A free, open-source toolkit for Tiller

Tiller Runway

Retirement budgeting built on top of a Tiller Google Sheet — which spending to cut first if income drops, whether selling the house and renting instead would actually work, and how long the whole portfolio can sustain what you spend today.

Everything below is live right now — click through five report pages built from a made-up household's numbers. Nothing to install, no account to create.

The data is entirely fabricated — there is nothing real to protect.
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What it looks like to use

Every number on these pages is clickable — this is a screen recording of the real site, not a mockup. Tap a spending bucket and it opens into the categories inside it.

Clicking the Housing spending bucket on the Spending by Category page, which expands to show Mortgage, Property Tax, and Utilities underneath it.
Spending by Category — clicking a bucket (e.g. Housing) expands it into the categories inside.

The five report pages

All generated fresh from the sample sheet — nothing on them is hand-typed.
Financial Summary page showing net worth and a three-year income and spending trend.

Financial Summary

Net worth and a three-year income/spending trend, with guaranteed income kept separate from portfolio draw.

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Spending by Category page showing spending grouped into buckets like Housing, Travel, and Food and Dining.

Spending by Category

Three years of spending, grouped into buckets, with unusual categories flagged automatically — not hand-picked.

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Spending by Tier page showing a funding waterfall from guaranteed income through portfolio draw.

Spending by Tier

Every expense ranked by how easily it could be cut, and exactly which income pays for which tier, in order.

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Downsize Model page showing the net proceeds waterfall from a hypothetical home sale.

Downsize Model

"If we sold the house today, could the proceeds sustainably cover rent?" — with real tax and mortgage math, not a rule of thumb.

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Retirement Sustainability page showing spending confidence levels over 20 to 50 year horizons.

Retirement Sustainability

Given the whole portfolio plus guaranteed income, what spending actually holds up — at what confidence, over 20 to 50 years.

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Advisor Summary

The same numbers, rolled up with no individual transactions — safe to hand to a CPA or financial advisor.

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Two ways to try this yourself

In order of how much setup each one takes

1 Look around, right here

● no data exposure

You're already doing it. Every page above is real and clickable, running on a made-up household ("Alex & Jordan") — nothing about it is connected to any real bank account, anywhere. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing of yours involved, so there's nothing to protect.

Want to see the raw spreadsheet this is built from? The sample Google Sheet is open to view — use File → Make a copy to get your own private copy to poke around in. That copy belongs only to you; nobody else can see it unless you choose to share it.

2 Run it yourself, on your own real numbers

● limited, reversible exposure

This is the real toolkit, running on your computer against your own actual Tiller sheet — same reports, but with your real numbers. It takes some one-time setup: download the code (free, open source) and follow the step-by-step guide to create a free Google "service account" — a robot identity Google lets you create so a program (not a person) can read one specific sheet.

What that exposes: you share your Tiller sheet with that one robot identity, the same way you'd share it with a person's email address — it can only ever see that one sheet, nothing else in your Google account. The one thing to be careful with is the downloadable key file Google gives you for it: unlike a password, whoever holds that file can use it, with no login prompt — so the habit that keeps it safe is simply never let it leave your own computer (don't email it, don't put it in a synced folder). If it's ever lost, one click in the Google Cloud console revokes it instantly. Everything else — your data, the reports it builds — stays entirely on your own machine, never sent anywhere.