About Financial Intelligence Lab

Mission

Tools that teach your first real money decisions. The project connects explanation, modeling, comparison, practice, navigation, and trust.

Who the site is for

College students, recent graduates, first-job young professionals, young adults exploring major first decisions, and educators who support them.

What the site contains

A growing library of plain-language lessons, browser-based calculators, educational games, topic hubs, pathways, and glossary definitions.

How Learn, Tools, and Games connect

Lessons explain a concept. Tools model user-entered assumptions. Games reinforce vocabulary and simplified tradeoffs. Related links provide the next step.

Education-only boundaries

The site does not provide individualized financial, investment, tax, legal, credit, student-loan, insurance, housing, retirement, career, business, or budgeting advice.

Source and editorial process

Official and authoritative sources are preferred. Calculators expose assumptions. Date-sensitive content requires review. AI-assisted drafting or development does not replace source verification.

Review sources and methodology

Privacy-light technical design

The application is static, requires no account, and keeps new-tool entries in the browser page only. Games may use localStorage for device-local state. Hosting providers may still keep ordinary technical logs.

Limitations

Simplified formulas leave out real rules, costs, timing, eligibility, contracts, and personal circumstances. The site cannot verify a personal decision.

For educators and campus programs

Educators can use short lesson-tool-game sequences and adapt them to their context after reviewing sources and limitations.

Feedback and corrections

The static feedback page prepares a copyable summary but does not transmit it. Source corrections and accessibility issues can be documented there.