Essential Edge
About Integration Partner
A virtual firm since inception, Essential Edge has grown into one of the leading temporary staffing firms in the financial services industry. Essential Edge delivers a wide range of outsourced compliance services for broker-dealers, RIAs, banks and insurance companies. Essential Edge provides core compliance services including, but not limited to branch office inspections, email and advertising review, and sales supervision. We are extraordinarily responsive every day of the year. Our team of consultants, with an average of 20 years of compliance and supervisory experience, stand ready to seamlessly supplement in-house efforts to satisfy the demands of regulators and financial advisors alike.
Essential Edge's growth since inception has been tremendous. Its recent revenue explosion in the past three years is partly attributable to the rising costs of employees and the shift to remote work. Unlike the past, firms are paying a tremendous cost to hire, fire and train. Essential Edge fills the staffing gap for a wide range of firms. Due to our fee model and expert staff, many of our short-term engagements become permanent.
The Founder of Essential Edge, Sander J. Ressler, worked for a large consulting firm prior to starting the company in 2011. He believes that an hourly rate model encourages higher fees and disincentivizes consulting firms to deliver a quality product on time. In addition, the overhead of a large consulting firm is passed directly onto clients, further inflating costs unnecessarily. Essential Edge turns this model on its head. As a virtual firm with a flat fee model, Essential Edge passes its dual cost savings on to clients, a measure that is cost effective in the short and long term. All flat fee engagements are negotiated up-front, and clients never receive an invoice greater than the agreed amount, unless the scope of the engagement was agreed to by both parties in writing previously.
Essential Edge has become a market leader because of its services and because we are unparalleled in our flexibility and exceptional client service. We listen to our clients and provide them with the expertise they need without the red tape and bureaucracy of larger consulting firms. Each client gets the help they need without the burden of having to fund the education of consultants who have never worked in the industry.