Perplexity + Plaid just expanded to bank accounts, credit cards & loans. Plaid calls it "intelligent finance" — AI layered on personal data for real answers.
Ask Linc has been building exactly this: Plaid, SnapTrade, RentCast, macro data — one conversation about your full financial picture.
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We used to run Ask Linc on one AI model. We switched to two — and the difference was immediate.
Claude for reasoning. Gemini for structured data. Here's why we made the call: blog.asklinc.com/why-we-switc...
#Claude #Gemini #AI #LLM #IntelligentFinance #PersonalFinance #FinSky
Ask Linc stress-tests your retirement plan against every major market downturn since 1870.
Not random simulations — actual history. Sequence-of-returns risk, inflation, the full picture.
How it works: blog.asklinc.com/stress-testi...
#AI #IntelligentFinance #FinSky #PersonalFinance #retirement
LLMs are great reasoners. But terrible calculators.
Ask Linc keeps them separated: deterministic engines do the math, LLMs handle the reasoning. No hallucinated numbers.
Full walkthrough: blog.asklinc.com/inside-the-a...
#AIEngineering #Fintech #finsky #buildinpublic #LLM #Claude #gemini
Market data tells you what's happening in the world. Your holdings tell you what it means for you.
We added Snaptrade, Tiingo, and FMP to Ask Linc to build a personal analysis layer on top of the macro context we already had.
blog.asklinc.com/macro-to-per...
#Fintech #finsky #personalfinance
We don't use one AI model. We use two — and route each query to the right one.
Claude for reasoning. Gemini for structured data. A deterministic engine so numbers are never made up.
How we built it: blog.asklinc.com/how-we-built...
#AIEngineering #BuildInPublic #finsky #personalfinance #ai
How does Ask Linc protect your financial data?
🔒 Bank credentials never reach our servers
🔒 Raw data is isolated from the AI model
🔒 Encrypted in transit + at rest
🔒 Delete everything, anytime
Full breakdown: blog.asklinc.com/how-ask-linc...
#finsky #ai #personalfinance #dataprivacy
Most AI apps still use one model for everything.
That architecture is already breaking.
No model is best at reasoning, structured analysis, speed, and cost at the same time.
The future isn’t single-model AI.
It’s model-routed systems.
Read why this shift is happening 👇🏻 #ai #finance #finsky
The biggest mistake millennials make today isn’t overspending.
It’s flying blind.
Budgeting apps show you where money went.
Modern financial planning should show you what happens next.
That’s the shift from tracking → financial modeling.
#finsky #econsky #finance
blog.asklinc.com/financial-pl...
The 4% rule might be the most overconfident rule in personal finance.
Save 25× your spending. Withdraw 4%. Retire.
But it assumes a 30-year retirement and 1990s market conditions. If you want to retire earlier, that math gets shaky fast.
The 4% rule is a useful heuristic - not a strategy. #finsky
Personal finance is shifting from manual tracking to intelligent automation.
It’s AI-powered financial systems that:
- Understand your full financial picture
- Simulate complex life decisions
- Anticipate financial risk
- Answer open-ended financial questions
#finsky #econsky #ai #fintech
Fintech used to mean better dashboards. Now it means conversation.
Conversational AI is fundamentally changing how people interact with their money. This is the shift from financial software to AI financial advisors.
And it’s accelerating. #finsky #fintech
blog.asklinc.com/conversation...