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Untaught

Everything about money you were never taught. On purpose.

Your purchasing power is disappearing while you’re told everything is fine. Untaught pulls back the curtain on what’s really happening to your money, and shows you the simplest way to fight back.

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The Problem

Your savings account is losing money.

The U.S. dollar has lost about 28% of its purchasing power in the last ten years. That’s not an accident. The government prints money, devalues the currency, and the average person pays the price through higher groceries, higher rent, and a savings account that’s quietly worth less every single year.

Nobody explains this. Not in school. Not on the news. A “savings account” earning 0.37% (the FDIC national average) while prices rose 3.4% over the last year isn’t saving. It’s losing money with extra steps.

28%

Purchasing power lost

In ten years: August 2016 to August 2026 (BLS CPI-U)

$100B

Spent on lottery tickets yearly

U.S. ticket sales hit $101.4 billion in fiscal 2024 (NASPL)

When people don’t understand money, they gamble with it. The system counts on that.

The Insight

You don’t have an income problem.
You have an information problem.

The same $20 someone spends on scratch-offs every Friday, or on impulse buys, forgotten subscriptions, and daily habits they never question, could be quietly building real wealth. But nobody told them that. Nobody was supposed to.

The tools to invest already exist. The missing piece is the wake-up call.

Your money is being taken from you, and here’s what you can do about it right now.

The Solution

Financial literacy that was never supposed to reach you.

Untaught is a financial literacy platform that teaches people what the system never wanted them to know about money, and then makes it dead simple to take action.

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The education

No-nonsense lessons on purchasing power, inflation, and compound growth. No jargon. No gatekeeping. Just the math nobody explained.

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The action

Start with as little as $5 a week. Our step-by-step guides show you how to buy directly on apps like Strike and Cash App. Your money stays yours. We never hold or custody funds.

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The habit

Coming in the Untaught app: track your streak, see your progress over time, and get weekly nudges. Join the waitlist to hear the day it launches.

How It Works

Three steps. That’s it.

Step 1

Learn what's really happening

Understand how inflation quietly drains your purchasing power every year, and why nobody in school ever told you about it.

Step 2

Redirect wasted spending

That $20 a week on lottery tickets, impulse buys, or forgotten subscriptions? Redirect it into something that actually holds value.

Step 3

Build the habit

Small, consistent action compounds into real results. Set it on autopilot, keep showing up, and take control of your financial future. Streak tracking is coming in the Untaught app.

Why This Exists

A stamp book that changed everything.

I’ve been obsessed with saving since I was six years old, riding my bike to the bank in Canada to deposit a dollar or two. In those days, they’d stamp your passbook with every deposit. I could hold it in my hands and watch my savings grow, stamp by stamp.

That little book made saving feel real. It showed me what future me was going to be worth. That instinct never left.

But here’s the thing. I was lucky. Someone showed me early. Most people never got that. They were never handed that stamp book. They were never taught that saving even mattered.

Untaught is the digital version of that stamp book, built for a generation that the system forgot on purpose.

Start Learning

Five pillars. Everything they never taught you.

Start anywhere. Each pillar builds on the others to take you from “wait, what?” to “I know exactly what to do.”

Your Money Is Losing Value

The dollar buys less every year. That’s not an accident. Here’s the math.

Nobody Taught You This

Financial literacy was left out of the curriculum on purpose.

You’re Already Wasting Money

Lottery tickets, subscriptions, impulse buys. The money is there. You just need to redirect it.

Small Steps, Real Results

$5 a week. That’s all it takes to start building something real.

The Debt Trap

Credit cards, student loans, BNPL. The system profits when you stay in debt.

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Every week you wait, your money loses more value.

We’re building the financial literacy platform that should have existed years ago. Be first to know when it launches.