For founders. Not for billionaires.
The family office. Without the office.
Circle 26 designs, builds, and runs Lean Family Offices: the structure, coordination, and disciplined systems owned entirely by the family, at a fraction of the cost and complexity of the traditional model. Built for founders who want to stay in control of their wealth.
The gap
Wealth management handles a portfolio. The billionaire’s family office handles everything, for an institution, you’d have to staff and fund yourself. Between them is a gap, and that’s where most founders live.
That’s the gap Circle 26 was built to close.
What you get
Design. Build. Run.
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Design
We map your complexity and design the office around what your wealth is for.
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Build
The structure, the single source of truth, and the system, built to our own standard.
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Run
We run it with you. We bring the coordination and oversight, while you keep ownership of everything.
You keep your existing advisers and service providers. We replace no one; we enable them to work better together.
Who it's for
For founders who want to stay in control.
You built the wealth, and you run the coordination, from memory, between everything else. It works, and that is the problem: nobody else could take it over. We build the office that holds it instead, and hand you back the part only you should be doing.
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Who is behind Circle 26?
Senior practitioners who have spent a decade in private wealth structuring for founders and entrepreneurial families.
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Common questions
Do I even need a family office?
Maybe not. We diagnose before we prescribe, and if a full office is not right for you, we will say so.
Is this a multi-family office?
No. We don't manage assets, take custody, sell products or charge on assets. We build the office and help you run it. Your advisers stay yours.
Do you run the office for us?
We run it with you. You own the office; we keep it moving at the strategic level, and your own people can take more of it over as they are ready.
What does it cost?
Our fees are fixed, and never based on your assets. We scope everything after the Wealth Clarity Session, once we can see what your office actually needs.
What if we already have a team?
Many families who work with us do. We add the standard, the method and the experience of having built this before. Then your people run it, better equipped than they were.
Ninety minutes. An honest verdict.
Take the Wealth Clarity Session and see where your wealth actually stands: how complex it has become, where the gaps are, and whether a family office is right for you at all.