Can you trust these numbers?
On five-figure-and-up equity decisions, you should not have to take our word for it. The math is shown beside the IRS publications and an independent tax engine, and re-checked on every release. And if you are wondering why not just ask a chatbot: we ran frontier models on this exact problem and they overshot the achievable outcome by 2x to 20x. See the benchmark.
Validated against trusted sources
We do not ask you to take our word for it. We check the tax math ourselves, but against references we do not control, and in a way anyone can reproduce. Every release, the work is shown beside public authority on the verification page.
- Matched to the IRS: every 2026 federal tax constant equals its published IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32 and Internal Revenue Code value, asserted by a conformance test that fails the build on any drift.
- Reproduced by an independent engine: 14 worked federal cases (ordinary income, long-term capital gains, and the Alternative Minimum Tax including the incentive stock option bargain element) reproduce to the cent against the independently-maintained PSL Tax-Calculator, a tax model we did not write, via a committed script anyone can run.
- Confirmed against state schedules: the same cross-check covers state income tax — 16 cases across California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts reproduce to the cent against OpenTaxSolver, an independent state tax engine we also did not write.
Tested and hardened
Getting the right answer is one thing; proving it in the open and behaving well under real, messy input is another. All covered on every release.
- Recomputed live: the headline figure on the verification page is fetched from the production calculators in your browser, so the numbers are demonstrably live, not hardcoded.
- Input safety: unusual or out-of-range inputs are caught and reported with the specific field flagged, never a silent wrong number. An automated robustness suite re-checks this against the live service after every release.
- Automated test suite: the calculation engine is covered by more than a thousand automated tests across the federal and 50-state tax logic, AMT credit recovery, and option pricing. A failing test blocks the release, so a regression cannot ship.