Company
Our History
Continuity Transition Services wasn't created because someone wanted to start another consulting company. It was created because advisor transitions deserved better execution.
The company's history is really the story of decades spent understanding financial advisors, building businesses, and recognizing that operational excellence—not flashy announcements—is what determines whether a transition succeeds.
It Started Inside the Financial Services Industry
Founder Curtis Kloc began his career as a licensed financial advisor, working with firms including American Express Financial Advisors, H&R Block Financial Advisors, and AIG Royal Alliance.
Holding Series 6, Series 7, and Series 63 licenses, he developed comprehensive financial plans for individuals, families, and business owners, helping clients navigate retirement planning, insurance, investment management, education funding, business retirement plans, trusts, and inherited accounts.
Those years provided something that cannot be learned from the outside: an understanding of how advisory businesses actually operate and how deeply advisors value the trust they've built with their clients.
Then Came Entrepreneurship
After leaving traditional advisory roles, Curtis spent more than two decades building businesses.
That experience added an entirely new perspective. He learned firsthand what it means to build systems, market a business, develop operations, create processes, embrace technology, and compete in an increasingly digital marketplace.
Those lessons would later become just as valuable to advisors launching independent RIAs as the transition experience itself.
A Gap in the Industry
Over time, one pattern became impossible to ignore.
The financial services industry had experts helping advisors decide where to go. Recruiters introduced opportunities. Custodians onboarded new firms. Compliance professionals handled regulatory questions. Attorneys addressed legal issues.
But very few organizations focused exclusively on what happened after the decision had been made.
The operational execution of an advisor transition often fell between multiple organizations, each responsible for a piece of the process but none responsible for the entire experience.
The Birth of Continuity
Continuity Transition Services was founded to fill that gap.
Its mission was straightforward: provide experienced project management and operational coordination that helps financial advisors move their businesses with greater confidence, fewer mistakes, and better client outcomes.
Rather than replacing custodians, recruiters, attorneys, or compliance teams, Continuity works alongside them, coordinating the countless details that determine whether a transition feels organized or overwhelming.
Beyond Transition Management
As the industry evolved, so did the company.
Independent advisors increasingly faced challenges beyond paperwork and asset transfers. Launching an RIA meant becoming a business owner, building a brand, creating a web presence, improving visibility in Google and AI search, developing marketing systems, and establishing long-term operational processes.
Continuity's perspective expanded to reflect those realities, helping advisors think beyond transition day toward the future of their business.
The Next Chapter
Today, Continuity is working toward something larger than managing individual transitions.
The company is helping define advisor transition management as its own professional discipline by documenting its terminology, methodologies, frameworks, standards, and best practices through the Continuity Knowledge Catalog.
Our goal is simple: Create the industry's most trusted educational resource while continuing to help advisors navigate one of the most important milestones of their careers.