Life is long. Learn your pay now.
Equity is likely the largest part of your compensation and the part you were never taught to read. ALE Stack teaches you how your pay works, from the grant agreement to the balance sheet it builds.
Your pay became complicated the day it stopped being a paycheck
Salary is easy to understand. Equity comes with vesting schedules, withholding rules, trading windows, and plan documents written by the company for the company.
Most professionals learn how these work by making a mistake. One example is the vest that was under-withheld. Another is the concentrated position that was never a decision, only a default.
Your advisors manage your assets and your tax bill. You manage your pay.
Your CPA and your financial advisor do essential work, and they do it with the information you bring them. The quality of their advice depends on how well you understand your own compensation.
ALE Stack is where you build that understanding. You walk into each advisor conversation knowing what you hold and which decisions are coming.
Three curricula. One line from your grant to your net worth.
The Total Comp Playbook
Read your compensation the way the people who designed it do.
RSUs, options, ESPP, performance equity, deferred compensation, and the agreements that govern them. One full arc for public-company employees and one for pre-IPO.
The AI-Augmented Investor
Direct the position your equity becomes.
Vested equity often turns into the largest single-stock position of your life. You build a personal system for managing it, with AI doing the analyst hours and you making each decision.
The Personal Balance Sheet
See your compensation and your holdings on one statement.
Asset = Liability + Equity is the equation ALE Stack is named for. You read your own finances the way an analyst reads a company.
Enter where your career is right now
Every module stands on its own. Start with the situation in front of you:
Take what applies today. The rest is there when your career gets there.
All of it is built and live today.
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Paid in Stock
Tax, cash flow, and risk for people whose pay includes equity.
The Pocketbook Macro
What happened in rates and markets, stated plainly.
Written from both sides of the table
I have designed executive compensation plans from the company side, where you learn exactly what each provision is built to do. I have also held equity as an employee, in private and public companies.
ALE Stack is the picture I wish I had been handed with my first grant.
Your subscription also includes the career side of the stack
Four more curricula cover expertise, leverage, capacity, and independence. A standalone AX Relationship System module is included as well.
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Last updated: August 27, 2026
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