Owner + 2 kids
Before
All income taken as draws; kids get an after-tax allowance; no family payroll or legacy structure.
With the wealth team
Hire kids with proper payroll; fund Roth IRAs; add protection coverage; create trust + buy-sell plan.
Wealth Factory helps entrepreneurs, business owners and high-earning professionals turn income into lasting wealth by designing cash flow, taxes, insurance, investing and estate planning as one coordinated system.
Most successful people don’t have a money problem. They have a coordination problem. Every decision was made on its own — by a different advisor, at a different time, and nobody is responsible for how the pieces fit.
And the planning happens at filing time, when it’s too late to change anything.
Or parked in a checking account, waiting for a plan that never comes.
Your CPA, attorney and agent rarely talk. Nobody owns the whole picture.
High income, but very little that would keep paying without you.
Here’s what a Rockefeller-style approach looks like next to what most entrepreneurs do. Same earner, same income — the difference is structure. Illustrative example, not a projection. Results depend on your situation.
Five questions, one for each part of the Wealth Factory method. Answer honestly — your result updates as you go. Nothing is stored or sent.
Your weakest part is usually where the most money quietly escapes. Start there.
30 minutes · Complimentary · With Eric Sullivan, Wealth Architect
We don’t look at the parts one by one — your specialists already do that. We design the connections between them, because that’s where wealth quietly leaks out. Every part can look fine on its own, and the machine still stalls.
How money moves from the business to you, and whether it’s directed or just spent.
Entity design and proactive planning. Engineered, not just filed.
The right coverage, designed around your plan, so one event can’t undo years of work.
Whether what you own outside the business can one day replace what the business pays you.
Whether what you’ve built outlasts you, and your family knows how to steward it.
Most family fortunes are gone by the third generation. The Rockefellers are on their seventh. That didn’t happen because of how much they made — it happened because of how they structured it.
KeptMoved capital into trusts and a family office. Seven generations later, the family is still wealthy.
LostBrilliant in business, silent on structure. The fortune unraveled as fast as it rose.
RedeployedGave most of it away on purpose through institutions designed to keep working without him.
InstitutionBuilt an institution, not just a fortune, and the institution still operates today.
At 16, John D. Rockefeller starts as an assistant bookkeeper in Cleveland. He gives to charity from his very first paycheck and keeps a personal ledger for life. Cash flow first.
His son sets up irrevocable family trusts, run from a family office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The family owns the structure, not just the assets.
The family is still among America’s wealthiest, generations after the founder. Architecture outlived the architect.
Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877 as the richest man in America, worth about $105 million. When 120 of his descendants gathered in 1973, according to the family’s own chronicler, not one of them was a millionaire. Same era. Same scale. No architecture.
We’re not promising anyone becomes a Rockefeller. We teach the principles that made the difference.
One method, three programs — depending on your stage and how much of the work you want us to do with you. Compare all programs →
Three owners, three different situations. Same approach: design the parts to work together.
All income taken as draws; kids get an after-tax allowance; no family payroll or legacy structure.
Hire kids with proper payroll; fund Roth IRAs; add protection coverage; create trust + buy-sell plan.
$100k of “bad debt,” losing $4,500/mo. No advanced tax strategies.
Restructured the $100k of debt, then added the Augusta Rule, real estate tax benefits and kids on payroll.
Single CPA filing, no pay modeling, no retirement plan, basic term insurance, no estate plan.
S-Corp salary/distribution, Augusta Rule, Solo 401(k), disability + life insurance, revocable trust.
“I really appreciate that Wealth Factory focuses on education, not just selling financial products. The webinar was practical, easy to follow, and I walked away with specific steps I could actually apply to my own situation.”
“I’ve been working with Wealth Factory for more than three years, and I still get value from both the free webinars and the sessions our coaches run inside Wealth Architecture. The education is consistently practical, relevant, and easy to apply.”
Individual results vary. Case studies describe specific client situations and are not a guarantee of future results. Wealth Factory provides education and strategy; tax and legal work is carried out with licensed professionals.
Wealth Factory is led by people who build and run businesses themselves — and who’ve spent years on the question of why high income and real wealth so often fail to move together.

Norm leads Wealth Factory, helping successful business owners turn business income into a coordinated personal wealth strategy across owner compensation, tax planning, asset protection, and long-term wealth building.

Eric works directly with business owners on the decisions behind liquidity, cash flow, owner compensation, and long-term wealth.
The same principles we use with private clients, free — so you can see how we think before you ever talk to us.
The structures billionaire families use to protect, grow and pass on wealth — and how to apply the principles at your own level.
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How the ultra-wealthy build wealth that’s almost impossible to lose.
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Why high income and real wealth so often fail to move together, and what to do about it.
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