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Free tools & resources

Tools you can use before you ever become a client.

Start with a free financial snapshot or a detailed planning organizer. Download the owner and 1099 guides. Then use a checklist if you want something to keep on your desk.

Start with a live organizer

The PreciseFP fact finder is the most useful first step if you want a real planning conversation. The eMoney snapshot is faster if you just want to know whether you are roughly on track.

Detailed fact finder

Financial Planning Organizer

The PreciseFP organizer collects the facts a real plan needs: the business, the household, taxes, insurance, and the goals sitting on top of both.

Fill in what you have. Come back for the rest.

A complete fact finder before the first planning meeting

Start Your Free Financial Planning Organizer

Free financial snapshot

Am I On Track?

A short eMoney snapshot for owners and 1099 workers who want a first look at cash flow, savings, and whether the current path can fund the life they are building.

About 10 minutes

A simple on-track picture you can bring to Dillon

Am I On Track? Free Financial Snapshot

Free guides for business owners & entrepreneurs

Four planning guides updated for 2026. Enter your name and email to unlock each PDF—view it in your browser or download it to mark up before a discovery call.

Free PDF guide

Master List of Goals

Your goals are bigger than “retire someday”—this checklist helps you name them.

Uncover the retirement, lifestyle, tax, healthcare, and estate goals you have not said out loud yet. A proven menu of planning priorities advisors use to turn vague wishes into a real plan.

  • Retirement and lifestyle goals most people forget to write down
  • Tax, healthcare, and family priorities in one place
  • A simple yes/no format you can finish in one sitting

Enter your name and email to view or download this guide. We will also send a copy to your inbox.

Free PDF guide

Important Numbers (2026)

Five minutes with the numbers that decide whether you are on track—or guessing.

The essential figures every household and business owner should know in 2026: contribution limits, tax thresholds, savings benchmarks, and the metrics that separate clarity from hope.

  • Updated 2026 limits for retirement and tax planning
  • The benchmarks that reveal gaps before they become crises
  • A reference sheet you will want on your desk all year

Enter your name and email to view or download this guide. We will also send a copy to your inbox.

Free PDF guide

What Issues Should I Consider Before I Retire?

Retirement is a date on the calendar until you answer these questions.

A comprehensive pre-retirement checklist covering income timing, Social Security, healthcare, taxes, debt, insurance, and the lifestyle shifts most people underestimate—before you give your notice.

  • Income sources, timing, and the gap between work and retirement
  • Healthcare, Medicare, and long-term care decisions
  • Tax, debt, and insurance issues that change on your last day

Enter your name and email to view or download this guide. We will also send a copy to your inbox.

Free PDF guide

What Issues Should I Consider When Reviewing My Estate Planning Documents?

Your will is not a plan—it is a document. This guide shows you what to review.

Walk through wills, trusts, beneficiaries, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives with the questions attorneys and advisors use to find gaps before a crisis does.

  • Beneficiary designations that quietly override your will
  • Trust, POA, and healthcare directive gaps to check now
  • Family, business, and charitable goals in one review

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These tools and guides are for educational purposes only and do not constitute personalized financial, tax, or legal advice. Please consult a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation.

Interactive

Prefer a score to a PDF?

The Financial Clarity Assessment, valuation estimator, and wealth-gap tool live on the Tools page. About three minutes. You keep the takeaway.

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Guides & scorecards

Business Owner Financial Clarity Checklist

A practical, one-sitting checklist to see whether cash, taxes, personal savings, and the business are actually working together.

  • Where surplus cash should live
  • What your household is still funding from the company
  • The five numbers every owner should know before a discovery call

Exit Readiness Scorecard

A candid scorecard for owners who know a transition is coming, even if “coming” still means five or ten years.

  • Operational dependence on you
  • Whether the personal plan survives a delayed sale
  • Gaps buyers, partners, or children will find immediately

Treasury Optimization Guide

How growing companies separate operating cash, reserves, and true surplus, without turning treasury into a second job.

  • A simple four-bucket cash framework
  • How to set a reserve you will actually keep
  • Questions to ask your bank and your CPA this quarter

Owner’s Personal Financial Plan Framework

A one-page structure for connecting compensation, taxes, investing, and the life you are trying to buy back.

  • How to pay yourself without starving growth
  • What belongs in the company vs. in your name
  • A sequence for funding life outside the business

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TreasuryComing soon

Cash Is Not a Strategy: A Treasury Reset for Growing Owners

If surplus and shortage keep showing up in the same year, you do not have a banking problem. You have an unassigned-cash problem.

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InvestingComing soon

Building Wealth That Does Not Live in the Company

The business can be the best asset you will ever own and still be a dangerous place to keep your entire future.

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TransitionComing soon

Your Exit Is a Multi-Year Project. The LOI Is the Last Chapter.

Buyers pay for a company that can run without you. That work does not start in the year you decide you are tired.

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Estate & SuccessionComing soon

Succession Is Not a Will

A document that names heirs is not the same as a plan for who signs, who owns voting stock, and who can make payroll.

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PlanningComing soon

Pay Yourself on Purpose

Owner compensation is a planning decision. Treating it like leftover cash is how households and companies both get thin.

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How We WorkComing soon

What a Discovery Call with Dillon Is Actually For

No pitch deck. No pressure to move assets in the first conversation. Here is how the first hour is used.

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These tools and guides are for educational purposes only and do not constitute personalized financial, tax, or legal advice. Please consult a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation.

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