What this is

The problem this solves

Search almost any question a father actually has and you get two kinds of result. The first is a listicle assembled by someone who has never done the thing. The second is a calculator that exists to capture your email and sell it to an insurance broker.

Both waste your time, and the second one costs you months of cold calls.

How this is built differently

The tools run entirely in your browser. There is no backend, no account and no database. When you enter your net worth into the tracker, that number is written to your own browser storage and nowhere else. We could not see it if we wanted to, which is the point.

The writing takes a position and shows the reasoning behind it. Where something is genuinely contested, it says so rather than picking whichever side makes for a cleaner headline.

The radar links out to sources instead of rewriting them. Republishing other people's work is both a legal problem and a bad deal for the people who did the work.

How it makes money

Affiliate links, disclosed on the page they appear. If you buy something through one, this site earns a commission at no extra cost to you. Products get recommended because they held up, not because the commission was higher — and where a cheaper option is the better call, it says that.

Full terms on the disclosure page.

On AI

AI is used as a drafting tool. Nothing publishes without a person editing it first. That is partly an editorial standard and partly self-interest: unreviewed AI content at scale is explicitly targeted by search engines, and the penalty applies to the whole site rather than the individual page.

What this is not

Not financial, legal or medical advice. The calculators are there to orient you before a real conversation with someone licensed and accountable, not to replace one. Where a decision is large enough to matter, the tools say so.