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How it works

Eight stages, and you are never guessing which one you are in

From a first conversation to the plan's ongoing care: what happens, who does it, and how long it takes.

Coordination is a process, not a promise. This is the whole of it, written down, so you can see what you are agreeing to before you agree to any of it.

Most financial advice has no process at all

Ask a household with several professionals what happens next and you will usually get a description of a calendar rather than a plan: the CPA is seen in the spring, the attorney was seen once, the advisor calls quarterly. Nobody owns the sequence, because nobody owns the whole.

The result is not bad advice. It is advice that arrives in the wrong order: a trust drafted before anyone modeled the tax consequence, a policy placed before anyone asked who should own it, a business sale planned two years after the structure that would have made it efficient needed to exist.

Order is not an administrative detail. In planning, it is most of the value.

Design first, then execute, then never stop

The engagement splits into three movements. The first is diagnostic: we find out what is actually true about your position before anyone recommends anything. The second is design: the Wealth Strategist draws a plan against that picture and the full team refines it. The third is execution and stewardship, which does not end.

Nothing is sold in the first movement. There is nothing to buy until a plan exists, and no plan exists until someone has read the whole picture.

The eight stages

Stages one through four decide whether there is an engagement at all. Nothing is charged until you have seen the plan and decided to go ahead.

  1. 01No cost

    Discovery call

    A conversation with a Wealth Orchestrator, at no cost, to figure out whether this makes sense for you.

  2. 02Working session, then 2–3 weeks

    Diagnostic

    A structured working session collects the financial picture, the goals, the wants and needs, and the family and business context. Then the Wealth Strategist and the Wealth Planning Design Team analyze your position and prepare a report: strengths, gaps, opportunities, threats.

  3. 03Prepared with the diagnostic

    Plan outline

    The Wealth Strategist team designs a preliminary plan: the strategies worth pursuing, and the order to take them in.

  4. 04No cost

    Plan presentation

    Your Wealth Strategist and Wealth Orchestrator walk you through the diagnostic and the plan they recommend. You decide whether to proceed, in the room or after you have thought it over.

  5. 05When you decide

    Engagement

    You sign the engagement agreement, pay the Initial Setup Fee and set up monthly billing. It is the first time anything is charged.

  6. 06First 60–90 days

    Onboarding

    Your Wealth Orchestrator assembles the Specialist team, integrating the professionals you already have and introducing vetted Specialists where there are gaps. With the team in place, the plan is finalized in phases, easiest wins first, so the tax, legal and risk views are reconciled before anything is executed. You approve each phase.

  7. 076–12 months for the whole

    Implementation

    The Orchestrator drives execution across Specialists. Some of it lands in the first 90 days: insurance placement, investment repositioning, trust drafting. Some of it unfolds over years: multi‑year tax strategy, gifting plans, business exit preparation.

  8. 08Permanent

    Ongoing monitoring

    Quarterly reviews with your Orchestrator, deeper annual or biannual reviews with the Strategist, and continuous coordination as life events, markets and tax law move. A plan that is not maintained is a plan that quietly stops being true.

Who does the work

How your team assembles

Most households arrive with at least one professional already in place. The engagement is built to be hybrid by default: the question is never whether you keep them, it is whether they will coordinate.

  • We integrate who you have

    Where your CPA, attorney or advisor is doing good work and is willing to coordinate with the wider team, they join the engagement as part of it. They keep doing what they do well; your Orchestrator becomes their coordination partner.

  • We introduce where there is a gap

    Where you have no professional in a domain, or the current one is not a strong collaborator, you are introduced to two or three vetted Specialists. You interview and you choose. Camas never assigns a Specialist to you.

  • Most people end up with a mix

    You keep the CPA of fifteen years, bring in an estate attorney you never had, and leave the investments where they are or move them, depending on what actually serves the plan.

What you are actually buying

The coordination layer, not another advisor

A traditional single-family office costs upwards of $1 million a year to operate and is structurally viable only for households above roughly $100 million. What it provides is not exotic products: it is a team that talks to itself. That is the part this engagement makes reachable.

  • One primary contact instead of seven: you stop managing your professionals and they start being managed.
  • A plan every domain has read, rather than four opinions that have never met.
  • Decisions taken in the right order, which is where most of the value in planning actually sits.
  • A standing process for the maintenance, so the plan survives the events it was written for.

It begins with a conversation

The first stage costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It exists to find out whether the other seven are worth having.

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