We show our work

Know exactly where you stand.
Then check the math yourself.

Straight answers at the moments your money changes — retirement, a windfall, a first NIL check. No projection you can't verify. No product pitch. Just clarity.

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RETIREMENT NIL · WINDFALL ONE METHOD
Where to start

Two front doors. One method.

Straight answers at the moments your money changes — a retirement you planned for, or a check that arrived before the plan did. Pick the door that fits.

Retirement & life transitions
Approaching retirement or a major life change
Will your money last the rest of your life — and how do you actually know?
Retirement, widowhood, divorce, inheritance, or a concentrated liquidity event.
Athletes & NIL
A college athlete — or the parent of one
Your first NIL check isn't yours yet. Know exactly what is.
NIL and revenue-share income, first deals through going pro, and the families behind them.
Free · no email · nothing saved
The problem

Most financial advice is confident and vague at the same time.

You get a projection, a pie chart, and a reassuring conversation — and no real way to check any of it. When the question is whether your money will last the rest of your life, that isn't good enough.

The arithmetic is simple. The decisions around it are not.

We separate those two things, work the first in the open, and are honest about where the second begins.

The method

Five rules. Four you can run yourself.

The same five rules, worked in the same order, for every client. Nothing proprietary, nothing hidden.

01Free Cash FlowIncome exceeds expenses
02Savings RatePay yourself first
03Savings EscalationRaises go to savings, not lifestyle
04Portfolio DesignEvidence, not forecasts
05Perpetuity TestThe point where the money pays you

Four of these are arithmetic. You can work them yourself, on one page, without us — and our worksheet does exactly that, free.

Rule 4 is different. It's where arithmetic ends and judgment begins, and no calculator settles it. That's the part you hire an advisor for, and the part most firms are vaguest about.

See the full method →

Who this is for

People whose plan was built for one stage of life, and now needs rebuilding for the next.

Retirement Widowhood Divorce Inheritance Concentrated wealth Family transfer
A particular focus
Retiring on your own
Nearly all retirement planning quietly assumes a couple — a survivor benefit, a second check, a built-in caregiver. When those assumptions don't hold, the math changes, and most planning doesn't.
The difference

We show our work.

Our entire method is on this site, free, with no email required and nothing saved to our servers. You can run your own numbers before you ever speak to us — and if the answer is that you don't need us yet, we'd rather you found that out on your own.

A method you can check is worth more than one you have to trust.
Next step

Start with the numbers.

Run the worksheet first. If it raises a question worth a conversation, that's what the call is for — twenty minutes, no preparation, nothing to send us beforehand.

Twenty minutes · No preparation · Nothing to send beforehand