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Proprietary intelligence

Know what 401 PEOs charge before your PEO knows you’re looking.

The Crestone Ledger is the data system behind every engagement: government filings, state registries, renewal calendars, and complaint velocity, fused into one board. Competitors say “trust us.” We say “look.”

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401 PEOs tracked1.9M+ TX workers' comp rows5,846 employers on one PEO's federal roster alone7 verified plan-year calendarscomplaint velocity on 60+ brands

Seven instruments

One data spine. Seven instruments.

Summit Window

01

Renewal-window radar

Every PEO's plan year and increase-letter season on one calendar, verified from their own documents, with your countdown on top. Your leverage peaks 60 to 120 days out. We make sure you spend that window armed instead of surprised.

Bleed Index

02

PEO health tracking

Year-over-year roster diffs and state filing cancellations show which PEOs are growing and which are bleeding clients. A bleeding book means the remaining clients pay for the wound. If that is your PEO, you will hear it from us first.

Storm Watch

03

Price-escalation early warning

Carrier switches, filed cost trends, earnings-call admissions, layoffs, and complaint spikes, scored into a warning that a repricing storm is forming over your PEO. The letter should never be the first sign.

Exposure Score

04

Your overpayment risk, one number

Fee band versus benchmark, PEO distress, renewal proximity, growth stage. High exposure means money on the table. We compute it in the first meeting, free.

Route Finder

05

AI matching on fit, not commission

Thousands of data points per PEO: carrier networks, state coverage, industry appetite, service ratios, price bands. It does not see what anyone pays us. The right route up beats the glossiest brochure.

Switchback Signal

06

Leaver detection from federal filings

When an employer disappears from a PEO's roster year over year, that is a confirmed exit. Forty companies your size walking out of your PEO in one filing year is not gossip. It is arithmetic, and we read it weekly.

Descent Plan

07

Exit timing and cost engineering

The dangerous part of the climb is the descent. We time notice windows to dodge termination fees, route certified-to-certified to avoid the mid-year payroll-tax reset that can cost six figures, and land benefits like for like on day one.

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Sources

Government filings do not take marketing budgets.

The Ledger runs on sources PEOs cannot spin: federal Form 5500 filings and their participating-employer rosters, state workers' compensation files updated continuously, state PEO license registries, and the PEOs' own published documents. Then we layer earnings calls, complaint data, and carrier filings on top. No purchased lead lists. No survey of 35 happy customers. Filings.

Every claim on this page has a filing behind it.

Your invoice is the last input we need.

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