Practice Domain 8 of 10
Navigate concentrated stock and equity compensation.
Included in Every Comprehensive+ Membership
No à la carte equity-comp consultants. No "let me refer you out" hand-offs. Grant analysis, multi-year exercise/sale modeling, AMT projections, and 10b5-1 coordination are built into your Grounded Membership — delivered by named in-house specialists who already know your full plan.
Equity compensation is increasingly common — and increasingly complex. Stock options, RSUs, ESPPs, and concentrated positions each come with unique tax implications, vesting schedules, and diversification challenges. This domain helps you maximize the value of your equity while managing the risks.
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Comprehensive, Advisory Wealth, Digital Family Office
The Practice Solution
Engineered equity compensation. In-house, end-to-end.
Equity is where the largest tax decisions of your career hide — inside grant docs you didn’t draft, on a clock you didn’t set. Grounded Equity™ is delivered by in-house specialists — not referred to a third-party consultant who doesn’t talk to your CPA, your investment manager, or your estate plan. The decision, the model, the tax, and the trade live in one place.
How Grounded Equity Works
Multi-year scenario modeling for every grant — exercise now vs. wait, sell at vest vs. hold, qualifying vs. disqualifying. Numbers on the page before the decision is on the line.
AMT, ordinary income, capital gains, QSBS, 83(b), wash-sale interactions — modeled in advance and coordinated with your tax plan, not discovered in March when the K-1s arrive.
When one ticker is your career and your portfolio, "diversify" is too vague. We architect a glide path — with hedges, exchange funds where appropriate, and pre-cleared 10b5-1 plans — to reduce risk without abandoning upside.
Blackout windows, insider rules, vesting cliffs, and tender offers don’t pause for your calendar. We coordinate the trade, the timing, and the disclosures so the strategy actually executes — not just gets discussed.
Your In-House Equity Team
Equity compensation is technical, time-sensitive, and unforgiving. So the people handling it are inside the firm — already on your plan, already on your tax forecast, already on your investment strategy. Same data, one team, one accountability.
Owns the grant inventory and the multi-year decision model. Runs exercise/sale scenarios across ISOs, NSOs, RSUs, and ESPPs — with the actual tax math, not a spreadsheet template.
Projects AMT, QSBS eligibility, 83(b) consequences, and ordinary-vs-capital treatment for every scenario — then coordinates the actual filing through Grounded Tax™. No reconciliation gap between strategy and return.
Designs the diversification glide path. Models exchange funds, protective hedges, and pre-cleared 10b5-1 plans where they fit — sized to your situation, not a generic "sell 10% per year" rule.
Keeps the trade compliant with your company’s blackout windows, insider rules, and tender events — and keeps the strategy moving when your calendar can’t.
No referral fees, no third-party consultants, no information silos. Every role is on the same plan, the same tax forecast, and the same accountability.
Coordinated In-House vs. Outside Consultants
Industry Norm
Our Approach
Complimentary — No Obligation
Send us your grant docs, vesting schedules, and last year’s W-2/1099-B. We’ll inventory every grant, model the next 3–5 years of exercise/sale decisions, surface the AMT and concentration exposure hiding in your stack, and give you a written plan in plain language. No follow-up sales pressure.
Included free for prospective clients. Already a member? Your forecast updates continuously inside Grounded Equity™.
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Advisory Wealth
Digital Family Office
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