We help serious RIAs stop renting growth and start owning it.

Clients Blackbox is a performance branding firm built exclusively for retirement planning RIAs. We install a fully managed client acquisition system that fills advisor calendars with qualified pre retirees while compounding brand equity monthly.
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Built for RIAs and Retirement Planners
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2024 Social Marketing Award Winner

Key Stats

$10M+
Invested in testing retirement planning ads
$45B+
In AUM added to client pipelines over 5 years
30,000+
Qualified HNW appointments booked
200+
RIAs Served
In 2022, a solo advisor came to our founder, Alex Khassa, with a problem familiar to almost every firm in the industry. He was growing through sheer effort, working long hours, and knew the model he was using would never scale past him.

Every option on the table felt broken. Seminars didn't scale. Bought leads built someone else's brand. Webinars killed conversion with three week delays. Generalist agencies recycled the same templates across dozens of accounts with no real understanding of the retirement planning category.

So Alex built something different. A system that combined the measurability of direct response advertising with the compounding trust of authority based content, engineered specifically for the compliance realities, client psychology, and economics of a retirement planning RIA.Within two years, that first firm went from a single advisor to a multi advisor practice managing hundreds of millions in AUM.

Built exclusively for RIAs and retirement planning firms.

We are not a generalist agency that happens to have some financial services clients. The retirement planning RIA is the only buyer we build for, which is why our system works where others break.

A Single Category
Mastered

We only do one thing. Facebook advertising for retirement planning RIAs. No dentists, no law firms, no ecommerce brands. Every dollar of the $10M+ we've invested in testing went toward one audience, one platform, and one outcome: qualified HNW appointments.

Compliance Awareness as
a Core Competency

Most agencies treat compliance as an obstacle. We treat it as a moat. Special Ad Categories, financial services disclosures, SEC Marketing Rule requirements. We've navigated all of it across 3,459+ ad variations, so your campaigns launch without your CCO killing them first. Your firm stays protected while your pipeline grows.

Designed For
HNW Pre Retirees

Most agencies treat compliance as an obstacle. We treat it as a moat. Special Ad Categories, financial services disclosures, SEC Marketing Rule requirements. We've navigated all of it across 3,459+ ad variations, so your campaigns launch without your CCO killing them first. Your firm stays protected while your pipeline grows.

Meet The Founder
Alex Khassa

Alex has spent the last five years obsessed with one question: what does it actually take for a financial planning firm to grow predictably online without losing the trust and authority that got them here in the first place?
The answer became the Performance Branding system. Today, Alex leads a team of specialists across media buying, creative production, funnel engineering, and RIA compliance, working exclusively with retirement planning firms that want to stop depending on referrals and seminars to drive new client growth.
When he is not inside ad accounts, Alex publishes research and interviews RIA founders on his YouTube channel, where firm owners share the real mechanics of how they built nationwide virtual practices.

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$10M+
Invested in testing retirement planning ads
$46B
In AUM added to client pipelines over 5 years
30,000+
Qualified HNW appointments booked
200+
RIAs Served

What Makes Us Different
From Every Other Agency You've Tried.

These are the operating principles we hire for, build around, and hold ourselves to on every campaign.

Selective by design

We work with firms managing at least $100M in AUM with teams of three or more advisors. We have turned down advisors with credit cards in hand when the fit wasn't right, because serving the wrong firms means poorly serving the right ones.

You own the brand, not us

We work with firms managing at least $100M in AUM with teams of three or more advisors. We have turned down advisors with credit cards in hand when the fit wasn't right, because serving the wrong firms means poorly serving the right ones.

Education first, always

We do not run fear based ads. We do not do bait and switch. Our creative teaches the audience something real about retirement income planning before asking for anything in return. That is the foundation of trust at this end of the market.

Results over theater

No pretty dashboards that hide what's actually happening. Our clients know their cost per appointment, their show rate, their stick ratio, and their pipeline AUM every week. The only metric that matters is whether we are growing your firm.

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FAQ

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How long until we see results?
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First appointments typically hit the calendar within the first 1–2 weeks after launch. Month one is optimization. Month two is when things stabilize and become predictable.

What’s the time commitment from our team?
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2–3 hours of video recording every 3–6 months. That’s it. We handle everything else.

How does compliance work?
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We’ve worked with over 200 RIAs and their compliance departments. We know what gets approved under Special Ad Category restrictions. We build compliant from the start and coordinate directly with your team.

What’s the investment?
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Total minimum marketing budget starts around $15,000 to $45,000 per month depending on your goals. We’ll get specific on the call.

Do you guarantee results?
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No. And you should be skeptical of any agency that does. Guarantees in this space are a red flag — they’re selling you a feeling, not a strategy. What we offer is a proven methodology, a team that’s managed over $10 million in Meta ad spend for RIAs, and a track record of $3 billion in closed AUM across 200+ firms. The firms that follow our methodology and commit to the process see results. That’s why we’re selective about who we work with.

How is this different from other agencies?
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Most agencies try to do everything — Google, email, social, websites — and they’re mediocre at all of it. We only do Meta Ads for financial firms. We’ve spent over $10 million in this exact channel under Special Ad Category restrictions. We know what works because it’s all we do.

What if we already have a marketing team or agency?
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Good. Most of our clients do. We’re not replacing your marketing person or your agency. We’re adding the one capability they probably don’t have: Meta Ads at scale with branded video for financial services under Special Ad Category. We plug in alongside whatever else you’re running.

Do you do Google Ads, SEO, or websites?
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No. We do Meta Ads. That’s our entire focus. If you need those other services, we’re happy to recommend partners, but that’s not what we do.

How do I get started?
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Click the button below to apply. If it’s a fit, we’ll schedule a strategy session to walkthrough timelines, pricing, and how AUM OS would work for your firm.