Guides
Learn your way around Monte
The short version lives in the app — a 60-second tour and a hint beside every control. These are the longer reads for when you want the whole picture.
Getting started
Your first 15 minutes
From a blank account to your first what-if: what the builder asks, what the Dashboard shows, and how a scenario becomes part of your plan.
8-minute read
The mental model
Facts, plans & scenarios
The three layers everything in Monte sits on — what each one is for, what edits what, and why a change never travels further than you asked it to.
9-minute read
Hands on
Working the controls
Every number in Monte is a row you can open into a slider — how to drag, type, retune the range, flip units, and read the marks a change leaves behind.
6-minute read
Your plan
Down the plan rail
The controls beside your plan, top to bottom — timing, your money, life events, the retirement dials, and the growth rates most people never find.
7-minute read
The safety net
Saving & comparing
The dot, the banner, and the sheets — how unsaved changes wait for you, how to unwind them at any size, and the three ways to put two futures side by side.
7-minute read
The questions
The lens catalog
Every guided what-if that ships today — what each lens asks, how its dials work, and what pressing Add to plan actually does.
8-minute read
Worked example
A homeowner walks through Monte
One household, start to finish — their facts, their plan, a decision they kept, a question they priced, and a daydream with a date on it.
6-minute read