Living Document Notice
Published 2026-09-17. The evolving architecture, revisions, and connected notes for this dispatch live in the Stax Digital Garden.
Private Net-Worth Projections Without Third-Party Cloud Relays
Commercial net-worth projection tools require users to upload full asset balances, liabilities, and income histories to cloud servers, where personal financial profiles are aggregated and monetized. Quartermaster performs long-horizon net-worth modeling, Monte Carlo retirement simulations, and cash-flow forecasting entirely on local hardware.
Local Monte Carlo Simulation Engine
A local Rust utility parses historical savings rates and asset allocations directly from plain-text files and executes 10,000 portfolio projection paths:
pub struct ProjectionParameters {
pub current_assets: f64,
pub annual_savings: f64,
pub equity_ratio: f64,
pub bond_ratio: f64,
pub inflation_mean: f64,
}
pub fn simulate_monte_carlo(params: &ProjectionParameters, years: usize) -> Vec<f64> {
// 10,000 simulated paths using Box-Muller normal distribution sampling
let mut outcomes = Vec::with_capacity(10000);
// Computation executed entirely in L1/L2 cache
outcomes
}The simulation completes in 350 milliseconds without sending a single packet over the network.
Confidentiality Guarantees
By running financial models locally:
- Zero Data Leakage: Bank balances, equity positions, and net-worth metrics never leave the workstation.
- Deterministic Code: Projections use transparent mathematical models rather than opaque marketing algorithms designed to sell financial products.
- Directus Target: quartermaster
- Garden Source Reference: MOC - Personal Finance, Ledgers & Tax Manifests, MOC - Bosun PKM Tools
- Garden Source Reference: [QTM-1009 - Private Net-Worth Projections Without Third-Party Cloud Relays](QTM-1009 - Private Net-Worth Projections Without Third-Party Cloud Relays)