Retirement readiness & durability
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Can You Retire
— and Stay Retired?

RetireLogica builds your year-by-year retirement plan, optimizes the decisions that shape it, stress tests it against difficult markets, and gives the entire plan a Second Opinion before asking you to trust the result.

RetireLogica — Second Opinion
Illustrative example
Can I retire?
Yes
Can I stay retired?
Yes, with spending flexibility
Second Opinion

We support this plan — with reservations.

Primary concern

Early market losses during the first retirement decade

Evidence reviewedProjectionOptimizersMonte CarloHistorical Stress
Show your work
Plan survives to age 95 in the base projection
Monte Carlo resilience: 92% of paths funded
2000 and 2008 sequences need a temporary spending trim
The problem

A success rate is useful. It just isn’t the whole answer.

A single percentage can’t tell you whether failures happen at age 78 or age 104, whether the plan needs spending flexibility, whether the first retirement decade is underfunded, or which decision would most improve the result.

The number lacks context

A 90% result doesn’t explain when the other 10% fails — or how severe those failures are.

The recommendation lacks evidence

Many tools tell you what to do without showing which years, assumptions, or constraints produced the recommendation.

The tools review their own homework

A favorable projection or optimizer result may still feel untrustworthy when nothing independently challenges the conclusion.

How it works

One retirement decision. Four layers of evidence.

RetireLogica builds, optimizes, stress tests, and independently reviews your plan — so the conclusion is backed by evidence, not a single number.

Step 1

Build the plan

Model spending, income, taxes, healthcare, withdrawals, and account balances — year by year.

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Step 2

Optimize the decisions

Compare Roth-conversion, Social Security, and other strategies against the full retirement plan — not in isolation.

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Step 3

Stress test the plan

Examine Monte Carlo resilience and historical market sequences, including when unsuccessful scenarios occur.

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Step 4

Get a Second Opinion

Independently review the projection, optimizers, assumptions, and stress-test evidence to determine whether you can retire and stay retired.

Learn about Second Opinion

Retiring and staying retired are two different tests.

A plan can clear the first and still fail the second. RetireLogica evaluates both.

Can I retire?

Whether you can leave work at the selected age without relying on unavailable assets, unexplained income, or unfunded spending.

  • Retirement-date cash flow
  • Accessible assets
  • Pre-59½ bridge funding
  • Taxes and penalties
  • Healthcare funding
  • Income start dates
  • First-decade liquidity

Can I stay retired?

Whether the plan stays durable without returning to work or cutting spending below the lifestyle you consider acceptable.

  • Lifetime solvency
  • Early vs. late stress-test failures
  • Sequence-of-returns risk
  • Income-floor strength
  • Spending flexibility
  • Healthcare and longevity exposure
  • Late-life margins
Yes — modeled spending appears supportable
Yes — with spending flexibility
Not yet — the plan needs material changes
Second Opinion

Every retirement plan deserves a Second Opinion.

Second Opinion doesn’t create another projection. It independently evaluates the evidence RetireLogica already produced and explains where it agrees, where it has reservations, how the plan fails, and what remains uncertain.

Can I retire?
Can I stay retired?
What we agree with
What we would challenge
How the plan fails
Spending-flexibility assessment
Recommended next steps
Evidence reviewed
Evidence unavailable or incomplete

Second Opinion is generated by RetireLogica’s deterministic review rules. It is not a review by an unaffiliated human advisor and does not replace professional financial, tax, or legal advice.

New in RetireLogica

Budget Planner, Security Controls & Publishing Tools

Build spending plans with line-item budgets and Schedule E rental cash flow, review year-by-year projection tables, protect your account with MFA and recovery codes, and read planning articles with verification-backed publishing.

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Organized around the decisions you’re making

Not a feature dump — every capability maps to a question you actually need answered.

Retirement readiness

Can I retire?

Budget Planner

Turns real spending — recurring, one-time, and escalating — into the income your plan actually has to cover.

Year-by-year cash flow

Shows how each year is funded, so a shortfall surfaces before you retire, not after.

Retirement-date bridge analysis

Confirms the years before Social Security, pensions, and penalty-free access are truly funded.

Income-source timing

Models when income starts — timing quietly changes both taxes and how long the plan lasts.

Scenario comparison

Puts retirement dates and strategies side by side so you can see which decision holds up.

Tax & healthcare decisions

Am I keeping more of what I’ve saved?

Roth Optimizer

Finds a conversion path that lowers lifetime tax, not just this year’s bill.

ACA MAGI planning

Keeps you under subsidy cliffs before Medicare, so a conversion doesn’t cost a year of coverage.

Medicare IRMAA analysis

Flags when today’s income triggers Medicare surcharges two years later — before it happens.

RMD modeling

Projects required distributions so forced income doesn’t push you into a higher bracket by surprise.

Social Security taxation

Models how provisional income taxes your benefits — the “torpedo” many tools skip.

NIIT, capital gains & AMT

Accounts for the surtaxes and stacking that quietly raise the bill in a strong year.

Planned: expanded state-tax, charitable-giving, and Medicare constraint analysis.

Retirement durability

Can I stay retired?

Monte Carlo resilience

A probability your plan survives thousands of market paths — with the detail behind the number.

Historical sequence testing

Replays real downturns like 2000 and 2008 to test sequence-of-returns risk with actual data.

Failure timing

Tells you whether trouble arrives at 78 or 104 — the difference changes what you do about it.

Spending-flexibility classification

Shows whether staying retired needs flexibility, and how much — not just pass or fail.

First-decade risk

Focuses on the early retirement years, when losses do the most lasting damage.

Terminal & depletion outcomes

Shows the range of ending estates and depletion ages, not a single point estimate.

Trust & transparency

Can I trust the answer?

Second Opinion

An independent review of the whole plan — where it agrees, where it has reservations, and why.

Show Your Work

Every conclusion traces back to the years, assumptions, and constraints behind it.

Year-by-year audit trail

Inspect any single year — income, tax, MAGI, IRMAA, balances — line by line.

Editable assumptions

Change any assumption and rerun; the same inputs always produce the same plan.

Evidence links

Jump from a recommendation straight to the evidence that produced it.

Stale-result detection

When inputs change, results that no longer match are flagged — so you never trust an old answer.

Free to start. Powerful when you upgrade.

Try RetireLogica with basic projections, then unlock full control of every variable.

Free Tier

Adjust initial conditions only

  • Adjust Trad/Roth/Brokerage balances
  • Adjust growth rate
  • Adjust spending target
  • Run projections (limited horizon)
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Paid Tier

Full control of all variables

  • Your Retirement Dashboard with portfolio overview
  • Insights & planning notes
  • Roth Conversion Optimizer (bracket-fill strategies)
  • Social Security Optimizer (claiming age analysis)
  • Budget Planner with line items and Schedule E rental cash flow
  • ACA MAGI decade planner and projection table
  • Historical stress testing & resilience grading
  • Execution risk & life-event stress testing
  • Ordinary job, gig, or business income
  • Rental income & escalation
  • Pension modeling & COLA
  • Social Security timing & COLA
  • ACA Shield MAGI cap
  • Roth conversion strategy (4 phases)
  • Full tax model: brackets, LTCG, NIIT, IRMAA
  • RMD calculations & tracking
  • Tax & IRMAA reference guide
  • Save/load scenarios & scenario library
  • Multi-scenario comparison
  • Planning article publishing with email-code verification
  • MFA, recovery codes, and purchase restoration
  • Audit trail export with stress, insights, notes, and recommendations

Simple, transparent pricing

One plan. All features. No surprises.

Free

$0

Forever

  • Adjust initial conditions only
  • No saving or exporting
  • No scenario comparison
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Pro

$9.99/mo

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  • All v1 features included
  • Planning Dashboard & Insights
  • Roth & Social Security Optimizers
  • Historical stress testing & resilience grading
  • Full variable control
  • Save, load, compare, export
  • Tax reference guide & audit trail
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Who it’s for

RetireLogica is built for financially engaged households making a real retirement decision.

People nearing a retirement decision

You’re close enough that taxes, healthcare, withdrawal timing, and the first decade matter more than a generic savings target.

Early retirees

You need to bridge the years before Medicare, Social Security, pensions, or unrestricted retirement-account access.

Self-directed planners

You want to understand and verify the assumptions instead of accepting a black-box score.

Households seeking a second opinion

You already have a plan — from a spreadsheet, another calculator, or an advisor — and want to challenge it with a separate evidence framework.

FAQ

Questions, answered

What does RetireLogica mean by “Can I retire?”

Whether your selected retirement date is funded — accessible assets, pre-59½ bridge money, taxes, healthcare, and the timing of income sources like Social Security and pensions.

What does “Can I stay retired?” mean?

Whether the plan stays durable over a long retirement — lifetime solvency, sequence-of-returns risk, the strength of your income floor, and how much spending flexibility may be required.

Does RetireLogica use Monte Carlo?

Yes. Monte Carlo resilience is one evidence source, used alongside deterministic year-by-year projections and historical market sequences so the percentage has context.

What is Second Opinion?

An independent review that evaluates RetireLogica’s own outputs using deterministic rules, and shows where it agrees, where it has reservations, and where evidence is missing.

Does RetireLogica provide financial advice?

No. RetireLogica is planning software. It does not provide financial, tax, or legal advice, and it is not a substitute for a professional advisor.

Can I inspect the calculations?

Yes. You can review the year-by-year projection, the assumptions and tax constraints behind it, and the evidence links that support each conclusion.

New public resource

Retirement articles anyone can read.

A public home for deeper writing on tax-aware withdrawals, ACA planning, Roth conversions, Social Security decisions, and deterministic planning tradeoffs.

Why we built RetireLogica

We built RetireLogica because Monte Carlo tools confuse people and hide the logic. Everyone deserves a planning engine that shows the math — not a black box that outputs probabilities. You should be able to inspect the assumptions, follow the calculations, and understand your plan without handing the explanation to someone else.

Before you retire, make the plan prove itself.

Build the plan, optimize the decisions, stress test the risks, and get a Second Opinion on whether you can retire and stay retired.

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