About Vested

Personal finance, decoded for people who work in tech. The money decisions that come with a $100K–$500K income — equity comp, taxes, retirement, financial independence — explained with the actual numbers, traced back to the source that published them.

What this is

Vested aggregates personal-finance reporting from wires, papers of record, brokerages, and primary data agencies — the IRS, the Federal Reserve, SEC, CFPB, Social Security, and the BLS. It clusters parallel coverage of a single story so the front page reads like a curator's desk, not a press-release feed. Layered on top: calculators and decision tools that make the trade-offs concrete.

Who it's for

Software engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers earning $100K–$500K who want to make better money decisions — equity comp, tax strategy, retirement, FIRE — without wading through generic advice. Skim-friendly when you have ten minutes; deep when you want it.

What's different

Editorial discipline. Every story links its sources prominently, AI-assisted summaries are explicitly grounded in those sources, and analysis is marked separately from reporting. And the numbers that matter — the deficit figure, the contribution limit, the depletion year — are checked against the agency that published them, not a second-hand retelling.

How to use it

Read the front page for the week's signal. Subscribe to the weekly digest if you'd rather have it delivered. Looking something up? Search the archive. Running the numbers? The tools section has calculators and comparisons.

Who runs it

Vested is operated by Auva Labs FZE. The operating entity is identified on /privacy and /terms. Editorial methodology is documented at /methodology — including the AI tools we use, how we ground summaries, and what we won't do.