Plan your Amesite Inc. ISO exercise

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Your grant

3 yrs
10%
20%
5.0%

Tax inputs

Grant timeline

For long-term capital gains treatment on the eventual sale, ISO shares need to be held until Apr 30, 2027 (2 years from grant) and at least 1 year from exercise. Tranches sold before either deadline are disqualifying dispositions, taxed as ordinary income on the bargain element. The optimizer accounts for both treatments per tranche based on hold periods at horizon. Want to see the whole picture? Try OptionsAhoy's beta: it optimizes ISOs alongside your entire portfolio, and you pick the goal: max value, cash flow, or minimum tax.

Net final value at year 3 sale — optimized plan

$242,834

After-tax dollars at end of year 3, net of all federal + state taxes through the sale.

This year: exercise 2,640 shares (of 10,000 total).

= gross gain at sale − federal + state LTCG − AMT premium above baseline regular tax (time-valued)

AMT premium for exercising: $90,314 (on top of $228,374 regular tax across the horizon)

Optimized plan keeps $57,102 more than lump-sum, $796 more than even split.

Federal AMT crossover this year: 1,270 shares ($57,162 bargain element). Above that, each additional share this year adds federal AMT.

Estimates only. Not financial advice.

Net final value by year

Running tally: NTV from shares exercised through year y, minus AMT premium paid through year y. The last year matches the plan's headline NTV. Hover a year for plan totals.

$0$61K$121K$182K$243KYear 1Year 2Year 3
Lump-sumEven splitOptimized

Optimized exercise schedule

You pay the higher of Regular tax and Tentative AMT per jurisdiction, then subtract Credit recovered. The result is Net tax. Hover any number for the bracket-by-bracket breakdown.

12,640
22,567
34,793

Federal AMT credit

Earned

$80,741

Recovered

$0

Remaining

$80,741

The AMT credit only recovers in years where regular tax exceeds AMT — typically a year with no ISO exercise. Every year in this schedule has bargain element, so AMT exceeds regular tax in every year and the credit carries forward untouched. Try a longer horizon or fewer total shares to introduce a recovery year.

Plan comparison

Net value at the end of your hold horizon.

Lump-sum

All in Year 1

$185,733

$57,102

Even split

Equal shares each year

$242,039

$796

Optimized

Tax-aware schedule

$242,834

Highest

Estimates only. Excludes disqualifying dispositions, NSOs, multi-state moves, and AMT preferences other than ISO bargain elements. Long-term capital gains tax assumes a qualifying disposition (ISO held ≥1 yr from exercise and ≥2 yr from grant); state LTCG follows ordinary brackets except where the state grants preferential treatment (HI, ND, SC, WI, AR, NM) or has a dedicated LTCG-only tax (WA). Assumes you are within the $100K ISO limit (any portion of an annual ISO grant whose FMV at grant exceeds $100K is treated as NSO from the start, §422(d)). State AMT figures are 2025 (next-year values published in late 2026). Not financial advice.

QSBS note. If your shares qualify (typically pre-IPO C-corp grants held 5+ years), a federal rule lets you exclude up to $10M of gain on a future sale from federal tax. That single rule shifts exercise-timing math more than AMT does. (This is §1202 “qualified small-business stock”.) Modeled in beta, not here.

About Amesite Inc.

Amesite Inc. is a privately held Cloud/SaaS company. S-1 filed May 26, 2026.

Equity grants at Amesite Inc. typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).

OptionsAhoy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Amesite Inc..

The calculator works at any Amesite Inc. valuation: enter your strike, the current 409A FMV, an expected IPO price, or anywhere in between. AMT is triggered on the bargain element (FMV minus strike) when you exercise; the calculator models federal AMT, state AMT, and the multi-year credit-recovery path.

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