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ANCHORY® · Life Architecture · Wealth Management

You saved for years.
Now spend them on

Most plans stop at a number. Ours starts with what the money is for, then builds the plan and the portfolio that pay for it. The first step is forty-five minutes and one question.

How many summers do I have?
Niels Buksik, CFP®, founder of ANCHORY®
Niels Buksik, CFP®
45 min
The first meeting
Nothing
Sold in it
None
Asset minimum to sit in it
2018
Founder-led since
02A quick question

How many summers do you have before 80?

Not to scare you. To focus you. Every one of them can be planned for, or left to chance.

55
25
summers. What are they for?
Simple arithmetic: 80 minus your age. Not a projection, not advice.Picture a few of them
Picture it · one

The morning the alarm stays off.

Not because you're tired. Because the day is yours, and you decided that years ago.

Picture it · two

The table with everyone at it.

The house, the trip, the help with a first home. Paid for on purpose, while you're there to see it.

Picture it · three

The market drops. You don't flinch.

Because the rules for that morning were written on a calm one. Nothing has to be decided today.

04The problem

The number is done. The deciding isn't.

On paper

A portfolio and a target.

Accounts, projections, a number you were told to hit. Nothing about the years themselves.

Underneath

A quiet worry.

Spend too much and run short. Spend too little and miss the years you saved for. So nothing gets decided.

What it's about

Money is for a life.

The biggest balance at the end was never the goal. The years you spend it on are.

So what would yours be for?
05Your turn

What would your money be for?

Tap everything that pulls at you. This is the conversation we start with, before a single projection.

Your one question for the first meeting
What is the money actually for?
Nothing you tap is stored. If you book, it travels with you as the note on the meeting, so we start there.
Bring this to the first meeting
Niels Buksik, CFP®
06Your guide

Most people I meet did everything right, and still can't say what it's for.

That isn't a failure. Nobody ever asked them. I was a financial advisor straight out of college and I loved the markets. The industry is built to answer how much. I built ANCHORY to answer the question that comes first, and to help you use what you built.

Most financial planning answers how much do I need. We answer what is the money actually for.
CFP® professionalFiduciary, no commissionsFounder-led since 2018Registered investment adviser, Texas
07Before you book

The three things everyone asks first.

The three answers, then the whole forty-five minutes, laid out.

01

"What happens in the first meeting?"

Minute by minute, so there are no surprises.

02

"What if I don't know what my money is for?"

Almost nobody does on day one. Here's how we find it.

03

"What does it cost, and how do you get paid?"

One fee, no commissions, stated plainly. The schedule is in Form ADV.

0–5

What brought you.

The one question you came with, in your words.

5–25

What the years are for.

The conversation most plans skip. No spreadsheet yet.

25–40

What we would do.

How Life Architecture would apply to you, plainly.

40–45

The honest answer.

Which engagement fits, or that neither does yet. Said in the room.

08Without a plan

The default decides.

  • "Someday" stays someday.
  • Every market drop becomes a new decision.
  • The best years pass on autopilot.
With one

Know what your wealth is for.

  • Each part of the money has a job and a date.
  • The hard calls are decided in advance, while things are calm.
  • You spend on the years that matter, on purpose.
10Is ANCHORY® a fit?

Let's put dates on your list.

Forty-five minutes. One question, yours. Nothing sold, nothing to decide in the room, no asset minimum.

If the calendar does not load, book at cal.com/anchory/first-meeting