gets its own Segovia discovery flow, content strategy, and pipeline template tailored to how your market actually buys.

Agency & In-House Marketing

Small AgenciesMid-Tier ShopsInternal Marketing TeamsMulti-Location Brands

Infrastructure-first. Built for the teams that are expected to produce agency-level output without agency-level headcount. A turnkey system that lets a team of three deliver like a department of thirty.

Pipeline Focus

  • White-label content and campaign delivery across client accounts
  • Multi-client dashboard with per-account reporting and analytics
  • Agentic content pipeline that replaces three full-time production roles
  • Turnkey client onboarding — new accounts live in days, not weeks
  • Unified reporting that gives lean teams enterprise-grade visibility

Home Services

RoofersHVACPlumbingGeneral ContractorsRemodelers

Project-photo-heavy. Seasonal campaigns (pool season, winter HVAC, storm damage). Before/after galleries. CTA: "Get a Free Quote."

Pipeline Focus

  • Job site photo-to-social automation
  • Seasonal Google Ads campaigns
  • Geo-targeted landing pages per service area
  • Review generation after completed jobs
  • "Stay on budget" and reliability messaging

Healthcare

DentistsOrthodontistsMed SpasDermatologyChiropracticPhysical Therapy

Authority-first. Provider bios and credentials. Patient education blog. HIPAA-conscious imagery. CTA: "Book an Appointment."

Pipeline Focus

  • Provider credential and specialization pages
  • Patient education content series
  • Online booking integration
  • Review generation with patient-friendly messaging
  • Insurance and payment transparency pages

Professional Services

AttorneysAccountants / CPAsFinancial PlannersInsurance Agents

Trust and authority. Thought leadership blog. Credential and case-study-driven. CTA: "Schedule a Consultation."

Pipeline Focus

  • Thought leadership + LinkedIn distribution
  • Case study and testimonial pages
  • Consultation booking flow
  • Professional directory citations (Avvo, Martindale)
  • Newsletter-first engagement strategy

Ready to Start the Climb?

Every engagement begins with Segovia Discovery. Tell us where you are and where you want to go — we'll build the system to get you there.

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