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Design Reference · Interactive Toolkit

Tools readers touch, not just read.

Five working calculators in the house style. Every input is styled like the ledger — tabular numerals, gold instruments, one green verdict — and every one of them ends where the business needs it to: a scenario worth tracking, an income worth planning, an advisor worth meeting.

C1 Scenario Calculator · flagship, embeds in any ticker story

What could your NVDA position become?

Our scenario model · interactive
1 yr20 yrs
$110,232
Projected value
$64,844
Same money in the S&P 500
+$45,388 vs the index
Want this projection tracked against NVDA's actual path?
A quarterly check-in on your scenario, plus the 24/7 Market Brief. No spam, one-click out.
Illustrative model, not investment advice. Assumes reinvested growth, before tax. S&P 500 comparison uses its 10.0% long-run average.
C2 Dividend Income Calculator · the reader tool, promoted from the rail

How long until dividends pay the mortgage?

Income model · interactive
0.5%9%
0%15%
$1,624
Monthly income in 2036
$729/mo
Monthly income today
$427,930
Portfolio then
Assumes constant yield on cost growth and monthly compounding when DRIP is on. Before tax; dividends are not guaranteed.
C3 Catch-Up Comparison · the article's argument, made personal

Drop this inside the catch-up story and the abstraction disappears — the reader runs their own numbers mid-article:

What the catch-up window is worth — for you

Retirement model · interactive
4063
$0$3,000
$1,206,000
At 65 · without catch-up
$1,384,000
At 65 · maxing the catch-up from 50
+$178,000 for using the window
7% real annual return, monthly compounding. Catch-up adds $625/mo ($7,500/yr) from age 50, $937/mo during the 60–63 super window. Illustrative, not advice.
C4 Inline Micro-Calc · one number, inside the prose

Not every tool needs a panel. Sometimes the argument is a single moving number:

A pension of a year buys just $74,409 of today's groceries in 2036, at 3% inflation. Reader edits the underlined figure; the sentence recalculates. Works for inflation, fees, withdrawal rates — any one-lever claim.
C5 Advisor Match Qualifier · the CTA, built like a tool

The highest-value click on the site shouldn't look like a banner. Two honest questions in, the reader has invested enough to finish — and each answer is a first-party signal:

Are you ahead, or behind?

Vetted fiduciaries · takes one minute
Your age
Investable assets
Advisors in our network who work with $500K–$1M portfolios: 214. Each is a fiduciary, legally required to act in your interest.
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All five run live in this mockup — drag, type, toggle. Each block reserves its height (no layout shift), inherits both color modes, and stacks to a single column at phone widths.