How it works
You give Claude three rough money numbers. It hands you a retirement card: the year you can stop working, the number that gets you there, and a chart. Then you change one thing at a time and watch the year move. That is the whole game.
Setup: open Claude (Fable 5 handles the math best), and paste the prompts below one at a time. Keep it all in the same chat so it remembers your numbers.
Prompt 1: the retirement card
This is the one that builds the card. Fill in your three numbers where you see the brackets.
You are my retirement planner. Here are my numbers (rough is fine):
- I make about $[INCOME] a year, take-home
- I have about $[SAVED] already saved and invested
- I spend about $[SPEND] a month
Do this, and keep the math simple, showing your assumptions:
1. Work out my retirement number using the 4% rule
(25 times my yearly spending)
2. Assume I keep investing whatever is left over each month
at a 6.5% average yearly return
3. Tell me the exact YEAR I can stop working
4. Lay it out as a simple retirement card: the year in big
text, the number, and a progress bar from this year to that year.
Rough is fine: you do not need statements or exact figures. Ballpark numbers get you a ballpark year, which is all you need to start.
Prompt 2: the $500 move
Right after the card, paste this. Watch the year jump.
Stay in the same chat. Now show the card again if I put away
$500 more every month. Tell me the new year and how many
years sooner that is
On a typical set of numbers this pulls the year in by about three years, from one sentence.
The 5-scenario what-if pack
The video showed three. Here are all five. Paste any of them in the same chat to see how one life change moves your year. Change the bracketed numbers to fit you.
1. The raise
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Unlocks: Redo it as if I get a 10% raise next year and invest all · of the raise. What year now? · Redo it as if I finish my car payment in 2 years and · invest that $[AMOUNT] a month instead. What year now? · Redo it as if I spend $[AMOUNT] on a wedding in 3 years · +18 more
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