Ask Linc

A few months ago, I got laid off.

I turned to ChatGPT (which I use all the time) to help figure out what that meant for our finances:

• How long could we go without touching savings?
• Could we still retire when we planned?
• Are we actually okay — or just hoping for the best?

ChatGPT gave me general tips, but it had no idea how much we had saved, what our monthly burn rate was, or how the layoff might delay retirement. So I spent hours uploading spreadsheets, pasting in screenshots, writing long prompts… and constantly wondering:

“Is this even safe?” (It wasn't.)

That experience was helpful but clunky. Smart, but not private. So I built the thing I wished existed:

🚀 Ask Linc — a privacy-first AI financial assistant

It connects to your financial accounts (via Plaid), pulls in real-time market data, and gives you clear answers to all your money questions based on your actual financial picture — not made-up assumptions.

No dashboards. No spreadsheets. Just answers that make sense.

We're in private beta and bringing in early users.

Ask Linc is what I needed. Maybe it's what you need too.