Why I built afewquid

I’m Mike. I’ve worked in London for the past 12 years as a software professional. In the UK, you have loads of opportunities to build wealth, but so many people don’t take advantage of the unique tax schemes and incentives here. Many of my family and friends didn’t know where to start with investing, taxes and reaching their big financial goals.

UK taxes are too complicated to represent in a spreadsheet, and American financial tools don’t nearly capture the necessary nuance: income tax bands, National Insurance, student loans, ISAs, pensions, stamp duty and Child Benefit. The gap between two sensible-looking plans can run to hundreds of thousands of pounds over a lifetime, once compounding takes effect.

So I built afewquid to hold those rules in one place. You describe your household once, and it projects your money year by year, so you can try a decision and see what it does to the numbers before you make it. You can answer those shower thoughts and big financial questions.