Goals: What HeyArtha Is Working Toward

Goal one

Visible working

• Status: practised on tool pages

Our principal goal is to make the arithmetic behind a financial figure visible. When someone uses a calculator, the interface should show the inputs and the steps, and the tax tools should name the law they apply. The user receives real value first by seeing the reasoning behind the number. Rather than presenting conclusions without proof, every step shown can be inspected.

You can see this on the In-Hand Salary Calculator, whose Changelog entry describes a twelve-step working with the section for each step, and on Tax Twin, which shows a lot-by-lot capital gains table. The Value page lists what else a result page carries.

Goal two

Device-only computation

• Status: practised on tool pages

We work toward keeping computation entirely on client devices. Tools run in the browser. Analytics and the optional feedback form are separate; see the Privacy page. Core tools need no sign-up or profile credentials. Keeping the calculation on the visitor’s own device means the figures typed into a tool stay with the visitor.

Saved scenarios follow the same rule: the Changelog says Tax Twin scenarios are saved in your browser, and the Cash vs Loan Calculator keeps saved scenarios the same way.

Goal three

Trust documentation for every tool

• Status: in progress
• Honest about gaps

The goal is that each tool has a Methodology page, a Sources page where it applies a statute, and a test record. Today some do not: the Methodology hub marks those tools as in preparation, and the Test Records page lists the tools whose records are in preparation. Our Changelog, Test records, Methodology and Sources pages show the current state. You can review broader principles in What is Artha and read about the background in About.

• MethodologyPublished for nine tools; the rest are marked in preparation.
• SourcesListed alongside Methodology wherever a tool applies a statute.
• Test recordsNewer personal finance, loan and investing tools are in preparation.

Goal four

Reporting issues

• Status: open

A reader who notices a discrepancy can send it through our Feedback channel, and the Feedback page says every note is read. Releases and fixes are listed in the Changelog, and the Editorial Standards page describes how corrections are handled.

Tool pages carry a Report something wrong button, and chartered accountants can send comments on statutory logic through the public review form at /ca-review. Both appear as entries in the Changelog.

Milestones

Where the goals stand today

Progress is easiest to judge from dated facts. In September 2026 the site was organised into Tools, Intelligence, Career and Library sections. In October 2026 the Methodology and Sources pages and the Report something wrong button were added. On 26 October 2026 each of the five tool families, Tax, Money, Loans, Salary and Investing, received its own hub page with a complete tool list, quick links to Methodology, Sources, Test records and the Changelog, and related guides.

The Editorial Standards page adds a second yardstick: statutory figures come from the Income-tax Act, 1961, the Income-tax Act, 2025 and CBDT and CBIC notifications rather than from secondary blog posts, and where the wording is ambiguous or courts differ, the page notes the tension instead of asserting a single opinion.

These goals are also bounded by what HeyArtha says it is not. It is not endorsed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and its calculators and articles are meant for educational exploration and modelling, not as professional advice.

Independence

Independence and review status

HeyArtha is solo-built, independent and self-funded by Shivam Kushwaha, a CA Intermediate student from Madhya Pradesh. There are no investors, no sponsors and no paid tier. Everything on the site is open to use at no charge, with no subscription and no sign-up, and advertising pays for it. Advertising never changes a number, a formula or a score. AI tools do most of the building here, and the site says so plainly. What it says just as plainly is who answers for it: Shivam Kushwaha decides what exists, checks what ships, and owns every figure published here.

Not reviewed by a Chartered Accountant. Not legal or tax advice. Tax tools implement Indian law at present.

Where to go next

• Vision

  Why HeyArtha exists and how it grew.

• Value

  What the goals mean for a visitor.

• Authenticity

  Check the work behind a number yourself.