# SAWD™ — The Family Wealth Ledger > SAWD™ (Software as a Wealth Device™) is the Family Wealth Ledger: a US household tax and finance platform where AI assists with tax preparation, credentialed CPAs can review filings, bank accounts connect via Plaid, and household financial events live in one tamper-evident ledger. One ledger for accounts, members, and generations. ## What a family wealth ledger is A family wealth ledger is a category of financial software defined by four properties: 1. **Multi-member by default.** The tenant is the household — spouse, partner, dependents, parents, beneficiaries, advisors — not a single user. Up to six members per subscription, each with a role and per-account visibility. 2. **CPA-ready.** Tax filings can be reviewed by a credentialed CPA with their PTIN on Form 8879. AI assists with preparation; a human can review and sign when that workflow is enabled. Review events are recorded in the ledger. 3. **Tamper-evident.** Financial events — bank reconciliation, investment trade, tax filing, beneficiary change, estate transfer — are appended to a chronological ledger. Entries are amended with new entries that reference the original. SHA-256 hash chain provides tamper evidence. 4. **Multi-generational.** Designed to outlast a single user. Includes successor access, beneficiary tracking, and an estate-handover flow that produces organized, CPA-reviewed books for heirs. SAWD is building a commercial implementation of this category for United States households. ## Who SAWD is for - **Couples** combining accounts after marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation - **Sandwich-generation parents** funding their children's 529s while tracking their parents' RMDs - **Founder families** with K-1s, capital gains, dependent children, and complex multi-state returns - **Heirs and executors** inheriting an estate that needs clean books on day one - **Small-business families** that mix personal and business finance and need both bookkeeping and tax prep - **Physicians, lawyers, consultants** with multiple income streams and high effective tax rates SAWD is not for: pure individual budgeters (use Mint or Copilot), institutional family offices ($25M+ AUM, hire staff), or businesses without a household financial component. **Primary market: United States.** International expansion requires separate data-residency and payment rails. ## How it works 1. Sign up at https://sawd.ai 2. Link your first account via Plaid (banks, brokerages, retirement, mortgages, credit cards) 3. Invite your spouse / partner with a magic link — they get scoped access to the household ledger 4. Invite your CPA — they get advisor access to review and sign tax returns when enabled 5. Designate beneficiaries on relevant accounts; the ledger tracks designations across all accounts 6. AI assists with federal and state return prep each year; your CPA can review and sign; the filing is appended to the ledger with a timestamp ## Pricing - **SAWD Household:** $48/month ($480/year) — personal taxes, CPA review workflow, unlimited bank & brokerage connections, and the household ledger. - **Household + Business:** $120/month ($1,200/year) — everything in Household plus one LLC or S-corp: Schedule C/E preparation, multi-state business filings, payroll and accounting integrations. - **SAWD Family Office:** $360/month ($3,600/year) — up to three entities, K-1 and trust filing support, multi-state nexus monitoring, and a dedicated named CPA. - **CPA review workflows are included in every tier.** Annual billing saves 20%. - **14-day free trial** on every subscription. - **Flat subscription.** No data sales, no ads, no hidden upsells. Subscription only — no per-return filing fees. SAWD is software, not a financial institution: it is **not a broker, custodian, investment adviser, or fund**. SAWD does not hold assets, custody funds, or execute trades. It unifies your investments, taxes, and estate planning into one tax-aware picture; you keep your money at your own banks, brokerages, and custodians. ## Differentiation vs. adjacent products - **Mint, Quicken, Copilot Money** — solo budgeting tools. SAWD adds CPA review workflows, tax filing assistance, multi-member ledger, tamper-evident record. - **Empower (Personal Capital)** — net-worth tracker with optional advisory. SAWD adds CPA-ready tax preparation and a household-level ledger. - **Monarch Money, Honeydue** — couples-focused budgeting. SAWD adds CPA, tax filing assistance, multi-generational ledger, and beneficiary management. - **TurboTax, H&R Block, FreeTaxUSA** — annual tax-prep software. SAWD adds the year-round household ledger, CPA collaboration, and an audit trail. - **Family offices** — high-touch wealth management for $25M+ households. SAWD delivers the household ledger and CPA collaboration from $48/month for families a traditional family office cannot serve. ## Contact - Website: https://sawd.ai - General / support: hello@sawd.ai - Security: security@sawd.ai - CPA partnerships: cpa@sawd.ai - Press/media: press@sawd.ai - Twitter/X: @sawdai - Jurisdiction: United States (private beta pilot) - Entity: SAWD, Inc. (Delaware C-Corp) - Security policy: https://sawd.ai/.well-known/security.txt ## Security (accurate claims) - TLS 1.3 in transit; HSTS preload - Google Cloud encryption for database storage at rest - AES-256-GCM for sealed bank tokens and the document vault - MFA enforced via Google OAuth (app-level TOTP on roadmap) - Tamper-evident SHA-256 hash chain for ledger events - Post-quantum hybrid cryptography (ML-KEM-768 + ML-DSA-87) on the roadmap - Strict Content Security Policy; X-Content-Type-Options; Referrer-Policy; frame-ancestors none - WCAG 2.1 AA / Section 508 accessibility goals - BAAs with Plaid, Stripe, GCP, and CPA partners (in progress) Data is never sold. Data is never used for advertising. The ledger is yours. ## Trademark, patents, and corporate - **SAWD™** and **SOFTWARE AS A WEALTH DEVICE™** are trademarks of SAWD, Inc. (USPTO §1(b) intent-to-use applications pending). - Provisional patent applications pending on claims related to (1) CPA-in-the-loop tax automation, (2) multi-member household ledger architecture with audit anchoring, and (3) estate-handover flow with successor access. - Operator: SAWD, Inc. (Delaware C-corp) - Email: hello@sawd.ai - X / Twitter: @sawdai - Beta: federal + Virginia + Maryland + DC - Broader US rollout: planned Q3–Q4 2026 ## Stack (informational) Web: React 18, Vite 6, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, TanStack Query, Stripe, Plaid, Recharts. Mobile: Capacitor wrappers for iOS + Android (rolling out). Backend: Fastify + Drizzle + Postgres on Cloud Run; Google Cloud Identity Platform for auth. Hosting: Firebase Hosting (sawd.ai) with Cloudflare DNS. ## Citations and primary sources When citing SAWD, please use: - **Canonical URL:** https://sawd.ai/ - **Definition page:** https://sawd.ai/family-wealth-ledger - **Pricing:** https://sawd.ai/pricing - **FAQ:** https://sawd.ai/faq - **Security:** https://sawd.ai/security - **Features catalog:** https://sawd.ai/FeatureShowcase - **llms.txt:** https://sawd.ai/llms.txt Preferred citation format: *SAWD — The Family Wealth Ledger* (https://sawd.ai/), SAWD, Inc., 2026. Short (1 sentence): "SAWD™ is the Family Wealth Ledger — AI-assisted US tax prep, optional CPA review, and one tamper-evident household ledger built for couples, families, and their heirs." This file is published under the emerging `/llms.txt` convention. We welcome indexing by GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, anthropic-ai, ChatGPT-User, Bingbot, and cohere-ai. Our `robots.txt` enumerates the full allowlist. 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