Partners & network
A network of relationships, chosen on the merits.
We are independent — but we are not alone. Behind our advice sits a vetted network of carriers, platforms, and providers we draw on to build the right arrangement for you.
No relationship earns us a placement fee. Each one earns its place by serving clients well.
Independence, and a network to draw on
Independence doesn’t mean working in a vacuum. Over twenty-five years we’ve built relationships across the benefits, platform, and administrative landscape — so when a decision points to a particular provider, we know who does the work well.
What we don’t do is let those relationships decide the recommendation. That order never reverses.
Where our network reaches
The relationships most often behind a BRG engagement.
Benefits carriers
Medical, dental, vision, and workers’ comp relationships with the purchasing leverage to move rates.
HCM | WFM platform
Our one vetted platform partner for the mid-market — chosen through years of evaluation.
PEO / ASO providers
A comparison set across the national and regional co-employment and administration market.
Retirement & 401(k)
Plan providers and advisors to restructure retirement offerings alongside benefits.
Compliance & risk
Specialists for multi-state wage-and-hour, audit readiness, and shared-liability structure.
Technology & integration
Partners to connect systems, remove duplicate data entry, and surface labor-cost visibility.
How a relationship gets onto this page
A partner network is easy to assert and hard to make meaningful. Most firms in this market publish a wall of logos, which tells a buyer nothing except that a contract exists. What matters is the basis on which a relationship was formed, and what would end it.
How a name gets onto this page
Nobody buys their way onto this page. Every relationship listed is here because it produced a better outcome for a client, and none of them was added because of what it paid. Where a provider does compensate us, it is because they won a competitive process that the client ran and the client decided — not because they are on this list.
It also means the network can shrink. A carrier whose service degrades, a provider whose renewals stop being defensible, an implementation team that turns over — these end relationships. A name that stopped earning its place has been removed before, and will be again.
Two different stances, on purpose
On PEO and ASO the network is a comparison set. The market is genuinely fragmented, pricing is opaque, and the right answer depends on your industry, state mix and claims history — so breadth is the point, and we hold no preference we would defend in the abstract.
On the HCM and workforce-management platform, the network is one partner. That is a conclusion reached over years of evaluation rather than a distribution agreement, and we say so plainly rather than presenting a shortlist we do not believe in. Describing either stance as the other would misrepresent both.
What we look at before adding anyone
Whether they perform for a mid-market company rather than only for their enterprise accounts. Whether the people who sell are connected to the people who deliver. Whether they will put service commitments in writing. Whether they behave well at renewal, when the leverage has moved to their side of the table. And whether they will tell a client something inconvenient, because a partner who only ever agrees is not adding judgment to the engagement.
What we ask of them
That the client contracts directly, always. We do not sit in the middle of the commercial relationship, which means you can end a provider relationship without ending ours, and you can end ours without disturbing your provider. Those two things being separable is the practical test of independence.
It is a fair question to ask any advisor, and worth asking us: if this relationship ended tomorrow, what would it cost them? Where the answer is a revenue share, you are reading a distribution agreement rather than a recommendation.
$0
What any of this costs the client
25+
Years of relationships behind it
1
Interest that decides — yours
What this costs you
Nothing, at any stage. The provider that wins your business pays the fee, and your own decision-making team sets it — so the number is visible to the people making the decision rather than buried in what you pay afterwards. It is the first thing we’ll explain on a call, and we would rather you heard it from us.
The network serves the advice. The advice never serves the network.
