Extract expenses from receipt photos sent via chat
From the linked report, the builder made AICountant for freelancers and small businesses as a Telegram or Discord bot. Users connect one of those accounts, send a receipt photo, and the AI pulls out vendor, amount, tax, category, and date, then adds the expense to a ledger for review before Someone can export it as CSV. The post says the product was already functional and the creator was recruiting beta testers to validate usage patterns.
- Agent or tool
- Custom agent
- Topic
- Finance
- Reported on
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Money tasks are tedious but high-stakes, which is exactly where a careful agent helps: it does the checking and paperwork while a person keeps the final say. It is one of 65 sightings filed under Finance on Agent Sightings (number 47 by interest), and one of 182 involving Custom agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into your own agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Finance task: extract expenses from receipt photos sent via chat. Tabulate numbers, mark uncertainties, and do not file, pay, or submit until I confirm.
Tip: Keep the agent in 'propose, don't pay' mode: let it gather numbers and draft messages, and approve any payment or account change yourself.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1s8p0aq/i_built_an_ai_bookkeeper_…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.