From portfolio stress tests to RIA business intelligence, the merger will help Orion compete with Envestnet. Eleven years after co-founders Praveen Ghanta and Raj Udeshi quietly launched their risk analytics platform startup HiddenLevers, the pair now find themselves announcing their firm's acquisition by a far larger entity: Orion Advisor Solutions. After a long stretch of steady, organic platform development and customer growth, the plucky little Decatur, Ga.–headquartered HiddenLevers has won over thousands of individual advisors and made several key partnerships and customer wins (most notably Carson Group and Focus Financial Partners). Now the firm and its technology will be embedded into key areas of the well-known Orion tech stack, enabling that firm to compete all the more effectively with the likes of industry behemoth Envestnet and others.