Big-firm strength.Small-firm relationships.Multiplied enterprise value.
An alliance of elite CPA firms combining shared capacity, offshoring, AI enablement, and data-informed decision-making, preparing each member firm for what's next, not just what's now.
- TTM in member revenue
- $20M+
- years combined partner experience
- 100+
- states represented
- 6
- EBITDA valuation, targeted
- 12-15x+
Why we built the Alliance.
Brian Van Camp on the concept in about three minutes. What the Alliance is, who it's for, and why now.
Where we've landed. And where we're landing next.
Our vision is nothing less than a broad network of small, top-tier accounting firms across the United States. As you can see, our footprint is expanding.
Member firms
Operating in the Alliance today.
Advanced talks
In due diligence or contracting.
Early conversations
Active discovery conversations.
What we are not.
To understand who we are, it's important to understand that we're not like anybody else you've met before:
- 01
Not a PE rollup.
Member firms own the Alliance. No outside investors, no fund pressure, no carry waiting at the bottom of the cap table.
- 02
Not a network license.
We are one organization, governed by a Board drawn from member firm partners. Members share the equity in what we build together, not a logo license.
- 03
Not a brand swap.
Member firms keep their local names, staff, and client relationships. You continue to run your firm.
The growth curve is shared. The mistakes do not have to be.
There are thousands of independent CPA firms in the country, each climbing the same growth curve in isolation. The path from $1M to $2M to $5M and beyond is the same path, walked alone every time, with the same predictable mistakes made every time, because nobody who has already done it is in the room.
The Alliance puts those operators in the same room. A firm joining at $2M is not the first member firm to navigate the move to $5M. The firms who already did it are at the table, along with the partners who built them and the mistakes they paid for so the next firm does not have to repeat them.
Layered on top: a Shared Services Group with the specialty capabilities only platform scale justifies hiring (National Tax, IRS resolution, valuation, cost segregation, R&D credits, Fractional CFO). An Extended Back Office consolidates payroll, IT, HR, and finance at platform pricing. Wealth Management reaches each member firm's clients through formal Joint Ventures, enabling partners to participate in the distributions as owners.
Four moves, one direction.
The Alliance is built on shared infrastructure that lets each member firm grow EBITDA, expand services, outpace the consolidators on technology, and exit at platform scale - all without surrendering local control.
- Capacity and Staffing01
Free your partners to bill, not administer.
Partners in sub-$5M firms average roughly 1,055 billable hours per year, with the balance spent administering the firm. Much of that administration can be relieved from partners' shoulders. The Alliance is built to give partner time back.
Source: Rosenberg Survey, 2024
- Expanded Services02
Add the services your firm cannot build alone.
Nearly all small accounting firms refer lucrative services like wealth management, cost segregation, R&D credits, and fractional CFO services out. Alliance member firms now have these services in house with a team they can trust and profits they can enjoy.
- Futureproofing03
Outpace the industry on technology and data.
Our industry is slow to move, especially when its solely the partners' responsibility to stay on top of what's new and what's changing. Member firms collectively are investing into the engine that keeps them on the cutting edge of the industry, helping them to succeed.
- Exit Strategy04
Exit at platform scale, not lifestyle scale.
Firms under $10M typically clear 1.0 to 1.5x revenue at sale, with an owner-dependency discount. Platform-scale enterprises clear 3x+ revenue, or 12 to 15x+ EBITDA, with comparable transactions reaching 17x+ in 2025. Joining now compounds your enterprise value when you transition, on your timeline.
What no single firm could build,we built together.
A group of firms can invest in what none of them could alone. The Alliance has the people, the time, and the balance sheet to stand up real ventures for member firms and their clients, and it already has.
No firm under $10M is going to build a wealth management practice, a specialty tax group, and an AI advisory on its own. Together, member firms fund and own all three, then put each one in front of their clients.
Linked Wealth
A wealth management joint venture bringing advanced tax strategy, private wealth management, and family-office services to member firm clients. Partners participate in the distributions as owners.
Visit siteShared Services Group
A wholly owned CPA firm inside the Alliance staffed with the specialists a small firm can't hire alone: National Tax, IRS resolution, valuation, cost segregation, R&D credits, and Fractional CFO.
Linked AI Solutions
A productized AI advisory that turns business owners into operators deploying real AI employees inside their companies, making every member firm the AI-forward CPA in its market.
Visit siteAlongside an Extended Back Office and a mortgage joint venture, with more on the way. Each one an investment no member firm would make on its own.
The math nobody else publishes.
Independent CPA firms below $10M are valued one way. Platform-scale CPA alliances are valued another. The asymmetry is not subtle.
Solo exit
Apart- Revenue multiple
- 1.0 to 1.5x
- EBITDA multiple
- 3 to 5x
- Buyer universe
- Local successor, internal partner buyout
- Market reality
- Lifestyle multiple, owner-dependency discount
- Owner outcome
- One sale, valued for what you built alone
Alliance exit
Together- Revenue multiple
- 3x+
- EBITDA multiple
- 12 to 15x+
- Buyer universe
- Strategic acquirers, family office, private equity
- Market reality
- Comparable platforms clearing 17x+ EBITDA in 2026
- Owner outcome
- Compound first, then exit at scale
Multiples reflect 2026 CPA-firm M&A transactions and recently announced platform deals. Member firms compound revenue through shared capacity and expanded services before any transition is considered.
Stronger together, by name.
Independent CPAs and firm owners building the Alliance. Each is a partner at a member firm and shapes the network alongside their own practice.
Brian Van Camp
Missy Dennis
Jeff Edwards
Scott Farnes
Jacob Martin
Robert Naugler
Emmett Price
Heath Sanford
Built by founders who've outgrown the average.
The Alliance is led by partners and operators of Linked Accounting, the founding member firm that has compounded growth at a rate well above the CPA-firm average since 2012. The Alliance applies that same operating discipline at scale.
Matt Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Jacob Ferrell
Chief Revenue Officer
Jake Hansen, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Trevis Jensen
Chief Operating Officer
Brian Van Camp, CPA
Board Chair
Jacob Martin
Executive Advisor
What partners ask, in the order they ask it.
Control, money, operations, growth and exit, then risk. If something is missing, ask it in the form below.
If you think the Alliance might be right for you.
Independent firms with $1M to $10M in revenue, 1 to 5 partners, and forward-thinking leadership. If that sounds like your firm, share a few details and we will be in touch shortly.
- Annual revenue
- $1M to $10M
- Partner count
- 1 to 5 partners
- Mindset
- Forward-thinking, growth-oriented