Exemplar was created to completely disrupt the professional services industry, with holistic guidance across tax, law, strategy and capital, and delivered with no hourly bill. The relationship with clients comes first, and genuine relationships don’t happen when billing clients by the hour.

As an integrated professional services firm, Exemplar provides guidance based on a holistic view of your business. Allowing you to focus on the right things at the right time and allowing us to create outcomes for our clients that competitors can’t. Other professional services firms are focused on one area, leaving you to rely on multiple advisors.

Our approach is based on the fundamental principle of relationships and the premise that caring changes the outcome. As society continues to change and our clients goals continue to evolve, our focus is about much more than professional services. It’s about building community. The clients we serve benefit from the communities we have fostered over the last 15 years, and will continue to build in the future. We believe if we do things together, we can get anywhere.

Exemplar was created with the idea of delivering a better professional services experience. An experience that focuses on the relationship, not an hourly bill. Exemplar was founded in 2005 by CEO, Christopher Marston, as the first law firm in American history to offer a fixed and value based pricing model with no hourly bill and no time sheets.

Christopher’s experience with professional services firms, both as a practicing attorney and a client as CFO of a technology company, inspired him to start Exemplar. He noticed a gap in how services were delivered. Small businesses were required to pay painfully high bills to numerous organizations to cover their basic needs, and all driven from an hourly rate. The hired service firms did not collaborate or even talk with each other, resulting in an incomplete view of the business and guidance that was delivered in a silo. And Exemplar was born.

From a law firm, Exemplar evolved into a holistic professional services firm focused on relationships and providing guidance across service areas, without silos or an hourly bill.

Today, Exemplar serves over 1,400 clients across nine offices nationwide and continues to look for new ways to add more value to clients.