The checklist you wish someone had handed you.
The Knowledge Base is organized around life milestones: the transitions where the decisions are biggest, the deadlines are real, and good information early is worth the most. Open, free, and built to be genuinely useful. No email walls.
The knowledge base builds your foundation.
It exists to help you wrap your mind around your next milestone: articles and checklists that help you make sense of what comes next. Each milestone is an independent kit, and we build them one at a time and build them properly.
Military Transition
Leaving active duty. SGLI conversion, TRICARE transition coverage, the TSP decision, VA disability claims, and the 12-month timeline that ties it all together.
Open the kit → Live · 6 articlesLoss of a Loved One
When someone dies, the paperwork arrives before the grief has anywhere to go. A first-weeks checklist, the survivor benefit systems, permission to let the rest wait, and the readiness conversation for the household that handles money in one head.
Open the kit →Throttling Back
For pilots in their 50s who want to fly less before they stop flying. What lifestyle will your investments actually support, and how do you find out before you drop the first trip?
Active Duty to Airline
The pipeline from your last military flight to your first airline class date. Training pay, the seniority clock, and setting up the savings structure early.
Buying a Home
VA loans, PCS timing, buy-versus-rent at each duty station, and what changes when the moves stop.
Starting a Family
Benefits elections, insurance reviews, education funding, and the plan updates a new dependent triggers.
Your First NIL Contract
Deal money, quarterly taxes, agents and collectives, and the structure that turns a windfall season into a foundation. Built for athletes, in plain language.
The Income Step-Up
Captain upgrade, promotion, partnership. When income steps up, the tax and savings decisions step up with it. The years where planning compounds hardest.
Approaching Retirement
Pension elections, benefit timing, and turning decades of accumulation into a durable income plan.
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