AdvisorCRM Launches Trove

There’s a quiet problem running through nearly every financial advisory firm in the country. Opportunities are sitting inside existing client relationships — CD maturities approaching, annuity surrender dates passing, life events signaling a need for change — and no one is catching them in time. Not because advisors don’t care. Because the data is scattered, the workflows are overwhelming, and there are only so many hours in a day.

Ryan Borer knows this firsthand. As a former advisor turned entrepreneur, he’s spent his career building technology that solves the real operational pain points of financial services. As Managing Partner of AdvisorCRM, he co-built the only free, all-in-one AI-native CRM designed exclusively for the advisory space. And now, with the launch of Trove, he’s taken that mission a step further.

Introducing Trove, an AI Discovery Platform That’s Changing How Financial Firms Find Growth Hiding in Plain Sight

Trove is the wealth management industry’s first AI-native opportunity discovery platform, and the distinction matters. This isn’t another prospecting tool asking advisors to chase cold leads or overhaul their tech stack. Trove operates quietly in the background, connecting to the data sources firms are already using: CRMs, custodians, email, meeting notes, and insurance policies. It monitors, analyzes, and surfaces the opportunities that already exist inside a firm’s client base, then flags them before the moment passes.

The platform is designed for RIAs, hybrid insurance-advisory firms, broker-dealers, and producer-led teams. It identifies high-impact, time-sensitive signals: concentrated positions, life event triggers, maturing financial products, and other inflection points that tend to slip through the cracks in even the most well-run practices. And critically, Trove never acts without human approval. Advisors remain in full control of every client interaction; the platform just makes sure they’re not missing the conversation they should be having.

After more than a year in development, Trove launched in February 2026 and entered closed beta with ten firms collectively managing $6 billion in assets under management. The early signal is clear: the demand for this kind of visibility is real.

“Advisors need clarity on what is already happening inside of their client base, not more tools or leads,” Borer said at launch. It’s a deceptively simple statement and exactly the kind of founder clarity that tends to precede category-defining products.

The Founder’s Chair has long believed that the most durable companies are built by operators who’ve lived the problem they’re solving. Ryan Borer is that founder. Trove is that product.


A waitlist for Trove is now open for RIAs, broker-dealers, hybrid insurance-advisory firms, and producer-led teams. Learn more and join the waitlist at troveadvisor.com.

Read the full launch announcement here.

Est. 1919 · Des Moines, Iowa

HOTEL FORT DES MOINES

A century of stories, one remarkable address

Famous Guests
Scandals & Secrets
Firsts & Innovations
The Beginning
1922
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1922

Helen Keller rang in the New Year here, staying at the hotel while in Des Moines for performances over New Year's Eve.

1927
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1927

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig had breakfast here before an exhibition game. Two of baseball's greatest, at the same table, in Des Moines.

1927
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1927

Charles Lindbergh hosted a banquet here after his famous transatlantic flight. The menu featured boneless squab — reportedly a rare Des Moines delicacy at the time.

1933
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1933

Amelia Earhart visited the hotel to speak about her solo flight across the Atlantic — a rare chance for Iowans to hear her story firsthand.

1947
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1947

Mae West stayed here during her performance of "Come on Up" at the KRNT Radio Theater. One imagines she made an impression on the staff.

1959
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1959

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev occupied the Presidential Suite during the height of the Cold War. This hotel has seen history made.

1960
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1960

JFK, LBJ, and Hubert Humphrey all attended dinner here and held a meeting on farm policy — three future or sitting presidents under one roof.

1980
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1980

Elizabeth Taylor stayed here during a Des Moines appearance. Hollywood glamour, right here in the heartland.

1980
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1980

Elizabeth Taylor stayed here during a Des Moines appearance. Hollywood glamour, right here in the heartland.

2003
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2003

Cher requested her own personal mattress be placed in room #1025. The hotel obliged. Room 1025 has never quite been the same.

2008
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2008

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both stayed here during the Iowa caucuses — rivals for the presidency, sharing the same address for a night.

1939
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1939

Police raided the Log Cabin Room on the 11th floor, seizing liquor and gambling equipment. The tip reportedly came from the men's own wives.

1927
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1927

When Lindbergh dined here post-transatlantic flight, he reportedly insisted on serving boneless squab, an extravagance that raised eyebrows across Iowa.

1959
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1959

The FBI monitored Khrushchev's stay closely. Guests on nearby floors reportedly had no idea who was sleeping down the hall.

1971
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1971

President Nixon greeted supporters in the lobby during his stay — a reminder that this hotel has always been where Iowa's political drama plays out.

1919
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1919

When it opened, every single room had a bathtub, purified chilled circulating water, and a window. Unheard of luxury for its era.

1938
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1938

The hotel announced the first air-conditioned guest room in Des Moines, a genuine technological milestone that made front-page news.

1953
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1953

100 rooms received TV sets in what was reportedly the largest single installation of televisions in Iowa at the time. The fee to operate yours? 25 cents.

1982
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1982

Governor Terry Branstad nominated the hotel to the National Register of Historic Places, cementing its place in Iowa's official history.

1919
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1919

The hotel opened on July 15, 1919, built for approximately $1.5 million and designed by the architectural firm Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson.

1919
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1919

Its opening was a statement of ambition: every room had a private bathtub, purified water, and a window. In 1919, this was genuinely extraordinary.

1974
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1974

Ronald Reagan attended WHO Radio's 50th anniversary celebration at the hotel, proof that Fort Des Moines has always been Iowa's premier gathering place.

2021
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2021

After major renovations, the hotel reopened as part of the Curio Collection by Hilton, a century of history, restored for the next hundred years.