What does it do?

An interactive equity simulator that turns a candidate's stock option grant into a tangible, live picture of what those options could be worth as the company grows. Candidates plug in the terms of their offer: share price, current valuation, stake, number of options and exercise price. After that they can instantly see their potential value across a range of growth scenarios, from today's valuation up to unicorn territory and beyond. It makes the abstract math of startup equity legible and exciting at the moment that matters most: when someone is deciding whether to say yes.

When should it be used?

Use this at the offer stage, when a candidate has the terms of their grant and needs to understand what those options could actually mean in practice. It's ideal for recruiters and hiring managers to share alongside an offer letter, for candidates exploring the decision themselves, or for follow-up conversations where equity is the deciding factor. It's particularly useful when a candidate is unfamiliar with startup equity and you want to demystify the mechanics, when weighing a stronger equity package against a higher base salary elsewhere, or when revisiting an existing grant after a new funding round to see what it looks like at the latest valuation.

What's inside?

• A display showing the number of options, paired with current grant value in green and the candidate's stake percentage.
• An editable grant card for all inputs: share price, current valuation, exercise price and stake - where stake percentage and number of options stay linked at all times, so editing one always updates the other.
• A potential valuations table with rows for today's valuation, Half a Unicorn, Unicorn and three competitor benchmarks with editable names, where candidates edit only the valuation column and share price and shares value recalculate live.
• A Gross / Net of exercise toggle that switches the value column between total shares value and value after exercise cost across every scenario simultaneously.
• A small disclaimer at the bottom clarifying this is an illustration of how equity works, not financial advice or a guarantee of value.