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fjordFIRE

The question you carry quietly.

How much freedom your money actually buys for your life.

fjordFIRE was built around that question. Especially when what you have refuses to live in one currency or one country.

The choice underneath

Most tools optimise for visibility.
fjordFIRE optimises for awareness.

Visibility is seeing everything. Awareness is understanding what you’re seeing. Most software in this category quietly optimises for the first. We built fjordFIRE for the second. The difference shows up in every choice we made next.

Why this product is the shape it is

fjordFIRE started as our own household spreadsheet. Norwegian salaries, families in other countries, money trying to live in three currencies at once. Every app we tried broke. So we built the version that wouldn’t. Manual entry, monthly ritual, four pillars instead of one number. Not because we wanted to ship software. Because we wanted to know how much freedom what we’d built had actually bought us.

The ritual

A ritual, not a chore.

Once a month, you sit down with your money. Pick a mood. Type each balance. Leave a short note about what was going on. Every other view in the product updates from what you typed.

Past the single number

Four pillars. The picture net worth hides.

A dollar protecting your runway does a different job than a dollar compounding toward FI. fjordFIRE separates them: each with its own score, target, and meaning.

Protect

Your safety net in months of runway. Tracked as its own pillar so it stays a target, not lost in a bigger number.

Growth

The growth accounts that move your FI date. Liquid or illiquid, this is the pillar that compounds toward independence.

Retire

Pensions and locked retirement accounts. They count toward net worth, but they don't shorten your countdown until you can touch them.

Move

How many months your liquid assets carry you in any country you pin. At that country's own cost of living, not your home one.

When the salary becomes optional

Years to freedom, on your real numbers.

Your FIRE portfolio (Financial Independence, Retire Early), your real expenses, your real returns, your real currency mix. Recalculated every month, with a thousand simulated futures behind every estimate.

If life takes you somewhere

Your money, in any country that might be next.

Pick a destination. See your runway, your FI date, and how much sooner you reach it if your life lands somewhere with a different cost of living.

160+
currencies
170+
countries
Daily
FX updates

This runs through the whole app, not just relocation. Every account stays in its own currency, converted at daily exchange rates into one honest picture. Currency-aware math is the default everywhere, not an add-on.

Awareness, on demand

Sometimes awareness needs a thinking partner.

Odin is the companion you can ask. Reads your real numbers, not the internet. A European AI that answers when you ask, and stays quiet when you don’t. Off in settings any time.

Odin sees a limited view of your household: net worth, FI progress, last check-in. That’s it. Your accounts and history stay on your side.

How is our Move pillar looking right now?
Strong. Bengaluru gives you 16 years 4 months of runway, well above your 24-month target. Bali sits at 13y 6mo, Valencia at 6 years. Bengaluru is also your fastest path to FI, under a year away.

The privacy architecture

These aren’t just promises. They’re built in.

The philosophy is structural. Each commitment below is enforced by how the product is built, not by how we talk about it.

No bank logins.

We can't read your accounts because the architecture has no path that would. Manual entry by design.

Yours to take.

Self-service JSON and CSV export, from day one. Cancel, downgrade, or step away. It's still yours, and we tell you before any cleanup.

No data sold.

Not to advertisers. Not to brokers. Not to “partners.” No surveillance economy.

No AI training on your data.

Odin reads a snapshot, not your ledger. Your conversations don't train any model.

What you’ll know

Quiet questions, clear answers.

A few of the quiet questions our households and singles carry:

Could I take six months off?

You'll know months of runway, in the currencies you spend.

When can work actually become optional?

You'll know years to FI, on your real expenses and currency mix.

Should we move closer to family?

You'll know your runway in any country, at its real cost of living.

Where is my money actually working?

You'll know each pillar's score, and the one that needs the next move.

Also inside

Smaller surfaces, same standard.

The product is more than four pillars and a FIRE date. Here’s what else lives in the app.

Spending profiles

What you'd really pay if income stopped.

Tag each expense as essential or optional. The split feeds Emergency Fund and FI math, so the safety net reflects what would need covering.

Spending breakdown in fjordFIRE: a donut chart splitting monthly spend (kr 55,259) into essential (kr 38,513, 69.7 percent) and optional (kr 16,746, 30.3 percent), with per-member breakdown below.

Emergency Fund

Your runway, sized correctly.

Months of essential expenses, multi-currency aware. Alerts you before you cross a threshold, not after.

Emergency Fund summary from fjordFIRE: 4.6 months of a 6-month target, 77% funded, on track to fully fund by May 2027.

Net Worth Insights

The metrics a careful investor would expect.

Best period, worst period, volatility, CAGR, time to double. Investment-grade analysis applied to your real household numbers.

Net Worth performance insights in fjordFIRE: best period +kr 184,997, worst period -kr 68,396, volatility kr 71,331, on track and ahead by kr 683,120. Growth metrics: average +kr 121,141 per month over 11.4 months, trailing 12-month +19.4 percent, annual return 17.6 percent CAGR, time to double about 4.3 years.

Goals

Concrete things you're building toward.

Multi-currency savings targets with concentration warnings if too much weight lands in one account.

Three savings goals in fjordFIRE: Bergen House Down Payment at 58.6 percent and ahead, India Family Trust Fund at 63.4 percent and behind, Valencia Sabbatical Fund at 100 percent and achieved.

Pensions

Locked accounts that still count.

Projected post-tax monthly income at access age. Cross-border pension math respected.

Pensions summary in fjordFIRE: kr 613,952 today across 7 INR and NOK accounts, projected at age 58 to 67 to kr 6,199,761, estimated monthly income kr 20,666 covering 37 percent of current expenses.

Academy

Lessons that ship with the product.

Thirty short courses inside the app, with eight calculators embedded throughout.

The fjordFIRE Academy: four learning paths, Foundations (13 courses), The Expat Edge (9 courses), The FI Path (8 courses), and Interactive Calculators, all built to be read inside the app.

Privacy mode

One click, every number goes quiet.

For shared screens, train tables, friends peeking. Charts stay, figures go.

Privacy mode active in fjordFIRE: portfolio total shown as asterisks instead of numbers, per-member balances hidden, donut chart structure still visible with percentages but amounts redacted.
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