A planner is a guided step-flow that organises a job and hands off to the calculators for the math. Each step asks for one piece of the job — the shape of your business, the year's figures, what is already covered — and the final step is a plan view: the dates that govern the job, buttons that open the right calculators with your figures already filled in, and a tracker for the parts you complete as the year goes. The planner itself runs no tax or money math of its own, and it says so on the page: the calculators do the math — the planner keeps the job organised.
The planner
How a planner works
Three things define the format. Steps, in the order the job happens. Each step is one screen on a single page — Back and Next, a step counter, and no way to skip a required answer silently: a step that still needs an answer says so, in place. Hand-offs, not copies. Where a calculator already does a piece of math, the planner links to it with your entries carried in the link itself — the same figures, in the same fields, nothing retyped and nothing sent anywhere on the way. A plan that stays. The plan view is saved in your browser on your own device, so returning to the page reopens your plan where you left it — quarters marked paid stay marked. A visible clear button wipes the saved plan completely; nothing about a plan is ever transmitted to us.
One planner, on purpose
There is one planner here, not a catalogue. This page is the pilot for the format: it grows only if the first planner earns measured use — traffic to this hub and to the planner it links to — the same discipline the templates pilot runs on. If a second planner is built, it will follow the same pattern: a real sequence, an honest hand-off, and no math the calculators already own.
Estimates for planning only. Planners organise information and link to calculators; the calculators provide estimates for planning purposes only and are not professional financial or tax advice. Dates shown in a plan are reproduced from the site's IRS data pages, which name their source and check date.