Who makes this

The idea

Most digital products are a file. You buy a PDF, open it once, and it joins the pile of things you meant to use. The problem was never that you lacked a template. It was that nobody showed you what to do with it.

So EmpireSheets products are built as systems, not files. A guide explains the thinking, a workbook makes you act on it, a tool does the arithmetic, and a template removes the blank page. You should be able to buy something in the morning and have used it by the evening.

What we are building

EmpireSheets makes practical money tools for Canadians, in whichever form suits the way you work:

• •Spreadsheets and planners for Google Sheets and Excel: budget planners, debt trackers, and TFSA, RRSP and FHSA trackers that show their working.
• •Mini apps that run in your browser: free calculators and focused tools you can use in minutes, with no account and no download.
• •Cloud Pocket, the suite we are building next: budgeting, registered-account planning, and tools for sole proprietors to price, invoice and track their business, in one place and on any device. It is not open yet.

Each product line does the same job. It takes the arithmetic and the guesswork off your plate so you can make the decision.

The wider practice

The money products are one half of the work. The other is building software for other people: websites, web applications and the internal tools that organisations run on, including accounting, invoicing, payroll compliance and role-based access in systems used day to day.

That background is why the money products look the way they do. A business that has maintained a multi-tenant ERP for a decade has had every argument about rounding, about where a figure comes from, and about what happens when a rule changes mid-year. The products inherit those opinions.

If you need something built, say what the problem is and we will tell you honestly whether it is work we should take.

Your data

The browser mini apps keep your data on your own device. Nothing you type in them is sent anywhere, and there is no account. When Cloud Pocket opens it will store your data in the cloud so it can follow you across devices. It will be yours, it will be protected, and it will never be sold.

Who it is for

• •Canadians getting their finances in order, whether that means paying down debt, building a first budget, or making sense of TFSA, RRSP and FHSA room.
• •Newcomers to Canada, who face banking, credit, tax and workplace systems all at once, often with no one to explain them.
• •Sole proprietors and small business owners, who are expected to run their own finances on top of doing the actual work.

Several of our tools are free, because basic financial clarity should not depend on what you can afford.

Who is behind it

EmpireSheets is made by King Solomon, and is a registered business name in Ontario, based in Mississauga.

The background is IT and business systems: more than ten years of building software, running technology projects, and advising small businesses on the unglamorous machinery that makes them work. The finance products come from the same place. They are not theory. They answer the specific questions people ask when they are trying to get organised.

What we will not do

No invented testimonials. No fake urgency or countdown timers. No statistics we cannot point at a source for. No padding a page count to justify a price. If a product is thin, it should be cheap or it should not exist.

Products touching money, tax or immigration carry a date and say plainly that EmpireSheets is not a regulated financial adviser. Those rules change, and a planner that pretends otherwise is worse than no planner.

Canada, and everywhere else

Canada-specific products are labelled as such, with the edition and date on the cover. Everything else is written to be useful wherever you are. Where a regional version is needed, it is a separate, clearly named edition rather than a footnote.