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Uplevel By Design, LLC · Education-First Membership

Uplevel University

The education-first path into the system … the Real Wealth Matrix, made teachable, so you can build the coordinated architecture yourself.

Edward Collins
Edward Collins, JD, CFP®, AAMS, RFC
Founder, President & CEO · Open enrollment, no waitlist
Open enrollment. No application, no waitlist. The same four-pillar architecture the Team builds for Private Clients … taught so you can build it yourself.

You've seen the architecture. Here's where you build it.

I

The shift.

At a certain level of success, making more money stops being the problem. What happens after the money is made becomes the problem.

How much leaks to taxes that never needed to be paid. How exposed what you've already built really is. Whether your entities, tax strategy, investments, insurance, and estate plan are actually coordinated … or just coexisting.

You may already have good people. A CPA. An attorney. A financial advisor. The honest question is whether any of it is working together. For most successful owners, it isn't.

The problem is rarely bad advice. It's disconnected advice … fragmented advice disguised as strategy. It doesn't announce itself. It just quietly costs you, year after year.

There are two ways to fix that. Have a Team design and build the coordinated structure for you … or learn to build it yourself, with that Team in your corner. This is the second one.

Here's where the fragmentation costs you most.

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What an uncoordinated year costs.

The cost of an uncoordinated year isn't a line item. That's exactly why it's dangerous.

  • Tax overpaid … because someone modeled last year's return, not your full picture.
  • Wealth exposed … because it was built faster than it was protected.
  • Growth uncoordinated … because capital is scattered where no single plan governs it.
  • Legacy left to chance … because the documents exist, but the system to execute them doesn't.

None of it shows up on a statement … until it does. At your income, a single uncoordinated year can quietly cost more than a decade of tuition here.

A note on that: it's an illustration, not a promise of savings. Your real number is the one you uncover when you do the work.

Before we look at the fix, look at yourself.

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Score yourself.

Four pillars. Tap one for each … green if it's handled, yellow if you're not sure, red if you're exposed. The bar below reads your blended exposure.

PreserveDo you know, to the dollar, what you overpaid in tax last year … and why?
ProtectIf you were sued tomorrow, what could they actually reach?
PositionIs your capital working inside one plan … or scattered where no one coordinates it?
PassIf something happened to you this week, would your family inherit clarity … or a search?
Green … handledYellow … unsureRed … exposed
Mark all four above to read your blended exposure.
Your blended exposure … pending
HandledExposed

Most owners we teach are red in at least two. Reds aren't failures … they're your highest-leverage moves. Uplevel University is where you learn to turn them green yourself.

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What Uplevel University is.

Uplevel University is the education-first path into the system … the Real Wealth Matrix, made teachable. A structured four-pillar curriculum, live group coaching, a monthly implementation rhythm, and a private community of owners doing the same work. Done with you and the Team … not done for you.

For decades, integrated four-pillar planning lived in three places … Big Four firms, six-figure boutique advisors, and family-office desks whose payroll alone runs into seven figures. None of them built a front door for the owner who made it themselves. This is that door.

It's built on one framework … the Real Wealth Matrix. Four coordinated moves, where most plans attempt one at a time, if at all … and here, you learn to run all four.

  • PreserveKeep More
    Tax reduction by design rather than by deduction … modeled against your full picture, not a single return in isolation.
  • ProtectProtect More
    Asset protection and the structure underneath it … so you shield what you've built before exposure ever finds it.
  • PositionGrow More
    Wealth accumulation positioned to compound … capital put to work inside one intentional plan.
  • PassTransfer More
    Intentional legacy, on purpose rather than by default … wealth that reaches the people and causes you choose.

When the Team designs and implements that whole architecture for you, that's Uplevel Protégé … the by-invitation Private Client Engagement. University is the same four pillars … taught, so you build it yourself.

Here's what a year inside looks like.

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What's inside, and how the year works.

Information isn't the problem. Implementation is. So the year is built around doing the work … not just learning it.

  • The Monthly Tax-Reduction Bootcamps … the 2nd Wednesday of every month. Where learning becomes doing … you work the frameworks live, with the Team and the room. This is the difference between knowing the architecture and actually building it … and it's the heart of the membership.
  • The Four-Pillar Curriculum … recorded and live content across Preserve, Protect, Position, and Pass, released as you move through the Program.
  • Live Group Coaching … recurring workshops, trainings, and Q&A with the Uplevel By Design Team … strategy, in real time.
  • The Skool Community … a private room of first-generation operators getting their financial lives and their businesses truly dialed in.
  • The Tax-Savings Opportunity Ledger … the instrument that turns the diagnostic into a running, documented list of opportunities to take to your own advisers.
  • First Access … the first look at live events, and the first call when Uplevel Protégé opens its doors.

So what does a year of this actually cost?

VI

The value, and the investment.

Start with the comparison that matters … because the question was never "$5,000 against zero."

What it costs to have it built for you
Done-for-you, the architecture is Uplevel Protégé … $60,000 a year.

That's the Team designing and implementing your entire Generational Wealth Operating System and Infrastructure.

University is that same four-pillar architecture … taught, so you build it yourself, with the Team in your corner.

$5,000 for Year One. Less than $14 a day. One structure you didn't know to put in place costs more than a decade of University.

What it isAn education-first, twelve-month membership. Group coaching, curriculum, monthly Bootcamps, and community across all four pillars.
Tuition$5,000 for Year One, paid in full … about $14 a day. From month thirteen, membership continues at $500 per month … cancel anytime.
TermA twelve-month membership that continues monthly after Year One. Your Program Work Product is yours to keep.
RenewalYour first year is $5,000, paid in full. Beginning in month thirteen, membership continues automatically at $500 per month … same curriculum, same Bootcamps, same community, no re-enrollment. Cancel anytime from your Stripe billing portal … effective at the end of your current billing period, no cancellation fee. We will remind you 45 days and again 15 days before your first monthly charge.
DeliveryVia Skool, under Uplevel Entrepreneur, LLC … an Uplevel By Design™ company.

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VII

In their words.

★★★★★I've paid tens of thousands of dollars to get this type of information … and these are structures I'd never even heard of before. It all makes total sense.Chris · Uplevel Member
★★★★★Being part of the community, with the AMAs and all the modules, has really helped me … and answered a lot of questions I didn't know I had.Darian · Uplevel Member

You're learning from a player and a coach. Edward is one of a handful of multi-credentialed specialists in the country who own a private wealth-management firm, a tax firm, and a fractional CFO company … with nearly three decades inside the tax code and the way it interacts with estate planning and entity law.

Is it for you? Here's the honest version.

VIII

Who it's for, and the guarantee.

It's open enrollment, by design. We don't gate the curriculum, the Community, or the Bootcamps behind an income number. If you're a serious owner or high earner building toward this … even if you're still on the way to the numbers below … you belong in the room.

Where University isn't the right fit: if you want the Team to design and implement the entire architecture for you … hands-off, done-for-you … that's Uplevel Protégé, not University. And it isn't for anyone hunting a quick loophole or an aggressive position without documentation. At this level, the right work is defensible, documented, and coordinated … or it isn't worth doing.

The 45-Day Guarantee

For an owner at this level, a coordinated four-pillar plan could surface a path to tens of thousands of dollars a year in potential tax savings. We guarantee that qualifying University Members will uncover at least double your tuition in potential tax savings within the first 45 days … or you get your investment back.

The guarantee asks one thing in return: do the work. Attend a live Bootcamp, complete your Core Modules, and complete your Tax-Savings Opportunity Ledger within your first 45 days.

It's for self-made, U.S.-based business owners with verifiable $250,000+ in annual income, $50,000+ in annual tax, and $25,000+ in liquid capital available to implement … the owners with real exposure to reduce. Claim by Day 45 with your Ledger and documentation; your refund follows within 30 days.

"Potential," not realized. University is education and coaching, not the delivery of legal, tax, accounting, or investment services. The guarantee stands behind the Program's ability to help you uncover opportunity … the part we can influence … not a realized result, which depends on you and your own licensed advisers.

Which leaves one decision.

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Your decision.

You have two options … and "keep going" is one of them. It just doesn't feel like a choice until later.

Option One

Keep learning your wealth in fragments … a piece from this advisor, a piece from that one … and keep guessing whether any of it actually fits together.

Option Two

Learn the whole architecture in one place, build it yourself with the Team in your corner, and stop wondering what you're missing.

One of these is happening anyway. Only one of them is a decision.

And the risk of starting is, by design, almost nothing. The 45-Day Guarantee is simple … do the work, and you either uncover real opportunity, or you get every dollar of tuition back. You can't lose the cost of finding out.

A year from now, the difference isn't a number on a statement. It's that you understand your own structure. Nothing falling through the cracks. One plan you can actually run. A spouse who knows where everything is, and why. The quiet that comes from no longer wondering what you're missing.

Step 1 … sign your Uplevel University Membership Agreement.
Step 2 … complete your enrollment with secure checkout.
Step 3 … you're inside the Community today, with immediate access to the Calendar and your Starting Materials.
In the live page, this opens the sign-then-pay enrollment flow … your agreement and details stay private to the Uplevel By Design Team.

You've got the map. The map isn't the house. Let's build it.

Edward Collins
JD, CFP®, AAMS, RFC
Founder, President & CEO · Uplevel By Design, LLC

P.S. The Bootcamps are the whole point. Anyone can hand you information. The 2nd Wednesday of every month is where you actually build the structure … with the Team and a room of owners doing the same work. That's the part that compounds.