Financial planning for real life

See what a big decision changes. Before you make it.

Buying a home, growing your family, changing jobs, or planning retirement? Connect your accounts and ask in your own words. Linc grounds each answer in your financial picture, goals, and real-life context—while you stay in control of what you connect and share.

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ILLUSTRATIVE30Y mortgage  6.4%
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SAMPLE6 accounts
SAMPLE ANSWER
Ethan Teng

Can we afford a $700K home without pausing retirement savings?

Yes—if you keep at least $45K in cash.

A 15% down payment leaves a six-month emergency fund and keeps both retirement contributions unchanged. Putting 20% down would leave too little cash after closing.

Home price$700K
Cash after closing$48K
Retirement savingOn track
LINC'S TAKE

Put 15% down, keep total housing costs below $4,800 a month, and leave both 401(k) contributions alone.

Your real contextaccounts, goals, spending, debt, and investments

Read-onlyLinc can't move your money

Inspectable answerssee the assumptions and calculations

Never training datano opt-out or settings required

ASK THE HARD QUESTIONS
01Where is our spending quietly drifting?02Can one of us take parental leave?03Is our portfolio taking too much risk?04What would let us retire two years sooner?

THE CONTEXT DIFFERENCE

Same question.
A very different answer.

General guidance can sound sensible and still miss your life. Connected context turns the same question into a recommendation you can inspect, challenge, and act on.

Without Ask Linc connected

GENERAL ANSWER
YOU ASK

Should I use my $30K bonus to pay down the mortgage, invest it, or keep it in cash for our move next year?

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Here's a general framework for deciding how to use a bonus when several goals are competing.

  1. 1
    Protect your emergency fund

    Keep three to six months of expenses available before putting extra cash elsewhere.

  2. 2
    Compare debt and investing

    Weigh your mortgage rate against the return you might earn by investing.

  3. 3
    Consider splitting the bonus

    Using some for each goal can be a reasonable compromise.

WHAT THIS ANSWER DOESN'T KNOW

Your cash balance, mortgage rate, retirement contributions, taxes, or how much the move will require.

With Ask Linc connected

GROUNDED ANSWER
YOU ASK

Should I use my $30K bonus to pay down the mortgage, invest it, or keep it in cash for our move next year?

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I'll use your cash reserve, move target, mortgage rate, and retirement plan to compare the options.

YOUR DECISION INPUTSSAMPLE DATA
Cash today$42K
Move-fund floor $60K
BONUS$30KMORTGAGE6.4%401(K)Match maxed
LINC'S TAKE

Keep $18K in cash to reach the move-fund floor. Put the remaining $12K toward retirement. Don't prepay the mortgage yet.

NEXT STEP

Set aside the $18K now, then compare the tax impact of the remaining retirement options before contributing.

Illustrative answer using sample accounts and assumptions you can inspect.

THE DIFFERENCE

One decision affects
the rest of your plan.

Money shapes where you live, how you care for family, and the future you can plan for. But the full picture is often scattered across accounts, cards, loans, investment apps, and spreadsheets. Linc connects it and turns it into one decision-ready answer.

YOUR FINANCIAL MODEL
LYour plan
Cash $92KRetirement $285KIncome $210KGoal Buy in 18 mo.

Cash, debt, property, taxes, goals, and risk stay connected—not trapped in separate tabs.

ILLUSTRATIVE MARKET SNAPSHOT
10Y TREASURY4.18%
CORE INFLATION2.7%
S&P 5005,982
When a question depends on rates, inflation, or market performance, Linc uses the latest available data and shows the source date.

CONNECTED TODAY

Your financial ecosystem is already here.

Ask Linc already brings banking, investments, property, and market context into the same analysis—so you can move from “what's happening?” to “what should I do next?” now.

01 · BANKING & CREDIT

Plaid

Balances, transactions, cards, loans, and cash-flow history from your connected institutions.

02 · INVESTMENTS

SnapTrade

Brokerage and retirement accounts, holdings, and activity in the same financial picture.

03 · PROPERTY

RentCast

Current home-value context for housing, equity, and net-worth decisions.

04 · MARKETS & ECONOMY

FRED + market sources

Rates, inflation, and market conditions pulled in when they matter, with source dates.

AVAILABLE IN ASK LINC TODAYThese connections already ground Linc's answers. They are not a future roadmap.
See how the system works

WHAT-IF, WITHOUT THE SPREADSHEET

Change one assumption. See everything it changes.

Explore the decision until it feels clear—not because Linc gave you one answer, but because you can see what moves it.

RETIREMENT SCENARIOAge 60
Plan needs $1.9M
TodayAge 60
Projected surplus+$200K
Success range74–84%

This keeps the planned lifestyle with a more useful cushion.

PRIVACY BY DESIGN

Your financial data is never used to train AI models.

That promise does not depend on a setting or an opt-out. You choose what to connect and can disconnect or request deletion at any time. Credentials stay with connection providers, and sensitive labels are replaced before AI analysis.

NO TRAININGNo toggle. No opt-out. Your financial data stays yours.
See how your data is protected
Your accountsConnected through Plaid
Privacy layerIdentity removed
LLinc's analysisOnly the data needed
Read-only access Never used for training Disconnect anytime
The answers sounded convincing. But financial decisions need more than convincing.
Ethan TengFounder, Ask Linc

WHY I BUILT THIS

I wanted an answer I could trust with my own money.

After getting laid off, I pasted my bank statements into ChatGPT to answer tough money questions—and immediately regretted it.

Financial decisions need your real financial picture, reliable calculations, dated market inputs when they matter, and numbers you can inspect. So I built Ask Linc.

Ask Linc is still early. I'm learning from real questions, improving it carefully, and expanding only when it makes the answers more useful and trustworthy.

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SIMPLE PRICING

Planning help before
the decision gets expensive.

No asset minimum. No percentage of your wealth. No sales call.

A 1% advisor fee on $500K$5,000/yearIllustrative comparison
ONE PLAN. EVERYTHING INCLUDED.MOST POPULAR
$9/month

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  • Unlimited questions & follow-ups
  • Unlimited connected accounts
  • What-if scenarios
  • Market-aware analysis
  • Inspectable calculations

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