Hi — Lucy here. You're getting this because at some point you signed up for early access to a financial education game I was building. This is the first and only email about what happened next, and there's an unsubscribe link at the bottom with zero hard feelings attached.

Here's the short version. Building a financial literacy game meant studying the financial literacy industry, and a lot of what I found was predatory. Most FinLit programs exist so schools can check a compliance box, so banks can get young customers, or so creators can get views. Teaching is beside the point. The game was my answer to that: something people paid for directly, that did what it said it did. I still believe in that model. But the more I learned, the more I saw the same incentive problem everywhere in finance, not just education. Everyone has to play the game of money, and almost everyone on the other side of the table wants to end up with more of yours. So I kept the principle and changed the product. Instead of teaching people about money, I built a tool that works only for the person using it.

It's called Aurum Valence, an AI financial analyst that runs entirely on your own Mac. You drop in your bank and credit card statements, and a real AI model analyzes your spending, finds the subscriptions you forgot about, and answers questions about your money. The model runs on your machine, not in a data center. Your financial data never leaves your Mac. No bank login. No account. No cloud.

If you want to see what that looks like, the site is live: aurumvalence.com

It's a one-time purchase. The only money Aurum Valence will ever make from you is the price you pay for it. That's $149 founding ($249 after public launch), and since you're already on this list, you're in the founding group by default. When the app ships in the coming weeks, you'll hear it here first, at that price.

And if a private finance tool for macOS isn't for you, that's fine. Unsubscribe below. Thanks for trusting me with your email back then. I tried to spend that trust on something worth building.

— Lucy