The Origin
From personal spreadsheets to a platform anyone can use.
Reckon Life started the way most honest tools do — with a messy spreadsheet and a problem to solve. A decision to stop drinking. A need to understand what was going into my body. A desire to know — really know — whether retirement was on track.
For years, the answers lived in scattered spreadsheets — a tab for tracking calories, a formula for projecting retirement savings, a row counting sober days. They worked, but only for me. Nobody else could make sense of them.
So I rebuilt each one as a standalone tool — designed well enough and simple enough that anyone could use them. Friends, family, anyone reckoning with the same questions. Every tool in this platform was born from a real need, built with modern web technologies and AI-assisted development, and shipped as a production application — not a prototype.