OneISA concept demo — not a real product
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A single ISA account on the surface — one balance, one deposit, one withdrawal. Underneath, the platform runs four ISA wrappers, tracks the shared £20,000 allowance, and uses a peer-funded pool to make most withdrawals instant. Watch both sides at once.

What you see
Your ISA balance
£0
£
£
Available now
£0
Allowance left this year
£20,000
Your goals — money routes by horizon
Earn extra yield — fund other customers
Lend part of your balance to other users' short-term borrowing. Higher return, locked while lent, and not FSCS-protected.
What's happening behind the scenes
ISA allowance£0 / £20,000
Shared across all ISA types · resets 6 April
Tax year
2025/26
early in the year
Cash ISA FSCS ✓
£0
Instant access · liquidity buffer
Stocks & Shares T+2
£0
Growth · settles in 2 business days
Innovative Finance Not FSCS
Off
Peer-funded lending pool
Lifetime ISA ring-fenced
£0
First home / age 60 only · 25% penalty otherwise
Gen. Investment Acct taxable
£0
Overflow above the £20k allowance · dividends & gains taxed
Withdrawal routing
Tier 1
Cash buffer
instant · free
Tier 2
Exit-bridge
instant · pool-funded
Tier 3
Sell & wait
T+2 · free
Settlement T+2
IFISA pool — peer-funded liquidity engine live
£4.20mfrom opted-in customers
Liquidity sleeve~6-day loans · yield ~3%£1.05m
Allowance-capture~5-month loans · yield ~7%£0.63m
External lendingproperty / SME ~14mo · yield ~9%£2.52m
Available for instant now
£640k
Blended yield to lenders
6.8% p.a.
New internal loan funded
Guided tour
See an ISA the simple way
Seven short steps walk through a deposit, hitting the annual limit, crossing the tax year, two kinds of withdrawal, and capturing allowance that would otherwise expire. Then you can try it yourself.
!What this demo doesn't model
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This is a concept toy, kept deliberately simple and honest. A real build would have to handle all of the following — several of them are hard statutory limits, not design choices:

The £20,000 cap and no carry-forward are law. Allowance-capture grabs allowance that would otherwise expire — it never creates new allowance.
Flexible-ISA replacement is intra-year only. It can't carry capacity across 5 April; here it's only a within-year safety valve.
Within-year contribution ordering (replace prior-year withdrawals, then current-year, then reduce allowance) that a real engine must track.
Leverage risk. Borrow-against and allowance-capture are borrowing to invest — a market fall leaves you owing the full loan; debt can stack across years.
Cash-ISA capture is usually value-destructive — loan interest tends to exceed the tax saved. Only the long-horizon S&S case is shown.
FSCS £85,000 per-institution limit, and the fact that IFISA / pool-sourced money carries no FSCS protection at all.
LISA 25% government penalty on non-qualifying withdrawals — can't be engineered away.
Dealing costs, spreads, FX, fund pricing cut-offs, market hours, and fund suspensions in stressed markets.
Capital gains crystallise when holdings are sold to fund a withdrawal (Tier 2 / Tier 3).
April 2027 Cash ISA £12,000 cap for under-65s; UK equity settlement moving T+2 → T+1 in October 2027.
Regulatory permissions: ISA Manager (FCA, HMRC), consumer-credit to lend, the FCA 10% retail P2P cap, MiFID II suitability and affordability checks.
Security over ISA holdings in practice needs a separate non-ISA facility; the loan sits outside the wrapper. Plus provision-fund design for defaults.

Why this is different from doing it yourself

The same goal — saving tax-efficiently across ISA types — handled the way it works today versus the way OneISA handles it.

Doing it yourself today the old world
✕Open and manage a separate account at each provider — different logins, apps and statements for cash, investments, and a LISA.
✕Moving money between providers means an ISA transfer that can take up to 30 days — and get it wrong and you lose the tax wrapper entirely.
✕Need cash from investments? Sell, then wait 2+ days for settlement before you can withdraw.
✕Track the £20,000 allowance and the 6 April deadline yourself, across every account, or quietly waste it.
✕Go over the allowance and most providers simply reject the money — you work out what to do with it.
With OneISA this demo
✓One balance, one login. Four ISA wrappers managed behind it — you never pick which account a pound belongs in.
✓Moving between wrappers is internal and instant — the 30-day transfer black hole simply doesn't exist.
✓Withdraw invested money instantly via the liquidity pool — no waiting for settlement (with a clear, cheap cost shown up front).
✓The allowance and tax year are tracked for you; goals route every deposit to the right wrapper automatically.
✓Go over the allowance and the excess flows into a GIA — still invested, with the tax difference shown openly.

First-pass contrast for illustration — the “old world” reflects typical provider behaviour, not any single competitor.

The economics — live from your balances

updates as you go

The same money, two points of view: what you earn each year, and what OneISA makes from you. These move as the balances above change — deposit, withdraw, cross the tax year, or switch on IFISA lending and watch both sides shift.

What you earn
—
make a deposit to see the economics
Cash interest£0
Investment growth, net of fee£0
What OneISA makes from you
—
take rate · — of your balance
Margin on cash buffer£0
Platform fee on investments£0
Financing fees£0
The IFISA spread Borrower pays 8.3% Lender earns 6.8% OneISA keeps 1.5%

Illustrative annual snapshot on current balances (reinvested, no withdrawals assumed). Rate assumptions: S&S 6.5%, cash 3.5% to you, IFISA lender yield 6.8%, platform cash margin 1.0%, S&S fee 0.25%, lending spread 1.5%. When IFISA lending is on, ~15% of your cash buffer is treated as lent through the pool. The "cash margin" is the same mechanism that can incentivise keeping money in cash — a tension we model openly. For a fuller model with adjustable assumptions and a multi-year projection, see the separate economics page.

Roadmap — what we'd build next

not yet modelled

The demo proves the core: one account, four wrappers, goal-driven routing, and a peer-funded liquidity engine. These are the next features — each either deepens trust or extends reach.

01
April-2027 cliff assistant
Watches unused allowance as 5 April nears and nudges you to use it — built around the incoming £12,000 cash-ISA cap for under-65s.
regulatory tailwind
02
Plain-English money ledger
An auditable, human-readable log of every routing, borrow and repay decision — so simplifying the plumbing never means hiding it.
trust
03
LTAF / semi-liquid sleeve
HMRC now allows funds that can't be sold within 30 days (incl. LTAFs, liquidatable in 31–185 days) to sit in the IFISA wrapper — a regulator-anticipated home for higher-yield assets.
yield
04
Tax-saved counter
A live tally of the tax you'd have paid outside an ISA — on interest, dividends and gains — making the wrapper's value tangible.
engagement
05
Household / couple view
Two £20,000 allowances and Junior ISAs for kids, with shared goals — turning an individual account into a family plan.
reach
06
"What if I lose my job" sandbox
Stress-test your own plan: model a sudden large withdrawal and see which wrappers drain, what it costs, and what's left.
confidence
07
Open-banking allowance sweep
Spots idle cash in your everyday bank account as 5 April nears and offers to sweep it into your ISA — so allowance is never wasted for lack of spare cash on hand.
allowance-max
08
Goal-driven allocation engine
Replace today's fixed horizon weights with a real engine that derives the cash-vs-investment split from each goal's target date, amount needed, and risk appetite — and rebalances as time passes and markets move.
allocation
09
Unit-economics model
A live model linking what customers earn, what borrowers pay, what lenders receive, and the platform's revenue across cash margin, platform fees and the lending spread — making the take rate explicit. A basic version exists alongside this demo.
economics

Illustrative figures throughout, at a small-fintech scale. Built to explore an idea, not to give financial advice. ISA rules verified against 2025/26 guidance; rules change.