Built by Lucky Nomads

GeoCompass

Tired ofhigh taxes?

Life is short, and the odds you were born in the right place are thin. GeoCompass scores the 232 countries and jurisdictions we monitor and assembles your jurisdiction portfolio: a main base, exploration anchors, and backup options. Start with the free diagnostic in about 6 minutes, then decide.

Lucky Maillard, founder of Lucky Nomads

Built by Lucky Maillard, wealth manager. Independent and commission-free, and has lived in 19 of these jurisdictions.

Rated 5 out of 54.9/5 across 17 Google reviews from his advisory practice

No commission, ever. Your report is delivered instantly after submission, typically under three minutes.

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Jurisdictions Evaluated
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GeoCompass_Report_2026.pdf
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Top 3 Recommendations

Strategic Location Recommendations

Example output for one profile

Rank #1
UAE
86.2 / 100
Est. monthly exp.
$ 8 625
Monthly balance
+$ 3 375
Self-funded
Rank #2
Singapore
83.5 / 100
Est. monthly exp.
$ 9 140
Monthly balance
+$ 2 860
Self-funded
Rank #3
Portugal
79.1 / 100
Est. monthly exp.
$ 6 375
Monthly balance
+$ 5 625
Self-funded

United Arab Emirates ranks first for its favourable tax environment. Singapore stands out for high safety environment. Portugal stands out for high financial sustainability.

+ full ranking of all eligible jurisdictions in Annex A
GeoCompass SignalFree

See if your current country is the right one for your profile.

Free · 18 questions · 232 jurisdictions

  • Composite fit score for your country and your best anonymized match
  • Monthly tax and cost-of-living impact for your profile
  • Residency pathways that match your situation

First results appear on screen, before any email.

Signal measures the gap. GeoCompass names the countries that close it.

GeoCompass Signal · sample result
Free

Signal output

Illustrative example, not personalised

Best anonymized match: fit score

0 / 100

Your country: structural fit

0 / 100

+29 pointsfit gap for this sample profile

Projected tax savings (five years)

≈ 14.2%

Net monthly balance impact, best fit
+€0/mo
Matching residency pathways
3 identified
Why GeoCompass exists

Where you live shapes three things at once.

How much you keep

Your tax exposure and your cost of living set your real savings rate.

How life runs day to day

Admin friction, safety, banking access, internet, healthcare.

What stays open later

The mobility, residencies, and options you can still activate five years from now.

Most people choose where to live by default

Born thereFollowed a jobA friend's tip on RedditA top-10 list, never updated

None of these is a decision. They are absences of decision.

0Jurisdictions analyzed

0Weighted dimensions

GeoCompass replaces the absence with a structured analysis built on your actual income, your actual tax exposure, your actual mobility, and your actual constraints. It does not tell you what to think. It shows you what the variables actually say.

The Cost of a Poor Decision

The cost of a misaligned jurisdiction

A misaligned base is not an inconvenience. It is a quantifiable cost that compounds across four dimensions.

Tax inefficiency. The annual tax differential between jurisdictions varies with your income structure, your tax residency, and the regimes you qualify for. For mobile professionals, the differential typically ranges from a few thousand to tens of thousands of euros per year. For founders and entrepreneurs with cross-border structures, the differential routinely exceeds €30,000 to €100,000+ per year.

Operational friction. Banking that breaks. Residency permits that lapse. Time zones that drain energy. Internet that fails on the worst day of a launch. These are not abstract problems. They cost real hours and real money every month.

Quality of life and continuity. Healthcare you trust. A neighbourhood that works. Schools, if you have or plan to have children. Geopolitical stability over the next decade. These compound differently than tax rates, and most of them cannot be reversed once the move is made.

Relocation that fails. Most location decisions made without a framework are corrected within three years. Each correction costs €5,000 to €30,000 in moving and setup costs, plus the time and momentum lost.

These outcomes are predictable.

GeoCompass replaces guesswork with a structured analysis built on the variables that directly impact your financial outcome and operational reality:

Tax ImpactAligned with Your Profile

Estimated tax exposure across jurisdictions, weighted by your real income structure.

Relative positioning you can compare without guesswork.

Visa AccessAligned with Your Mobility

Countries that fail your minimum stay or visa rules are excluded.

The map follows how you actually move, not generic rankings.

Global BankingThat Actually Works

Cross-border access, account stability, and payment reliability.

Practical banking signals for people who live across borders.

Administrative FrictionYou Can Handle

Admin load matched to your tolerance and operating mode.

Less noise on paperwork you are willing to run day to day.

Safety and StabilityFor Your Base

Structured scoring across personal safety, governance, and geopolitical horizon.

Clear signals instead of vague “feel good” labels.

Healthcare and QualityOf Life

Healthcare quality plus environment, infrastructure, and climate fit.

A grounded read on daily life where you would actually land.

Financial ViabilityBased on Your Numbers

Income versus cost of living, cash runway, and burn rate.

Viability checks before you commit time or capital.

The financial cost of your country choice scales with your situation.

The fiscal differential between jurisdictions scales primarily with your income. For lower-income mobile professionals, the monthly fiscal differential is often modest, but the operational and quality-of-life cost of a misaligned base remains significant: rent that breaks your budget, internet you cannot rely on, a visa that forces you to move every 90 days, healthcare you avoid using.

For mid-income mobile professionals, the monthly fiscal differential typically reaches €1,000 to €5,000 once the right regime applies.

For founders and entrepreneurs above €15,000/month, the monthly differential routinely exceeds €5,000 to €15,000.

Over a 5-year horizon

The cumulative impact of a structurally misaligned base ranges from €20,000 to over €500,000+ depending on your income, your tax exposure, and the regimes you could have qualified for.

And that excludes

  • relocation costs
  • financial opportunities lost
  • time spent correcting the decision
  • switching and setup costs

€290 is not a cost.

It is a decision with a calculable return.

For most qualifying profiles, a single optimised variable offsets the cost within the first few months, often through tax reduction alone.

232 jurisdictions and one you

Why your current country is likely costing you more than you think.

There is almost no statistical scenario in which the country you were born in, or chose without structured analysis, is financially optimal for your situation.

No country maximizes everything at once. Different countries serve different functions.

Built for capital

Tax efficiency and asset protection, usually with trade-offs on lifestyle or friction.

Built for lifestyle

Quality of life advantages that often come with higher tax exposure.

Built for simplicity

Operational and administrative ease for how you live and work day to day.

This is not a problem to solve. It's a constraint to navigate.

The right question

“Which jurisdiction is structurally optimal for my profile, my income structure, and my exposure?”

That is what GeoCompass answers. In financial terms, not preferences.

Decision Failure Modes

Why jurisdiction decisions fail.

Most people do not choose wrong.

They do not choose at all. They default.

And they pay for it in taxes, inefficiencies, and years they do not get back.

Content Is Not Research

Built for engagement, not for your financial reality

Anecdotes Are Not Data

What worked for someone else tells you nothing about you

Confirmation Bias

You only compare the options you already like

Optimizing One Variable Only

Optimizing for tax alone can create hidden financial and operational risks

Tax Myths

Widely shared, rarely understood, often financially costly

Recency Bias

What's trending now ≠ what works over time

These patterns repeat. Unless you break them.

GeoCompass eliminates these failure patterns.

It replaces guesswork with a structured system built on your profile, not generic advice.

And most importantly, it shows the financial consequences of each option before you make the decision.

The Mechanism

One Country Cannot Fill Every Slot

No country is best at everything, and it does not need to be. A jurisdiction portfolio uses each country for the job it does best: where you live, and what each jurisdiction does for you without living there.

Read the full framework: what is a jurisdiction portfolio? →

Where You Live

Filled with data

Main Base

Your centre of life and tax residence. The expensive decision, made on data instead of anecdote.

Filled with data

Alternative Base

The serious plan B, scored and ready if the main base ever disappoints.

Filled with data

Exploration Anchor

Where you spend part of the year without settling: seasons, projects, curiosity.

What It Does for You

Filled with data

Tax Regime Option

A special regime you actually qualify for if you switch residence, named and checked against your profile.

Filled with data

Citizenship Backup

A second passport or accessible residence that secures mobility and resilience for the long run.

Advisory Orchestrated

Banking Hub

Where part of your assets sits, outside your home system, in a jurisdiction built for custody.

Advisory Orchestrated

Business Base

Where your company is incorporated, kept compliant with where you actually live and work.

Most people let their birth country fill every slot by default. GeoCompass fills each slot your data can justify. Advisory orchestrates the rest.

Who this is for

Who GeoCompass is built for

GeoCompass is built for globally mobile professionals who want to choose where to live, and what each jurisdiction should do for them, deliberately, on the basis of structured analysis rather than default or anecdote.

Remote employees and operators

Evaluating where to base themselves for a stable mid-term

Freelancers and independents

Cross-border income, optimising their tax base and operational setup

Founders and bootstrappers

Evaluating jurisdictional optionality for the next 24 to 60 months

Expats and dual citizens

Reconsidering their fiscal residency after a life change

Senior remote professionals

Planning a family-aware relocation (schools, healthcare, safety)

GeoCompass is not built for:

Fixed-location situations where moving is not an optionPersonalised legal or tax advice (GeoCompass is decision support, not advisory)City-level or neighbourhood decisions (jurisdictional, not local)
The Process

From your profile to a structured jurisdiction portfolio, in minutes.

A structured process that turns your inputs into a clear, defensible decision with measurable financial implications.

  1. Pay once, unlock access

    One-time payment. You get the questionnaire link by email right away.

  2. Complete your profile

    ~20 minutes of active time. Income, tax exposure, constraints, and priorities.

  3. We run the analysis

    After you submit, the engine scores your profile across 232 jurisdictions, 24 weighted dimensions, and 8 constraint dimensions. Usually ready in under 3 minutes.

  4. Your report lands in your inbox

    A structured PDF (~18 pages): your jurisdiction portfolio with ranked bases and exploration anchors, financial trade-offs, tax exposure context, and visa/mobility signals. Personal Cockpit access included for 12 months.

    See a sample report

Most location decisions become clear once they are structured.

Stop defaulting. Start structuring a decision that directly impacts your finances.

Get GeoCompass
The Engine

Not an Opinion. A Financial Decision System.

A deterministic scoring engine applied to jurisdiction selection.

What Powers GeoCompass

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Jurisdictions evaluated

Sovereign states, territories, and special jurisdictions across 8 world regions

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Weighted decision variables

Safety, banking access, climate fit, affordability, rule of law, tax context and more, weighted by your priorities

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Hard constraint layers, applied first

Jurisdictions incompatible with your tax situation, mobility, or legal setup are eliminated before ranking

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Profile inputs

Your income, tax exposure, constraints, and priorities

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Calculations per report

Every output is structured, not guessed, and reflects measurable financial trade-offs

This is why decisions become clear, financially grounded, and not based on guesswork.

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The engine underneath

What we score, dimension by dimension

Every jurisdiction is evaluated across these composite dimensions. Each card shows an illustrative sample on a 0–10 style bar. Open a dimension for the full explanation.

Country index dimensions score the same for every user. Profile-adjusted dimensions depend on your specific inputs (languages, time zone, climate sensitivity, wealth exposure, and more).

Category
  • Fiscal
  • Risk
  • Lifestyle
  • Infrastructure
Visa fitprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.4 / 10

How well authorized short-stay length fits your passport and the minimum visa days you declared.

SafetyShield Indexcountry index
Sample score8.1 / 10

Personal safety, stability signals, and day-to-day risk exposure for a realistic base.

Admin Ease Indexcountry index
Sample score6.5 / 10

Bureaucratic friction, paperwork complexity, and the administrative effort required to live there.

WiFi Indexcountry index
Sample score8.3 / 10

Connectivity quality and practical internet reliability for remote work and operations.

Time zone fitprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.8 / 10

How well each jurisdiction matches your preferred work rhythm, team overlap, and time-zone flexibility.

Tax Freedom Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score8.6 / 10

How friendly a jurisdiction is on personal income tax, based on its top marginal rate and whether it taxes worldwide or only local-source income.

Linguistic fitprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.2 / 10

Language fit based on your spoken languages and how much language friction matters to you.

Banking Indexcountry index
Sample score7.9 / 10

Banking access, financial infrastructure, and practical account usability for mobile residents.

WeatherComfort Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.5 / 10

Climate comfort weighted by your own sensitivity to weather and environmental conditions.

City Comfort Indexcountry index
Sample score7.3 / 10

Urban comfort, services, infrastructure quality, and practical living standards.

Affordability Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score6.8 / 10

Cost of living, budget fit, cash runway, savings rate, and financial resilience under your profile.

Justice & Order Indexcountry index
Sample score7.6 / 10

Rule of law, institutional reliability, and how predictable the local environment feels.

GeoStability Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score8.0 / 10

Political, regional, and macro stability adjusted for your time horizon and risk posture.

Environmental Quality Indexcountry index
Sample score7.1 / 10

Air quality, environmental conditions, and long-term comfort signals.

Flight Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score8.2 / 10

Air connectivity and mobility practicality for your travel pattern and base strategy.

Open Society Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.7 / 10

Social openness, cultural fit, and comfort with the local civic environment.

Wealth Protection Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.4 / 10

Asset-protection signals at the jurisdiction level, weighted by your wealth exposure profile (net worth, asset mix, leverage).

Geography & lifestyle fitprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.2 / 10

How well the jurisdiction offers the geography features you selected: sea or coast access, mountain access, island living, a major international city.

AI Access Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.6 / 10

Practical access to frontier AI tools, the domestic AI ecosystem, readiness, cloud regions, and restrictions, weighted by how central AI is to your work and life.

Economic Openness Indexcountry index
Sample score7.5 / 10

How freely capital, investment, and goods move in and out: trade openness, foreign investment access, capital mobility, and the absence of exchange controls.

Market Depth Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.0 / 10

The economic critical mass of the local market (population reach, GDP, purchasing power, urban hub size), weighted by how much your income relies on local clients.

ClimateShield Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score7.3 / 10

Physical resilience to 2050 climate hazards (extreme heat, water stress, sea-level rise, cyclones, flooding), weighted by how much climate resilience matters to you when settling.

Income Equality Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score6.9 / 10

How evenly income is shared across society (Gini-based). A personal preference signal that only shapes your ranking if you say fairness around you matters.

Currency Stability Indexprofile-adjusted
Sample score8.1 / 10

How well the currency in actual use holds its value (volatility, depreciation, inflation), weighted by how much your plans rely on the local economy.

AI vs GeoCompass

Generic AI.Versus structured decision analysis.

AI produces generic outputs. GeoCompass applies a deterministic scoring engine to your specific profile, constraints, and jurisdictional realities.

AI

  • -Same answer for everyone
  • -No real constraints
  • -No structured ranking
  • -No accountability
  • -No consideration of tax optimization
  • -No financial trade-off modeling

GeoCompass

  • -Built on 50+ personal inputs
  • -Hard constraints applied first
  • -Countries ranked and explained
  • -Clear, defensible decision
  • -Tax exposure integrated into the decision
  • -Financial trade-offs explicitly modeled

A list is not a financially optimized decision.

AI is optimized for average answers.

GeoCompass is built to optimize your specific financial outcome.

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Visas & Mobility

The operational side of your decision.

Knowing is good. But it's not enough. Once you know, you have to actually get there. We map the way: 1,493 visa programmes evaluated against your profile, year-by-year residency pathways, and live alerts in your Cockpit when a programme you're tracking changes.

Passport mobility snapshot

For each of your citizenships: visa-free destination count, Lucky Nomads Passport Index score, and verified access to Schengen, the UK, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Aggregated best-of-passport view if you hold more than one nationality.

1493 active visa programmes evaluated

Digital nomad visas, self-sponsored work permits, startup visas, golden visas, retirement permits, talent visas, family reunification, freelance residency, residence by investment. Each programme scored deterministically against your profile: income thresholds, deployable capital, age, sectors, education, prior experience, dependants.

Residency pathway visualisation

For each eligible programme, a year-by-year timeline from initial visa through permanent residency to citizenship eligibility, with documented requirements at each step and watch-outs along the way.

Strategic country alignment

Each programme is cross-referenced against your GeoCompass ranking. Programmes in your top-ranked jurisdictions are surfaced first. Programmes in caveat or excluded jurisdictions are clearly flagged.

Reform watchlist

When a programme you have shortlisted is reformed, suspended, or modified, the Cockpit surfaces the change with the underlying source. Portugal NHR replacement, Italy DN restrictions, Spain DNV reforms, UAE freelance changes: this happens monthly across the global landscape.

No agency upselling. No commission-driven recommendations. Just the data, your eligibility, and the operational pathway.

Special tax regimes

The optimisation layer most country lists ignore.

Portugal IFICI (the successor to NHR). Italy Impatriati 50% exemption. Spain Beckham flat 24%. Greece DN tax 50% exemption. UK FIG regime. Cyprus Non-Dom. Malta Resident Non-Dom. UAE freelance 0%. Bulgaria 10% flat. Switzerland forfait. Singapore territorial.

Almost every country offers one or more special tax regimes for inbound residents. They are rarely public-facing. They are rarely well documented. They are rarely the same as the headline tax rate.

GeoCompass evaluates 1085 audited regimes across 224 jurisdictions against your specific profile.

Eligibility engine

Each regime is scored across more than a dozen eligibility criteria, including nationality, age, prior non-residency years, housing commitments, minimum stay, professional sectors, income structure and thresholds, net worth, specialist skills, remittance rules, and Pillar Two exposure for corporate regimes. Each result tells you exactly why you qualify or why you do not.

Profile-aware

The engine reads from your full GeoCompass profile. No re-questioning, no surface-level matching, no generic “this might fit your situation”.

Aligned with your ranking

Regimes are grouped by your shortlist, caveat, and excluded jurisdictions. A regime in a deal-breaker country is flagged. A regime in your top 3 is surfaced first.

Source-grade documentation

Every regime entry is sourced from primary legislation, official tax authority guidance, or audited research. No agency marketing. No outdated blog posts.

Cross-border combinations

The Cockpit also pairs each regime with the visa programmes that make it operationally accessible. A favourable tax regime is only useful if you can actually obtain the residency that triggers it.

The Coverage Layer

232 jurisdictions monitored. Your profile decides which ones survive.

GeoCompass evaluates sovereign states, territories, and special jurisdictions across eight global regions, then filters them through your income, mobility rules, tax exposure, and personal constraints before ranking what actually fits.

SpainAlderneySvalbardCzech RepublicBermudaSwitzerlandSwedenSloveniaBrunei DarussalamFinlandPanamaIcelandPortugalIsle of ManIrelandGreeceCanadaMalaysiaThailandGibraltarAndorraSabaLuxembourgUnited KingdomSaint Kitts and NevisEstoniaNetherlandsAntigua and BarbudaAustraliaJapanTaiwanBulgariaCosta RicaHungaryLithuaniaUnited StatesPolandItalyGuernseyJerseySarkRomaniaPuerto RicoMauritiusUnited Arab EmiratesLatviaMonacoMontenegroBritish Virgin IslandsNorth MacedoniaBelgiumFranceHong KongCroatiaChileIsraelGermanyQatarTurks and Caicos IslandsSlovakiaSan MarinoBahamasMexicoSingaporeVanuatuUruguayMaltaCayman IslandsBahrainCyprusMacaoAnguillaNew ZealandBonaireGeorgiaSurinameGuineaSyriaCubaMozambiqueGambiaSint EustatiusKenyaHondurasAlgeriaUgandaLiberiaPakistanPhilippinesSerbiaTunisiaAlbaniaKuwaitBurkina FasoSudanChinaKosovoRepublic of the CongoBrazilTuvaluPalauWallis and FutunaOmanSaudi ArabiaSouth KoreaNauruNigeriaBoliviaBelarusEquatorial GuineaFalkland IslandsJordanBeninMyanmarSaint-Martin (French part)TanzaniaAngolaEgyptMoldovaSaint HelenaUzbekistanTongaDominican RepublicMalawiParaguayTogoCambodiaGabonJamaicaNorwayFrench PolynesiaBangladeshTrinidad and TobagoSenegalMaliKazakhstanYemenIraqPalestinian TerritoriesSomaliaSouth AfricaTimor-LesteBurundiGuatemalaSao Tome and PrincipeSamoaGuinea-BissauArmeniaAustriaEl SalvadorCameroonTokelauLesothoComorosTurkeyMongoliaDominicaNew CaledoniaDjiboutiVietnamNepalMarshall IslandsBosnia and HerzegovinaAzerbaijanEcuadorRussiaPeruSolomon IslandsGreenlandBelizeEthiopiaSierra LeoneSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesGuyanaEswatiniSouth SudanPitcairn IslandsZambiaSint Maarten (Dutch part)LaosSaint Pierre and MiquelonBhutanBarbadosIndiaDenmarkZimbabweKiribatiIranFijiTurkmenistanCape VerdeMicronesia (Federated States of)NigerArgentinaNicaraguaLebanonCentral African RepublicNamibiaMoroccoAfghanistanPapua New GuineaHaitiChadKyrgyzstanSri LankaTajikistanLibyaCote d'IvoireUS Virgin IslandsArubaEritreaMontserratCuraçaoGhanaSeychellesFaroe IslandsGrenadaNiueDemocratic Republic of the CongoSaint BarthelemyUkraineColombiaBotswanaMadagascarSaint LuciaLiechtensteinCook IslandsMaldivesIndonesiaRwandaVenezuelaMauritania

232 in-engine jurisdictions monitored

Global coverage

The engine starts broad, then narrows the world around your constraints.

232

Jurisdictions monitored

8

Global regions

24

Weighted scoring dimensions

8

Constraint layers

Engine output

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Ranked shortlist generated

232 jurisdictions monitoredconstraints applied24D scoringranked shortlist generated

Sample Report

Preview a representative report.

This is a real GeoCompass output for one profile.

A structured, ranked output showing where your situation performs best and the trade-offs involved.

GeoCompass_Report_2026.pdf
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Top 3 Recommendations

Strategic Location Recommendations

Example output for one profile

Rank #1
UAE
86.2 / 100
Est. monthly exp.
$ 8 625
Monthly balance
+$ 3 375
Self-funded
Rank #2
Singapore
83.5 / 100
Est. monthly exp.
$ 9 140
Monthly balance
+$ 2 860
Self-funded
Rank #3
Portugal
79.1 / 100
Est. monthly exp.
$ 6 375
Monthly balance
+$ 5 625
Self-funded

United Arab Emirates ranks first for its favourable tax environment. Singapore stands out for high safety environment. Portugal stands out for high financial sustainability.

Rankings reflect your income, constraints, and priorities.

  • Full ranking of eligible jurisdictions
  • Detailed breakdown of your top 3 options
  • Financial viability and monthly balance estimates
  • Tax exposure comparison over time
  • Clear, structured decision framework

Based on 50+ inputs and 22,000+ calculations per profile.

Each result is specific to your profile and cannot be generalized.

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Example Analyses

Different profiles. Different outcomes.

Same engine. Different inputs. Pick a profile to see how the ranking shifts.

Engine output

Illustrative example, not personalised

Remote operator looking for a stable base

€7,000/mo incomeSingle, no dependantsHealthcare min 7/10Long-stay visa required

Ranked shortlist

Est. monthly balance

+€3,050/mo
74.2 /100
+€3,900/mo
72.1 /100
+€4,150/mo
70.8 /100

Estimated monthly tax differential

Up to 0/mo

Driven by affordability, infrastructure, and accessible long-term visas.

Estimated tax differential up to €900 per month between the ranked options.

For qualifying profiles, the monthly differential between top jurisdictions ranges from €500 to €10,000+ depending on income and structure.

Illustrative profiles. Results vary based on your specific income, constraints, and tax exposure.

Who built GeoCompass

Built by a wealth manager.

GeoCompass was built by Lucky Maillard, who holds a Master's degree in wealth management, banking, and insurance, and a background in wealth advisory: analyzing financial situations, structuring assets, and identifying optimization levers across tax, investment, and capital.

He applied that same institutional framework to the problem of jurisdiction selection, and has personally experienced 19 of the jurisdictions in the engine.

Lucky Maillard - Founder, Lucky Nomads

Lucky Maillard

Founder, Lucky Nomads · Wealth manager

Client track record

What clients say about working with Lucky.

Before Lucky Nomads, Lucky advised private clients in France as a licensed wealth management professional. These are their verified Google reviews, translated from French.

Rated 5 out of 5
Finances were my weak spot, the perfect subject to put me to sleep. My first meeting with Lucky was a revelation. He explains things so well that for the first time in 49 years I actually wanted to learn more. Fair explanations, fair pricing.

Corinne F.

Google review · March 2025

Rated 5 out of 5
Lucky brings real clarity on long-term objectives and the trade-offs to make. A structured, pedagogical approach focused on real performance. An advisor who fully masters his subject.

S. W.

Google review · January 2026

Rated 5 out of 5
Looking for professional advice, a relationship of trust, someone who takes the taboo out of money conversations? Lucky brings the clarity you need and advises without ever rushing you. A truly great professional.

David T.

Google review · October 2023

Rated 5 out of 54.9/5across 17 Google reviews
See the reviews on Google

Verified Google reviews from Lucky's wealth management practice in France, before Lucky Nomads. Translated from French.

GeoCompass

The cheapest part of changing country.

A structured scoring engine that evaluates 232 global jurisdictions and delivers a personalised report built around your financial profile, constraints, and priorities.

One-time payment

€290

Then €99/year for optional annual Cockpit renewal after the included first year. No automatic charge.

Get GeoCompass
  • Full scoring engine across 232 jurisdictions and 24 composite dimensions
  • Personalised Strategic Location Decision Report, delivered as PDF
  • 12 months of Personal Cockpit access included
  • Live ranking updates as you refine your profile
  • Hard constraint filtering, tax-delta view, and strategic execution tools
  • Visa eligibility engine across 1493 active programmes
  • Special tax regimes eligibility across 1085 audited regimes
Included in every purchase

Your Report Is the Start.The Cockpit Keeps Your Financial Advantage Updated.

GeoCompass includes 12 months of Cockpit access. After that, optional annual renewal is €99/year, with no automatic charge and no commitment. Live ranking, profile updates, and new scoring indices stay available for as long as your Cockpit is active.

Most analytical tools give you a snapshot.

GeoCompass gives you a living decision system that keeps your location strategy aligned with changing tax rules, costs, and constraints.

Your Cockpit is built to grow with your strategy.

Scores That Update

As jurisdictions evolve, including tax laws, visa rules, and cost structures, your scoring data updates. Your ranking stays aligned with your current financial reality.

Re-Run as You Evolve

Your income changes. Your tax exposure changes. Your priorities shift. You can trigger a new analysis at any time without starting over.

New Indices, New Features

New scoring dimensions, including new tax-related scoring dimensions. New capabilities. New analyses. Added to your Cockpit as they launch, at no extra cost during your active period.

Your situation will change.

Tax rules will change.

Most location decisions become outdated without continuous updates.

This one stays aligned.

Explore the Data Live

Explore Every Jurisdiction We Score

This is the live map, not a screenshot. Every covered jurisdiction, with its scored dimensions one hover away. No opinion painted on the fill, just coverage you can verify yourself.

Live public map, the same engine coverage GeoCompass scores your profile against

Hover a Country, See the Data

Every covered jurisdiction opens its scored dimensions on hover or tap: safety, tax freedom, healthcare, banking and more. The whole world, actually mapped.

Your Cockpit Repaints It

This public map stays neutral on purpose. Inside your Personal Cockpit, the same map turns into your heat map: green where your profile shines, red where it struggles.

From Map to Decision

The map proves the coverage. GeoCompass turns it into your jurisdiction portfolio, ranked and quantified against your own profile.

232 jurisdictions. 24 weighted scoring dimensions. One strategic view of your world.

Pricing context

GeoCompass: €290 for the full diagnostic and 12 months of Personal Cockpit access.

€290 is the launch price. It rises as the engine and the data deepen. Early clients get the next 12 months of upgrades at today's price.

What the structured alternatives cost

Big 4 tax engagementone relocation question

€15,000 to €50,000+

Failed relocation (trial and error)plus the time and momentum lost

€5,000 to €30,000

Relocation agency consultationoften biased toward partner jurisdictions

€1,500 to €5,000

Tax accountant call (1 hour)covers one jurisdiction, gives no ranking

€300 to €700

GeoCompass232 jurisdictions, visa and regime eligibility integrated

€290

The cost scales with what it replaces.

Lucky Nomads Advisory

When you want a human on it, not just the data.

GeoCompass gives you the ranked answer. Advisory turns it into an executed move: we support both the life move and the tax residence switch, orchestrating the licensed professionals you pay directly and keeping every step of the setup compliant with their sign-off. Fixed prices, a visible process.

Decision Brief

€800

Your plan, ready to run yourself

Relocation Sprint

from €3,500

We run the plan for you

Review

€590/year

Stay current, year after year

Free orientation call

Not sure if your situation calls for a structured analysis?

Book a free 30-minute orientation call. The goal is not to recommend a country. The goal is to help you understand whether GeoCompass applies to your situation and what a structured analysis would surface for you.

  • Format

    Free orientation call

    30-minute live conversation

    GeoCompass

    Structured PDF report and 12-month Personal Cockpit
  • What it answers

    Free orientation call

    “Does my situation call for a structured analysis?”

    GeoCompass

    “Which jurisdiction is structurally optimal for me?”
  • Method

    Free orientation call

    Conversational, qualitative

    GeoCompass

    Deterministic scoring across 232 jurisdictions on 24 dimensions, 50+ profile inputs
  • Visa and tax regime eligibility

    Free orientation call

    Not covered

    GeoCompass

    Included, evaluated against your profile
  • Deliverable

    Free orientation call

    Email recap after the call

    GeoCompass

    Personalised PDF and ongoing Cockpit access
  • Price

    Free orientation call

    Free

    GeoCompass

    €290 one-time
  • Availability

    Free orientation call

    Limited slots per week

    GeoCompass

    Always available
  • Best for

    Free orientation call

    First-time orientation before committing to a structured analysis

    GeoCompass

    Anyone ready to make a data-driven jurisdictional decision

The orientation call helps you understand if you need GeoCompass. GeoCompass tells you which jurisdiction is structurally optimal for you.

The orientation call is one per person and is not personalised legal, tax, or financial advice. It is an orientation. Slots are limited.

Make the decision

232 jurisdictions. 24 weighted dimensions. 50+ inputs. 1493 visa programmes evaluated. 1085 audited tax regimes. 22,000+ calculations per report. Typically delivered in under three minutes.

Prefer a human to run the move? Advisory orchestrates the professionals behind both the life move and the tax residence switch.

Final questions

Final Questions Before You Decide.

What is a jurisdiction portfolio?

A jurisdiction portfolio is the small set of countries you deliberately use for different purposes, the way an investment portfolio holds different assets for different jobs. No single country is best at everything. One country serves as your main base, where you live and hold tax residence. Others play roles you do not need to live in: an exploration anchor for part of the year, a special tax regime you qualify for, a backup residence or citizenship, a banking hub, a base for your company.

Most people let their birth country fill every role by default. GeoCompass scores your profile across 232 jurisdictions and 24 dimensions and shows which countries deserve which role in your portfolio, with the data to defend each choice.

We're a couple, how should we use GeoCompass?

Each person should complete the diagnostic individually, with their own data and priorities. That keeps scores accurate and shows structural alignment or divergence before you design a shared long-term strategy. Many couples then run a joint review once both reports are delivered.

Can I just use AI instead?

No. AI gives generic answers that do not account for your income, constraints, or tax exposure.

GeoCompass builds a structured decision based on your specific profile.

Is this for me?

GeoCompass applies if you are globally mobile and choosing where to base yourself. It works across the full range of income levels and lifestyles, with the financial differential scaling with your specific situation. The engine handles lifestyle, mobility, safety, cost, tax friendliness, and operational fit in a single decision-grade output. Whether you are a remote employee evaluating Lisbon vs Mexico City, a freelancer with cross-border clients, or a founder structuring optionality for the next decade, the deterministic ranking applies.

Does GeoCompass include visa eligibility and tax regimes?

Yes. Every GeoCompass purchase includes the full visa eligibility engine across 1493 active programmes and the special tax regimes eligibility engine across 1085 audited regimes across 224 jurisdictions, accessible in your Personal Cockpit for 12 months.

What is the free orientation call?

The free orientation call is a 30-minute live conversation with the Lucky Nomads founder. Its goal is to help you understand whether your situation calls for a structured GeoCompass analysis, and what such an analysis would surface for you. It is not personalised legal, tax, or financial advice. It is an orientation. One call per person. Slots are limited and may be paused at any time. To purchase the structured analysis directly, see GeoCompass.

What if my situation changes after I receive my report?

Your Cockpit stays active for 12 months. You can re-run your analysis any time as your income, constraints, or priorities evolve. Scoring data also updates as jurisdictions evolve.

When do I receive my report?

Delivered instantly after submission (typically under 3 minutes).

In rare cases, delivery may take longer due to processing or system constraints.

In exceptional circumstances, delivery may take up to 24 hours.

Is there a refund policy?

All purchases are final. After your report is delivered, refunds or credits are only available where our Terms of Service or mandatory law say so. If you have a question about your order, contact us at contact@luckynomads.io.

Is this legal or tax advice?

No. GeoCompass provides structured decision support based on your inputs. It does not replace personalized legal or tax advice.

Who built GeoCompass?

Built by a finance professional using structured decision frameworks applied in wealth advisory and international strategy.

You now have everything you need to make a structured decision.

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