Independent Software Studio

We build calm, private tools for life's complicated numbers.

The Great Northern Group is a small, independent software studio crafting consumer applications that turn overwhelming financial and travel decisions into clear, confident ones — without ever asking for your bank passwords.

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2
Products in active development
0
Bank logins ever required
100%
On-device, private by design
2026
Year founded
Who we are

A studio built on a simple, stubborn idea.

Most software that touches your money or your travel wants something in return — your bank credentials, your transaction history, your attention sold to advertisers. We think that trade is backwards.

The Great Northern Group builds privacy-first consumer software that runs on your device, works from information you choose to share, and never connects to your financial accounts.

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Private by architecture

Our apps store your data on your device, not our servers. We can't sell what we never collect.

Useful over addictive

We measure success by decisions made clearer, not by hours of engagement extracted.

Honest by default

No dark patterns, no manufactured urgency, no recommendations we're secretly paid to make.

What we build

Two products. One philosophy.

Each Great Northern Group product takes a domain people find stressful and overwhelming — and makes it calm, clear, and private.

● Available on the App Store

Lounge

"Know what your points can do for you."

A personal rewards and credit-card benefits advisor. Lounge helps premium cardholders track every credit before it expires, plan award travel with the points they actually have, and understand what their cards are really worth.

  • Tracks monthly, quarterly, and annual benefits across major travel and hotel cards
  • Plans reward stays across Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, and more — using your real point balances
  • A "Worth It?" calculator that shows whether each card earns back its annual fee
  • Manual entry only — never asks for bank or card logins
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$1,600+
in rewards value the average premium cardholder leaves unclaimed each year — Lounge helps you capture it.
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One picture.
Every account, asset, and goal in one calm view — with the math done honestly, and privately, on your device.
● In development

Clarity

"Your whole financial picture, finally clear."

A privacy-first personal finance planning app. Clarity lets you map your complete financial life once — income, accounts, assets, debts, goals — then gives you an honest read on where you stand, projections for where you're heading, and side-by-side comparisons for big decisions.

  • Decision chambers that compare real choices: buy vs. rent, finance vs. pay cash, sell vs. hold
  • Monte Carlo projections with honest probability bands, not false precision
  • Multi-currency and built for a life that crosses borders
  • Entirely on-device — no bank connections, no data leaves your phone
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On the horizon

More to come.

Lounge and Clarity are the first of several tools we're building. We're a studio that ships deliberately — each product released when it's genuinely ready, not before. If you'd like to hear when something new arrives, get in touch.