A small, procedure-disciplined review team building tax + finance instruments for the 59 million Americans working for themselves. Built by people who built solo businesses and reviewed by people who actually filed the returns.
"The name's a joke. The procedure isn't."
"CEO" gets handed out like Halloween candy on LinkedIn. Anyone with a Stripe account calls themselves one. The joke in CeoCult is that being your own CEO actually requires a small cult-of-procedure: quarterlies filed on time, deductions logged with receipts, retirement contributed to monthly, S-Corp election filed only when it actually wins.
So we built a site for the people who take the joke literally, freelancers, contractors, agencies, and one-person operations who treat themselves like real corporations. Browser-side instruments. Plain-English dispatches. Enrolled-agent reviewed.
Every calculator on CeoCult is built to the same six rules, The Procedure. The short version:
Every dispatch is drafted by someone who actually navigated the situation (filed the Schedule C, ran the S-Corp election, dealt with the 1099-K reconciliation) and then reviewed by an enrolled agent or former tax preparer before publication. Reviewer byline reflects who reviewed what, not the whole site.
Builds the calculator engines + writes the formula documentation. Source-verifies every IRS rule against Pub 505, Pub 587, and Form 1040-ES instructions before publish. Engineering the Lattice constellation's evaluation framework. His research background spans computational toxicology (hERG QSAR work on ChemRxiv, OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/UWVX4) and Substrate Geometry (computational physics); ORCID 0009-0005-6869-308X. The same primary-source discipline governs every CeoCult instrument. He also runs a public portfolio of his projects, with live revenue, traffic, and acquisition-asking framings, at hq.deepsynthesis.org/listings.
Every formula source-verified against current IRS publications and form instructions. Quarterly safe-harbor math, home-office deduction methods, and S-Corp election thresholds all traced to the named IRS document. Tax law changes flagged with the citation that triggered the update.
State threshold tables and reciprocity rules sourced from each state's revenue department, cross-checked against 26 CFR for federal alignment. Multi-state nexus interpretations cite the relevant ruling rather than asserting an opinion.
CeoCult is reader-supported. We earn:
Full disclosure: Articles of Incorporation.
"Tax season runs the people who don't run their own math."
CeoCult is part of the Lattice publishing constellation, eleven niche evaluation and tooling sites that share methodology, editorial standards, and a single review framework. See the full network in the footer below.