Pre-release · Building with one design partner

A back-office workspace for independent financial planners. In development.

Altus Ctrl is being built alongside a single boutique financial planning firm — to make sure it solves a real problem before it tries to solve any others. Meeting capture, action items, and a document pipeline. Nothing more, on purpose.

● MVP in active build Founded 2026 · Savannah, GA Solo-founder, design-partner stage
Where we are Updated April 2026
Stage Design-partner MVP
Building
Design partner Boutique planning firm
Active
Other customers Not onboarding outside the partner yet
Closed
CRM partners Talking to integration teams
Open
Public launch After the design partner is live
Q4 2026 (target)
What Altus Ctrl is

The supporting cast around the meeting — not a CRM.

The advisor stays in the driver's seat. We handle the parts that bleed time after the conversation: the notes, the action items, the documents working their way to filed.

In the MVP

3 surfaces
Record & summarize
Capture the meeting, transcribe it, draft a summary in the client's own language.
Action items
Pull tasks out of the conversation, attach them to the right client.
Document pipeline
Five stages from Filling in → Filed. Stalled items surface themselves.

Building next

With the partner
Morning briefing
One short paragraph each morning — what moved, what's stuck.
Touchpoints
Annual reviews, policy renewals, 529 check-ins. Reminded before the client has to.
CRM write-back
Notes and tasks land on the contact record in the firm's existing CRM.
Design partner

One firm. Real client work.

One boutique financial planning firm is the only customer using Altus Ctrl right now. They've asked to stay unnamed for compliance reasons; we'll introduce them directly on a partner call. Every feature in the MVP is built against problems they've actually run into — not a survey, not a focus group.

Active design partner

A boutique financial planning firm, building with us in the open.

A boutique financial planning firm running on Redtail, with a small team across two offices. They keep two sets of meeting notes today — the one in the meeting and the one that ends up in the file. The MVP exists to delete the second set.

We meet every two weeks. They use the product on real households. When something doesn't work, we hear about it that afternoon. Direct introductions are available on a partner call.

Team
Small boutique team, 2 offices
CRM
Redtail (current)
Cadence
Bi-weekly working sessions
Started
February 2026
Target
Full team on the MVP for daily client work by end of Q3 2026
For CRM platforms

Looking for early integration conversations.

Altus Ctrl is not a CRM and won't become one. The product needs to write meeting summaries and action items back to wherever the firm's contact record already lives. We're scoping integrations now and would rather build them with you than around you.

Redtail
Design-partner CRM · build target
In scope · Q3 2026
Wealthbox
Common in the segment we serve
In scope · Q4 2026
Salesforce FSC
For larger firms; later in the roadmap
Exploring
Practifi · XLR8 · others
Open to conversations
Open

Why talk to us now, before we ship

We'd rather get the data model and the write-back surface right with your team than ship something that creates support tickets for both of us.

  • Influence on the contact, note, and task schemas before the API is locked.
  • A clear non-overlap charter — we won't ship CRM features that compete with you.
  • A real boutique planning firm in the loop — on Redtail, using both products daily. Introductions on a partner call.
  • Shared marketplace listing once the integration is GA, on terms we agree on up front.
Start an integration conversation
Roadmap

Honest about where we are.

Dates are targets, not promises. They will move when the design partner tells us they need to.

Now · Q2 2026

Design-partner MVP

Record, summarize, action items, document pipeline. In daily use with our design-partner firm.

Q3 2026

First CRM write-back

Redtail integration, then morning briefing and touchpoints. Built from real meetings, not specs.

Q4 2026

Second design partner

One more small planning firm on a different CRM (likely Wealthbox). Close the loop on the multi-tenant story.

2027

Public early access

Open up beyond design partners. SOC 2 Type II audit on the books. Pricing published when there's a product worth pricing.

A note from the founder

The goal is to take the friction out of tracking client paperwork — without adding another tool a planner has to think about. Altus Ctrl should blend into the day, not stack on top of it.

Altus Ctrl · founder
Building with a design-partner firm · Savannah, GA

Two kinds of conversations we want to have right now.

If you're an advisor, we're not selling you anything yet. If you run integrations at a CRM platform, we're listening.

For CRM platforms

Start an integration conversation

Talk to us about contact, note, and task write-back before the API is locked. We'll bring our design partner into the call if it helps.

Email partners@altusctrl.com
For independent advisors

Get on the early-access list

We'll send a short note when we're ready for a second design partner, and a longer one when general access opens. No drip campaign.

Email hello@altusctrl.com