Modern Family Office Principal
I’m building the family office I couldn’t hire.
I’m Joshua Seymour. I run a modern family office, and I’m building the system that runs it — in the open. This is the work.
The first family office running on this system is my own.
Most people who need a family office can’t have one
A family office is just the operating function of a family’s capital, time and intentions. Someone has to decide what matters, and then a great deal of unglamorous work has to happen so those decisions are real. The traditional answer is to hire that function. It works, and it costs enough that it only works above a certain scale.
Below that scale, you are the family office
The operating load lands on exactly the person whose judgment was supposed to be the scarce resource.
Advice is not the bottleneck
There is no shortage of people who will tell you what to do. There is a shortage of anyone to do it.
The work compounds while you sleep on it
Every week you don’t get to it, the pile gets more expensive to sort out.
Three roles, one thread
Twenty years of studying how capable people become more capable — written down so it can be used.
Avolve: agents that carry the operating load of a family office, so attention goes to decisions instead of administration.
Supercivilization: a network of member-owned family offices, for people doing the same thing.
How the pieces fit
- 01
Start with your own office
One principal, one office, one clear picture of what it is responsible for.
- 02
Put agents on the operating work
Delegate the recurring load so the office runs without consuming your week.
- 03
Reach further with the network
Some things no single office should attempt alone. That is what the network is for.
Reasonable questions
Five things that matter.
Each one exists to move a family office from where it is to where it intends to be.