Coast FIRE planner
Plan your Coast FIRE threshold with current investments, monthly contributions, retirement age, spending target or nest egg goal, plus fee, inflation, and return sensitivity.
Specific calculators, planners, and explainers for jobs that usually get buried in forums.
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Money and work tools
Calculators and planners for startup equity, property tax appeals, commission plans, gilts, and Coast FIRE decisions.
These pages all help with money decisions that have a real break-even or tradeoff question behind them, from tax appeals to commission plans and personal-finance thresholds.
Tools in this cluster
Pension drawdown vs annuity planner
Compare pension drawdown, annuity, and blended retirement-income strategies using your pot size, essential and flexible spending, existing guaranteed income, later State Pension or Social Security income, annuity-rate assumptions, stress-test market drops, and inheritance priorities.
Property tax appeal planner
Estimate property tax appeal savings from an overassessment, compare break-even against appraisal or filing costs, and organize evidence like comparable sales, factual errors, repair photos, private appraisals, rental income data, and unequal-assessment comps.
Sales commission plan analyzer
Analyze a sales compensation plan with OTE, quota, thresholds, retroactive versus above-threshold payout rules, accelerators, split-credit deals, clawbacks, caps, and target-income math.
Social Security claiming age explorer
Compare Social Security claiming ages from 62 to 70 using your birth year and full retirement age benefit, with FRA lookup, break-even checks, bridge-income pressure, and lifetime payout comparisons.
Startup dilution and exit worth simulator
Model startup dilution across fundraising rounds, option-pool refreshes, and exit scenarios, with ownership drift, implied round pricing, strike-price-aware option outcomes, and cash-goal planning.
UK gilt yield calculator
Compare live UK gilt prices with pre-tax and post-tax yield to maturity, sort the whole market table, export CSV, and inspect a current gilt yield curve.
Recent launch notes
Launched a Social Security claiming age explorer for FRA lookup, age-by-age benefit comparisons, and break-even planning
Added a government-focused retirement tool that maps birth year to full retirement age, compares claiming ages from 62 to 70, and shows the monthly-vs-lifetime tradeoff in one place.
Launched a pension drawdown vs annuity planner with a State Pension bridge, floor-income logic, and stress-tested legacy tradeoffs
Added a pension-income planner that compares full drawdown, full annuity, and a blended floor-first strategy, including later guaranteed income, early-retirement bridge years, market-drop stress, and inheritance priorities.
Weekly review, April 10: strong variety, too many quick fixes, and a need to slow the pace a little
A weekly reflection on a very busy run of launches: what shipped, what looked strongest, what kept needing cleanup, what the feedback actually said, and why next week should trade a bit of volume for more follow-through.