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Tax-Smart
Retirement Income

Your clients deserve it. Your advisors need it.  
Strengthen trust. Grow share of wallet.

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Every Retiree Deserves an Income Plan

Every client needs a personalized income strategy, and they’re counting on you to deliver it.

Universal Client Need

Advisors know that every client requires a tax-smart income plan

Current Tool Limitations

Traditional tools force advisors to manipulate sliders and guess at tax impacts

The Scale Reality

Growth-focused firms need income solutions that work for all clients, not just a few

Inefficiency & Missed Opportunities

Static approaches lead to suboptimal outcomes and advisor productivity bottlenecks

Retirement Income planning can be a complicated and manual process.

Meet AIDA. Smarter Income Planning for Every Household

Our Adaptive Income Discovery Agent (AIDA) enables each advisor to achieve what was previously impossible: delivering deeply personalized, tax-smart retirement income to hundreds of clients without spreadsheets.

Personalized Strategies

Personalized withdrawal strategies for each household

Tax Smart Optimization

Built-in tax optimization and account-level modeling

Higher Safe Income

Enables advisors to unlock as much as 30% more Safe Income1 or 5x greater legacy value2 for clients’ futures.

Seamless Integrations

Integrates with your existing tech stack.

Automated Execution

Functions like a managed account system for Retirement Income; automating strategy, execution, and monitoring

Who We Serve

Income Discovery is built by financial professionals for financial professionals.

With 10+ years of experience serving over

148,000 retirees with $150B in assets (as of 12/31/2024) we know advisors need more than spreadsheets to make critical decisions about a client’s retirement income distribution strategy. Intelligent retirement income optimization

can now be scaled to serve millions of households ,so advisors can manage hundreds of clients

with deeply customized withdrawal strategies, all in just one click.

Wealth Management Firms

    For Clients
  • Smart strategy and execution for a full and rich retirement
  • For Advisors
  • Streamline planning, strengthen trust, and grow share of wallet
  • For Firms
  • Create consistency and efficiency across teams

Retirement Plan Stakeholders

  • Retain retiree’s assets
  • Build retail relationship with plan participants
  • Drive lifetime income adoption

Income Planning 2.0

Create a fully personalized retirement income strategy in one click, optimized across Social Security timing, pension settlement, annuity allocation, tax rates, account types, and withdrawal sequencing.

Income Planning 2.0 removes the guesswork, so you can focus on delivering clarity and confidence to your clients.

Income Delivery

Turn strategy into execution with quarterly tax-optimized income distributions.

Income Delivery eliminates the need for spreadsheets by handling planned and unplanned spending and Roth conversions, all from a single dashboard.

SafePathSM

Track each retiree’s income safety in real time.

SafePathSM gives advisors and clients clear guardrails, identifying when to maintain spending, when to adjust, and how to preserve long-term confidence.

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No sliders. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.

Income Discovery, Your One-Click Solution.

Traditional tools ask advisors to test every combination manually, adjusting sliders, guessing tax impacts, and hoping for the best.

Income Discovery delivers one-click strategies that unlock more income, better outcomes, and greater confidence, whether your client has a full financial plan or just a portfolio.

Traditional Planning Tools

  • Built for wealth accumulation
  • Manual spreadsheets or patchwork tools for distributions
  • Advisor productivity bottlenecks and inconsistency across the firm
  • High-level projections without actionable instructions
  • Reactive plan updates
  • Oversimplified tax assumptions

Income Discovery Platform

  • Purpose-built for retirement income with strategy, execution, and monitoring in one platform
  • Easy to follow account-level distribution instructions and safety determination
  • Seconds to plan; compliance-approved consistent and scalable process
  • Real, precise, and actionable modeling and instructions
  • Real-time recalibration and confidence tracking
  • Cost-basis-aware, tax-smart modeling for accurate distribution sourcing

2025 MMI Annual Conference

An Income Discovery representative moderated “The Decumulation Phase: Optimizing Income & Longevity” panel at the 2025 MMI Annual Conference, joined by leaders from T. Rowe Price and AssetMark.

2025 MMI Annual Conference

Proud to sponsor the 2025 Annual Money Management Institute (MMI) Conference — engaging with industry leaders about delivering a full and rich retirement.

WealthManagement Industry Awards 2024 - Best Retirement Income Technology Provider (with MyVest)

Manish Malhotra joined by representative from MyVest at the Wealthies

Datos Wealth Management Forum 2024 - Reigniting Advice Delivery: Tackling the Complexity of Retirement Income Planning

Manish Malhotra alongside representatives from TIAA, Prudential Financial, RBC Wealth Management and Datos Insights

BNY Mellon | Pershing INSITE 2024 - Income and Decumulation Planning in Retirement

Manish Malhotra alongside representatives from BNY Pershing

Money Management Institute (MMI) 2024 - Retirement Income Distribution: Unpacking the Current Environment

Manish Malhotra alongside representatives from Edward Jones, TIAA and MyVest

Datos Insights 2023 - Wealth Management Fintech Spotlight: Retirement Planning Vendors

Income Discovery featured by Datos Insights in Wealth Management Fintech Spotlight for Retirement Planning Vendors

SS&C Deliver 2023 - Personalized Holistic Tax-Optimal Paycheck in Retirement Drives Asset Consolidation

Manish Malhotra alongside representatives from Dodge & Cox, HealthView Services, and SS&C

DCIIA Innovation Forum 2023 - Approach to Retirement Security

Manish Malhotra alongside representatives from PIMCO and Pacific Life

RICP Program - How Cutting Edge Tech Maximizes Safe Retirement Income

Manish Malhotra alongside Stephan Granitz, Income Discovery, and representative of the American College

INVEST 2022

Manish Malhotra showcases Income Discovery at INVEST 2022

CB Insights Future of Fintech 2021

Finovate 2021

Manish Malhotra demonstrates Income Discovery at Finovate

Industry Recognition & Awards

Awards, recognition and media coverage highlighting our retirement income innovation.

News & Insights

Perspectives, research, and updates to help you deliver better retirement income outcomes.

Income Discovery finds each household’s optimal strategy and executes it with precision; something no human or manual process can replicate.”

Manish Malhotra, Founder & CEO, Income Discovery

Ready to Scale Smarter Retirement Income Across Your Firm?

Deliver personalized retirement income strategies that drive client retention, increases share of wallet, and differentiates your firm with scalable personalized retirement income solutions.

Disclosures

  1. Safe retirement income refers to income with a 90% probability of lasting into a retiree’s mid-90s. It includes all sources—Social Security, pensions, annuities, investment withdrawals, and other cash flows. Strategies such as deferring Social Security, annuity purchases, pension payout choices, allocation changes, tax-efficient withdrawals, and capital gains management can increase safe retirement income. Results vary based on individual factors and market conditions. Projections have risks and limitations.
    See our blog post for details – Optimized personal retirement income strategy
  2. Retirees satisfied with their planned spending may instead focus on maximizing their after-tax legacy. This can be influenced by strategies such as Social Security deferral, pension payout choices, portfolio allocation, tax-efficient withdrawals, and capital gains management. Results vary based on individual factors and market conditions. Projections have risks and limitations.
    See our blog post for details – Optimized personal retirement income strategy
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