Cost savings & ROI

Spend Less. Compound More. Work With Leverage.

Your stack bills you three times: once in licenses, again in the hours spent stitching systems together, and again in advisor time lost hunting for answers. Milemarker takes out the stitching, retires the tools that only connect other tools, and turns what you build into an asset that keeps paying back.

Example firm $654M RIA · 12 advisors · 11 systems
  1. Data & reporting labour$100K
  2. Advisor time lost hunting for data$236K
  3. Redundant software$30K
  4. Error & rework$20K
Reclaimed with MilemarkerRemaining
Lost a year to disconnection
$386K
Reclaimable
$273K
Hours back a year
2,760

The ROI calculator's default inputs, shown as an illustration. Run your own firm's numbers.

1 · SAVE

Where the Money Actually Goes

Licenses are the line you see. These are the lines you don't. In the example above, the hidden costs come to more than ten times the software bill.

Data & reporting labour

  • Exports, re-keying and month-end reconciling between systems
  • Ask: how many hours a week does your ops team spend moving data?
  • Priced at those hours × 48 working weeks × $58/hr loaded
  • About 65% comes back once every feed lands in one place

Advisor time

  • Advisors chasing a balance, a document or a report before a client call
  • Ask: how much of an advisor's week goes to finding, not advising?
  • Priced at each advisor's loaded rate, from your AUM per advisor
  • About 70% comes back with one workstation and one answer

Redundant software

  • Dashboards, middleware and add-ons that exist only to connect other tools
  • Ask: which tools would you cancel if your data were already connected?
  • Priced at about $15K a year per overlapping tool
  • Retired outright, while your custodian, CRM and planning tools stay

Error & rework

  • Billing fixes, report corrections and audit prep from mismatched data
  • Ask: how often does the same number differ between two systems?
  • Priced as a 20% uplift on data-handling time
  • About 65% comes back when every system agrees on one record

THE MODEL:Wealth-firm compensation benchmarks combined with Milemarker customer operating data. It's an estimate, not a guarantee, and the calculator shows every line's working.

2 · COMPOUND

Every Piece You Build
Pays You Again

This is the part a spreadsheet ROI misses. Point tools reset with every new need. On Milemarker, each connection, record, metric and workflow becomes the starting point for the next one, so the return grows every year you're on it.

  1. 01 Build once

    Connect a source

    Bring in a custodian, CRM or portfolio system once, on a schedule you control.

    Reused byEvery reportEvery pageEvery AI question
  2. 02 Build once

    Resolve one household

    Match the client every system names differently into one canonical record.

    Reused byBillingReviewsCompliance
  3. 03 Build once

    Define a metric

    Revenue, AUM by advisor, NNA: defined once, the same everywhere.

    Reused byDashboardsScorecardsExports
  4. 04 Build once

    Build a workflow

    An address change or trade request, wired to the data so it arrives prefilled.

    Reused byEvery request of its kind
  5. 05 Build once

    Set permissions once

    Access groups decide who sees what, across every system at once.

    Reused byEvery pageEvery advisorEvery AI assistant

Point tools

  • Every new need means a new vendor and a new contract
  • Every vendor needs its own integration to maintain
  • Every vendor sells its own AI add-on that only sees its own data
  • Definitions drift, so the same number differs by system

Milemarker

  • Every new need starts from data that's already connected
  • One household record that every system maps into
  • One AI connection, under your rules, across all of it
  • Your data lives in a data cloud your firm owns

3 · LEVERAGE

Leverage means more output from the team you already have. Your people stop waiting on consultants, engineers and vendor roadmaps, and build what they need themselves.

“It's not a cost. The money I pay Milemarker is an investment in my firm and my people.”
Steve LaskaManaging Partner, Trillium Wealth

690+

Hours a year handed back to each MCP user

$100K+

A year in consultant time per MCP user that firms don’t have to buy

20+ hrs

Reclaimed each week per advisor on RFG Advisory’s platform

480

Households supported by a two-advisor firm, every report built in-house

MCP figures are an annual forecast: a third of a 2,080-hour work year per user, below the pace measured across client firms in early October 2026, with consultant time at $150 an hour. RFG Advisory and Advisor Wealth Management figures are from their published case studies.

BEFORE YOU SIGN

What CFOs and COOs Ask Us

Do we have to rip anything out?

No. Your custodian, CRM, portfolio and planning tools stay where they are. Milemarker connects them and unifies the data underneath. What goes away is the layer that only exists to stitch them together.

How long until we're live?

Between 2 and 12 weeks, depending on scope. Every firm gets a dedicated success manager, working sessions every other week, training and full documentation, because the goal is for your team to run it.

Will we need engineers?

No. Your team builds pages, reports and workflows by describing them through Milemarker MCP. By September 2026, 22% of platform changes were already being made by firms' own staff.

Is our data safe, and is it ours?

Milemarker is SOC 2 certified. Your data lives in a data cloud your firm owns, it's never sold or used to train AI models, and it stays yours if you ever leave.

PROOF

Firms Running on It Today

RFG AdvisoryLearn More

Ten-plus data sources in one data cloud RFG owns, 100+ metrics, and a market-facing advisor platform built on it.

The Pinnacle GroupLearn More

Insurance and annuity data from many carriers in one layer: days of manual prep down to minutes.

Advisor Wealth ManagementLearn More

480 households on two advisors, with every report built in-house and fee revenue reconciled across payment types.

YOUR NUMBER

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