The math nobody ran for you.
Free tools that answer the questions that actually keep you up — what college will cost, how much coverage your family needs, when work becomes optional. Plus a daily read on what dads are talking about everywhere else.
The toolkit
College savings
What college costs the year your kid enrolls, and the monthly number that covers it.
Open 02Life insurance
How much term coverage your family needs — DIME method, not a rule of thumb.
Open 03FIRE number
Your independence target, the year you reach it, and whether you are already coasting.
Open 04Chore tracker
Weekly chore ledger per kid. Settles up Sunday, ends the argument.
Open 05Net worth
Assets, debts and the trend line. No bank linking, no account.
OpenMore coming
Mortgage and house-hack analyser, macro calculator, sleep debt, VO2 max. Built in the order people ask for them.
On the radar
What's one thing you wish you'd known before your first kid turned two?
Thread collecting hard-won advice from dads a few years further down the road. Heavy on sleep, lighter on gear than you'd expect.
Hit Coast FIRE at 38 with two kids — what actually moved the needle
Breakdown of the decisions that mattered versus the ones that felt productive but didn't. Notable: housing choice outweighed every optimisation combined.
The case for training for VO2 max in your forties
Cardiorespiratory fitness keeps showing up as a stronger mortality predictor than most modifiable risk factors. Practical protocol for people without much time.
Everyday carry that survived five years of actual daily use
Long-term followup thread rather than a fresh-out-of-the-box review. The wallet and the light held up; two of the knives didn't.
How to stop reacting and start responding with your kids
On the gap between the parent you intend to be at 7am and the one you become at 7pm, and what closes it.
Why this exists
Most advice aimed at dads is either a listicle written by someone without kids or a calculator that exists to harvest your email and sell it to an insurance broker.
Dadegy is built the other way round. The tools run entirely in your browser — no account, no server, nothing to leak. The writing takes a position and shows its reasoning. The radar links out to the source instead of rewriting it.
- Tool data never leaves your device.
- Every recommendation says what it trades off.
- Affiliate links are disclosed on the page they appear.
- Nothing published without a human editing it first.