We put our retention number in public on purpose: 53%.
Eight of the fifteen advisors who've come through this program full-time since 2023 are still here. Against an industry that loses roughly nine in ten, that's not a rounding error. It's dramatic.
And it would be easy to hand that number to someone as reassurance.
We won't.
The honest half of the number
Because seven of those fifteen didn't make it either.
That's the half most firms would bury. We lead with it — because it's the half that tells the truth. Working here is still hard. Being here doesn't change your odds. The system is a far better opportunity than the traditional path, and it is still an opportunity you have to use.
53% isn't a promise. It's a challenge.
A number that raises the standard
Some numbers let you relax. This one shouldn't.
Hear "53%" correctly and it becomes impossible to treat this place as a safety net. It says: more people make it here than anywhere else in the industry — and plenty still don't, and the difference was never the building. It was what they did inside it.
That's the number we want in the room. Not because it flatters us. Because it makes it very hard for anyone to mistake access for achievement.
Do the work the number was built to reward. Then it's yours, too.
How we count it — honestly, cohort by cohort — is on [the results section of our home page](https://advisorevolution.io).
— Jesse Moline, J.D.
Every idea here is built into the app.
The weekly rhythm, the Evolution ring, coaching in a human voice — open Advisor Evolution and put it to work this week.