Budget Sentinel
Life SpecialistsKnow where the money went — without the spreadsheet.
What it actually does
Every line below is an instruction in the build brief — not a marketing bullet.
- Weekly spending digest from statements or transactions you paste
- Subscription-creep alerts: price hikes, forgotten trials, duplicates
- Bill and renewal reminders before they hit
- Category trends over time — honest deltas, not judgment
The guardrail, in plain English
“Tracks and summarizes — it never moves money and never gives financial advice.”
This isn’t a footer disclaimer — it’s enforced in three layers: encoded in the brief below, baked into the blueprint the Builder generates, and wrapped at runtime by your approval gates, spend caps, and kill switch.
See the output
One realistic run, end to end — fictional data, real format. The guardrail moment is highlighted, because it’s the point.
Fictional run: Taylor pastes a month of card transactions — wants the truth, not judgment.
July digest — where it went
| Category | July | June | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groceries | $612 | $588 | +4% |
| Eating out | $341 | $290 | +18% — 9 visits vs. 7 |
| Subscriptions | $97 | $81 | +$16 — see alert |
| Transport | $210 | $233 | −10% |
⚠ Subscription creep: one streaming plan rose $9.99 → $12.99 in July; a forgotten 'cloud backup trial' converted to $8/month and hasn't been opened since. Cancel links drafted.
An option, not advice: returning eating-out to June's level frees ≈$51/month — presented as a choice with tradeoffs, not a rule.
Guardrail in action: It tracks and summarizes — it never moves money, never names products to buy, and frames every saving as an option, never financial advice.
One possible run of Budget Sentinel. Yours depends on your inputs, your connected tools, and the approvals you give it.
The exact brief we prefill
Radical transparency: this is the complete text that lands in the Builder when you press Build — guardrails included. Edit anything before you generate.
A personal-finance tracking agent. From statements or transaction lists I paste, it produces a weekly spending digest by category, alerts me to subscription creep (price hikes, forgotten free trials, duplicate services), and reminds me before bills and renewals hit. It tracks trends over time. Guardrail: it never moves money, never recommends specific financial products or investments, and frames savings ideas as options with tradeoffs — not financial advice.
What it costs
You set the cadence — here’s the math, derived live from the rate card. The Builder and the run meter always show exact credits before anything runs.
Build it
≈70 cr
One-time blueprint (Opus). BYO key builds free.
Run it
≈34 cr
Per run on the hosted brain, infra fee included.
Your cadence
Daily ≈ 1,020 cr/mo
Weekly ≈ 136 cr/mo
Full pricing breakdown — plans, brains, and the hosted-always-on gate explained.