For too long, housing counselors and individuals have struggled with a patchwork of websites and Google Sheets to do their work. In a world of high interest rates and rising home prices, this is simply not good enough. Decision Fish is developing a suite of tools designed to accelerate and streamline the client’s journey to homeownership—freeing time for counselors to build connections, educate, and perform outreach.
Excel Workbook
📊 Affordable Home Calculator (Excel): This Excel-based tool is already in use by seven NYC housing counseling agencies. It simplifies affordability calculations, assistance program identification, home budgeting, and task management—all in one place. Counselors tell us it can cut meeting times in half, proving its value in real-world applications.
Single Page Application Prototypes
🏠 Housing Counselor Homepage: We transform agency websites into dynamic engagement tools. Our prototype homepage generates leads, educates clients on the role of housing counseling, and prepares them for their first meeting. Featuring a simple calculator and interactive quizzes, this highly customizable page can integrate seamlessly into your website.
📉 Affordable Home Calculator: Designed specifically for NYC, this interactive web tool calculates debt-to-income ratios, closing costs, and monthly housing expenses for co-ops and condominiums. It also provides clear, actionable feedback on how clients can improve their affordability profile.
🧭 Housing Assistance Explorer: Keeping up with the latest down payment assistance and affordable mortgage programs is a challenge. This web-based tool simplifies the process by surfacing programs that match your criteria, returning key benefits and direct links for more information—all in one place. Now optimized for mobile phones!
💁Happy Budget® Helper: Before planning your Happy Budget®, it helps to know your historical spending habits and your feelings about them. The Happy Budget® Helper takes you through a series of questions to estimate your historical spending support reflections about it. Users can save their data locally.
😊 Happy Budget®: Can you imagine a budgeting tool that people enjoy using? Unlike traditional budgeting apps that focus solely on numbers, this revolutionary approach to budgeting helps users rank their financial priorities and align their spending accordingly—making budgeting feel more like a personal values exercise than a chore.
🚀 Homebuyer Accelerator: Speed clients to the finish line with a comprehensive task manager including major to-dos and milestones, progress bar, and more. Edit, skip, and save to-dos as needed.
🚀 Contact us to explore how we can accelerate your path to homeownership!