About Scale Your Accounting Firm

Shortcut Your Way to Growth

We're the leading advisory practice for growth-minded accounting firm owners looking to scale faster and shortcut their path to success.

// The PE wave is your opening

Private equity is pouring into accounting and rolling up firms. For a growth-minded owner that isn't a threat, it's a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and you have two ways to win it.

Path 1 · Your exit

Get acquired

Build a firm valuable enough that private equity wants to buy it, on your terms.

Path 2 · Stay independent

Compete and win

Do the things corporate, PE-bound firms won't, and take the clients they can't serve well.

// Why SYAF

We're not theorists who learned this from a book.

Us

We've walked the walk. We own accounting firms and drive performance-based results for the ones we partner with. The systems we teach are the ones we run every day.

Everyone else

Most providers sell outdated advice, or tactics borrowed from other industries that fall apart the moment you apply them inside an accounting firm.

That's why we founded Scale Your Accounting Firm.

To give growth-minded firm owners the marketing, sales, and fulfillment systems to scale, from the people who actually built them.

// Our team

$30M of accounting industry expertise.

Marketing

Peter Vander Wall

Founder, Social Club Studios
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Marketing

Peter Vander Wall

Founder, Social Club Studios

Peter runs Social Club Studios, the go-to marketing firm for 8-figure accounting firms. He has generated more than 50,000 leads for the industry and millions in revenue, and has personally sold over $1M in professional services to businesses doing $2M to $30M a year.

50,000+ leads generated since 2021
Fulfillment

Ryan Bakke

Founder, Tax Strategy 365
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Fulfillment

Ryan Bakke

Founder, Tax Strategy 365

Ryan built Tax Strategy 365 into an $8M tax advisory firm. He scaled to $3M a year in three years, then acquired and integrated two more multi-million-dollar firms, building the systems and team that let it run without him.

Owns an $8M firm that runs without him
Sales

Brian Mayoral

Founder, Sell Up
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Sales

Brian Mayoral

Founder, Sell Up

Brian runs Sell Up, the only outsourced sales firm built for the accounting industry. He has closed $1.4M of tax plans in four days and more than $16M over the last 18 months by fixing firms' offers, pricing, and sales process.

$16M+ sold in 18 months

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