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# Personal transaction analysis and budget queries

Convert natural language questions into accurate expense summaries from transaction logs

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askReceive spending question
- ThenQuery transaction rows
- ResultDisplay verified breakdown

Parse bank statement exports to answer inquiries about category spending, recurring charges, and monthly cash flow. The bot converts plain-language requests into structured filters against transaction tables, relying on strict arithmetic rather than generative estimates to avoid calculation errors.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

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Read transaction data from uploaded spreadsheets. When a user asks about spending or balances, convert the prompt into explicit date and category filters to aggregate totals directly from the rows. Cross-verify mathematical results before answering. If a question is ambiguous or the ledger data is incomplete, ask for clarification instead of estimating figures. Require user approval before saving new entries or modifying existing categories.
```

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## Tools it uses

ChatSpreadsheet

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- budgeting
- expenses
- finance
- transactions

## Source

[Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080275)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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