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# Nitrogen Reviews
**Vendor:** Nitrogen  
**Category:** [Financial Risk Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/financial-risk-management)  
**Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 72
## About Nitrogen
Nitrogen revolutionized how financial advisors and wealth management firms grow with the launch of Riskalyze in 2011. Today, Nitrogen is the growth platform for wealth management firms, helping advisors turn leads into meetings, meetings into valued clients, and clients into referral champions. The company invented the Risk Number®, built on top of a Nobel Prize-winning academic framework, and is the champion of the Fearless Investing Movement — tens of thousands of financial advisors committed to our mission of empowering the world to invest fearlessly. To learn more, visit NitrogenWealth.com.



## Nitrogen Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users find Nitrogen&#39;s interface to be **easy to use** , enhancing discussions about client risk and portfolios. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **ease of use** and effective client risk discussions facilitated by Nitrogen&#39;s investment management features. (1 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **setup ease** of Nitrogen, finding it simple and intuitive with its smart user interface. (1 reviews)
- Users praise Nitrogen&#39;s **simplicity** , noting its easy setup and user-friendly interface for quick data access. (1 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **smart user interface** of Nitrogen, praising its simplicity and easy setup with Excel integration. (1 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users are concerned about the **high costs** associated with Nitrogen, feeling it&#39;s overpriced and poorly managed. (2 reviews)
- Users find a **serious feature deficiency** in Nitrogen, lacking verbal scoring options and facing forced contract renewals. (1 reviews)
- Users find Nitrogen&#39;s **outdated interface** and contract-based model off-putting in today&#39;s competitive software landscape. (1 reviews)
- Users report **poor customer support** from Nitrogen, citing frequent invoicing errors and ineffective communication on price increases. (1 reviews)

## Nitrogen Reviews
  ### 1. Riskalyze has revolutionized risk analysis and portfolio construction

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2020

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Managing risk and effectively articulating risk to a client was extremely difficult before Riskalyze came along and revolutionized the process.  I call my pre-Riskalyze days the Dark Ages of managing money.  I no longer feel like I'm managing money in the dark.  Riskalyze has turned on the bright lights and brought clarity to risk management and portfolio construction.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Not much to improve on here.  Possibly improving Retirement Map and integrating more Financial Planning in addition to the Risk Analysis.  However, overall I love Riskalyze and couldn't imagine managing money without it.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I think I covered this in my answers to the previous questions.

  ### 2. An essential for the digital advisor

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Charles J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Very few tools out there present complex topics like risk/reward in a client focused presentation.  Client love the simplicity of the program.  The tool is also very good for winning business from other firms which don't use Riskalyze.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Any dislikes I have with the tool have been fixed over the last few years.  The feedback team is very responsive to any issues you have.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Simple Risk Analysis, Side by Side comparisons with competing firms portfolios to win business, and increased compliance confidence.

  ### 3. Long Time User of Riskalyze - it just gets better and better!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Riskalyze is intuitive and so easy to use.  Results are very helpful to explain risk tolerance to clients, enabling an easy move to investment management options for clients.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

I can't think of anything I dislike.  I used it for a few years, and then recommended it to the principals of my firm, who are now avid users also.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's now easy to explain why I recommend certain investments or portfolios - because it's directly related to how much risk a client is comfortable with.  It keeps clients informed about their investment choices.

  ### 4. Riskalyze

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** jason h. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Great technology and interface. Easy for both the advisor and clients to understand a difficult concept for so many years

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

So far, nothing. customer service has been tremendous and always willing to assist with items and scenarios we encounter.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Better able to communicate risk levels and rewards with clients

  ### 5. Great tool for Advisors

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Risk Number questionnaire is a unique spin on the typical risk tolerance questionnaire.  It's also great that we can customize the questionnaire to match the client's portfolio, so they can see (in real dollars) how taking on more risk will affect their portfolio.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

I wish it synced better with our recordkeeping system (FIS Relius).  We also use RedTail, which syncs great.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It has helped us better understand the risk tolerance of our clients and help us customize their portfolios to meet their goals.

  ### 6. Personalized Risk assessment

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Riskalyze's blend of behavioral finance with analytics provides a much more realistic assessment of a client's true risk tolerance than purely analytical questionnaires

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

There could be a better explanation of the  methodology of the risk questions for clients so they better understand the intent of the questions before they begin the survey

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am better able to customize and tailor my clients portfolios to their stated level of risk tolerance

  ### 7. Riskalyze is a very useful tool for determining clients' actual risk tolerance based on real numbers

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Katherine M. | Director of RIA Compliance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Riskalyze puts real dollar amounts to gains and losses for clients during the risk assessment. After you enter their portfolio amount, they can see what a certain percentage loss or gain would actually look like in real numbers. It also assigns every holding they have a risk score, and weights their entire portfolio to show whether or not it lines up with what their risk score was, which has been very helpful in illustrating the real need for recommended portfolio allocation changes on more than one occasion. 

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

It took awhile to get a handle on how to enter portfolios in to the software accurately, as numbers and percentages can automatically change as you add more holdings if you do not do it correctly from the start. This has caused frustration, but is more of a learning process than a flaw. 

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Try out the Riskalyze training Webinars if you are having any trouble. 

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

This has caused several of our clients to realize they are not anywhere near as conservative or aggressive as they thought they were, as seeing the actual dollar amounts and envisioning their statement showing it hits in a different way than saying "a loss of X%" does. It really helps us illustrate when a client's portfolio is taking on a level of risk that is simply not suitable for them, and provides a necessary back up during discussions regarding necessary portfolio changes. It has also helped us provide clients with reasonable expectations of what their portfolios will look like in the event of market volatility, and given us something to fall back on if they call us worried about their portfolio returns. We have the ability now to remind them that during their risk assessment, they said they would be comfortable with the dollar amounts presented to them, and that we are within them, leaving them no need to worry, since their allocation is appropriate. 

  ### 8. Riskalyze is efficient and great for a client visualization and engagements

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2019

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

The questionnaire that Riskalyze provides for clients to use creates great client engagement and provides an excellent visual for them based on real numbers of growth or decline of their portfolio, providing real examples of how certain market events could alter their total assets.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

It is sometimes difficult to enter client portfolios and took awhile to learn how to do it without skewing the dollar amounts and/or percentages of holdings

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Try to go to one of their live training sessions. They are great for tips and tricks and provide insight to the options that they provide through their various subscriptions. It was not difficult for our team to find a training session that was close to us, and they even gave us a free pass for one of the members in the office after we had purchased two seats. I would also definitely recommend building your own frequently used models (if you have them) to easily do side by side risk comparisons for clients of their current model against what you could provide them. It is quicker to have them on hand than to try and do it individually as clients come in. 

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It solves the problem of hypothetical market situations clients think they would be ok with being abstract to them by illustrating hard numbers (for example, what their total portfolio would drop to in the event of a double digits downturn in the market). This is great because it allows the client to visualize the scenario and how it would actually make them feel to log in and see that number. 

  ### 9. Stay away from Riskalyze

**Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Norman P. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2019

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Concept of what they have attempted to address

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

They refused to let me out of contract early, even though I had paid for 10 months and never used.  Must be desperate for cash flow.  Poor customer service.

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Think before you sign contract.  Most companies will let you out if unhappy or unsatisfied.  These guys will not.  If you have a great product/service this contract would not be necessary.  Think about it!

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Risk tolerance for clients.

  ### 10. Dishonest company

**Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tunc T. | President, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2019

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Since I have to write 40 words here, I have enjoyed how difficult they make it for clients to cancel a subscription service. They are rude and arrogant. I think they have hired back all the ex-AOL online customer service reps.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Piece of nonsense software run by a piece of s... company. Dont expect anything. You just need to pay the bills which they believe they are entitled lifetime.

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Seek anything else. There are so many other choices out there

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Zero benefits but I made Riskalze rich

  ### 11. Terrible product in my opinion. Graphs are a joke. Reports do not include needed graphs.

**Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2018

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Nothing at all. When i asked about the graphs being used in the report to show clients, they kept telling me to cut and paste from the program and basically make my own report. Then when I cancelled they jerked me around and kept trying to bill me after they said they would not.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

The product cannot produce reports with any of the useful graphs. They told me to cut and paste them and make my own report. Then when I tried to cancel, they started jerking me around. They said I had to talk to their customer service people. I had to do an exit interview. They told me I would not be billed again, and then they billed me again. I told them I had cancelled. Now they are saying my cancellation isn't effective until five months after I cancelled (in writing by the way). DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Stay far far away.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

None. Terrible product.

  ### 12. Good product for interactively assessing client/prospect risk

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Andrew W. | Musician, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Quick and easy to implement. Riskalyze allows you to solicit and diagnose someone's risk number  and to analyze their portfolio.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Wish we could get a higher client conversions rate.

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Interesting product. Good feature to add to your website. I've heard advisors using this well for client discusions and meetings.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Used it as a CTA for our website and blog visitors. We thought people would be interested in finding out if there personal risk number was aligned with their investments. Unfortunately, our audience did not seem to care about this much.

  ### 13. Powerful Risk Tolerance Questionnaire

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2018

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

- Stress tests
- Risk numbers provide a fast and quantitative way to summarize clients' risk tolerances and then show them what that number means in real life scenarios
- Investment Roadmap is a good way to present proposals and compare a current risk score to a new portfolio

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

- No seamless way to send questionnaires to married couples, there should be a way to assign questionnaires in one group but it forces you to create separate households
- Could be more options in stress tests like interest rates or oil prices

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use Riskalyze with nearly all of our clients to find the ideal portfolio for their level of risk. This allows us to reference their questionnaire if we receive questions about why they are in the portfolio.

  ### 14. Great Product for Interactive Determining Risk Tolerance

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Riskalyze is very user friendly and has an easy-to-use interface. 

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Sometimes the result of the risk tolerance is not completely accurate, due to the formula. 

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

If you're looking for a simple product to determine risk analysis for clients, Riskalyze is a great product to implement. It also integrates with a variety of financial software. 

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Riskalyze allows us to determine a client's risk tolerance and create a portfolio that is aligned with that risk tolerance. 

  ### 15. MY office loves riskalyze!

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Samantha S. | Marketing Director, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2018

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

riskalyze makes being an advisor easier and is so helpful

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Riskalyze can be a bit tedious at times like most other products

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

creating fund lineups, etc. for clients

  ### 16. Riskalyze

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

I enjoy the ease of use (once initial training is complete) and the vast amount of information that the results provide are really beneficial to mitigating risk. The accuracy rate (I believe 95%), is one of the best you'll find, and really gives piece of mind.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Can be a challenge to use at first and train new users on, but it proves to be worth it in the long run.f

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

This system was used in a previous role of mine for risk assessment of lending mclients. I really enjoy how concise the findings are. The product is fairly easy to use and the fact that it quantifies the risk into a single number is very beneficial in comparison to past systems I have used to achieve the same goal. 

  ### 17. Easy Risk Assessment

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

The platform is extremely easy to use and asks straightforward questions.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

The answers seem to be skewed towards a certain direction and don't always accurately represent a client's risk. 

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

I would recommend this product if you are looking for a simple tool to determine risk tolerance for clients. 

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are using Riskalyze to generate a client's risk tolerance and then use it to invest similar risks in similar portfolios, saving us time and resources. 

  ### 18. Simple and attractive interface...

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** James R. | Chief Investment Officer, Investment Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2017

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Simple way to help gauge the investment risk tolerance for a client. Familiar use of the "speed limit" sign visual.

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

It would be very nice to know more about the risk model definition and make it more flexible for consistency with my other tools.

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Provides a simple way to communicate the alignment (or misalignment) of risk tolerance with a client portfolio.

  ### 19. Riskalyze

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Riskalyze is a great way to get a handle on the risk tolerance of clients.   

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

It can be hard to find funds inside of 401k's or annuities. 

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Make it easier to find funds, especially funds inside of 401ks and annuities 

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It gives a questionnaire to walk a client through to determine their risk tolerance. 

  ### 20. Riskalyze - simple and easy

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2017

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

The UI is very clean and intuitive, and it proves to be a great tool to easily demonstrate risk and retirement goals to clients. 

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

I think it's great as it is. It's not super robust or complicated, but that is a good thing when you are using it for client meetings.

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

This integrates really well with other platforms, and it's easy for the customer to complete the risk survey through an e-mail link. 

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are able to track a client's risk tolerance, which not only makes them more comfortable, it also keeps us compliant that we can show clearly we know our clients needs. 

  ### 21. Ok, but not worth the cost

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2017

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

Does a fairly decent job of analyzing risk factors in portfoloios

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

There are better programs on the market that do a more detailed analysis at a lower cost

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Comprehensive risk modeling of client portfolios.  Does a decent job of giving a numerical factor of risk.

  ### 22. Riskalyze

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2016

**What do you like best about Nitrogen?**

It is simple, clean, and very user-friendly for both the internal office staff and the client to use and understand. 

**What do you dislike about Nitrogen?**

Nothing at this point! It serves its purpose for what we need. 

**Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:**

Don't let its simplicity fool you! This is above and beyond the competitor, Hidden Levers. 

**What problems is Nitrogen solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are able to establish that risk tolerance analysis was done for our clients, which satisfies compliance, and then clearly show the client if their retirement plan is on track and in the right risk level.


## Nitrogen Discussions
  - [What does Riskalyze cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-riskalyze-cost)
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## Nitrogen Features
**Functionality**
- Customizable Reporting
- Market Analytics
- Client Portal
- Investment Accounting
- Real time 
- Compliance
- Customizable Reporting

**Platform Data**
- Visualization

**Integration**
- Data aggregation
- Accounting Integration
- Risk Management

**Platform Interoperability**
- Pre-Built Connectors

**Platform Additional Functionality**
- Dashboard
- Multi-Factor Analysis
- Cloud

**Agentic AI - Investment Portfolio Management**
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance

**Platform Basics**
- Reporting

**Agentic AI - Financial Risk Management**
- Natural Language Interaction

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