25+ years. Fee-only. Veteran-founded.
Wealth Management Designed for Business Owners
Fee-only fiduciary advisors for entrepreneurs, founders, and operators across the Southeast.
You’ve spent years building the business. Most of your attention goes there.
Meanwhile, much of your financial life sits outside the company: tax strategy, investment management, estate planning, retirement planning, risk management, and eventually, exit planning.
For many business owners, those pieces evolve independently rather than as part of a coordinated strategy.
BlueSky was built for owners who’ve outgrown a generic advisor and a once-a-year CPA conversation.
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A short conversation with a fiduciary advisor. No sales pitch, no obligation, no commission.
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Is Your Wealth Keeping Pace With the Business?
Most of your net worth is tied to a company that demands all of your attention. The question is whether the rest of your financial life is keeping up.
You built something complex. The work now is making sure it is growing where it should, protected where it has to be, and on a path that gets you where you want to go. That is the job we take: owning how every piece fits, and flagging the small course corrections before they turn into expensive ones.
Comprehensive Wealth Management for Entrepreneurs
Your Financial Life, Handled With Discipline
Business and Personal Tax Strategy
Entity structure, compensation, retirement contributions, and investment tax management run as one coordinated plan, in lockstep with your CPA.
Exit and Succession Planning
Sale, generational transition, ESOP, partner buyout. Modeled years in advance so the decision is yours and the math is already done.
Investment Management
Asset-allocation-driven portfolios grounded in decades of academic research. Built to capture market returns while managing tax drag at every step.
Retirement Plans Built for Owners, Not Employees
Solo 401(k), SEP IRA, defined benefit, and cash balance plans designed around your business and your personal goals. Often a six-figure annual tax-deferred opportunity that owners miss for years.
Cash Flow and Compensation Strategy
Salary, distributions, reinvestment, and personal wealth-building decided deliberately. Not by year-end accident.
Estate and Legacy Planning
Trusts, gifting, and succession aligned to the business and the family. Updated as both change.
Approaching a Sale or Liquidity Event?
The 24 months before a transaction are when the real money is made or lost. Pre-sale tax strategy, entity restructuring, trust planning before valuation rises, and post-sale portfolio construction are decisions worth seven or eight figures. They have to be made before the LOI lands.
We work with owners 12 to 36 months out from a transaction. The earlier the conversation, the more options on the table.
Why BlueSky?
| What you get | DIY / Self-Directed | The Answer BlueSky | Brokerage / Wirehouse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legally required to act in your interest | Varies by account | ||
| No commissions, no product sales | N/A | Fee-only | Often commission or product-based |
| Fee-only, transparent pricing | N/A | Typically a percentage of AUM | |
| Evidence-based investment philosophy | Varies | Varies | |
| Same team, year after year | Varies | ||
| Tax, estate, and investments under one roof | Often separate |
Legally required to act in your interest
No commissions, no product sales
Fee-only, transparent pricing
Evidence-based investment philosophy
Same team, year after year
Tax, estate, and investments under one roof
From the Owners We Serve
BlueSky helped us during a period of major changes and growth with both our business and our personal finances. They provided (and keep providing) guidance not only on investments and cash management but also on estate planning, tax issues, and insurance needs.
Lisa and Alex
St Petersburg, FL, BlueSky clients since 2019
I am very busy as the owner of a small business, and have many outside interests. Because of this, I have never paid enough attention to my investments and made mistakes in the past, selling in panic when the market went down, and not buying back in until the market was high again. Working with BlueSky now gives me complete confidence that my investments are based on real knowledge and experience, as well as on what my risk profile and needs in my life are. It’s total peace of mind – especially valuable to me in these years of the stock market’s ups and downs.
Andrea
Menlo Park, CA, BlueSky client since 2021
John G. and John S. have been very helpful by sharing the pros and cons of various strategies and approaches to financial decisions and then modeling the impact. They sure beat doing a ton of independent research and trying to build the models necessary to game out the various strategies. This makes me much more confident I am making the best decisions possible.
Thomas
Grimesland, NC, BlueSky client since 2017
These testimonials were provided by a client of BlueSky Wealth Advisors, LLC. The clients were not compensated for this statement. The client’s experience may not be representative of other clients’ experiences and is not a guarantee of future results. BlueSky Wealth Advisors, LLC is a registered investment adviser. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training.
David L. Blain, CFA
Founder & CEO · Since 1999
Built by a Veteran, Not a Salesman
David L. Blain, CFA, is a West Point graduate with an engineering degree and 10 years of service in Army Airborne, Ranger, and Special Operations units. While serving overseas, he went looking for a financial advisor he could trust. Every one he found was pushing products and collecting commissions.
So he built one that wouldn’t.
He founded BlueSky in 1999 on a single principle: financial advice should serve the client, not the advisor. Twenty-five years later, the firm operates the same way. Fee-only. Fiduciary. No commissions. No proprietary products. No conflicts.
David holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is the author of Invest in Your Life, Not Just Your Portfolio. He leads a team that advises business owners, executives, and operators nationwide.
One Last Thing
The Business Won’t Run Itself. Neither Will Your Wealth.
Whether you’re scaling, selling, or stepping back, the business and your personal wealth should be working from the same plan. We make sure they are.
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