Thinking on money
for the self-employed.

Honest writing on freelancing, invoicing, budgeting, and the tools built — or not built — for how independent people actually earn.

The receivables blind spot: why your budget app is lying to you.

Cash-only budgeting tools ignore your unpaid invoices — which for the self-employed are real, contracted income. Here is what that costs you, and how to fix it.

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Why we built involy.

ThinkOpen needed a money app for its own business that answers an owner's questions, not an accountant's. So we built one.

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