Who We Serve
Running a business and building wealth at the same time creates its own coordination problem
DAG coordinates wealth management, exit planning, and entity structure for business owners and C-suite executives with equity concentration and digital asset exposure.
When you're running a business and building wealth at the same time
The financial life of a business owner or executive gets complicated fast. The pieces interact, and most existing advisor lineups operate in lanes.
DAG is built for the situations where the pieces are large enough and connected enough that they need to be managed together rather than separately.
Business equity concentration
Most of your net worth is tied up in one company. Diversification is hard while the company is operating, and the timing of any disposition has tax, governance, and family implications.
Multi-asset complexity
Equity compensation, vesting schedules, 83(b) elections, retirement plans, taxable investments, possibly meaningful crypto. Each piece has its own tax treatment and coordination needs.
Fragmented advice
A CPA who knows the business but not your personal investments. A wealth advisor who manages part of the brokerage but does not see the bigger picture. An M&A advisor who only shows up when you're ready to sell.
Compressed decision windows
Liquidity events, equity grants, tax windows, and succession decisions arrive on tight timelines. The planning has to be in place before the window opens.
What gets coordinated
- Personal portfolio
- Business equity and entity structure
- Tax across business and personal
- Exit planning and post-exit wealth
- Concentrated equity strategies
- Succession and family transitions
"The business is the position. Personal portfolio decisions have to account for the concentration that already exists."
Statement of the DAG leadership team describing DAG's planning approach. It is not a client testimonial, no compensation was provided, and it is not a guarantee of any particular result.
How DAG works with business owners and executives
Personal portfolio management
Traditional and digital assets managed through DAG Wealth, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Allocation, rebalancing, tax-aware execution, and the policy that connects the personal portfolio to the rest of the picture.
Entity structure
Wyoming Digital Asset LLC for personal crypto holdings. Trust structures for asset protection and succession. Coordinated with the business entity structure through qualified independent counsel.
Cross-side tax coordination
Year-round coordination with your CPA on business income, capital gains, charitable structures, retirement contributions, and timing decisions, anticipating events rather than reconstructing after.
Exit planning before the exit
Pre-exit tax structuring, valuation work, succession planning, and post-exit wealth management. QSBS, charitable vehicles, and trusts have to be in place before the transaction.
Concentrated equity strategies
For executives with public-company stock from compensation: 10b5-1 plans, option strategies, and diversification approaches that work within insider-trading constraints.
Treasury allocation
For companies evaluating Bitcoin or other digital asset treasury allocations: custody coordination, policy framework, and governance support.
When exit conversations should start
The right time is usually earlier than owners think. Specific markers that suggest the planning should be active:
Selling within five years
Tax structures (Wyoming LLC, trust, charitable vehicles, QSBS qualification analysis) take time to put in place.
Generational handoff
Operational and ownership transitions need years of structured preparation, not months.
Strategic buyer outreach
The conversation may be premature, but it's a signal the readiness work should be active.
Liquidity event on the calendar
Even partial recapitalizations, secondary tenders, or ESOP transactions create planning opportunities and obligations.
Industry consolidation
Sector M&A cycles compress decision windows. Being ready when the right offer arrives is different from scrambling when it does.
Did you know
Section 1202 Qualified Small Business Stock can produce material federal tax exclusion on qualifying sales. The structure has to be in place before the sale, not added after.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
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I'm not selling the business. Is this still relevant?
Yes. Most of the work for business owners has nothing to do with the eventual exit. Personal portfolio management, entity structuring, tax coordination, and estate planning all matter while the business is operating. Exit planning is a layer that activates when the transaction becomes plausible.
Next step
Business owner conversations usually start with where your current advisors handle which pieces and where the gaps are.
The exit planning question (if relevant) comes in the same conversation. The recommendation follows the review.