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Financial education built for physicians — from residency to retirement.

Interactive modules, board-style practice questions, and a full article library on everything training skipped. The first lesson of every module is free to read, and Premium opens the rest. When you are ready to apply a lesson, the dashboard tracks your PSLF, paycheck, and net worth against it.

No credit card · Read-only Plaid connection · Fee-only, no commissions · Your data is never sold

The Loan Playbook · Lesson 5

PSLF: the four requirements

The right loans, employer, plan — and 120 qualifying payments. The trap: forbearance makes no progress at all.

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Apply what you learn

The dashboard tracks what the curriculum teaches.

Every lesson has a place to land — PSLF payments, paycheck withholding, net worth. Illustrated with sample numbers; your real picture, once you connect.

[A] ATTENDINGFINANCIALDashboardAccountsModules & ArticleswRVU TrackerPaycheck DecoderPSLF GuardianAI AdvisorWellness ScoreHouseholdPREMIUM TIERACGood morning.Your finances at a glance.NET WORTH↑ +11.2% YTD$428,000+$43,000 year to dateJanFebMarAprMayJunASSETS$525KLIABILITIES−$97K84% equityof $622K totalView breakdown ›88FINANCIAL WELLNESSYou’re strong.Next: max your 403(b) by year-end +4 pts

Your net worth, at a glance

Every account — assets and debts — resolved into one number that moves as they do, with a six-month trend and year-to-date change. The category breakdown (retirement, brokerage, cash vs. mortgage, loans) is available on the Premium tier. Your Financial Wellness Score lives just below it.

Figures shown are illustrative.

The curriculum — free, no paywall

The financial education medical school skipped.

Interactive modules built the way you learned medicine — concept diagrams, definitions on tap, high-yield emphasis, and self-checks. Written by a physician, for the decisions physicians actually face.

Money Foundations · Lesson 5 of 9

The fee you never see

A fund is just a basket of stocks or bonds. Two funds can hold the same market and still hand you very different outcomes — because a 1% annual fee quietly costs six figures over a career. The number that predicts it isn’t last year’s return; it’s the expense ratio.

expense ratio

The fund’s annual fee, skimmed from your balance every year: 0.04% is $4 per $10,000; 1% is $100.

$100,000 · same 7% market · 30 years — the only difference is the fund’s feeIndex fund · 0.04%≈ $752,600Active fund · 1.00%≈ $574,300≈ $178,000 fee drag0.04% = $4 per $10,000 per year. 1% = $100. The fee compounds against you exactly the way returns compound for you.
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An actual Money Foundations lesson — concept diagrams, tap-to-define terms, high-yield emphasis, and self-checks. Not a wall of text.

From the library

In-depth pieces on PSLF, contracts, and the decisions that compound across a physician’s career — written and reviewed by physicians, free to read.

The whole picture

Four numbers most physicians track in four places. Here they live in one.

Net worth

Every account — assets and debts — resolved into one number that moves as they do.

No more adding up a 403(b), student loans, and a brokerage in your head.

PSLF progress

Your qualifying-payment count and forgiveness projection, tracked month to month.

Including through employer changes, IDR switches, and deferments — the moves that reset most physicians’ counts.

wRVU & contract pacing

Your production tracked against your contract thresholds in real time, all year.

So the year-end bonus is a number you watched build — never a surprise.

Tax-advantaged space

401(k), 403(b), backdoor Roth, and HSA room measured against this year’s limits.

The most consistently missed money in physician finance.

The dashboard pulls these passively through a read-only Plaid connection on Premium. The Free membership gives you the manual-entry tools — so you can see how all of it works before you connect an account or pay anything.

We work for you. Here’s what that means in practice.

The most expensive advice is the kind you never see itemized. A 1%-of-assets fee is charged every year — in up markets and down — and compounds against the very balance you’re trying to grow. The structure below is why we never charge it.

How they make money

Traditional advisors

Commissions, product sales, and a percentage of the assets they manage for you.

Attending Financial

We only make money when you subscribe.

The conflict

Traditional advisors

They earn more when you buy the products they recommend.

Attending Financial

We have nothing to sell you but the software.

Your data

Traditional advisors

Often shared, sold, or used to market more products to you.

Attending Financial

Never sold.

Medical literacy

Traditional advisors

Generic high-earner advice that ignores PSLF, RVUs, and physician contracts.

Attending Financial

Built around physician income, PSLF, RVUs, and contracts.

This describes common industry incentive structures, not the conduct of any specific firm or individual.

One percent of what, exactly?

Not of your income — of everything you have, every year, including the growth of the dollars it already took. Move the fee and watch what it costs.

What that fee costs you

$877,405

Over 30 years, a 1.00% fee on your assets leaves you with $3,807,618 instead of $4,685,023. You are never invoiced for the difference.

At an index fund's costPaying the fee

29

years of your own contributions, at $30,000 a year

19%

of the portfolio you would otherwise have ended with

$29,247

a year, on average, across the whole horizon

Nominal returns, compounded annually, with no market variance and no taxes. Real returns are never a straight line. This is a cost calculator, not investment advice, and not every advisor charges a percentage of your assets.

Am I paid fairly?

Check your specialty’s national pay benchmark — free, no signup.

Public aggregated data. No email, no signup — pick your specialty to see the national median.

Aggregates only — physician-contributed, recruiter-free. No individual is ever shown.

See the full specialty pay table, with sources →

Your work-optional date.

Three inputs. A directional read on your financial independence horizon. No signup required.

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Bring what you already have

Already track it in a spreadsheet? Paste it once. Never open it again.

No templates required. Drop your current tracking sheet exactly as it is — any columns, any order. The AI reads it into clean, typed accounts you can track from then on.

net-worth-2026.xlsx
Fidelity 403b187,400retirement
Ally savings42,150savings
Student loans-238,000loan
Vanguard brokerage61,200investment
HSA9,840hsa
AI reads it
Your accounts
Fidelity 403(b)$187,400
Ally savings$42,150
Student loans−$238,000
Vanguard brokerage$61,200
HSA$9,840

You review every row before anything is saved. Part of the Premium tier.

What you get

The questions physicians actually need answered.

Know whether you’re underpaid before your next contract renewal.

Compensation context by specialty, drawn from public aggregated data and verified physician submissions.

See whether PSLF is worth $0 or six figures in your specific situation.

Your payment count, employer eligibility, and a forgiveness projection — tracked month to month.

Never leave employer match or tax-advantaged space on the table again.

401(k), 403(b), backdoor Roth, and HSA room tracked against the current-year limits.

Watch your net worth update automatically as your accounts move.

Assets and debts in one place, refreshed through secure Plaid connections.

AI advisor

Ask the questions you'd usually pay an advisor by the hour for.

Your AI advisor doesn't just talk — it runs the math on your actual numbers and checks current rates and rules before it answers. Ask things like:

Am I underpaid for my specialty and region?

Does PSLF or refinancing make more sense for my loans?

Am I using all my tax-advantaged space this year?

Why does my paycheck look so different from my contract salary?

How much house can I realistically afford on my contract?

Runs your PSLF forecastCompares refinance vs. PSLFChecks your tax-advantaged spaceEstimates your federal + state taxSearches current rates & rules

AI Advisor — Example Response

I earn too much for a Roth IRA. Can I just do a backdoor Roth?

You can — but check your pro-rata exposure first. The IRS pro-rata rule (IRC §408(d)) treats every traditional, SEP, and SIMPLE IRA you hold as one pool when you convert. If you still have a $50,000 rollover IRA from residency and convert a $7,000 nondeductible contribution, only about 12% of that conversion comes out tax-free — the rest is taxed. The usual fix is to roll the $50,000 into your employer 401(k) first, then convert the $7,000 cleanly. Most people do the conversion without checking this and owe tax they did not expect.

Illustrative example. Once your accounts are connected, the answer uses your real balances.

Attending Financial's AI provides education and information to help you understand your own finances. It is not personalized investment, tax, or legal advice.

Your questions use your actual connected numbers — not generic examples.

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Learn it. Track it. Ask anything.

Learn it

Start with a 5-minute lesson on the money decision in front of you — PSLF, your first contract, what really comes out of your paycheck. The first lesson of every module is free to read.

Track it

Your net worth, PSLF payment count, wRVU pacing, and tax-advantaged space — pulled from your accounts through a read-only Plaid connection, or entered by hand. No credit card.

Ask anything

Ask the AI advisor about your situation. It runs the math on your actual numbers and checks current rules — not generic examples.

No sales call. No appointment. No upsell. Your numbers, your questions.

Built for physicians · Free to start

Stop flying blind. Start with the numbers.

No invented testimonials, no inflated user counts — just what the platform actually gives you on day one.

12,000+

Institutions you can connect via Plaid

28

Specialties in the pay lookup

20

PSLF failure-modes the Guardian checks

4

Core numbers, unified in one dashboard

$0

To start. No credit card.

100%

Fee-only. No commissions, ever.

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Pricing

One membership. The whole curriculum, and the tools that apply it.

Premium is one membership at one set of capabilities. The resident and student prices exist because a training salary is a training salary — not because the product is smaller.

The standard financial advisor charges 1% of assets under management — every year, in up markets and down. On a $500,000 portfolio, that’s $5,000 a year. Attending Financial is $149 a year, and we have nothing to sell you.

Free

$0

No card, no expiry

The first lesson of every module, and the tools to start.

  • The first lesson of every module — all 20
  • The flagship articles, start to finish
  • Every other article opens to its first 30%
  • 25 question-bank questions
  • Manual tracking dashboard — up to 3 accounts
  • PSLF timeline
  • Refinancing, moonlighting, and paycheck calculators
  • 3 AI advisor questions included
  • 1 contract analysis a year
  • No ads. No data selling. Ever.
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Premium

$149/year

or $16/month

about $12 a month

vs. ~$5,000/year for a traditional 1%-AUM advisor

The whole curriculum, and the tools that apply it.

  • Every lesson in all 20 modules
  • The complete article library and question bank
  • Plaid auto-sync — accounts refreshed nightly
  • Live net worth, retirement pacing, and PSLF alerts
  • wRVU & contract pacing
  • Tax-advantaged space tracking
  • Unlimited AI advisor
  • Household planning and multi-state tax intelligence
  • Real estate / private equity ledgers
  • 10 contract analyses a year
  • Priority support
Start Premium — $149/year

30-day money-back guarantee

If it's not useful in the first 30 days, email us and we'll refund you.

Premium, monthly$16/month

The same membership, billed month to month.

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Priced for training

Resident and fellow

$79/year

about $7 a month

Full Premium, priced for a training salary.

For physicians in residency or fellowship. Requires your NPI and a confirmation that you are currently in training.

Continue — Resident and fellow

Medical student

Free

The whole curriculum, free while you are in school.

For students at an accredited medical school. Requires a school email address, confirmed once a year.

Continue — Medical student

Cancel anytime. No tier is tied to your career stage except the two priced for training.

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For residency programs

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Send us your roster; we enroll every resident and email them a sign-in link. Nothing to maintain.

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A free account also gets you the tracking dashboard. Connect your accounts when you’re ready — or explore with sample numbers first.

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