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Personal finance Sentinel
Turns Philippine bank and credit card statements into one clean, searchable record of your money.
Open Sentinel- Type
- Web app
- Reads
- 6 banks
- Status
- Live
Highlights of Sentinel
Reads your statements
01BPI, UnionBank, MariBank, CIMB, GCash, and EastWest, PDF or Excel.
Names merchants
02“Gadc 123ortigasave So Pasig” becomes McDonald’s. Your own rename wins.
Asks what it can’t tell
03One question per merchant or person, biggest first. Each answer files the rows to come.
Shows where it went
04Spending and income by category, and what each account kept.
Follows money between accounts
05Paying the card from savings counts as one transfer, not spending plus income.
Goes anywhere from the keyboard
06Ctrl K finds a page, an account, or an action.
How it’s built
Statements are parsed on the server and checked against their own totals before anything is stored.
Reading statements
- Runs on
- The server, on a worker thread
- Formats
- PDF, Excel exports, and Sentinel’s own CSV
- Accepts
- Only statements whose rows match the printed totals and running balances
- Never sent to
- A model
Naming and sorting
- Merchants
- Named by Claude; your rename wins
- Categories
- Jev, a low-cost decision model, under a spending cap
- Transfers
- Matched between your own accounts
The app
- Interface
- React, Mantine, and TanStack
- API
- Effect, schema first, with OpenAPI
- Storage
- PostgreSQL
Hosting
- Server
- DigitalOcean, behind Caddy
- DNS and backups
- Cloudflare
- Infrastructure
- Pulumi
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