Hi, I’m Mitch. I built Compound.
Mitchell Shad, founder.
I've worked in Australian banking and finance for more than sixteen years, and I co-founded a mortgage brokerage called Sabea. I've also invested my own money across the lot: property, shares and ETFs, crypto, super and a business.
I tracked my own net worth in a spreadsheet for years, and it never answered the question I actually cared about: what year can I stop working? A spreadsheet doesn't know super is locked away until 60. It doesn't know you pay tax on the way out. So the answer it gave me was wrong. Compound is the app I wanted, and it understands Australian super, property and structures.
Compound is built by one person. Me.
I build it, I design it, and I answer the emails. There's no team behind me. That means I ship slower than a company with staff, and a few things you'd expect from a big finance app aren't here yet, bank feeds being the main one. It also means you get a direct line: email Compound and you get me, the person who built it. Compound is paid for by the people who use it, not by advertisers.
Why Compound exists
Most Australians were never taught how wealth actually works. Financial confidence shouldn't depend on luck or background, yet most people leave school without learning how super works, what equity really is, or what it takes to one day stop working. The result is millions of capable Australians with no clear view of where they stand.
Compound exists to change that, not with jargon or hype, but with a clear picture: here's what you have, here's where it's heading, here's the year you could be free.
What Compound stands for: clarity over complexity; a tool, not advice; and no ads, ever.