Plan your Applied Intuition NSO exercise
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOApplied Intuition is pre-IPO. Plan your NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA) at any expected valuation.
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Your grant
Seeded from secondary-market data, as of Jun 9, 2026
Tax inputs
Hold strategy
Best after-tax payout — at year 1
$387,644
Sell + invest wins by $203,977 over Hold 1 yr.
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Sell + invest
Best payout| Bargain element (sale − strike) | $706,100 |
| Federal | |
| State | |
| Medicare | −$10,238 |
| Additional Medicare | −$6,355 |
| Market gain over 1 yr at 10.0% | $36,164 |
| LTCG on diversified gain (fed + state + NIIT) | −$10,162 |
| Net at year 1 | $387,644 |
Sell every share immediately; invest the after-tax cash at the market return for 1 yr, then liquidate. Diversified — no single-stock concentration risk.
Exercise + hold 1 yr
| Sale proceeds (year 1) | |
| LTCG tax (federal + state + NIIT) | $0 |
| Net at year 1 | $183,667 |
Sold 2,609 shares at exercise to cover strike + tax; 2,391 shares held 1 yr for LTCG.
Social Security + Medicare are payroll taxes (collectively called FICA) — they apply because you're exercising as a current employee.
Both columns are stated in year-1 dollars: sell-now proceeds compound at the market return and pay LTCG on the gain at year 1; any cash paid out of pocket on the hold side carries the same opportunity cost.
Net at year N — by hold period
Estimates only. Excludes AMT (NSOs do not trigger AMT), state-AMT, multi-state moves, and disqualifying-disposition edge cases. Not financial advice.
You calculated one NSO decision. The beta plans NSOs alongside RSUs and ISOs in a single multi-year tax plan.
Request beta access →About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition is a privately held AI company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.
Last reported secondary-market price: $151.22 per share (as of 2026-06-09). Your own 409A may differ.
Autonomy software.
Equity grants at Applied Intuition typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Qasar Younis, a former COO at Y Combinator who earlier worked as an automotive engineer at General Motors and Bosch, co-founded Applied Intuition in 2017 with Peter Ludwig, who had spent five years on Google Maps and Android Automotive. The Mountain View company sells software that lets automotive and defense engineers develop, test, and validate autonomous driving and driver-assistance systems in simulation rather than exclusively on physical roads. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers and multiple U.S. Department of Defense programs are customers. In June 2025, Applied Intuition closed a $600 million Series F, including a tender offer (a company-organized window where employees can sell vested shares to outside buyers), at a $15 billion valuation co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins.
Sources: appliedintuition.com · techcrunch.com
Equity comp at Applied Intuition
- Pre-IPO Series F company ($600M raised in June 2025 at a $15B valuation, co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins). The Series F included an employee tender offer, providing a periodic liquidity window before any eventual IPO.
- Recent share-sale events (industry term: tender offers):
- Jun 2025: $15B implied valuation, led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins · appliedintuition.com
Sources: appliedintuition.com
Researched 2026-05-11.
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Applied Intuition NSO exercise creates ordinary income on the bargain element (federal, state, and FICA) at the price on the day you exercise. The calculator works at any valuation, so you can model your exercise cost at the current 409A FMV, an expected IPO price, or post-IPO scenarios.
Example: at Applied Intuition's last reported price of $151.22, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $45.37 strike creates a $529,250 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $142,898 and $238,163 depending on your bracket and state. The calculator above computes the exact figure for your situation and compares selling now vs. holding through the long-term capital-gains threshold.
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Applied Intuition equity questions
- How is a Applied Intuition NSO exercise taxed?
- Exercising a non-qualified stock option (NSO) creates ordinary income on the bargain element (the price on the day you exercise minus your strike), subject to federal income tax, state income tax, and FICA. The calculator above computes that tax for your Applied Intuition grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does Applied Intuition grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Applied Intuition typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise.
- Are Applied Intuition shares eligible for QSBS?
- They might be. Qualified small business stock (QSBS) under Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 can exclude federal tax on much of the gain when shares were acquired at original issuance from a C-corporation while its gross assets were under $50 million, and held at least five years. Whether your Applied Intuition shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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