About Merger · Est. 2025

We exist so every household can run money the way the wealthiest families always have.

Merger Financial, Inc. is building the first democratized family office: one institution, two seats, and the standing practices that kept the great fortunes intact, priced for every American kitchen table. Not an app on top of your money. The place your household's money lives.

Founder-builtNo outside institutional capital
Member-paidHouseholds fund us. Nobody else.
Built in the openEvery wing honestly labelled
THE CHARTER · AT A GLANCEACTIVE
Legal nameMerger Financial, Inc.
Founded2025 · Seattle, Washington
The clientThe household. Always the household.
The modelMembership. Zero commissions.
The ruleNothing signs alone.
Merger Financial, Inc.ENTERED INTO THE RECORD · EST. 2025
The mission

Stronger families, not just stronger finances.

The greatest threat to American wealth isn't the market. It's the fight about money at the kitchen table. So we built the institution that ends the fight: one shared picture, one standing meeting, and a private staff that never sleeps.

01 · DEMOCRATIZEThe family office, for the 99.9%

The practices behind the $100M door were never complicated. They were just staffed. We rebuilt the staff as intelligence so the practices could finally reach everyone.

02 · PROTECTThe household, held together

Money is the number one source of conflict in American marriages. Every product decision we make is graded against one question: does this bring the two of them closer?

03 · PASS DOWNMore than money to the next generation

Kids inherit habits before they inherit dollars. A household that reviews, decides, and signs together hands down the how, not just the how much.

How we operate

Five values. Each one is a product decision you can check.

Values that don't change the product are posters. Ours ship.

01Nothing signs alone

Every consequential move needs both signatures. In the product, in the constitution, and in this company's own decisions.

02Members, not products

Households pay the membership, so households are the client. Zero commissions, zero data sales, zero incentives pointed away from you.

03Built in the open

Live means live. In engineering means in engineering. The roadmap is published and every wing is labelled honestly.

04Plain English survives the edit

If a sentence needs a finance degree, it gets rewritten. Clarity is a form of respect.

05The household is the unit

Not the user. Not the account. Two people and everyone they're building for, treated as one institution.

The team · small by design

The people building your office.

A family office runs lean and senior. So do we: a small team with every name on the work, plus one wombat on payroll.

Kameron AustFounder & CEO

Grew up in Ozark, Missouri. Building the institution his own kitchen table never had.

OZARK, MO → SEATTLE, WAConnect
Reed MershonFounding Team · Software Engineer

Builds the parts of the desk you never notice, which is the point of a good desk.

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Joshua NorrisFounding Team · Software Engineer

Turns the messiest parts of a household ledger into something that just adds up.

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Sean BrillFounding Team · Software Engineer

Wires the office together so the seven tools behave like one institution.

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FinnFinnChief of staff · on payroll

A wombat of few words and one rule: nothing moves without both of you.

THE FRONT OFFICE · NEVER SLEEPS
The Merger team · Seattle, 2026
The record so far

Short history. Long intention.

2025
Merger Financial, Inc. is founded.

The thesis is written: the family office, democratized for every American household. The constitution comes first, the code second.

2025
The first households join, and pay.

Founder-built and member-funded from day one. No outside institutional capital, no incentives pointed away from the member.

2026
Seven tools go live. The wings go up in the open.

The desk, the ritual, and the intelligence run today, while Merger Bank & Treasury and Merger Investment are engineered in public, labelled exactly as far along as they are.

Next
The wings open. The record continues.

Milestones land here as they're entered into the record, not before.

7tools live today
22specialist seats in the catalog
12staff functions in a traditional office
2signatures on everything. Always.
Talk to us

The door is open. That's the whole idea.

Members, press, partners, and the simply curious: write to help@mergerfamilyoffice.com and a human answers. If you want to see what we're building before you write, the platform page shows every wing, honestly labelled.