Nitrogen Reviews & Product Details

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.

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Nitrogen

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Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Dan Bolton

Pricing

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Basic

$250.00

Flat Rate Per Month

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User Insights

Average based on 72 real user reviews.

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Typical contract price

$0k - $0k

Per Month

Nitrogen Integrations

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Nitrogen Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is Nitrogen, and what problem is it built to solve?

Nitrogen is a wealth management platform for advisors and investors who want to optimize financial strategies. It helps assess risk tolerance, align investment strategies with client preferences, and manage portfolios.

What languages does Nitrogen support?

Nitrogen supports 1 language: English.

What company sizes and industries is Nitrogen the best fit for?

Nitrogen appears most useful for smaller advisory firms, particularly those working in financial services and investment management. The positive user fit clusters around these segments:

Small businesses: Organizations with 50 or fewer employees
Mid-market organizations: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees
Financial services: The clearest industry concentration
Investment management: Another represented industry

What customer support options does Nitrogen provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Support is available through direct channels such as email/help desk, phone, and chat, along with self-serve resources. The experience can be helpful and knowledgeable, though users also encounter slow responses and, at times, unhelpful service.

What features or capabilities could make Nitrogen even more useful?

Nitrogen could be more useful with broader investment coverage and smoother workflows for handling portfolios and their underlying holdings. Opportunities for improvement include:

Broader asset coverage: Recognize more securities and investment types, including certain structured products, annuities, and alternative investments.
Simpler portfolio handling: Make it easier to find and enter holdings, copy or move positions, and keep investment models current.
More flexible comparisons and reporting: Improve side-by-side proposal comparisons and provide more detailed, customizable reports.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/26/2018

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

0/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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!!!!!!!!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Andrew W.

Musician

Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Updated 10/30/2018

Originally submitted 12/12/2017

"Good product for interactively assessing client/prospect risk"

3.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nitrogen?

Wish we could get a higher client conversions rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:

Interesting product. Good feature to add to your website. I've heard advisors using this well for client discussions and meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 their personal risk number was aligned with their investments. Unfortunately, our audience did not seem to care about this much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/19/2018

"Powerful Risk Tolerance Questionnaire"

3.5/5

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/31/2018

"Great Product for Interactive Determining Risk Tolerance"

4/5

What do you like best about Nitrogen?

Riskalyze is very user friendly and has an easy-to-use interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nitrogen?

Sometimes the result of the risk tolerance is not completely accurate, due to the formula. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Samantha S.

Marketing Director

Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/12/2018

"MY office loves riskalyze!"

4/5

What do you like best about Nitrogen?

riskalyze makes being an advisor easier and is so helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nitrogen?

Riskalyze can be a bit tedious at times like most other products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/24/2017

"Riskalyze"

3.5/5

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 peace of mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 clients. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/12/2017

"Easy Risk Assessment"

4/5

What do you like best about Nitrogen?

The platform is extremely easy to use and asks straightforward questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Nitrogen:

I would recommend this product if you are looking for a simple tool to determine risk tolerance for clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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James R.

Chief Investment Officer

Investment Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/30/2017

"Simple and attractive interface..."

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/29/2017

"Riskalyze"

5/5

What do you like best about Nitrogen?

Riskalyze is a great way to get a handle on the risk tolerance of clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Nitrogen?

It can be hard to find funds inside of 401k's or annuities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/9/2017

"Riskalyze - simple and easy"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.