Someone decided to build something, and then kept showing up. For Nate, it began at eleven - with a box of business cards and a lawn mower.
Raised in the community we still call home, Nate learned early what family, hard work, and showing up for people actually mean. Everything the practice does now traces back here.
Nate and Sheila Walters, 1971
At eleven, Nate printed these business cards and started mowing lawns to save for college - an early venture that helped him pay his own way to the University of Washington.
It's the first thing many clients learn about him, and the reason the rest of this page reads the way it does: he has been a business owner since he was a kid.
In his twenties, Nate began his career in Seattle - learning the fundamentals and, more importantly, forming the convictions that would later define a practice of his own.
The beginning of a lifelong commitment - not just to family, but to building something that would outlast him. It's the same instinct he now recognizes in every business owner he sits down with.
Nate and Tyler, 1995
Colorado Springs, 2007
The larger the company, the harder it got to serve people the way Nate believed they deserved. So he left and built his own - a private, family-owned practice.
A decision years in the works. Three decades on, the mission hasn't moved: serve with integrity, value relationships over transactions, and build something meaningful for the generations that follow - which is, after all, exactly what our clients are trying to do.
Nate and Tyler, White Horse Golf Club, 2025
Three generations in, this stretch of Liberty Bay is still home - the water we grew up on and the place clients find us today. It's a good reminder of what all the planning is really for.
Liberty Bay, Poulsbo
For nearly a century, a weathered structure stood as a familiar landmark on Liberty Bay. We couldn't save it - so we rebuilt it, and made it the heart of the practice.
The original boat house on Liberty Bay, 1960.
Nearly a century of weather had done its work. Rather than patch what couldn't be saved, we took it down to the pilings and started clean.
New framing rose on the same footprint - honoring what stood there while building something that could serve the practice for the next century.
What stands now is the heart of the practice: a place on Liberty Bay where clients meet the people looking after their life's work.