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Tutorials

Short video walkthroughs of Simply Sam: a voice and a cursor showing you each part of the app on a sample family, in plain words. Watch any of them in a few minutes; no signup, nothing to install.

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General Overview

A tour of the whole app in a few minutes: the top bar that follows you everywhere, Plan Facts, Results, the Playground, and the privacy design underneath it all.

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The Top Bar

The scenario picker where your saved scenarios live, today's dollars versus future dollars, and Household and Assumptions.

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Plan Facts

Accounts

Entering your savings and retirement accounts, what the account type quietly does, and keeping the picture current.

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Other Assets

Homes, rentals, and the big things that are not accounts, including rental income that flows into Income Sources.

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Life Insurance

Term and whole life policies, what pays and when, and how the plan treats cash value honestly.

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Debts

What you owe beside what you own, and the one question that keeps the same dollars from being counted twice.

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Retirement Spending

The most important number in your plan, the estimator that helps you build it from professional guidance, and watching every choice land on your savings.

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Income Sources

Paychecks, pensions, rent, and side income, and how each one carries your plan before savings fill the gap.

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Scenarios

Versions of your life, kept side by side: build them, compare them, and promote one when it becomes the plan.

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Results

The Summary

Your whole plan on one screen, year by year to the end, and how to read the story it tells.

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Compare

Plans side by side on the same years, the built-in stress test, and real market history run through your own plan.

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The Plan Report

The same story as printable pages you can hand to someone you trust.

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The Playground

Social Security

Every claiming age drawn in lifetime dollars, and the two honest answers to when you should take it: the most Social Security, and the highest ending net worth.

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Roth Conversion

The low-bracket window between retirement and required withdrawals, with the tax paid always shown beside the benefit gained.

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Taxes

Where the tax in your plan comes from, in plain words.

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Monte Carlo

Your plan against thousands of market paths, run on your own machine, with a success rate you can actually interpret.

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What If

Try a life change in plain words, see what it does, and keep the ideas worth keeping as scenarios.

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Goal

Start from the number you want and see the honest paths to it: saving more, working longer, or a one-time addition, each re-run on your real plan.

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