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Your retirement plan,
finally complete.

Optimize Social Security across all 81 claiming combinations. Model Roth conversions for your bracket, stress-test with Monte Carlo, and backtest against real market history back to 1928. State tax exemptions for all 50 states, life insurance gap analysis, and a detailed report for your financial advisor — all in one place.

81 SS claiming combinations modeled Backdoor & mega backdoor Roth included 50 states + DC with retirement income exemptions Built for every stage — from your 30s through retirement
nestedge.finance · Thornton Family Plan

Legacy / Estate

$6.3M

Lifetime Tax

$1.5M

Tax-Free Assets

12.4%

Max Spending/yr

$217K

NET WORTH PROJECTION · 2026–2060 · TODAY'S $

What's included

Every dimension of retirement, modeled.

Built for the full complexity of real financial lives — not oversimplified.

Year-by-year projections

Net worth, cash flow, taxes, and spending tracked to age 90+ in a single clear chart. Toggle between nominal and today's dollars. Auto-generated insights surface depletion risk, IRMAA exposure, and Roth conversion windows.

NestScore — your plan's vital signs

The moment your wizard is complete — before running a single simulation — your plan is rated on a five-tier scale from Bare to Soaring, so you know where you stand in seconds.

Plan Optimizer

Three-phase coordinate descent evaluating 10,000+ combinations: all 81 SS claiming ages, Roth conversion ceiling and pace, rental property sale timing — each ranked by net legacy (what your heirs actually keep after the income tax embedded in pre-tax accounts) + longevity/survivor value.

Monte Carlo simulation

1,000 stochastic futures with Box-Muller market sampling. P10–P90 percentile bands on the net worth chart, a portfolio survival rate, and a worst/best-decile range — runs as an async job so the UI never blocks.

Historical backtest — a century of real markets

Replay your plan through every real retirement start year back to 1928 — the Depression, 1937, 1970s stagflation, 2000, 2008 — using the actual stock and bond return sequences that followed (Damodaran / NYU Stern data). Optionally drive living expenses by each era's real CPI, see how many historical retirements your plan survives, and overlay any single start year to compare against your plan. Not a simulation — real history.

Reconcile spending with your plan

Bridges the Budgeting module and your plan: one click compares your plan's living-expenses assumption against your real categorized budget, nets out what the plan already models separately (healthcare, housing, education, one-time spikes), flags taxes, and lets you preview or adopt the reconciled figure as an "Actual Spending" scenario — with full control over every inclusion.

Social Security — all 81 scenarios

Every claiming combination (age 62–70 × spouse 62–70) scored by NW + longevity/survivor value. Earnings Test & ARF, RIB-LIM, survivor benefits both ways, WEP/GPO removed (Fairness Act 2025), trust-fund insolvency what-ifs. SSDI (disability) modeled at full PIA with no early-claiming reduction, converting seamlessly to a retirement benefit at FRA.

Roth conversion strategy

Bracket-ceiling optimizer that finds exactly where the marginal rate stops paying. IRMAA torpedo zone detection, window-schedule awareness (front-loaded vs. uniform pacing), Roth 5-year clock, full RMD interaction.

Backdoor & mega backdoor Roth

Backdoor Roth IRA: IRS pro-rata rule (Form 8606), per-person pre-tax traditional IRA basis. Mega backdoor: after-tax 401(k) sub-account with basis/earnings split and §415(c) awareness. Auto-suggests conversion when eligible.

Deferred compensation (NQDC / §409A)

Non-qualified deferred comp payouts modeled with correct tax treatment — income tax due, FICA already accounted for at deferral (never double-counted), and the 20% excise-tax risk on a plan-modification violation.

Real estate & rentals

Primary residences, rental properties with MACRS depreciation, §1250 recapture, LTCG, NIIT, §1031 like-kind exchange with boot calculation for partial and N→M multi-property exchanges, optimizer-driven sale timing, and a per-property cash-flow breakdown showing exactly where each rental's rent goes.

State income tax — all 50 states

Every state + DC modeled with per-state retirement income exemptions for Social Security, civilian pensions, military retirement pay, and RMDs. Rules sourced from 2026 data and stored in an annually-updatable file.

AI Chat Assistant

Powered by Claude. Knows your full projection, Monte Carlo percentiles, and the optimizer's phase-by-phase reasoning. Ask questions in plain English — get plan-specific, year-by-year answers, not generic advice.

Share your plan

Bring in a spouse, financial planner, or trusted family member — full control over whether they can view, edit alongside you, or manage the plan as a professional.

Survivor scenarios

Model the full financial impact of a partner dying in any year — income adjustment, survivor SS benefit, life insurance payout, and survivor living expenses (configurable ratio, default 65%, OECD-aligned).

Annuities & pension income

SPIA, DIA, fixed-term, variable, and joint-life annuities with COLA and exclusion ratios. Pension with independent start year, survivor benefit, and COLA. All income streams integrated in the year loop.

Pension vesting & military retirement

Vesting: years-of-service + hire year; engine forfeits the pension if you retire before vested (optimizer scores this). Military retirement pay tracked separately from civilian pension for state tax exemptions in ~37 states.

What-if scenario comparisons

Build and compare alternative strategies side-by-side — different retirement dates, spending levels, asset allocations, or Social Security ages. Custom glide paths with arbitrary breakpoints let you model a bond tent: de-risk into retirement, re-risk after. Includes one-click SS insolvency templates (24%, 28%, zero).

Life insurance gap analysis

Two measures per person from a full survivor projection: a solvency floor (the survivor never runs out of money) and a living-standard need that sizes coverage to preserve your household's per-person standard of living, based on the higher of planned or maximum-sustainable spending. Dashboard panel, Ask AI context, and PDF export. Variable Universal Life policies are recognized too: long-term-care rider coverage (daily benefit × years) and cash surrender value, shown alongside the gap.

Healthcare & ACA planning

ACA premium subsidy optimization, IRMAA surcharge 2-year lookback per person, Medicare Part B/D CPI projection with birth-month proration, HSA cascade rules, and long-term care premiums — all year by year.

RMDs, QCDs & tax-efficient draws

SECURE 2.0 age 73/75 trigger, per-person RMDs, QCD offset, and a configurable draw order (cash → bonds → brokerage → HELOC → trad IRA → Roth → HSA) — a HELOC is drawn before retirement accounts since it carries no income tax or early-withdrawal penalty. Capital loss carryforward (STCL + LTCL) applied each year. Want to override the algorithm? Pin an exact Trad IRA, Roth, or brokerage withdrawal for any year in a what-if scenario.

Debt & loan modeling

Car loans, student loans, and personal loans with optional extra-principal payments that accelerate payoff. A HELOC can sit alongside a mortgage as an active cash cushion — drawn in the withdrawal waterfall or tagged to fund a specific major expense (a new roof, say) directly. Reverse mortgages model the balance correctly: it grows instead of amortizing down, paying the owner tax-free, repaid from sale proceeds.

Visualize your plan

Seven ways to see your plan.

On-demand chart tabs alongside your projection — one click away, never cluttering the default view.

Net Worth & Cash Flow Overview chart screenshot

Net Worth & Cash Flow Overview

Net worth, cash on hand, taxes, and spending tracked to age 90+. Switch between nominal and today's dollars, and layer Monte Carlo bands or What-If scenarios directly on top.

Portfolio Flow chart screenshot

Portfolio Flow

An interactive Sankey diagram showing exactly where a year's (or any year range's) cash came from and where it went — every income stream and account draw flowing into spending, a Federal/State/penalty tax breakdown, and savings.

Taxes & IRMAA Over Time chart screenshot

Taxes & IRMAA Over Time

Federal and state tax, IRMAA surcharges, and effective tax rate charted across your whole retirement — see the bracket and Medicare premium cliffs before they hit.

Income Composition chart screenshot

Income Composition

Every income stream — salary, Social Security, pensions, annuities, rental income — stacked into one view so you can see how your paycheck gets replaced in retirement.

Withdrawal Sourcing chart screenshot

Withdrawal Sourcing

Watch your draw order in action: bonds and brokerage first, then a HELOC (if you have one), then Traditional IRA, Roth, and HSA — stacked against total income with a spending line overlaid, year by year.

Real Estate Equity chart screenshot

Real Estate Equity

Mortgage paydown and equity growth for every rental and primary residence, broken out separately, with sale and purchase milestones marked right on the chart.

Rental Cash Flow chart screenshot

Rental Cash Flow

A per-property donut breaking gross rent into vacancy loss, fees, repairs, taxes, insurance, and mortgage interest/principal — combine multiple rentals into one view, with shortfall years called out separately.

Built for real complexity

The scenarios that matter — all modeled.

Generic retirement tools skip the hard parts. Here's exactly what NestEdge covers.

Social Security
  • All 81 claiming combinations (primary × spouse, age 62–70) — ranked by net legacy (heir-tax-aware estate value) + longevity/survivor insurance value
  • Earnings Test: withheld benefits returned as Adjustment of Reduction Factor (higher future checks, correctly modeled)
  • RIB-LIM cap when both spouses delay — prevents double-counting of delayed credits
  • Delayed Retirement Credits applied month by month with birth-month precision
  • Survivor benefit in both directions: income, SS survivor check, life insurance payout, expense adjustment
  • WEP and GPO fully removed per Social Security Fairness Act (signed January 2025)
  • Trust-fund insolvency scenarios: CBO 28% cut, Trustees 24% cut, zero-SS — one click from the scenario panel
  • SSDI (disability): full PIA with no early-claiming reduction, exempt from the trust-fund haircut while on disability, converts seamlessly to a retirement benefit at Full Retirement Age
Roth & Tax Strategy
  • Backdoor Roth IRA: IRS pro-rata rule (Form 8606), per-person pre-tax IRA basis — spouse's clean backdoor stays clean
  • Mega backdoor Roth: after-tax 401(k) sub-account, basis/earnings split, §415(c) total-additions awareness
  • Bracket-ceiling Roth conversion optimizer — window-schedule-aware, front-loaded vs. uniform pacing across retirement
  • IRMAA torpedo zone: 2-year lookback, per-person MFJ + single brackets, surcharge projected year by year
  • State income tax with per-state exemptions for SS, civilian pensions, military retirement, and RMDs in 37+ states
  • Capital loss carryforward (STCL + LTCL chains), QCDs, RMD age 73/75 (SECURE 2.0), Roth 5-year clock
  • Early withdrawal penalty with age 59½ and birth-month precision; Roth earnings vs. basis correctly split
Real Estate, Income & Lifecycle
  • Rental properties: MACRS depreciation, §1250 recapture, LTCG, NIIT, §1031 like-kind exchange with boot calculation for partial and N→M multi-property exchanges, optimizer sale timing
  • Property tax portability: CA Prop 19, FL Save Our Homes, TX Over-65 school ceiling, SC §12-37-3135
  • Pension vesting: years-of-service + hire year; optimizer forfeits pension if retiring before vested
  • Military retirement pay tracked separately from civilian pension for ~37-state state tax exemption
  • HELOC as an active funding source: drawn in the withdrawal waterfall before retirement accounts, or tagged to fund a specific major expense directly
  • Reverse mortgages: balance grows (compounds + payout) instead of amortizing down, paying the owner tax-free, repaid from sale proceeds
  • Extra monthly principal on any mortgage or loan accelerates payoff — reflected in every balance, equity, and cash-flow projection
  • Life insurance gap analysis: per-person solvency floor plus a living-standard need that preserves the survivor's per-person standard of living, based on the higher of planned vs. maximum-sustainable spending; VUL policies' LTC rider coverage and cash surrender value recognized alongside it
  • HSA: post-65 non-medical cascade taxed as ordinary income; Medicare enrollment cutoff enforced
  • ACA: month-range premium entry, IRMAA interaction, Medicare Part B CPI projection with birth-month proration

The process

From details to optimized plan in minutes

1

Enter your details

Salaries, pensions, Social Security, annuities, real estate, expenses, insurance — a guided wizard that covers the full picture in about 10 minutes.

2

See your baseline plan

A year-by-year projection appears instantly. Nominal or today's dollars. Insights surface depletion risk, IRMAA exposure, and Roth conversion windows automatically.

3

Optimize and stress-test

Run the Optimizer for the best SS, Roth, and property-sale strategy. Stress-test with Monte Carlo and backtest against real market history back to 1928. Compare alternatives side-by-side.

4

Export and share

Download a professional PDF report to review with a financial adviser, or share the plan directly for collaboration.

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Budgeting & Expenses —
know exactly what you spend.

Most retirement plans start with a guess: “what do we spend a year?” NestEdge's Budgeting & Expenses module replaces that guess with your real numbers. Upload your bank and credit-card statements and it does the rest — then hands a defensible living-expenses figure straight to your plan.

Upload real statements

Drop in PDFs, CSVs, or photos of bank and card statements. Transactions are read and de-duplicated automatically — no manual entry.

Auto-categorized spending

Every transaction is sorted into fixed, essential, and discretionary buckets you control, with an Ignore bin for transfers and reimbursements.

Track against budget

A dashboard shows each category's spend versus budget and whether you're trending over or under, month by month.

Feeds your retirement plan

Roll your real spend into an annual living-expenses budget and pull it directly into the planning wizard — the two modules stay in sync.

Reconcile against your plan

One click compares your plan's spending assumption against your real budget, nets out what the plan already models separately, and lets you adopt the reconciled figure as a scenario — so your plan is grounded in what you actually spend.

Expenses Dashboard screenshot showing budget cards, monthly spending, and category breakdown
Pulled into your retirement plan
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Ask your plan
anything.

The AI Chat Assistant knows your full projection — Monte Carlo results, optimizer reasoning, and year-by-year details. Ask in plain English and get a direct, plan-specific answer.

  • What's the difference between my base plan and the Monte Carlo median at age 80?
  • Why did the optimizer suggest claiming Social Security at 62?
  • How does our plan change if we retire two years earlier?
Ask about your plan

What's my success rate if markets average 4% in my first decade?

With a 4% equity return for 2026–2036, your Monte Carlo success rate drops from 87% to 71%. The P10 net worth at 90 falls to $940K. The Optimizer's scenario analysis suggests increasing your cash buffer to 3 years to absorb the sequence risk.

What's the cheapest fix to get back above 85%?

Delaying Social Security to 67 (from 62) adds $189K in present-value longevity insurance and pushes success back to 88% — more effective than reducing spending in the short term.

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Pricing

Two plans. One clear upgrade path.

Both plans start with a 14-day free trial with full access — no credit card required.

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Core

$8.25/ month

$99 billed annually — save 17%

  • Complete wizard — household, income, annuities, expenses, portfolio, real estate, taxes
  • Year-by-year projections to age 90+
  • Survivor scenarios — death modeling with life insurance payout
  • AI Chat Assistant — ask questions about your plan in plain English
  • PDF + CSV export — professional reports to share with advisers
  • Up to 3 saved plans
  • Optimizer (10,000+ scenarios)
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Compare Alternatives
  • Life insurance gap analysis
  • Budgeting & Expenses module
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Premium

$14.08/ month

$169 billed annually — save 22%

  • Everything in Core
  • Optimizer — 10,000+ strategy combinations: SS timing, Roth, property sale
  • Monte Carlo — 1,000 simulated futures with success rate and probability fan
  • Compare Alternatives — side-by-side scenario modeling
  • Life insurance gap analysis — coverage need sized from your survivor projection
  • Budgeting & Expenses module — upload statements, auto-categorize spending, build your living-expenses budget
  • Up to 10 saved plans

Lifetime access — $499 one-time

Full Premium access, forever. No recurring subscription.

What we will never gate

All wizard stepsAnnuities & survivor scenariosAI Chat AssistantPDF + CSV export

Mid-wizard paywalls kill plans. Your complete financial picture — wizard, projections, export, AI chat — is always available in Core. Premium adds the tools that tell you how to improve the plan.

Every feature, side by side

The full financial picture — modeling, tax strategy, real estate, AI, sharing, and lifecycle monitoring — is the same in Core and Premium. Premium adds the tools that search for and stress-test the best strategy — plus the standalone Budgeting & Expenses module.

What you getCorePremium

A complete financial household, modeled

Salaries, pensions, Social Security, annuities, real estate, deferred compensation, expenses, and portfolio — all in one guided wizard.

A 35+ year future, projected to the dollar

Net worth, cash flow, taxes, and spending charted every year from today through age 90+, in nominal or inflation-adjusted dollars.

NestScore — your plan's vital signs at a glance

The moment you finish the wizard, before running a single simulation, your plan is rated on a five-tier scale from “Bare” to “Soaring.”

Every Social Security claiming strategy you could choose

All 81 combinations of claiming ages for you and your spouse, scored against your real numbers, with delayed retirement credits to the month.

Survivor protection built in, not bolted on

Model exactly what happens if a spouse passes away in any given year — survivor SS benefit, life insurance payout, and adjusted household expenses.

Backdoor and mega backdoor Roth, done right

The IRS pro-rata rule, after-tax 401(k) sub-accounts, and per-person basis tracking handled automatically, with conversions suggested when you're eligible.

Executive-level deferred compensation support

NQDC and §409A payouts modeled with correct tax treatment — including the income tax due, FICA already accounted for at deferral (never double-counted), and the 20% excise-tax risk on a plan-modification violation.

Real estate without the guesswork

Rental depreciation, §1250 recapture, and capital gains; full §1031 like-kind exchange support; property-tax protections in CA, FL, TX, and SC.

Every state's tax rules, built in

All 50 states + DC, with the exact rules for how each taxes (or exempts) Social Security, pensions, military retirement pay, and RMDs.

Healthcare costs, demystified

IRMAA surcharge thresholds, ACA marketplace subsidy optimization, HSA rules, and long-term care premiums, projected alongside your income.

RMDs and charitable giving, optimized automatically

Required minimum distributions at the SECURE 2.0 ages (73/75), QCDs routed to offset them, and a tax-efficient account draw order.

A financial advisor in your pocket, day or night

Ask plain-English questions and get answers grounded in your real numbers, your real simulations, and your real optimizer results.

Take it with you

A presentation-ready PDF report for a human advisor, plus every dashboard table exportable to CSV for your own analysis.

Bring in the people who matter

Share your plan with a spouse, planner, or family member — full control over whether they can view, edit alongside you, or manage it.

Your plan never goes stale — we watch it for you

Every January 1st, your numbers refresh with the latest SS COLA, IRMAA thresholds, and IRS contribution limits — with a summary of what changed.

Birthday emails that are actually useful

Automatic alerts at 59½ (penalty-free access), 62 (SS eligibility), 63 (sets future Medicare premiums), 65 (Medicare enrollment), and before your first RMD.

A once-a-year nudge that could be worth thousands

Every December, exactly how much more you can convert to Roth before tipping into a higher bracket — calculated against your specific plan.

We notice when the market does

If equities move ±15% from your last simulation, we flag whether your plan's odds of success have meaningfully changed.

A 10,000-scenario strategist working for you

The Optimizer tests every SS claiming age, Roth conversion pace, and property-sale timing against your numbers and returns the best combination.

The exact Roth conversion to make, every year

A year-by-year conversion schedule calculated to sit at the edge of your optimal bracket without tipping into IRMAA surcharge territory.

1,000 simulated futures, so you're never relying on one guess

Full market-uncertainty stress-testing — a realistic range of outcomes and the probability your plan actually survives.

Backtest against a century of real market history

Replay your plan through every real retirement start year back to 1928 — the Depression, 1970s stagflation, 2000, 2008 — with actual stock, bond, and (optionally) inflation sequences. See how often your plan would have survived, and compare it against any single year you choose.

Side-by-side “what if” strategy comparisons

Retire two years earlier, spend 10% more, change your asset mix — see the consequences next to your current plan before you decide for real.

Know your life insurance number, not a guess

A precise coverage calculation based on your actual income, mortgage, and living expenses if you weren't there tomorrow.

Budgeting & Expenses — your real spending, categorized

A standalone module: upload bank and card statements, auto-categorize transactions into fixed, essential, and discretionary spending, and build a defensible annual living-expenses budget that flows straight into your retirement plan.

Reconcile your real spending against your plan

One click compares your plan's living-expenses assumption against your actual budget, nets out what the plan already models separately (healthcare, housing, education, one-time spikes), and lets you adopt the reconciled number as a scenario — so your plan is grounded in what you truly spend.

Saved plans

Active financial plans you can keep at once.

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Price

$9.99/mo or $99/yr$17.99/mo or $169/yr

Common questions

Is there a permanent free tier?

No — and this is intentional. A free tier attracts users who won't pay, creates disproportionate support load, and signals that the tool isn't serious. A 14-day full-access trial is offered to new users. If you've completed your trial and don't want to subscribe, your data stays safely in your account for 30 days.

What happens after my trial?

Your plan data is preserved. You'll be asked to choose Core or Premium to continue. If you don't subscribe, read access remains for 30 days before the account is paused.

Why is AI Chat in Core, not Premium?

The chat assistant reduces confusion — it's what makes users stick, not what makes them upgrade. Gating it behind Premium would undermine the most differentiated feature NestEdge has.

Can I upgrade or downgrade at any time?

Yes. Upgrade to Premium at any time and the prorated difference is charged immediately. Downgrade takes effect at the next billing cycle.

What is the Lifetime option?

One-time payment of $499 gets you full Premium access with no recurring subscription — ever.

What devices does NestEdge work on?

NestEdge runs in any modern browser — desktop, tablet, or phone. It's built for desktop and tablet screens, where there's room to see your full plan at a glance. It works on a phone too, but a retirement plan carries a lot of detail — tables, charts, the optimizer — so the experience is more cramped on a small screen.

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