Type an annual gross salary in the box above and the whole dashboard — budget, retirement projection, and KPIs — fills itself in.
No salary yet? Put your current checking balance in the Active Plan tab instead, then drop your bank statements into the importer there.
▸Check-In — Sit Down With Agentno check-ins logged yet
Start here. Every number on this dashboard — your cascade weights, what your statements actually show, and what moved since last time — gets bundled into a brief and handed to your agent, which interviews you one question at a time. Every exchange is saved on this device and replayed into the next conversation, so it opens knowing what you said last month and can hold you to it.
▸How the agent should think
This text is pasted into every request, ahead of your numbers. It is the whole personality — change it and the next question changes. Iterate in the Workbench at platform.claude.com if you want a fast loop, then paste the winner here. The mechanics below it (one question at a time, continuity from past check-ins, the SUMMARY convention) are built in and stay whatever you write.
▸API key & model
Read this once. The key is kept in this browser's local storage on this device, and requests go straight from this page to api.anthropic.com — nothing routes through anyone else's server. But anyone who can open this file in your browser profile can read that key, and if you email or upload this HTML after saving one, the key travels with the browser, not the file — the file itself stays clean. Use a dedicated key you can revoke at console.anthropic.com, and don't do this on a shared machine. Each check-in costs a fraction of a cent.
Saves the transcript plus a snapshot of today's numbers, so next month has something to compare against.
Take-Home Pay
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Savings Rate
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of gross, incl. match · target ≥ 15%
Effective Tax Rate
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Employer Match
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free money · click the 401(k) row to set your match
Monthly Leisure
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what trickles to the bottom
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Direct Costs
Savings & housing come off the top — pay yourself first.
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total / year incl. taxes
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Annual
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Other Direct Costs
Everyday essentials, plus the emergency fund until it holds 4 months of expenses.
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total / year
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Emergency Fund · 4 months of living expenses
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Current balance saved: $ · –
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Leisure
Whatever survives the cascade — entertainment, gifts, trips, guilt-free.
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Where every gross dollar goes
Share of gross salary by category
Savings order of operations
The professional consensus for a young earner, baked into the defaults
Projection
Retirement Savings — age 22 to 65
Four accounts compounding on today's contribution levels. 401(k), Roth IRA and HSA grow at 7% real; the taxable account at 8%. Contributions rise with salary growth and respect annual limits.
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Rough patches happen — model a stretch in your 30s/40s where investing pauses, and see what it really costs at 65.
What does retiring at 65 actually require?
Reverse Solve
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Portfolio growth by account
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Right Now
Active Plan
Your checking account today and where it's headed — with a live transaction ledger and a spend-down plan that fits your season of life.
Checking Account — Today
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Monthly budget (÷ 9 months)–
Weekly budget–
Daily walking-around money–
Checking Account — Assumed Future
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Change vs. today–
Months of essentials it covers–
Suggested checking buffer–
Monthly Spend Planner — College Edition
Our Live Bank Statements — Where The Money Actually Wentno statements loaded
Drop the monthly statements you download from your bank. Every transaction gets read, categorized, and stacked against both the advisor targets on your Recommended Allocations tab and your own running average — so you can see where you're drifting before it becomes a habit. Drop several months at once to build the baseline.
Fastest reliable route: in Chase, open the account → Download account activity → choose CSV (or QFX) and pick the date range. CSV carries the columns already separated, so it imports exactly, needs no internet, and never misreads a row. PDF works too, but it depends on a PDF reader that some setups block.
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Drop statements or screenshots here
Drag in one month or a whole stack — files, or a screenshot of your transaction list. You can also just copy a screenshot and press Ctrl+V anywhere on this page. Nothing is uploaded; it's all read right here in your browser.
CSV, QFX & OFX read exactly · PDF and screenshots (PNG / JPG) are read on-device
Runs a quick check and tells you exactly what's blocking it, if anything.
Add transactions by hand–
For cash, a transaction that hasn't posted yet, or a month you never downloaded. Spending is negative, deposits are positive. These sit in the same pool as everything imported, so they're categorized, charted, and counted against your targets exactly the same way.
Date
Description
Category
Amount
PDF reader blocked? Paste the statement text instead — always works, no internet needed
Open the PDF in any viewer (Edge, Chrome, Acrobat, Preview), press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C, and paste it below. This runs the exact same parser and reconciliation check as the file dropper — it just skips the PDF-reading step entirely, so nothing can block it.
Range View
Pick a stretch of months to see what came in, what went out, and what you actually kept across the whole span — plus what a typical month inside it looks like.
Category breakdown
Spending by month
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Getting Back To A Better Baseline
Every transaction
Change any category and it sticks — that merchant will be filed the same way in every future statement you drop. Rows tinted amber were a low-confidence read from the PDF; worth a glance.
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Date
Description
Category
Amount
Reference
Definitions
Every finance term this dashboard uses, plus the ones you will run into the moment you start asking follow-up questions. Each entry gets a straight definition, then a plain-English translation underneath it.
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Question 1
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Which definition matches this term?
Press A–D to answer, Enter for the next question.
These are general explanations written for someone learning the vocabulary, not personal tax, legal or investment advice. Dollar figures and limits quoted here match the 2026 assumptions this dashboard runs on and change most years.
Together
Our Full Picture
Both cascades and both retirement projections, summed. Each side keeps its own inputs — use the switch button up top to edit either one.
Me · green ledger
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Partner · blue ledger
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Apply the same rough-patch stress test to both of you at once, or pick Custom to keep each person's own confidence setting from the Retirement tab.
Household Gross
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combined salaries
Household Take-Home
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Combined Saved / Year
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all accounts + both matches
Combined Monthly Leisure
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date-night budget, technically
Total Retirement Savings at 65
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everything, combined, when you both retire
Two portfolios, one future
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Investments
Portfolio Management
Track what you're actually holding — ETFs, bonds, and markets — and see your stock/bond mix. Flip to "Recommended by Age" for a credible-source glide path that gets more conservative as you approach retirement.
Stocks (equity)
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US + international + emerging + REIT
Bonds / fixed income
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stability & income
Cash
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money market / HYSA
Holdings
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positions tracked
Allocation by asset class
Share of your total portfolio
Holdings
Add each position and its target weight. Percentages should total 100%.
Name
Ticker
Class
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Ideas grouped by opportunity tier — Tier 1 is the safest, broadest foundation; tiers climb toward higher growth and higher risk. Each shows the ticker, what it holds, and a rough expense ratio. Not investment advice — a starting research list of widely-held, low-cost funds. Tap "Add holding" on My Holdings to build your own mix.
The Playbook
Recommended Allocations & Your Report Card
Professional-advice targets for every category, plus a live grade on how your current settings stack up. Investment targets are % of gross salary; spending targets are % of take-home pay — the standard way advisors frame them.
Investing — target ≥ 15%, aim for 25% of gross
Fidelity's floor is 15% of gross including the employer match; your 25% goal is aggressive-but-excellent for a 22-year-old. Fill the buckets in this order.
Spending — % of take-home pay
Rooted in the 50/30/20 framework and advisor category ranges (25–30% housing, 10–15% food, 10–15% transportation, ~20% savings).
Assumptions & methodology
Taxes are estimated per person as a single filer: 401(k) and HSA contributions reduce taxable income; a $16,100 standard deduction and 2026 federal brackets are applied, plus 7.65% FICA and an editable flat state rate. 2026 limits used: 401(k) $24,500 · Roth IRA $7,500 · HSA $4,400 self-only. Employer match: 50% of the first 10% contributed. Projections assume end-of-year contributions, constant limits, and returns of 7% (tax-advantaged) / 8% (taxable), roughly inflation-adjusted. Insurance, HYSA, car payment and utilities are optional and off by default. Portfolio glide-path targets follow Vanguard's Target Retirement approach (~90% equity through your 30s, easing to ~50% by 65) with a 60% US / 40% international equity split; ranges are guidance, not personal advice. The Active Plan ledger and portfolio holdings are entered manually. Imported statements are parsed entirely inside your browser — no file is ever uploaded anywhere — and stored in this browser's local storage alongside the rest of your inputs. PDF parsing is a best-effort read of the statement's text layer, and screenshots are read by on-device OCR; both can misread a row, so low-confidence rows are flagged for review. Where a statement prints a running balance, each row's amount is checked against the change in that balance and rebuilt from it when the two disagree — unless the balance column itself looks unreliable, in which case nothing is rewritten. Every import is then reconciled against the statement's own beginning and ending balance, and any file that fails to reconcile is flagged rather than silently accepted. CSV and QFX downloads bypass all of this and import exactly. Categorization starts from a merchant keyword list and learns from every correction you make. Spending targets compare against your own Budget Cascade weights and your trailing average across imported months; they are budgeting guidance, not tax or investment advice. Planning tool, not tax or investment advice.