For self-employed parents

Catch shortfalls
before payday.
Reconcile taxes on autopilot.

Loomstead is the 24/7 house for the freelancer, contractor, creator, consultant, and gig earner raising a household on income that arrives whenever clients pay. One dashboard. Four AI agents. The tax-season panic gone for good.

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Freemium. Pro runs $10/mo for the first year, then $14/mo — under QuickBooks Solopreneur, with the irregular-income forecasting they don’t offer.

  • Read-only bank connections
  • Schedule C, derived
  • Mint’s old job, picked up
  • Pre-payday shortfall alerts

This week · Aug 4 – 10

Household view

1 alert

Net in

$3,420

Stripe, Venmo

Bills

$2,180

4 queued

Runway

11 days

vs 14 normal

Cash-flow forecastnext 14 days

  • Mon
  • Tue
  • Wed
  • Thu
  • Fri
  • Sat
  • Sun

AI nudge

Tuesday after next is tight. Daycare auto-pay ($1,180) hits before your $1,400 Acme retainer lands. Grocery run has been moved to Wednesday so Tuesday clears — you’ll be back to $820 of headroom by Friday.

Daycare auto-pay · $1,180 Tue
Acme retainer · $1,400 Fri

Pricing

Under QuickBooks.
Above the panic.

Free covers a quiet month. Pro turns on the four agents, the pre-payday shortfall alerts, and every connector. Family adds a shared household viewer for a co-parent or partner.

Free

$0
The household view, manual entries, and one bank connection. Try it on a quiet month.
Manual categorization, unlimited
Daycare, mortgage, groceries, tax view
Up to 3 accounts, 1 connector
Quarterly tax set-aside (manual)

Pro

Recommended

Pro · Launch Edition

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$14/mo
The four agents run every night. You wake up to the household view, a drafted tax set-aside, and the reschedule if a payment slips.
Pre-payday shortfall alerts
Auto Schedule C categorization
Quarterly tax vault automation
All connectors — Stripe, PayPal, Square, Etsy, Upwork, Venmo, ACH
Multi-account household & split-taxation states
March becomes an export, not a panic

Family

~$24/mo
Pro, plus a shared household viewer for a co-parent or partner. Two sign-ins, one ledger.
Everything in Pro
Two-account household
Co-parent can view bills & forecast (read-only)
Per-user sign-in, shared data
Quiet hours for the second viewer
Same quarterly export, same CPA handoff

Talks to the platforms you already run on

  • StripeConnect & payouts
  • PayPalMass payments & goods
  • SquareCard-present & invoices
  • EtsyShop deposits
  • UpworkMilestone contracts
  • VenmoProfile & business
  • ACHDirect clients
  • Bank syncRead-only

How it works

One dashboard. Four agents.
Zero March panic.

Most tools split the work across an accounting app, a budget product, and a tax spreadsheet. Loomstead replaces all three with an always-on crew that talks to each other, so the numbers don’t drift.

  1. 01

    Connect once, in five minutes

    Link your bank (read-only), your invoicing tools, and the platforms clients actually pay through. We never move money.

  2. 02

    Four agents take the night shift

    One reconciles deposits. One classifies Schedule C. One runs quarterly estimates. One projects next week’s bills against next week’s income.

  3. 03

    Wake up to a household view, not a list

    Daycare, groceries, mortgage, savings, tax — one column. The only question answered: can the week pass?

  4. 04

    A nudge, days early, when the answer is no

    A delayed retainer triggers an automatic reschedule: which bills are safe to pay now, which autopay to pause for 48 hours.

Today’s reading

Same week. Three households.
Three different answers.

Irregular income isn’t one job — it’s three jobs behind a kitchen table. Loomstead reads it like a household ledger, not a bank feed.

Pre-payday shortfall alert

The Thursday everything was about to break.

A delayed client payment at 11 a.m. auto-reschedule a pediatric copay, hold the grocery run, and move your Acme retainer into paying for itself — all before you put the lunchboxes by the door.

Monday, 9:42 a.m.

Shortfall
Tuesday after next: account short by $640.
Daycare auto-pay hits Tuesday. The $1,400 retainer won’t clear until Friday evening. We’ve moved the groceries, paused a non-urgent charge, and pinged the client — review the plan below.
Step 1Auto

Move grocery run

Drift $220 from Tuesday to Wednesday. Daycare clears first.

Step 2Suggested

Hold electric auto-pay

Pause the $185 payment until Friday. Notify provider.

Step 3Auto

Ping late client

Send a friendly nudge to the client whose retainer is 3 days late.

Your runway, after the reschedule: back to +$820 of headroom by Friday.

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Features

The Mint-style one-glance view, crossed with invoicing.

QuickBooks Solopreneur handles the books. PocketSmith forecasts. YNAB aligns spend to an envelope. None of them do all three for an irregular-income household with kids.

  • One household view

    Daycare, mortgage, school fees, groceries, and tax — all on the same column so the only question is whether the week passes.

  • Income forecasting that handles gaps

    Reads Stripe, PayPal, Square, Etsy, Upwork, Venmo, ACH clients, and your bank. Models a quiet week before payday, not the average.

  • Schedule C, derived

    Each deposit is proposed against Schedule C categories as it lands. You confirm with one tap; teardown becomes a tax line.

  • Quarterly tax vault

    A separate line item with its own subaccount. Set aside 25–30% per gig, sweep the surplus in. Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 are not surprises.

  • Pre-payday shortfall alerts

    Three weeks of pacing projected against the next two weeks of bills. The alert fires in plain language, with a reschedule already drafted.

  • Tax season becomes an export

    Upload to your CPA, or hand it to your Schedule C software. March becomes the cleanest week of your year.

FAQ

Honest answers
to the obvious questions.

More in the long form — write to us. Real person, real address, real response window.

One last nudge

The next short Tuesday
doesn’t have to be a surprise.

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