I founded my first agency, RapidWebLaunch, in Toronto back in 2013. Thirteen years later, I've built websites and run SEO campaigns for businesses across 47 different industries in North America. Hundreds of portfolio projects. 94% client retention.
I've worked with roofers, dental practices, lawyers, therapists, two advisory firms (in Longview, TX and Denver, CO), custom manufacturers, restaurants, and just about every other type of small business you can think of. After 13 years of doing it all, I'm doubling down on one profession: independent financial advisors and RIA owners.
Honestly? Because the economics are the best I have seen in 13 years, and the marketing most advisors get is some of the worst.
A new client with $500,000 under management at a 1% fee is $5,000 a year of recurring revenue. The median fee up to $1 million of assets is about 1% (Kitces Research), and RIAs keep 97% of their clients year over year (Schwab 2025 RIA Benchmarking Study). One good client relationship can be worth more than two years of my fee.
Yet the average advisor spent about $3,119 to acquire a new client, mostly in their own time (Kitces Research, reported by Financial Planning). The lead platforms charge per introduction or take a share of revenue for years. And the agencies? About 31% of SEO providers charge more than $2,000 a month, often with a compliance process that amounts to "hope the CCO doesn't notice."
I'm not interested in any of that. I want to do real work for real advisory firms, run every page past your compliance reviewer before it goes live, and get judged on the only metric that matters: qualified first meetings on your calendar.
I'm originally from Montreal. I founded my first company in Toronto. My wife is from Ecuador. We live in Mexico now.
I like hockey and craft beer.
I run this business from my iPad. I work fast. I respond quickly. I don't hide behind processes or paperwork or polished sales decks.
If that sounds like a way of working you'd actually enjoy, let's talk.
Through RapidWebLaunch I've built websites for Belonging Wealth Management in Longview, Texas, and Ash Wealth in Denver. This brand is new, so these are web design projects, not SEO results. The first advisor case study with numbers gets published only when a firm gives written permission and their compliance officer signs off.
This came out exactly the way I wanted, even given some additional tweaks I requested that I had failed to mention in our initial discussion. Would highly recommend.
A review of our web design work, from RapidWebLaunch reviews.
A retirement planning firm led by CFP professionals. They needed a site that built confidence with clients planning for retirement, worked on any device, matched their brand, and carried over the content from their old site.
A wealth management and investing education business. They needed a site that built trust and could hold several kinds of content in one place.
Get a free audit of your firm's online presence. We'll show you where you stand on Google and in AI answers, what your top three local competitors are doing, and what it would take to start booking qualified consultations.
You'll talk to me, Patrick.