Compare Luminary vs. NaviPlan

Luminary is a specialized, cloud-centric platform tailored for wealth advisors, family offices, and estate-planning experts, enabling the conversion of traditional trust and estate documents into interactive digital records, compelling visualizations, and actionable insights, all enhanced by AI technology. By utilizing Luminary, users can seamlessly upload both legacy and modern planning documents and receive immediate, concise summaries along with extracted data, which can reduce review time by as much as 80%. The platform empowers users to create dynamic estate-flow diagrams and “waterfalls” that automatically refresh with updated asset valuations, providing clients with a clear understanding of distribution timelines and beneficiaries. In addition, it facilitates the modeling of complex strategies like GRATs, SLATs, and CLTs in a unified space, allowing for side-by-side comparison of options while enabling the rapid production of polished presentation materials that align with brand aesthetics in mere minutes instead of days. This transformative approach to estate planning not only enhances efficiency but also elevates client engagement through modern technological integration.

NaviPlan® is built upon the industry's most accurate calculation engine for financial planning, enabling firms to tailor their offerings to a wide range of clients, from those seeking simple goals-based assessments to those requiring intricate cash flow analyses. Whether addressing straightforward goals or crafting complex retirement income plans and estate strategies, NaviPlan provides financial advisors with the tools necessary to effectively assist any client who enters their office. It harnesses the power of precise calculations across countless scenarios, encompassing business planning, stock options, insurance advice, in-depth tax evaluation, estate planning, cash flow management, budgeting, Monte Carlo simulations, and retirement strategies. The tax planning software from NaviPlan, built on this top-tier calculation engine, supplies advisors with an array of comprehensive tax tools, including projections for both federal and state taxes, ensuring they can meet the diverse needs of their clientele. This versatility allows financial professionals to enhance their service offerings significantly, making NaviPlan an indispensable resource in the financial advisory landscape.