Origination intelligence for RIA acquirers

Know which advisers to call before anyone else does.

Quarry ranks every SEC-registered investment adviser against your acquisition thesis (succession, minority stake, or platform consolidation) and shows the filed evidence behind every rank.

No purchased data. No black-box narrative. A screen you can defend in an investment committee.

quarryria.com / screener · Succession thesis
SuccessionRAUM $250M–$2.5BNortheastDiscretionary ≥ 80%
FirmStateRAUMBand
Alder Bay AdvisorsNJ$1.42BA+
Granite Peak WealthCT$860MA+
Copper Valley CapitalPA$2.10BA
Oak Meadow PartnersNY$640MA
Red Mesa PlanningMA$1.05BB+
Wrenfield AdvisoryNJ$480MB+

Illustrative only. Fictional firms and figures.

advisers filing with the SEC
firms ranked by at least one of the 3 theses
buyer theses, ranked independently
of figures traceable to a filing

How it works

From the whole filed market to your next conversation

  1. Thesis: Succession$250M–$2.5BNJ · NY · CT
    01

    Screen

    Pick your thesis and filters: size, geography, client mix, discretionary share. Bands rank every firm the thesis screens; callouts flag what a score alone cannot say.

  2. Discretionary RAUM$1.42BItem 5.F
    Control persons ≥ 25%2Schedule A
    Disciplinary eventsNoneItem 11
    “Fees are negotiable and begin at 1.00% of assets…”
    As stated in the firm’s filing · Mar 2026
    02

    Read the evidence

    Every profile is a filed-fact dossier: growth against a matched benchmark and true peers, ownership and tenure, fee schedules quoted from the firm’s own filing, and disciplinary record, with each line dated and sourced.

  3. One-pager
    Shortlist link
    Excel export
    03

    Take it to the table

    Export a one-pager your committee can hold, a shortlist your team can share as a link, and the principal’s name from the filing. Then make the call.

Inside a profile

Everything you need before the first call, on one page

  • Trajectory, not a snapshot
    Assets over time against a matched benchmark and a peer median of same-size firms.
  • Who owns it, and for how long
    Control persons, ownership ranges and tenure, straight from the filing.
  • What they charge and who they serve
    Fee schedules and client mix, quoted and dated, never paraphrased.
  • What the data cannot say
    Gaps are labelled as gaps. A blank is never a value.
Firm profile
Alder Bay Advisors
Morristown, NJ · SEC-registered since 2004
A+
RAUM
$1.42B
8-yr CAGR
13.7%
vs. peer median
+6.4 pts
RAUM trajectory ($M) Firm Peer median
Principals
  • Founder & CEO50–75%
  • Managing Partner25–50%
Client mix
HNW 62% · Individuals 24% · Plans 9%

Illustrative only. Fictional firm and figures.

Who it’s for

Everyone whose job starts with a list of firms to call

…and ends with having to justify the list.

Corporate development

Run your thesis against the whole filed market instead of the twenty names already on the pipeline, and show your committee where the other candidates came from.

M&A advisers and bankers

Build a buyer or seller list you can defend line by line, with the filing behind every figure and a one-pager per firm to leave behind.

Private capital

Screen platforms and add-ons on filed evidence, including ownership concentration, trajectory against a matched benchmark, and disciplinary record, before the first call.

Build an origination list in an afternoon

Pick the thesis, set size and geography, and take the ranked list. Every row carries the facts behind its rank, so the list survives the first question about it.

Diligence a name before you call it

One profile holds ownership and tenure, growth against true peers, fee schedule, custodians, and the disciplinary record, with each line dated and sourced.

Find the firms nobody has called

The screen covers every adviser filing with the SEC, not a curated list of the usual names. That is where a proprietary conversation tends to start.

Take it into the committee

Export the filtered view to Excel or hand over a one-pager. Both carry their source, their extract month, and the same figures the screen showed.

Why it holds up

Every claim traces to a filing.

Sourced

Every figure carries its Form ADV item number and filing date

Benchmarked

Growth compared against a 60/40 benchmark and same-size peers over a matched window

Honest about uncertainty

Estimates labelled as estimates, shown as ranges, never false precision

No invented signals

No “propensity to sell”, and no adjectives about a firm

Buyer theses

Three ways to buy. Three different screens.

The same firm is a different opportunity to different buyers. Each thesis is ranked independently.

01

Succession

Aging, independent, single-owner books with no succession plan.

02

Minority-stake

Independent, growing books with a long-runway owner.

03

PE-consolidator

Larger, steady independents that are clean to integrate.

See your thesis run against the whole market

Demos are one-on-one and run on live data. Tell us who you buy and we’ll show you who you should be talking to.

Request a demojonathan@quarryria.com