Experior Financial Group
A genuine managing general agency selling real carrier-issued insurance with no joining fee and published compensation guidelines - where the leadership promotions need licensed, producing associates and the US builder bonuses and top personal bonuses need monthly counts of associate ownership agreements.
Every commission dollar is funded by a carrier on a policy sold to a real client - and the company’s US guidelines tie a builder bonus of up to 12 points to AOAs submitted and life applications submitted, 30×30 to 100×100 a month, while its Canadian edition pays a 9% builder bonus on 30 recruits and 30 settled applications a month.
Can you actually make money with Experior Financial?
Yes, under conditions, and the structure deserves its credit first. Every override dollar in this plan is a percentage of premium on a policy actually sold to a client and paid for by a carrier. There is no headcount bonus, no payment per recruit, no pack purchase and no qualification volume that can be met by buying something. If nobody in a downline sells a policy, the entire override structure pays zero. That is the structural test and this company passes it.
The condition is how you reach the levels where the money sits. In the United States, the company’s Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025) list seven generations of override, 28% in all, with no requirement beside them, and count all of it in a stated minimum field payout of 148%. The builder bonus on top, up to 12 more points, is where the monthly count sits, in AOAs submitted and life applications submitted: 30 by 30 for the first generation, then 40 by 40, 50 by 50, and 100 by 100 through the first for generations four to seven. An AOA is an Associate Ownership Agreement, a recruit signing on. The same guidelines make Senior Manager need four licensed associates and Executive Director seven to twelve producing ones, and tie the Executive Director’s top personal bonuses to 10 to 20 AOAs a month. The Canada 2026 edition pays a generation of override when someone in your agency promotes to Executive Director, and keeps the monthly count for a 9% builder bonus on “30 recruits + 30 settled applications.” Selling more insurance personally raises your own contract; it does not open a generation.
Zero to join is true in the United States, and in Canada an upline’s FAQ lists only a refundable CAD $150 sign-up fee, but it is not the number. In Canada the licensing stack runs roughly CAD $1,100 to $1,300 once the course, four modules, the provincial application, a background check and errors-and-omissions cover at a company-stated $413 a year are counted. In the United States it is roughly USD $600 to $1,300. On top sits a mandatory monthly CRM and back-office fee that agents report rising with rank; no company page located states it, and a Senior Executive Director’s published FAQ puts it at USD $19 to $79 a month by contract level, or CAD $39 a month in Canada. And commissions are advanced at 75 to 80%, so the first-year failure mode is not earning nothing. It is earning, spending, then owing it back.
There is no income disclosure statement of any kind, in any form, alongside a public calculator that projects seven generations of downline override. In the United States a new Financial Associate sits at a 70% contract against a stated minimum total field payout of 148%, a 78-point spread on their own sale, printed on the same page of the same document and never presented as a spread. In Canada the 2026 edition puts a new agent at FYC + 40% against a stated minimum field payout of 198%. The advisor contract is not public either, so no non-compete or non-solicit term can be read before signing; what can be read about leaving comes from recruiting pages, an upline’s FAQ and the guidelines’ own sale and family-transfer clauses rather than a contract.
no joining fee in the US (an upline’s FAQ lists a CAD $150 sign-up fee in Canada, refundable once the license, E&O and banking details are loaded), no kit, inventory or product purchase - but CAD ~$1,100-1,300 or USD ~$600-1,300 all-in once pre-licensing courses, exams, license fees and E&O are counted, plus a monthly technology fee that FAQ puts at USD $19-79 or CAD $39
- You want an insurance license and a book of clients, and you would still want them if the override ladder did not exist. Carrier-funded commission on your own sales is the part of this that does not depend on recruiting anybody.
- You can carry CAD $1,100 to $1,300, or USD $600 to $1,300, plus an unpublished monthly CRM charge, through four to twelve weeks with no income. Those are the real entry numbers rather than the $0 on the recruiting page.
- You understand that advances are loans against persistency. Lapses and surrenders are charged back on carrier-specific schedules, from the first six months to the first eighteen, and one carrier’s renewal bonus program on the 2023 chart inactivates agents below 60% thirteen-month persistency and cuts their year-two-to-four renewal commissions by 50%.
- You ask for the agent agreement, the release policy and the ownership terms in writing first. The careers pages say the book stays with an agent who leaves; an unpublished company deck says a book passes to an estate only with a succession plan, otherwise $0.00, and gives 75% for 10 years, the same payout the company’s 2025 US Legacy Program sets on retirement or death for Bronze qualifiers and on retirement, disability or death for Silver.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL - a licensed insurance distributor in Canada and the United States, and this report keeps two entirely separate regulatory files apart on purpose. File (a), provincial and state insurance licensing and market conduct: Experior was one of exactly three managing general agencies named in the CCIR/FSRA cooperative thematic review of tiered-recruitment MGAs published 28–29 September 2022, and one of three whose agents were examined by FSRA between May 2022 and April 2023. That examination cited 65 of 130 agents with 184 contraventions of the Insurance Act; of the 30 Experior agents examined, 11 were cited with 25 contraventions, 7 were issued a Notice to Impose Summary Administrative Monetary Penalty and 4 were escalated to a Regulatory Discipline Officer. A separate FSRA review of 24 client files from agents at the three firms found 80% did not demonstrate that the universal-life policies sold were aligned with the customers’ needs or circumstances. At corporate level the outcomes differed: one of the three firms received a compliance order, a second received a Notice of Proposal - which is proposed enforcement, not a finding - and Experior received neither. A thematic market-conduct review is not an enforcement action against a firm, and no FSRA, provincial-council or US state department-of-insurance action against the Experior entity itself could be located; no AMF file in Quebec was found either, which is a null result from an incomplete search rather than a clearance. File (b), securities exposure from what is actually sold: segregated funds in Canada are insurance contracts sold under an LLQP license, and term, whole life, universal life, indexed universal life and fixed indexed annuities in the US are fixed insurance products sold under a state life license. No variable products were found on the panel. The licenses held match the products sold. The letter grade below is a verdict on the participant’s economics, not on legality.
Confidence: Medium
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
Graded against the US Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025) and the Canada 2026 edition. A managing general agency and independent marketing organization distributing life and health insurance in Canada and the United States through licensed independent agents, on a hierarchy plan that pays seven generations of override. Founded 2014 in Guelph, Ontario; US entity in Cheektowaga, New York; since September 2025 owned into Associate Owners Group Inc. through a share swap.
The legitimate half of this file is substantial and belongs first. Every commission dollar is funded by a carrier - Nationwide, National Life, F&G, Americo and Annexus are named on the partner page - on a policy issued to a client who paid a premium. There is no joining fee, no starter kit, no inventory, no autoship and no product-purchase requirement anywhere in the plan. Nobody hands over capital: the shares awarded to field leaders and, since February 2024, to high-volume producers are awarded as compensation rather than sold. Both current compensation guidelines, US and Canadian, are published with exact contract percentages, which many distributors will not show a recruit before signing. The consumer complaints process is properly constructed and regulator-aligned, escalating through an internal department to a compliance manager and out to the OmbudService for Life & Health Insurance, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, and the Autorité des marchés financiers for Quebec residents. And of the three managing general agencies named in the CCIR/FSRA thematic review, Experior was the only one that drew no corporate enforcement outcome, though 7 of the 30 Experior agents FSRA examined were issued a Notice to Impose Summary Administrative Monetary Penalty, and one more after escalation to a Regulatory Discipline Officer.
The half that sets the grade is the ladder. In the United States a new Financial Associate starts on a 70% contract against a stated minimum total field payout of 148% - a 78-percentage-point spread on their own sale, which the plan counts as field payout to the levels above them. Climbing out of that costs nothing in fees, and personal premium alone opens the 85% contract, but the leadership levels are not production alone. Under the US Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025), Senior Manager needs four licensed associates and Executive Director seven to twelve producing ones, and while the seven generations of override, 28% in all, are listed with no requirement and counted in the stated 148% minimum, the builder bonus of up to 12 more points beside them needs 30×30 Agency for the first generation, 40×40 and 50×50 for the second and third, and 100×100 through the first for the fourth to seventh - pairs of AOAs submitted and life applications submitted, monthly. An AOA is an Associate Ownership Agreement: a recruit. In Canada the 2026 edition starts a new agent at FYC + 40% against a stated minimum field payout of 198%, pays a generation of override when someone in your agency promotes to Executive Director, and keeps the monthly count for a 9% builder bonus: “30 recruits + 30 settled applications.” Selling more insurance personally raises your own contract; the generations are paid on teams below you, and the ranks that lead teams need licensed, producing associates.
And the disclosure is one-sided. Experior publishes a Dream Calculator that models income from personal production plus seven generations of downline override, and publishes no income disclosure statement of any kind - no average, no median, no percentage earning nothing, no percentage reaching each contract level, no retention rate; its year-end 2024 review counts 551 Executive Directors and 6,655 licensed agents, with no earnings attached. Headcount milestones are published prolifically: 3,800 advisors in February 2024, 9,000 in February 2025, 10,000 at the May 2025 convention, 15,000 at 31 December 2025 and “18,000+” on the live site. Every one of those is self-reported, on an undefined “advisors” or “licensed agents” basis, with no active-producer split and no attrition figure beyond the CEO’s unaudited interview claim of 85% retention after one year - which means the same trajectory is consistent with a healthy expanding field force and with a high-churn recruiting funnel, and a reader cannot tell which from outside.
One widely repeated claim about this company is wrong and the report says so rather than repeating it. The premise that the US pivot followed FSRA scrutiny does not survive the dates. Experior was registered for business in seven US states as of 30 September 2019 and announced US market entry on 17 February 2020. The CCIR/FSRA thematic review ran December 2021 to June 2022 and published 28–29 September 2022. The US move predates the scrutiny by roughly two years. What is defensible is only the weaker claim that US growth accelerated afterwards, and the CEO’s stated reasons for the US emphasis were commercial: American recruits mostly arrive already licensed, which makes the funnel shorter. No source establishes causation and none is asserted here.
Where the commission grid goes on a new US agent’s own sale
Experior’s own US Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025). The guidelines state a minimum total field payout of 148%, up to 170% with bonuses, and put an entry-level Financial Associate on 70%. Both figures are printed on the same page; the difference between them is never presented as a spread. In Canada the 2026 edition puts a new agent on FYC + 40% against a stated minimum of 198%.
| Product | Price | Pays |
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| Term life insurance (carrier-issued) The cleanest thing in the file. Priced by actuaries, filed with regulators, paid to the carrier rather than to Experior. Entry-level rates on the term rows of the 2023 USA chart run from 38.18% to 67.88%, against 86.18% to 153.21% in total across all contract levels. |
client premium - set by the carrier recurring premium |
~38-68% of target premium at entry level |
| Whole life One carrier’s whole life pays a Financial Associate 46.67% against a 105.33% total across levels. A permanent product with real uses and a much longer commitment than term. |
client premium recurring premium |
~46.67% FYC at entry level |
| Universal life and indexed universal life The suitability pressure point. FSRA’s review of 24 client files from the three named MGAs found 80% did not demonstrate alignment with customer need, citing “no specific life insurance need identified, or a trivial needs analysis,” and warned that badly managed UL can end in lapse and “a corresponding loss of all premiums paid into the plan.” Legal to sell on a life license; the most illustration-dependent category in the market. |
client premium recurring premium |
mostly 47-62% at entry level, close to whole life |
| Fixed indexed annuities Distributed through Annexus, F&G, National Life and others. A fixed insurance product sold under a state life license - no securities registration required, and none is implied. Complexity, not license category, is the issue. |
client deposit single or flexible premium |
carrier-specific |
| Segregated funds (Canada) Individual variable insurance contracts, correctly sold under an LLQP license rather than a securities registration. Experior’s own product page calls them “not as volatile” with “very low risk” and cites guarantees of 75% to 100% of contribution - and says nothing about the materially higher management expense ratios seg funds carry relative to comparable mutual funds, nor about maturity and reset conditions on the guarantee. |
client deposit ongoing |
carrier-specific |
| Final expense and guaranteed-issue products Listed here because the gradient matters: guaranteed-issue pays far less than fully underwritten products, while simplified-issue final expense pays about as much at entry level as indexed universal life. |
client premium recurring premium |
~17-45% (guaranteed issue) |
| Monthly CRM and back-office charge Multiple agent reviewers report a mandatory monthly CRM charge that rises with rank - “the more you climb the ladder … the more you would pay for back office.” That is public criticism rather than a company disclosure, and weaker evidence for it. The amount appears on no Experior page located; a Senior Executive Director’s published FAQ puts it at USD $19 to $79 a month depending on contract level, and CAD $39 a month in Canada. A mandatory recurring charge to remain able to work is a cost the company’s own recruiting pages do not state. |
USD $19-79 or CAD $39 per an upline’s FAQ monthly |
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| E&O insurance A company figure relayed in a trade interview, not independently verified. No published US E&O figure could be found. Ordinary and expected for a licensed agent - recorded because it is part of the real entry cost that “$0 to join” does not capture. |
$413/year (company-stated, Canada) annual |
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Who runs it, and what they ran before
The company’s About Us page credits the founding pair with “a combined 30+ years in the financial services industry” but names no prior employer; in a February 2024 trade interview he said he spent the first ten years of his career at another life insurance distribution company, which the interview names, “where I understood marketing networking.” No regulatory action, fraud judgment or criminal proceeding against him could be found in any source reviewed. He is also the voice of the recruiting framing that runs through this file - the company’s entrepreneurs page opens with “Recruiting is one of our strengths,” and in a February 2025 trade interview he described the target recruit as someone who might “have been plumbing a week earlier.”
Twelve years of continuous operation under the same two founders is a genuine mark in a category where predecessor entities routinely collapse. Together the founders hold roughly 75% of the company through voting shares. Her pre-2014 career is undisclosed beyond the aggregate “combined 30+ years” claim, and no action of any kind against her could be located.
This is the disclosure gap that matters most in the ownership file. AOG’s own team page publishes names and titles only - no biographies for any of its six named executives. Holm’s personal site carries the alliance announcement with the tagline “Let’s do in three years what most can’t do in a decade!” and no career history. The Experior release describes him only as having “decades of experience building and scaling large distribution organizations across North America”; which organizations, in what roles, and with what outcomes could not be sourced. For the person who now co-runs the entity that owns the platform a recruit’s income depends on, that is a material absence - not an allegation, an absence.
Experior has awarded non-voting shares to Executive Directors since roughly 2018, and since February 2024 to individual producers hitting business-volume thresholds. Dividends were paid on those shares for the first time in 2023. Nobody pays cash for them - they are awarded as compensation, which is why the securities dimension scores as well as it does. But they are non-voting for all but ten or twelve people, illiquid, carry no published valuation, vesting or redemption terms, and have now been exchanged for paper in an entity whose capitalization is undisclosed. Layered on top is the “IPO readiness within three years” narrative from the September 2025 release. Any upline turning that into a “get in before the IPO” pitch is selling a hope with no document behind it.
Registered address
Guelph, Ontario, Canada · US head office in Cheektowaga, New York
Private, with no audited financial statements in the public domain. The $186.9 million revenue figure that circulates is a ZoomInfo estimate - a data vendor’s model, not a company disclosure and not audited - and it should be read as an order-of-magnitude indicator only. The BBB profile for the Guelph entity carries an A+ rating with the company not accredited, and records twelve years in business. The governance picture changed materially on 29 September 2025, when Experior announced a share-swap alliance with Associate Owners Group Inc., founded and co-led by Monte Holm, under which “all Experior shareholders will hold ownership in AOG” and the combined organization “targets IPO readiness within three years.” Lee-Ann Prickett was appointed CEO of Experior on 9 October 2025; Jamie Prickett became Co-CEO of AOG. No registration statement, prospectus or exchange listing exists, so “IPO readiness” is an aspiration rather than a filing, and AOG’s own capitalization and ownership are not disclosed.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
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| Who legally owns it? |
WATCH
Private. Roughly 75% held by co-founders Jamie and Lee-Ann Prickett through voting shares, about 25% by agents and staff on mostly non-voting shares - and since 29 September 2025 all of it swapped into Associate Owners Group Inc., whose capitalization is undisclosed and whose team page publishes no biographies.
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| What does it really cost? |
WATCH
No joining fee in the US and only a refundable CAD $150 sign-up fee in Canada, per an upline’s FAQ; no kit, no inventory. Then CAD ~$1,100-1,300 or USD ~$600-1,300 for pre-licensing, exams, application, background check and E&O, plus a mandatory monthly CRM charge that no company page states and an upline’s FAQ puts at USD $19-79 or CAD $39, plus four to twelve weeks before a first commission.
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| Published income disclosure? |
CONCERN
None, in any form - no median, no average, no zero-earner rate, no retention, no active-producer count. The company does publish a calculator projecting seven generations of downline override.
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| Is advancement based on selling or on recruiting? |
CONCERN
Both. Personal premium alone opens the 85% US contract, and the Canada 2026 edition advertises personal contracts to FYC + 160% “without recruiting.” But the US guidelines (June 2025) make Senior Manager need four licensed associates and Executive Director seven to twelve producing ones, and tie the builder bonus on each generation to monthly AOA counts - 30×30, 40×40, 50×50, 100×100 - while listing the overrides themselves with no requirement; an AOA is a recruit signing on. Canada earns generations on Executive Director promotions and keeps 30 recruits a month for its builder bonus.
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| What actually happened with the FSRA file? |
WATCH
Experior was one of three MGAs named in a thematic market-conduct review published September 2022 - not an enforcement action. FSRA’s agent examination then cited 65 of 130 agents across all three firms with 184 contraventions, 11 of the 30 Experior agents examined among them, and 8 of those 30 were issued a Notice to Impose Summary Administrative Monetary Penalty, 7 directly and 1 after escalation to a Regulatory Discipline Officer. At corporate level one firm got a compliance order, one a Notice of Proposal, and Experior neither.
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| Did the US pivot follow that scrutiny? |
OK
No - and this report publishes the correction rather than the claim. US registration in seven states completed 30 September 2019 and expansion was announced 17 February 2020; the review ran December 2021 to June 2022. The move predates the scrutiny by about two years.
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| Is any participant capital at risk against a promised return? |
OK
No. No fee, no kit, no deposit, no staking, no promised yield, and shares are awarded as compensation rather than sold. The reservation is what those shares are: non-voting, illiquid, unvalued, and carrying an “IPO in three years” story with nothing filed.
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| Can you leave with your book? |
CONCERN
Not on any contract, and that is the finding. Both compensation guidelines let an agent sell the book at any time, finding the buyer and negotiating the terms, and transfer the whole business to a spouse, child or parent; the careers pages say the book, commissions and renewals stay with an agent who leaves, and an upline’s FAQ says contracts are released on request if no money is owed. But the contract is not public and no release timetable, non-compete, vesting schedule or share-forfeiture term could be located. A presentation deck says a book transfers to the estate “only with a succession plan; otherwise $0.00.”
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
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| Get licensed and productive in Canada | ~CAD $1,100-1,300 + 6-12 weeks LLQP course ~$300, four modules at ~$66, license application $100-200, background check, E&O at a company-stated $413/yr - then carrier appointments before a first policy |
| Get licensed and productive in the US | ~USD $600-1,300 + 4-8 weeks pre-licensing $100-300, exam $40-150, fingerprinting $15-100, state application $20-200 - Experior’s own estimate for the licensing procedure is four to eight weeks |
| Survive the advance and chargeback window | 12 months of persistency most carriers on the 2023 chart advance 75-80% of first-year commission; chargeback windows run from the first six months to the first eighteen by carrier and product, and one carrier’s renewal bonus program inactivates agents below 60% thirteen-month persistency and cuts their year-two-to-four renewals by 50% |
| Earn on the first generation | In Canada, someone in your agency promoted to Executive Director; the builder bonus on top needs 30 AOAs × 30 life applications a month in the US, or 30 recruits × 30 settled applications in Canada the US guidelines list the first generation’s 14% override with no requirement and count it in the 148% minimum, and print 30×30 Agency beside its 6% builder bonus, rising to 40×40, 50×50 and 100×100 for deeper generations; in Canada a first-generation override starts when someone in your agency promotes to Executive Director, and the 9% builder bonus needs 30 recruits and 30 settled applications a month |
Read this twice
The honest headline is that the cash entry cost is low and the disclosure cost is high. There is no joining fee, and that is not a small thing - it removes the single most common way this category extracts money from people who will never earn any. What replaces it is a licensing stack of roughly CAD $1,100-1,300 or USD $600-1,300, a monthly technology fee that an upline’s FAQ puts at USD $19-79 or CAD $39, and four to twelve weeks of unpaid runway before a first commission can even be advanced, followed by carrier appointment time and the advance cycle. A realistic Canadian recruit is three to five months from signing to a first meaningful payment; a US recruit arriving already licensed can be much faster, which is precisely why the company describes the American funnel as the easier one. The part nobody explains at the recruiting meeting is what happens after the money arrives. Commission is advanced at 75-80% of first-year value, with the balance paid in months ten to twelve, and advances are charged back on lapses and surrenders on carrier-specific schedules, from the first six months to the first eighteen. Advance caps are per-policy dollar limits - one carrier’s chart shows a maximum of $1,696 for a Financial Associate, $2,060 for a Senior Financial Associate and $2,424 for a Senior Manager. So the first-year failure mode for a new agent selling to their least-qualified prospects, on the lowest contract, is not “earned nothing.” It is earned, spent, and then owed it back. And the arithmetic a prospect would need to judge the odds does not exist: Experior publishes no income disclosure statement of any kind, no aggregate persistency figure, no placement ratio and no active-producer count. The only income model the company publishes is a calculator that projects seven generations of downline override, with a disclaimer that results are estimates only. The plan document itself notes that “commissions across all sales through Experior approximate 90% of those depicted,” which is a candid disclosure and also means a recruit doing sums off the chart is roughly a tenth optimistic before anything else goes wrong.
Run your own numbers
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First-year commission at the 70% Financial Associate contract in the US Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025), on a policy of about USD $1,527 of first-year premium, Insurance Portal’s conversion of the CEO’s stated US average per sale, cut to 90% because the guidelines say commissions across all sales approximate 90% of the chart: $1,527 × 70% × 90% = about $962 (our arithmetic). $10,000 of premium over three months lifts an agent to the 85% contract, about $1,168 a policy on the same arithmetic, so the Full-time and High personal volume presets understate after the first quarter. The CEO puts the average advisor at about $10,000 of premium a year and a consistent producer at about $30,000, roughly half a policy and 1.6 policies a month at that average sale if those averages are in US dollars (the interview does not say), so the Realistic preset sits above the company’s own average. The 70% start beats the 50 to 60% Experior itself cites for other new agents, and the commission is carrier-funded rather than drawn from anyone’s enrollment fee. Term commissions land almost entirely in year one, so nothing compounds and the churn slider is disabled. Cost is the realistic first-year outlay: USD $600 to $1,300 of licensing, exams and E&O spread over twelve months is $50 to $108 a month, and the midpoint of $79 plus the lowest $19 monthly technology fee in an upline’s FAQ gives $98 (our arithmetic). Overrides are not modeled, because they need licensed, producing associates under you, and the US guidelines print monthly AOA counts beside them. Three things the model cannot show: you cannot be paid anything for the four to twelve weeks it takes to get licensed, carriers advance about 75% with the remainder in months ten to twelve, and chargebacks are not deducted here. No income disclosure statement exists. Your own subscription cost of $98/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
The capability an Experior recruit is acquiring is a bundle: carrier appointments, a contract level, training, a CRM and back office. Here is what the same bundle costs on the open market. Comparators are ordinary independent brokerages, street-level FMO/IMO contracts and direct carrier appointments - deliberately generic, because the point is the contract level and the override load, not any particular rival.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
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| Entry contract - 70% on the commission grid | Street-level independent contract for a producer able to self-prospect | commonly 90-110%+ |
| Paid above you on your own sale - at least 78 points of the US grid (50 of contract spread to the 120% top contract, 28 of generational override), with up to 12 more in builder bonuses | Typical independent arrangement: one upline level, often none | 0-10 pts |
| Direct carrier relationship | Direct appointment with a production history - full street commission, nobody above | no override |
| Carrier panel described as “more than 70” companies | Two or three FMO relationships assembled independently | $0 join, real legwork |
| CRM and back office - mandatory monthly fee, USD $19-79 or CAD $39 per an upline’s FAQ | Open-market insurance CRM, chosen and cancellable by you | ~$0-60/mo |
| Training and mentorship delegated to an upline whose income depends on you signing | Carrier and FMO product training, plus paid CE and sales coaching bought openly | $0-800/yr |
| Licensing - you pay for it either way | Identical: LLQP or state pre-licensing, exams, application, background check | CAD ~$700-900 / USD ~$200-800 |
| Senior Manager and Executive Director promotions need licensed, producing associates; the US builder bonuses need monthly AOA counts and the Executive Director’s personal bonuses need 10 to 20 AOAs a month | Contract increases negotiated on personal production volume | no recruiting requirement |
| Total as sold 70% starting contract, at least 78 points of the US plan’s stated minimum 148% field payout paid to the levels above you (our arithmetic), plus a monthly technology fee |
Total, built yourself 90-110%+ starting contract with one upline level or none |
Price-to-value
Both halves of this are true and a fair report has to publish both. For someone with no book, no industry contacts and no idea how to get appointed, 70% with real training, software and an assembled carrier panel beats the 50-60% Experior says other organizations start new agents on, and beats the alternative of not getting appointed at all - that is a genuine service and it is being paid for out of the spread. For anyone who could get a street-level contract on their own, 70% with at least 78 points of the US grid counted to the levels above is a large tax on every policy written at that level. The decisive question is not the entry number, it is the exit route: inside Experior, personal production alone opens the 85% contract and, under the US guidelines, Senior Manager II and III contracts of 107.5% to 130% on personal cashflow and premium, though those guidelines do not say whether an agent must first reach Senior Manager, and in Canada contracts to FYC + 160% the company advertises as available “without recruiting,” while the Senior Manager and Executive Director builder promotions require licensed associates under you. On the open market, it runs through production.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
Already-licensed producer
arrives holding a state life license, sells only, does no recruiting
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 44% | +$800 |
| 6 mo | 51% | +$2,300 |
| 1 yr | 55% | +$5,400 |
| 3 yr | 58% | +$19,000 |
| 5 yr | 59% | +$33,000 |
Career-changer, part-time
unlicensed at signup, 10-15 hrs/wk, warm market first
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
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| 3 mo | 3% | −$1,100 |
| 6 mo | 12% | −$1,300 |
| 1 yr | 21% | −$1,600 |
| 3 yr | 26% | −$2,400 |
| 5 yr | 27% | −$2,900 |
Builder chasing the generations
full-time, recruiting toward 30×30 and beyond, running a team
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
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| 3 mo | 5% | −$1,800 |
| 6 mo | 10% | −$3,200 |
| 1 yr | 16% | −$5,200 |
| 3 yr | 21% | −$9,000 |
| 5 yr | 23% | −$11,000 |
Methodology note. These are modeled outcome ranges, not claims and not company data - and the reason they have to be modeled is itself the finding. Experior publishes no income disclosure statement: no average, no median, no percentage earning nothing, no distribution across contract levels and no retention rate. Nothing on this site is anchored to a company earnings document here, because none exists. ANCHORED to what is published: the 70% entry contract and the 148% minimum stated field payout from the US Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025); the seven-generation override table and the monthly AOA counts printed beside its builder bonus; sample carrier first-year rates from the USA Compensation Chart 2023 (46.67% to 72.12% at entry level, rising to 105-163% across all levels, with guaranteed-issue at about 17-45%); advances at 75-80% on most carriers, with maximum advances of $1,272.73 to $7,878 on the four carriers that list their own, against standard maximums of $2,500 to $10,000 by level; carrier-specific chargeback windows; one carrier’s persistency tiers with inactivation and a 50% renewal reduction below 60%; the licensing stack of CAD ~$1,100-1,300 or USD ~$600-1,300; a company-stated E&O premium of $413 a year; and the plan document’s own note that real commissions “approximate 90% of those depicted.” MODELED by us: the cohort definitions, which Experior does not segment; the share of each cohort in cumulative profit; the monthly CRM charge, whose amount appears on no company page (an upline’s FAQ gives USD $19-79 or CAD $39); and the sales volumes behind each row. Two calibration notes that cut in the company’s favor. First, an already-licensed producer who can prospect for themselves genuinely can be cash-positive early here - there is no fee wall to climb out of, and that cohort is modeled as majority-profitable at every horizon, which is unusual on this site. Second, the negative medians on the other two cohorts are driven by licensing cost, unpaid runway and chargeback exposure rather than by any fee extracted by the company. What no cohort can be modeled against is the odds of reaching a generation: the route runs through licensed, producing associates, with monthly recruiting counts on the bonuses above the override, and while the year-end 2024 review counts 551 Executive Directors among 6,655 licensed agents, nothing published says what they earn or how many qualify for each generation.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
151Advancement runs through recruiting, in the company’s own guidelines
2A 78-percentage-point spread on a new US agent’s own sale
3No income disclosure statement of any kind
4A seven-generation downline income projector alongside that absence
5Every headcount figure is self-reported with no active-producer split
6A mandatory monthly CRM charge whose amount no company page states
7The advisor contract is not public
8No contractual release, non-compete or non-solicit terms are published
9“Ownership from the first sale” against “$0.00” to the estate
10Chargeback and persistency exposure sits on the agent
1180% of 24 reviewed client files did not show the universal-life policy fit the customer
1265 of 130 examined agents cited, 184 contraventions, 11 of the 30 Experior agents among them
13“IPO readiness within three years” with nothing filed
14The new parent publishes no biographies at all
15The founders’ pre-2014 careers are not on any company page
Green flags
101No joining fee, no kit, no inventory, no autoship, no product purchase
2No participant capital is taken in against a promised return
3Of the three MGAs named by the regulator, Experior drew no corporate enforcement outcome
4The compensation guidelines are published in full
5Real carrier-funded commission on real policies sold to real clients
6A candid downward adjustment printed in the company’s own plan
7A 70% entry contract against the 50-60% Experior cites as typical elsewhere
8A properly constructed, regulator-aligned consumer complaints process
9No deadline stacking, no false scarcity, and competent earnings disclaimers
10Twelve continuous years, an A+ BBB rating, and no found action against the entity
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- Publishing an income disclosure statement with median and mean earnings by contract level, the percentage earning nothing, active-producer counts against the licensed-agent headcount, and twelve-month retention. That single act would move two dimensions at once and is the largest available upgrade in the file.
- Publishing the standard advisor agreement - the release policy above all, plus the vesting schedule, non-compete and non-solicit terms, what happens to hierarchy overrides on departure, and whether awarded shares are forfeited or repurchased and at what valuation - together with the monthly CRM fee schedule on the recruiting pages.
- Taking the monthly AOA and recruit counts out of the builder bonuses in both countries, the Canadian agency bonus and the US Executive Director personal bonuses, so that every tier qualifies on settled production, and publishing aggregate thirteen-month persistency and placement ratios alongside a clean follow-up regulatory examination with a materially lower contravention rate.
Downward
- Any enforcement action against the Experior entity itself - an FSRA order, a provincial council decision, an AMF file or a US state department-of-insurance action - as distinct from action against individual agents.
- Introduction of any participant-paid fee tied to rank, lead purchase or event attendance as a qualification condition, or any capital raise from advisors: a share sale rather than a share award would change the securities analysis immediately and materially.
- Evidence that a material share of top earners have little or no personal production - the CCIR report found exactly that at one unnamed MGA of the three - or further carrier withdrawals from the panel (the company says three carriers terminated its contracts without cause after the 2022 review and two denied its agents access to service their clients), or a documented case of an advisor being blocked from a release or losing renewals on departure.
Grade is C. Real carrier-funded insurance, no joining fee and no participant capital at risk - attached to a ladder whose rungs are counted in recruits and whose exit terms nobody outside the company can read.
Three things here are genuinely better than the category and they belong first. Nobody hands over money: no joining fee, no kit, no inventory, no autoship, no product-purchase requirement, and the shares awarded to field leaders are awarded rather than sold. Every commission dollar is funded by a carrier on a policy issued to a client who wanted it - Nationwide, National Life, F&G, Americo and Annexus are named on the partner page, and term life is one of the few genuinely rational consumer financial purchases in existence. And both compensation guidelines are published in full, exact percentages and all seven generations, which is why this report can quote them. Add a competent earnings disclaimer, a regulator-aligned consumer complaints process, no manufactured urgency anywhere, and the fact that of the three managing general agencies named in the CCIR/FSRA thematic review, this was the one that drew no corporate enforcement outcome. That last point is worth stating without hedging, because the review is the thing most often held against the firm and at corporate level the record on it cuts the other way; at agent level, 7 of the 30 Experior agents FSRA examined were issued a Notice to Impose Summary Administrative Monetary Penalty, and one more after escalation to a Regulatory Discipline Officer.
What sets the grade is the ladder and the silence around it. In the United States a new Financial Associate is on 70% against a stated minimum total field payout of 148% - a 78-point spread on their own sale - and personal premium opens the 85% contract, but the leadership levels are not reached by selling more insurance. The company’s US Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025) make Senior Manager need four licensed associates and Executive Director seven to twelve producing ones, and print AOAs submitted beside life applications as the requirement for the builder bonus on each generation: 30×30, 40×40, 50×50, then 100×100 through the first, while the overrides themselves are listed with no requirement. An AOA is an Associate Ownership Agreement, which is to say a recruit. The Canada 2026 edition earns generations on Executive Director promotions instead, keeps “30 recruits + 30 settled applications” for its builder bonus, and advertises personal contracts to FYC + 160% “without recruiting.” Meanwhile Experior publishes a calculator that will model all seven generations of override income, and publishes no income disclosure statement of any kind - no median, no average, no zero-earner rate, no retention. The headcount trajectory it does publish, 3,800 to 9,000 to 15,000 to “18,000+,” is entirely self-reported with no active-producer split, which makes it equally consistent with a healthy field force and a high-churn funnel.
The last piece is the one to sit with, and it requires precision. Two regulatory files exist and they must not be merged. The insurance-conduct file records that Experior was one of three MGAs named in a thematic market-conduct review, that FSRA’s subsequent examination cited 65 of 130 agents across those three firms with 184 contraventions, 11 of the 30 Experior agents examined among them, and that a separate review found 80% of 24 client files did not show the universal-life policies sold fit the customers’ needs - and it also records that one of the other two firms received a compliance order, the second a Notice of Proposal, and Experior neither. The securities file is separate and it is clean on both questions that matter: no participant capital against a promised return, and licenses that match the products sold. What is genuinely missing is the contract. The guidelines publish a sale clause, a family transfer and Legacy payouts, but release terms appear only on recruiting pages and in an upline’s FAQ, there is no non-compete, no vesting schedule and no share-forfeiture terms, and a presentation deck’s “$0.00” to the estate absent a succession plan sits inside the “ownership from the first sale” framing. A prospect must obtain the actual agreement and read those clauses before signing. Do not sign on the strength of a press release.
Get licensed first, then choose your contract
The license is yours, it is portable, and it costs the same whoever sponsors you - CAD $1,100-1,300 or USD $600-1,300 all in. Nothing about obtaining it obliges you to accept a 70% starting contract. Once you hold it, street-level independent arrangements offering 90-110% and up, with one upline level or none, become available to anyone able to prospect for themselves. The sequence matters: sign the license paperwork before you sign the hierarchy paperwork.
Ask for the AOA, the release policy and the vesting schedule in writing, before signing
None of these is published as a contract. Specifically ask: does Experior grant a release to an agent moving elsewhere, is it discretionary, how long does it take, must the agent go dormant first, may a departing agent approach their own downline, what happens to hierarchy overrides on departure, and are awarded shares forfeited or repurchased and at what valuation. Also ask how “ownership from the first sale” reconciles with the “75% × 10 Years” and “$0.00 to the estate without a succession plan” in the company’s own deck. If the answers do not arrive on paper, that is the answer.
Ask what the monthly CRM charge is, and what it becomes at each level
Agent reviewers report it is mandatory and rises with rank. The amount is on no company page located; an upline’s published FAQ puts it at USD $19 to $79 a month by contract level, or CAD $39 in Canada. Get the current figure and the schedule in writing, add it to the licensing stack, and treat the total as your real entry cost rather than the “$0 to join” headline - which is accurate as far as it goes and does not go far enough.
Sell insurance without the hierarchy, if selling insurance is what you want
The demand is real and exogenous: people need term life whether or not any recruiting organization exists. A direct carrier appointment or a street-level independent contract pays full or near-full commission with no override above you, and advancement is negotiated on production rather than on licensed associates under you and, in the US, on how many associate ownership agreements you submitted last month. What you give up is the assembled panel, the training and the mentorship - which are real and which the spread is paying for, and which are worth most to a complete beginner and least to anyone who can already prospect.
Nine dimensions, weighted
Dimension profile
Further from center is better. Hover any point.
Hard caps that bind here
The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.
What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Experior Financial Group Inc., "Builders Compensation Plan," effective 03.2024 (PDF) - the 70% / 85% / 100% / 115% contract levels, the Structure 1 and Structure 2 seven-generation override and builder-bonus tables totaling 40% and 70%, and the 30x30 / 40x40 / 50x50 / 100x100 generational qualifications
Experior Financial Group Inc., Builders Compensation Plan, effective 03.2024 - contract levels at 70% / 85% / 100% / 115% base, minimum 143% and up to 170% total field payout on Structure 1; the seven-generation override table totaling 40% (Structure 1) and 70% (Structure 2); requirements of 30×30, 40×40, 50×50 and 100×100 through the first printed beside that table’s builder bonus, where the first figure counts Associate Ownership Agreements (AOAs) submitted in a month and the second life applications submitted; and the footnote that “commissions across all sales through Experior approximate 90% of those depicted”; the later US Promotion Guidelines & Compensation (June 2025) and Promotion Guidelines & Compensation 2026 / Canada state minimums of 148% and 198%
- "Everything You Should Know About Experior Financial Group: Frequently Asked Questions," 25 March 2025 (PDF), by Hernán Rodríguez, Senior Executive Director - an upline’s restatement of the USA and Canada contract ladders, the USD $19-79 and CAD $39 monthly technology fees, the refundable CAD $150 Canadian sign-up fee, the release-on-request statement, the 28% / 53% generation totals, the 12% / 17% builder bonuses, and total field compensation of 170% (USA) and 230% (Canada)
- Experior USA Compensation Chart, updated January 2023 (PDF) - per-carrier first-year commission rates by contract level, advance percentages and the per-product maximum advance caps by level
Experior USA Compensation Chart 2023 - carrier advance rates of 75-80% of first-year commission with the balance in months 10-12; maximum advances listed for four carriers of $1,272.73 to $7,878 by level, against standard maximums of $2,500 to $10,000; carrier-specific chargeback schedules running from months 1-6 to months 1-18; one carrier’s renewal bonus program, with inactivation and a 50% cut to year-two-to-four renewals below 60% thirteen-month persistency, and 75%/60% persistency, a 65% placement ratio and $12,000 placed annual production for its top tier; term rates at entry level of 38.18% to 67.88% and guaranteed-issue at about 17-45%
- CCIR cooperative MGA-focused thematic review - Consolidated Observations Report, 28 September 2022 (PDF) - the three tiered-recruitment MGAs across six jurisdictions, ~27,000 agents Canada-wide and ~11,000 in Ontario in 2021, ~66,000 recruits, and "no formal proactive agent reviews conducted by the MGAs"
CCIR / FSRA cooperative MGA-focused thematic review, consolidated observations report, published 28 September 2022 - three tiered-recruitment MGAs across six jurisdictions; ~27,000 agents Canada-wide and ~11,000 in Ontario in 2021; 40-70% growth in 2020-21; ~66,000 unlicensed individuals in the recruiting pipeline; sponsored agents (in their first two years of licensing) at about 45% of licensed agents in Ontario at two of the three in 2021; training delegated to uplines; “no formal proactive agent reviews conducted by the MGAs.” The published report anonymises the three firms; the naming is from trade press and from Experior’s own response confirming its inclusion
- FSRA web version of the CCIR cooperative MGA-focused thematic review consolidated observations report
- FSRA announcement, "FSRA takes action to ensure those in the Life and Health Insurance Sector treat consumers fairly," 28 September 2022 - the five committed follow-up actions
- Investment Executive, "Certain MGAs pay multiple life agents for a single sale, FSRA says," 28 September 2022 - the trade-press naming of Experior Financial Group Inc., Greatway Financial Inc. and World Financial Group Insurance Agency of Canada Inc. as the three reviewed MGAs
- Insurance Portal, "Joint regulatory review takes aim at tiered recruitment managing general agencies," 29 September 2022
- FSRA announcement, "Strengthening oversight and accountability of the life insurance sector," 3 October 2023 - the six-point action plan and the release of the two reports
FSRA, “Strengthening oversight and accountability of the life insurance sector,” 3 October 2023, and the two reports it released - 130 agents examined May 2022 to April 2023 from 12,775 contracted with the three MGAs; 65 cited with 184 contraventions, including 11 of the 30 Experior agents examined (25 contraventions); 21 Notices to Impose Summary Administrative Monetary Penalty and 39 escalations to a Regulatory Discipline Officer; 92 agents with 1,302 best-practice issues; 80% of 24 reviewed client files not demonstrating that the universal-life policy sold fit the customer’s needs. The announcement’s related-enforcement links name two firms and do not mention Experior
Not established by this document: The announcement itself does not mention Experior; the Life Agent Thematic Examinations report it links names Experior Financial Inc. as one of the three subject MGAs (998 agents, 30 examined) and gives its per-firm outcomes, but no dollar penalty total for any single MGA.
- FSRA, "Life Agent Thematic Examinations: Tiered-Recruitment Model MGAs" (PDF, October 2023) - 130 life agents examined May 2022 to April 2023 out of the 12,775 contracted with Greatway, WFG and Experior (Experior: 998 agents, 30 examined); 65 cited with 184 Insurance Act contraventions
- FSRA, "Observed Practices in the Distribution and Sale of Universal Life Insurance" (PDF, October 2023) - the client-file review finding no clearly identified life insurance need in 80% of files
- FSRA life and health insurance publications index - the Life and Health Insurance Agent Supervision Report series, including the fourth edition covering 2022–24
- Experior Financial Group, "Experior Financial responds to article on Ontario regulators' findings, seeking to clarify the record of Oct 3, 2023" - including the "only Experior among the three MGAs reviewed faced no enforcement actions" claim and the assertion that 31% of revenue comes from permanent products, evenly split between universal and whole life
Experior Financial Group public response to the 3 October 2023 findings, and its letter to the editor at Insurance Portal - the “no enforcement actions” point, which is verified and correct; and the company assertions that permanent products are only 31% of revenue evenly split between universal and whole life, that there has never been an E&O claim in its history, and that there have been fewer than five regulatory complaints in nearly a decade, none of which could be externally corroborated
- Insurance Portal, "Letter to the Editor — Experior responds to regulators' report," 12 October 2022 - the never-been-reported, single-agent-complaint and never-had-an-E&O-claim assertions
- Experior Financial Group Inc., "Experior Financial Group Inc. Speaks Up" - the company's own posting of the October 2022 open letter
- Newswire, "Experior Financial Group Releases Statement about Audit Report," 7 October 2022 - the wire-distributed version of the open letter, with the fewer-than-20%-under-two-years and eight-year-average-tenure figures
- Insurance Portal, "Experior Financial Group says it has doubled its advisor base in one year," 11 March 2025 (interview of 26 February 2025) - 3,800 to 9,000 advisors, Quebec sub-count rising from 145 to 190, the $413 annual E&O figure and the US emphasis
Insurance Portal, “Experior Financial Group says it has doubled its advisor base in one year,” 11 March 2025 (interview 26 February 2025) - 3,800 to 9,000 advisors, the Quebec sub-count rising 145 to 190, the $413 annual E&O figure, the US advisor base exceeding the Canadian one, and the CEO’s commercial reasons for the US emphasis; and Insurance Portal, “An MGA bets on shareholding to attract advisors,” February 2024 - shares awarded on business-volume thresholds to individual producers, dividends first paid in 2023, and, before February 2024, shares earned only by becoming an AGA; the March 2025 interview also gives the CEO’s 85% one-year retention figure and 2024 policy counts
- Insurance Portal, "Managing General Agency bets on share ownership to win advisors," 5 February 2024 - shares awarded on business-volume thresholds to individual producers, dividends first paid in 2023, and the 75%/25% voting/non-voting ownership split
- Experior Financial Group Inc., "Experior Financial Group Inc Expands Its Offering to the American Market," 16–17 February 2020 - "Experior Financial Group Inc is registered for business in California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, New York and Texas as of September 30, 2019"
Experior US expansion release - registration for business in seven states (California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New York, Ohio and Texas) as of 30 September 2019 and announcement of US market entry on 17 February 2020, which is the documentary basis for rejecting the “pivot followed FSRA scrutiny” premise
- Experior USA copy of the same US-expansion release
- Insurance Portal, "Ontario MGA enters US market," 19 August 2019 - contemporaneous trade coverage of the US entry, naming the target states and the Buffalo office opening, which places the US move roughly two years before the CCIR/FSRA review
- Florida Department of State corporate record - Experior Financial Group, Inc. (Corporate #F19000004031), filed 3 September 2019, Delaware jurisdiction, Cheektowaga NY principal address
- "Experior Financial Group Announces Strategic Alliance with Associate Owners Group Inc." - GlobeNewswire release, 29 September 2025: the share-swap agreement, "all Experior shareholders will hold ownership in AOG," and the three-year IPO-readiness target
GlobeNewswire and company release, 29 September 2025 - the share-swap alliance with Associate Owners Group Inc., “all Experior shareholders will hold ownership in AOG,” and the statement that the combined organization “targets IPO readiness within three years.” Paid wire distribution; no registration statement, prospectus or listing exists. AOG team page: six names and titles, no biographies
Not established by this document: The Associate Owners Group team page (six names and titles, no biographies) was not located at a retrievable URL and is not linked; the absence of any registration statement, prospectus or listing is a negative finding that no document can be cited for.
- Experior Financial Group's own posting of the AOG alliance release, 26 September 2025, including the leadership changes (Jamie Prickett Co-CEO of AOG; Lee-Ann Prickett President and CEO of Experior)
- EIN Presswire copy of the AOG alliance release, 26 September 2025 - the fullest version of the leadership-update section
- Experior Financial Group press release, "Innovating Compensation and Support for Agents and Clients," 7 July 2023 - ownership of the book of business from the first sale, personal and agency commissions up to 160% of FYC and hierarchy commissions up to 213% of FYC, and the retirement/disability/death-benefit payout structure
Experior IFBC presentation deck - the ownership plan stated as “75% × 10 Years”; book of business transferring to the agent’s estate “only with a succession plan; otherwise $0.00”; book valuation benchmarked at 2-3× annual renewals; and the illustrative upline model of $2,000 average FYC per agent per month against a 40% average spread
Not established by this document: The IFBC presentation deck itself - the source of the "75% × 10 Years" ownership plan, the "$0.00 without a succession plan" estate term, the 2–3× annual renewals book valuation and the $2,000 average FYC / 40% average spread upline model - is not published at any retrievable URL. The company pages above carry the equivalent ownership and payout claims but not those specific figures.
- Experior Financial Group, "Why Agents Love Experior's Tribrid MGA System" - the ownership, equity-issuance-at-Executive-Director and book-of-business-transfer claims in the company's own words
- Investment Executive, "Review of multi-level-marketing MGAs results in enforcement for 65 life agents," 3 October 2023 - the $224,000 in monetary penalties FSRA’s enforcement unit handed down in its latest year, a figure from an FSRA annual report rather than the three-MGA examination (up from $41,000), the 21 notices to impose monetary penalties and 39 escalations, and Experior's per-agent outcome breakdown, and its report of the company’s statement that the only enforcement resulting in a fine was a CE deficiency for one agent
Supporting and weaker-tier sources - Investment Executive and money.ca coverage of the October 2023 enforcement round, including the $224,000 annual penalty total from an FSRA annual report; the Dream Calculator and its disclaimers; the Experior partners, entrepreneurs, for-agents, about-us, segregated-funds and complaints pages; AD Banker and Learnedly licensing-cost references; WeirFoulds, BLG, Torys and McCarthy Tétrault analyzes of the proposed Ontario L&H MGA rule and FSRA’s 23 February 2026 pause of it; the BBB Guelph profile (A+, not accredited - a private ratings body’s assessment, not a regulatory finding); Indeed and Glassdoor reviews (public criticism, weakest tier); and ZoomInfo (a data vendor’s estimate, not a company figure)
Not established by this document: Not cited from this composite entry: money.ca's coverage of the October 2023 enforcement round; the AD Banker and Learnedly licensing-cost references; the WeirFoulds, BLG, Torys and McCarthy Tétrault analyzes of the proposed Ontario L&H MGA rule and FSRA's 23 February 2026 pause of it; the BBB Guelph profile; and the Indeed, Glassdoor and ZoomInfo entries. None of these were located at URLs that appeared verbatim in search results, and each is either weakest-tier evidence or a vendor estimate, so none is linked rather than guessed at.
- The Globe and Mail, "Insurance agents facing penalties and discipline after Ontario regulators uncover 'harmful' sales practices," 3 October 2023 - including Experior Chief Experience Officer Shelden Smollan’s "there has been no action taken against Experior or any Experior agents"
- Experior Financial Group "Dream Calculator" - the public earnings-projection tool showing the contract-level base and the 14% / 7% / 3% / 2% / 1% / 0.5% / 0.5% generational override inputs
- Experior Financial Group "About" page - the Tribrid MGA description, Guelph and Cheektowaga head offices and the agent-count claim
- Experior Financial Group careers page - the compensation and override claims made to prospective agents
- Experior Financial Group USA careers page - the US-side recruiting claims, including the License Only Agent terms and book-of-business ownership on termination
- Experior Financial Group, "Record-Breaking Year-End 2024 Review" - $73,624,295 in premium sold (up 53% from $48,129,007 in 2023), $294,358,313 in investments and 60,023 clients served: the company's own self-reported volume figures
- Experior Financial Group, "Experior Reaches Historic 10,000 Licensed Agent Milestone," 29 May 2025 - the self-reported growth from 3,500 to 10,004 licensed agents in 13.5 months
- Experior Financial Group, "Experior Financial Group Surpasses 15,000 Agents" - the next self-reported headcount milestone in the same series
- Experior Financial Group, "USA Experior Financial Group Reasons Why: Promotion Guidelines & Compensation" (PDF, created 9 April 2025, modified 13 June 2025) - contract levels FA 70% to Sr. Executive Director+ 120%, promotion production and business requirements, minimum 148% field payout, the AOA-based builder bonus table and the ED Agency bonus (4 x $40,000) and the SED+ generational bonuses ($120,000 and $500,000), shares qualifications and the Legacy and Right to Transfer programs
Linked as "USA Promotional Guidelines" from the FAQ already in sources; mostly image pages (read visually): pp.4-5 and pp.9-13 promotion requirements, p.7 Senior Manager II/III and ED B1-B3, p.19 ED Agency and SED+ bonuses, p.20 builder bonuses with 30x30 to 100x100 and "Minimum 148%. Up to 170% with Bonuses", pp.22-25 Legacy tiers, p.26 Right to Transfer. Read in full as page images on 8 Oct 2026 (26 pages, sha256 f2b4adef324cd00c3fe126e065d62b58c939747759b0bd95adeff0dad7ca9695).
- Experior Financial Group "Commission Levels Calculator" - current US contract levels (FA 70% to SED+ 120%, B1-B3 to 130%), generational overrides and "Total to Field (Excludes bonuses other than personal) 158%"
Linked from the Dream Calculator already in sources; shows contract percentages applied to premium points (FA 70% of 2,400 points = $1,680). Its commissions-config.json, read 8 Oct 2026, carries the same rates (SED+ 120%, B1-B3 120% to 130%, generations 14% to 0.5%, total to field 158%).
- BBB profile, Experior Financial Group Inc, Guelph, ON - A+ rating, not accredited
BBB search API (8 Oct 2026) returns this profile with rating A+ and bbbMember false; the hqNote and greenFlags A+ claim is otherwise uncited (composite gap). Years in business not checked.
- Experior Financial Group, "Promotion Guidelines & Compensation 2026 / Canada" (PDF, created 18 February 2026) - contracts FYC + 40% to FYC + 145% (up to 160%), minimum 198% and up to 230% field payout, generational overrides earned on promoting Executive Directors, the 30x30 Builder Bonus, premium-based SED+ and NED+ bonuses, and "Up to 160% contracts without recruiting"; advancement guidelines effective 1 January 2026 and bonus qualifications effective 1 June 2026
Linked as "Canada Promotional Guidelines" from the FAQ in sources; text-extractable. The current Canadian edition, covering the ground of the 03.2024 plan’s Structure 2 figures, though it does not itself say what it replaces. Read in full on 8 Oct 2026 (27 pages, sha256 d6208a8db92890f64784fa5c92a0d7bd80e135089e2628d38f6e4d73ec40af02).
What we could not get
- The premise that the pivot to the United States followed FSRA scrutiny - tested and rejected. US registration in seven states completed 30 September 2019 and expansion was announced 17 February 2020; the CCIR/FSRA thematic review ran December 2021 to June 2022 and published 28-29 September 2022. The US move predates the scrutiny by roughly two years. What is defensible is only that US growth accelerated afterwards and that the US field force later overtook the Canadian one - correlation, with the CEO giving purely commercial reasons and no source establishing causation
- The counting basis and the retention behind every headcount figure. The 3,800, 9,000, 10,000, 15,000 and “18,000+” numbers are all self-reported, with “advisors” and “licensed agents” used interchangeably and neither defined. No active-producer count, no policies-per-agent and no audit exists; the only attrition figure is the CEO’s interview claim of 85% retention after one year. The 3,800-to-9,000 figures come from a named CEO interview in a trade publication - a relay of a company number, not an independent count
- Experior’s share of the monetary penalties in dollars. FSRA’s report gives per-firm counts (11 of the 30 Experior agents examined were cited; 7 were issued a Notice to Impose Summary Administrative Monetary Penalty, and one more after escalation) but no dollar amounts by firm; the $224,000 that trade press reported is the total FSRA’s enforcement unit handed down in its latest year, taken from an FSRA annual report, not a figure for these three firms. Equally unresolvable: whether the CCIR report’s finding that “some of the top agents at one MGA … have sold zero to relatively few policies,” and its description of an “Insured Retirement Plan” strategy aimed at clients earning $40,000-$50,000, refer to Experior. The report anonymises the three firms and Experior disputes the second
- The monthly CRM and back-office fee - that it exists and rises with rank comes from agent reviews and from a Senior Executive Director’s published FAQ (USD $19 to $79 a month by contract level; CAD $39 a month plus a refundable CAD $150 sign-up fee in Canada). The amount and schedule appear on no company page located
- The contractual release terms, non-compete and non-solicit terms, what happens to hierarchy overrides on departure, share forfeiture or repurchase terms and valuation, and the formal vesting schedule. The advisor agreement is not public. “75% × 10 Years” appears in a presentation deck rather than a contract; the published Legacy Program ties 75% for ten years to its Bronze and Silver tiers
- Share valuation and AOG capitalization - award thresholds, redemption, transferability and what Experior shareholders actually received in the September 2025 swap; plus Monte Holm’s career history and prior ventures, and Lee-Ann Prickett’s pre-2014 employers. Jamie Prickett’s first ten years were at another life insurance distribution company, per his own February 2024 trade interview, which no company page repeats
- Audited financials of any kind. None exist publicly. The $186.9 million revenue figure is a ZoomInfo vendor estimate - a data vendor’s model, not a company disclosure and not audited - and the 51-200 corporate headcount comes from the same vendor. Also uncorroborated: the company’s own claims of zero E&O claims in eleven years, fewer than five regulatory complaints in nearly a decade, only 31% of revenue from permanent products, “more than 70” carriers, and the $413 E&O premium
- Aggregate persistency, placement ratios and chargeback rates - not disclosed, and they are the numbers that would show whether the headcount growth is real production or churn. Also unverified: the current US state licensing footprint, which stood at seven states in September 2019 with no current consolidated roster published; comprehensive US state department-of-insurance clearance, since fifty-odd separate regulators cannot be exhaustively searched; the absence of any AMF file in Quebec, which is a null result from an incomplete search; and any published advisor advertising or social-media compliance policy
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