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Charge Id - Lean Canvas

Lean Canvas

Problem

This is the start of a series of blog posts where I try to build an online personal budgeting system.

The motivation for this was me trying to do a household budget usin

With Open Banking approaching a common service to classify income and expenditure for bank statement transactions is not currently available on the market.

The ability for a consumer to categorise their transactions sits within varied personal finance providers (eg. pocketbook, mint).

Solution

An API that uses Named Entity Recognition to identifies a consumers bank statement into the below groups:

Why –> classification (eg Holiday travel) & sub-category (flights) Who –> company originating the charge When –> Date time & location How –> Method of transfer (EftPos, cash withdraw, direct debit, credit card) What –> Type of transaction is it? Dishonour, Overdrawn, Interest, Fees, Credit, Debit

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Key Metrics

  • Correct classifications
  • API Usage
  • Website signups
  • Website classification requests
  • Percent of statements marked as correct (accurately identified)
  • Unique Value Proposition
  • We offer an open solution to personal financial statement classification.

Similar products

  • pocketbook – automated classification
  • pocketsmith.com – automated classification
  • youneedabudget.com – manual classification
  • myprosperity.com.au - – manual classification
  • Mint – US based  no AU presence

Difference

We use online machine learning to classify all transactions on a bank statement and categorise them into categories for visualisation.

Potential future features

  • Personal finance advice
  • Weekly email summary statement of financial portfolio
  • Fraud alerts
  • Better products alert (mortgage/insurance)
  • Tax savings calculator ——————————————————————————–

Channels

Free for consumers.  Paid for financial institutions that want to use the API

Customer Segments

Retail consumers wanting to understand their financial statement Business consumers wanting financial insight into their customers

Cost Structure

  • Free for website use
  • API cost

Posts in this series

Charge Id – scratching the tech itch
Charge Id – lean canvas
Charge Id – solution overview
Charge Id – analysing the data
Charge Id – the prediction model
Charge Id – deploying a ML.Net Model to Azure

Code

https://github.com/chrismckelt/vita


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