Press & media
Everything a journalist, podcaster or partner needs to write about The Handy Calculators — plus a direct line to the founder. Press requests get answered before anything else in the inbox.
Media kit
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Fast facts
- Founded
- 2025
- Founder & editor
- Larius Woodson
- Calculators published
- 180+ across seven categories
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese, German
- Business model
- Display advertising, widget licensing, affiliate referrals
- Press contact
- [email protected]
Boilerplate — copy and paste
The Handy Calculators is an independent, ad-supported calculator site publishing free, no-signup tools for money, real estate, home improvement, health, time, education and unit conversions. Our belief is simple: every day is filled with decisions, and most decisions rest on a calculation — so we build the tools for the calculations that matter. Every calculator is built or reviewed by founder and editor Larius Woodson — a licensed real estate broker and Realtor in North Carolina, and a commercial real estate appraiser for a Florida county property appraiser's office. The site also publishes free embeddable calculator widgets used by contractor and real estate websites.
Founder bio and credentials: About Larius. Editorial process: editorial standards.
Press releases
We haven't issued a formal press release yet. Announcements — new calculator categories, widget licensing milestones and language launches — will be posted here as they happen, oldest at the bottom.
In the meantime, the blog carries the most recent product and editorial updates, and content use & attribution explains how you may quote or reproduce our material.
Story angles we can speak to
Every decision is really a calculation
Our lives are filled each day with decisions, and decisions are based on calculations. That is the whole reason the site exists: to give people the tools for the calculations that matter — what a house really costs, what a paycheck really nets, what a project really takes. We can speak to how ordinary people make numeric decisions and where they get stuck.
What a county appraiser sees that homeowners don't
Larius negotiates settlement agreements with attorneys representing property owners and defends assessed values at Value Adjustment Board hearings. That work shapes how the real estate calculators on the site handle taxes, cap rates and hold-period assumptions — a useful angle for property tax, appeal-season and homeownership-cost stories.
Why free calculators still get the math wrong
Most calculator pages copy a formula without stating the simplifying assumptions behind it. Every page here documents its assumptions in plain language. We can walk a reporter through concrete examples where common online calculators diverge from lender or assessor math.
Embeddable widgets as small-business marketing
Contractors, agents and handymen embed our calculators on their own sites in two lines of HTML. We can share anonymised patterns on which tools small businesses actually put in front of customers, and what that says about how people shop for trade services.
Press contact
Interviews, quotes, data requests, fact-checks and partnership enquiries. Include your deadline and we'll work to it.