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? Ask Linc uses your accounts to show what you can afford, what else changes, and what to do next.

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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.

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ASK THE HARD QUESTIONS
01How much house can we afford?02Can one of us take parental leave?03Are we saving enough to retire?04Can I take a lower-paying job?

THE DIFFERENCE

One decision affects
the rest of your plan.

A larger home can change childcare options, emergency savings, and retirement. Linc checks those tradeoffs together instead of treating each account as a separate chart.

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 rates or inflation matter, Linc includes them and shows the source date.

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

Use your real numbers without handing over every identifying detail.

Account credentials stay with connection providers. Before AI analysis, Ask Linc replaces sensitive account and merchant labels with neutral tokens.

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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.

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SIMPLE PRICING

Planning help before
the decision gets expensive.

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

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

YOUR NEXT DECISION STARTS HERE

See what your next decision means for everything else.

Ask Linc — Plan Big Financial Decisions With Your Real Numbers