Learn to Win the Game of Wealth.

You won the first game. The second one started without you.

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.

And the second game bills you whether you play it or not. Here's the invoice nobody sends.

What one uncoordinated year actually 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.

Which of these four is yours? Don't guess … score it. Sixty seconds, and no one's watching.

Score yourself … four questions, sixty seconds.

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.

Green, yellow, or red. Be honest … you can't fix what you can't see.

Owners usually find their first red in Preserve. Score all four honestly … your reds become your primary levers.

Professionals usually find their first red in Preserve … and their biggest surprise in Position. Score all four.

Investors usually score green on Position … and red where the portfolio actually lives: Protect. Score all four honestly.

Families usually carry their heaviest red in Pass … it's also the one that turns green fastest once it's named. Score all four.

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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The rulebook the wealthy got early … made teachable.

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.

Where you'll likely start: Pass … clarity your family can actually inherit. Then Protect builds the walls around what transfers.

Where you'll likely start: Protect … the architecture under your doors. Then Preserve can do its real work on top of a structure that holds.

Where you'll likely start: Preserve, on the W-2 lanes … equity compensation timing, charitable design, household structure, real estate participation.

Where you'll likely start: Preserve … entity design, compensation, timing … the mechanics of keeping more, in the order that makes each move defensible.

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.

Knowing the rules isn't the same as playing. Here's how the year actually works.

Built for doing, not watching.

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.

One more inclusion, because it matters most to the people this is really for: your spouse is included. One membership covers both of you … attend the Bootcamps and the coaching together, because a plan only one of you understands isn't a plan yet.

That's the machine. Now let's talk about the number … honestly, starting with the bigger one.

What it costs built for you … and what it costs taught to you.

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

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From inside the room.

★★★★★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

If you're wondering whether you belong in that room … let's be straight about it. And let's talk about who carries the risk.

Who this is for … and who carries the risk.

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.

If you're a high-income W-2 professional, a real-estate investor, or stewarding family wealth … the architecture is the same, and the room is yours too. The curriculum has never checked anyone's badge at the door … and neither does the Guarantee.

Owner to owner: the first 45 days are a working session on your own numbers. Here's what I'll put in writing.

W-2 or owner … the thresholds are the same, and so is the promise. Here's what I'll put in writing.

Bring the portfolio you actually have. Here's what I'll put in writing about the first 45 days.

Not every red is a tax number … but this one is measured in dollars. Here's what I'll put in writing.

The 45-Day Double-Tuition Guarantee

Uncover at least double your tuition in potential tax savings … or every dollar back.

Here's my promise, in writing. Enroll. Then do the work … inside your first 45 days:

01

Attend one live Bootcamp.

02

Complete your Core Modules.

03

Complete your Tax-Savings Opportunity Ledger.

If your Ledger doesn't document at least double your tuition … $10,000 or more in potential tax-savings opportunities to take to your own licensed advisers … tell us. You receive your full tuition back. Not a credit. Not a portion. The entire $5,000.

Notice what I'm asking. Those three conditions aren't fine print designed to keep your money. They ARE the membership … the Bootcamp is where you work, the Modules are the rulebook, and the Ledger is where the findings get documented. I can't guarantee anything for a Member who never walks into the room. For the one who does … I'll carry the risk.

The Guarantee is underwritten for Members with real exposure to reduce … U.S.-based business owners and high-income W-2 professionals with verifiable $250,000+ in annual income, $50,000+ in annual tax, and $25,000+ in liquid capital available to implement. At that level, an uncoordinated structure is rarely subtle … which is exactly why I can put this in writing.

"Potential" means potential. University is education and coaching … not the delivery of legal, tax, accounting, or investment services. The Guarantee stands behind what we can influence … your ability to uncover documented opportunity … not a realized result, which depends on you and your own licensed advisers. Claim by Day 45 with your completed Ledger and documentation. Your refund follows within 30 days.

Edward Collins

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

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Do the work in your first 45 days … if you don't identify at least double your tuition in potential tax savings, you get your money back.

Not every red is a tax number … but the Guarantee is measured in one. The clarity you build alongside it compounds regardless.

Bring your portfolio into the first two Bootcamps … the work meets it where it stands.

The Guarantee covers W-2 professionals at the same thresholds … do the work, and the risk is ours.

For an owner, the first 45 days are a working session on your own numbers … do the work, and the risk is ours.

The risk is handled. That leaves questions … so let's answer them the way I'd want them answered.

Asked and answered … straight.

The questions I'd ask before sending anyone $5,000 … answered in writing.

Two choices. One is already happening.

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

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.

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

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.