Blueprint BP-006 · Personal finance

Know what your financial advice costs in dollars.

Find every layer of cost, compare it with the planning work you receive, and choose a payment model that fits your actual needs.

SEC disclosure frameworkFees converted to dollarsService value includedPaid relationships disclosed

Free Fee Starter

Where should your advisor review begin?

Answer four questions for a practical starting point. This does not tell you to hire, fire, transfer, or trade.

Everything included for $19

Audit cost without pretending advice has no value.

The complete product combines disclosure guidance with five working cost and comparison tools.

01

Disclosure walkthrough

Use Form CRS, Form ADV, statements, and fund documents to find the costs.

02

Annual cost calculator

Turn advisory and investment percentages into dollars.

03

Compounding illustration

See how different cost assumptions may affect ending value.

04

Fund expense audit

Calculate a portfolio’s weighted expense ratio.

05

Fee-model comparison

Compare asset-based, flat, and hourly structures at the same scope.

06

Seven questions

Ask about services, conflicts, compensation, breakpoints, and exit costs.

01 · Understand

Complete Blueprint

AUM, flat, hourly, commissions, fund costs, cash, conflicts, Form CRS, Form ADV, and advisor research.

Web guide + printable PDF
02 · Decide

Interactive tools

Use your balance, fee schedule, fund expenses, planning scope, and time horizon.

Five working tools
03 · Act

Meeting-ready resources

Carry the cost inventory, service scorecard, and seven questions into the relationship review.

Print, save, and reuse

The ThriveHuman approach

Do not optimize fees in isolation.

Good advice can create value through planning, tax coordination, risk management, behavior, organization, and decision support. The goal is to understand the full cost and whether the relationship earns it.

Affiliate links remain on hold. No adviser, brokerage, fund, planning network, or automated service is promoted for compensation.

Complete Blueprint

Get the complete Financial Advisor Fee Audit.

Full guide, annual cost, compounding illustration, fund audit, model comparison, and meeting questions.

Blueprint price$19

One-time purchase. Includes the full web Blueprint, printable PDF, five interactive tools, worksheets, checklists, and future major updates.

  • Immediate browser access
  • Printable resources and working tools
  • Future major Blueprint updates

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Before you buy

Best for

Someone actively choosing, comparing, or correcting a financial advisor fees decision.

What it helps you do

Find every layer of cost and compare it with the work received.

Working deliverables
  • All-in annual fee calculator
  • Advice-model and service comparison
  • Advisor fee question script
Time to start

About 20 minutes. Save your progress and return as documents or quotes arrive.

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Decision firstGuidance begins with fit, costs, tradeoffs, and failure points.

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Is this personalized professional advice?

No. A Blueprint is educational decision support. It helps you compare options and prepare better questions for qualified professionals when needed.

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Can an affiliate commission change the recommendation?

No. Paid relationships are disclosed beside eligible links. An option does not need to compensate ThriveHuman to be included.

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