Use cases / Personal Finance
Personal Finance
Group a year of bank statements into tax-ready categories
A user fed Claude PDF bank statements and had it cluster similar transactions, with subtotals that must reconcile to the opening and closing balances. Claude then asked about amounts it could not place, so the person only had to answer the open questions instead of sorting everything by hand.
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- Claude
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- @SaudSami on X
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Our own starter prompt. Fill in the brackets, then paste it into Claude or your agent of choice.
Starter prompt
Here are my bank statements as PDFs for the year. Group every transaction into categories (income, rent, utilities, software, travel, other) and show subtotals per category. Check that the subtotals reconcile with each statement's opening and closing balance and flag any gap. List any transactions you cannot categorize as questions for me, and do not give tax advice.
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