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## Segment 1 — spine

## Article 4 — a004

# Randall Long

**Profile.** Former founder, chairman, and CEO of **[[entity-sageview-advisory-group]]**, an independent registered investment advisor specializing in retirement-plan and wealth advisory. SageView was acquired by **Creative Planning** in **December 2025**.

**Role in this source.** Co-author; brings senior operating and leadership experience from the wealth-management industry — the sector used as the article's running numerical example.

**Contributions in this vault.** Grounds the wealth-management modeling behind [[claim-efficiency-value-cap]], [[claim-growth-value-multiplier]], and [[claim-ai-value-doubling]], plus the practitioner framing of [[concept-organic-vs-inorganic-growth]] and the [[framework-ai-strategic-diagnostic]].

**Canonical reference.** SageView Advisory Group site (archived) / Creative Planning acquisition announcement.