Finance Bro

Seven years of bank statements, receipts, and investments in one ledger I trust.

Money is the most honest diary anyone keeps, and most finance apps refuse to let you read it. They budget, they warn, they gamify. Finance Bro reads it back instead. Every statement is reconciled to the cent. Receipts are matched to card charges and read down to the line item, so a $147 grocery run resolves into produce, snacks, and a magazine. A rules engine learns from every correction, and refuses to guess when my own corrections have been inconsistent. An inflation lens restates a decade of spending in today's dollars. A life-energy view prices anything in hours of my life instead of dollars, based on what an hour of work actually nets after the commute and the decompression. Claude does the reading and the categorising; SQL does every sum. It runs my actual money today.

The other half of the project is that it exists at all. I'm a designer. I don't write code. A Postgres ledger with field-level encryption, a Next.js app, a native SwiftUI client, 398 commits and 490 tests in eleven weeks, all of it built by directing Claude Code against a PRD written the way I'd brief a design team. Half personal infrastructure, half an experiment in how far one person with a clear enough spec can now get alone.