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Built by a CPA with 13+ years of experience. Free prompts for ChatGPT & Claude that turn AI into your personal finance assistant — no app, no account, no fluff.

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Prompt #1 — Spending Breakdown Credit Cards
Food & Dining
$842
Subscriptions
$318
Shopping
$524
Health
$185
Potential monthly savings +$467
Prompt #2 — True Cost of Homeownership Zillow / Redfin
Mortgage (P&I)$4,210
Property taxes$820
Insurance + HOA$410
Maintenance + utilities$580
True monthly all-in cost $6,020

Two prompts. Two big decisions.

Pick the prompt that matches what you're trying to figure out. Both are free, both work with ChatGPT and Claude, and both are built by a CPA.

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Prompt #1
Credit Card Spending Analyzer
Paste in your credit card transactions and get a full breakdown — categories, subscriptions to cancel, top merchants, savings opportunities, and a spending health score.
What you need
Your credit card transaction history (CSV or copy/paste)
ChatGPT or Claude (free or paid)
About 30 seconds of your time
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Prompt #2
Homebuying Made Easy with AI
Drop in a Zillow, Redfin, or Realtor listing link plus a few inputs and get the true all-in monthly cost, loan comparisons, down payment strategy, and a no-BS reality check.
What you need
A Zillow, Redfin, or Realtor listing link
Your planned down payment %
Credit score range (optional, improves output)
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Know exactly where your money goes.

Export your credit card transactions, paste them into ChatGPT or Claude along with this prompt, and get a full financial breakdown — subscriptions to cut, top merchants, savings opportunities, and a health score — in seconds.

⚡ Takes 30 seconds to set up ✦ Works with ChatGPT & Claude
How to use this prompt
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Export your transactions
Download your credit card history as a CSV or PDF from your bank app — Chase, Amex, BoA, Citi all support this under Statements or Download Transactions.
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Open ChatGPT or Claude
Use whichever platform you prefer. Both work equally well with this prompt. No special settings needed.
ChatGPT
Claude
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Copy the prompt, paste your data
Copy the prompt below, paste it into the chat, then add your transaction data right below it. Hit send — that's it.
spending-analyzer.prompt
You are an expert personal finance analyst. I'm going to give you my credit card transaction data for the past month (or more). Your job is to analyze my spending and give me a CLEAR, HONEST, and ACTIONABLE financial breakdown. Here's what I need you to do: ───────────────────────────────────────── STEP 1 — CATEGORIZE ALL SPENDING ───────────────────────────────────────── Group every transaction into categories such as: • Food & Dining (restaurants, delivery, groceries) • Entertainment & Streaming • Shopping & Apparel • Health & Wellness • Transportation • Subscriptions & Memberships • Travel • Utilities & Bills • Other / Miscellaneous Show a clean table: | Category | Total Spent | # of Transactions | % of Total | ───────────────────────────────────────── STEP 2 — SUBSCRIPTIONS AUDIT ───────────────────────────────────────── Find ALL recurring charges — monthly or annual. List them in a table: | Subscription | Amount | Frequency | Monthly Cost | Then tell me: • Total monthly subscription spend • Which ones look unused or redundant • Which ones I should consider canceling ───────────────────────────────────────── STEP 3 — SPENDING TRENDS ───────────────────────────────────────── If data spans multiple months: • Show spending by month • Identify which categories increased or decreased • Flag any unusual spikes ───────────────────────────────────────── STEP 4 — TOP MERCHANTS ───────────────────────────────────────── List my Top 10 merchants by total spend. Show: | Merchant | Total | # Visits | Avg Per Visit | ───────────────────────────────────────── STEP 5 — SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES ───────────────────────────────────────── Based on what you see, give me 5–7 SPECIFIC and REALISTIC ways to reduce spending. Not generic advice. Tell me exactly: • Which category to cut • By how much • How much I'd save per month ───────────────────────────────────────── STEP 6 — FINANCIAL HEALTH SCORE ───────────────────────────────────────── Give me a spending health score from 1–100. Break it down by: • Subscription load • Dining vs. grocery balance • Discretionary vs. essential ratio • Spending consistency ───────────────────────────────────────── FINAL SUMMARY ───────────────────────────────────────── End with a short 3–5 bullet "What to do this week" action plan. Make it simple. Make it specific. Make it doable. ───────────────────────────────────────── HERE IS MY TRANSACTION DATA:

The real cost of a home, not just the mortgage.

Find a listing you're interested in on Zillow, Redfin, or Realtor.com. Paste the link into ChatGPT or Claude along with this prompt and a few quick inputs — and get the full picture: true all-in monthly cost, loan comparisons, down payment strategy, and a no-BS breakdown of what most buyers miss.

⚡ Works on any listing ✦ Works with ChatGPT & Claude
How to use this prompt
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Find a listing you're considering
Grab the URL from Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, or any similar platform. Copy the full link — the prompt will pull the property details from it directly.
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Open ChatGPT or Claude
Use the AI tool you prefer. Both work well. Note: you'll need a paid plan (ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro) to use the web browsing feature that reads the listing.
ChatGPT
Claude
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Paste the prompt + your inputs
Copy the prompt below and add your listing link, down payment %, and credit score range (optional but gives better output) at the bottom where indicated. Hit send.
homebuying-analyzer.prompt
You are a mortgage expert, financial analyst, AND real estate advisor. Your job is to analyze a home purchase scenario using a property listing link + user inputs — and explain EVERYTHING in simple, everyday language (no jargon). Your goal: show the TRUE cost of owning this home — not just the mortgage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ INPUTS I WILL PROVIDE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ * Property listing link (Zillow, Redfin, Realtor, etc.) * ZIP code (if not clear) * Down payment ($ or %) * Credit score range (optional) * Income (optional) IMPORTANT: * Extract from the listing (if available): • Home price • Property taxes • HOA fees • Location * If anything is missing → make realistic assumptions AND clearly state them ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 1 — PROPERTY SNAPSHOT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Break down: * Purchase price * Down payment ($ + %) * Estimated loan amount * Estimated interest rate (based on current market + credit score) → Search the web for today's jumbo or conforming 30yr fixed rate before answering * Property taxes (monthly + yearly) * Insurance estimate Clearly list ALL assumptions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 2 — LOAN OPTIONS (SIMPLE) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Compare: * 30-Year Fixed * 15-Year Fixed * ARM (5/1 or 7/1) For each: * What it is (in plain language) * Who it's for * Pros / cons Keep it digestible: * Fixed = stable forever * ARM = cheaper now, risk later ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 3 — MONTHLY PAYMENT (BASE) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Estimate monthly payment for each loan type. Include: * Principal + Interest * Property taxes * Insurance * HOA (if applicable) * PMI (if applicable) Table format: | Loan Type | Rate | P+I Only | PITI (All-in) | Cash Upfront | ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 4 — TRUE COST OF OWNERSHIP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is the MOST important section. Estimate ALL-IN monthly cost including: * Mortgage (P&I) * Property taxes * Insurance * HOA * Maintenance (assume 1–2% of home value annually) * Utilities (estimate based on ZIP/home type/square footage) * Pool/landscaping if applicable * Repairs / unexpected costs buffer Show: 1. TRUE monthly cost 2. TRUE annual cost 3. 5-year cash outflow (total spent, separate from equity) Table: | Category | Monthly | Annual | Then summarize: "This home actually costs ~$X/month all-in" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 5 — DOWN PAYMENT STRATEGY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Compare three scenarios: * 20% down * 30% down * User's actual down payment % Explain: * Monthly payment differences * PMI impact * Opportunity cost of cash (assume 7% market return) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 6 — LENDER OPTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Based on ZIP and loan size, suggest: * Private/wealth banks * Online lenders * Mortgage brokers * Local credit unions For each: * Pros / cons * Best use case Explain why shopping 3–4 lenders matters and what rate improvement is realistic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 7 — SMART RECOMMENDATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Recommend: * Best loan type for this scenario * Best down payment strategy * Best lender type * Target rate to negotiate toward Explain WHY in simple terms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 8 — REAL TALK (NO BS) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Be direct and honest. Cover: * What buyers consistently underestimate * Hidden costs that surprise first-time luxury buyers * Why the monthly mortgage number alone is misleading * Whether this home looks truly affordable for a typical buyer at this price point * Any red flags from the listing (days on market, price history, location notes) Tone: blunt but helpful. Like a smart friend who actually understands money. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HERE IS MY PROPERTY + INPUTS: [PASTE ZILLOW/REDFIN/REALTOR LINK HERE] Down Payment: [X%] Credit Score: [XXX] Income (optional): [$ or "skip"]

Your full financial picture.

A sample of what these prompts produce — across both spending analysis and homebuying scenarios.

Spending · Step 1
Spending by Category
Food & Dining$842
Subscriptions$318
Shopping$524
Health$185
Transportation$207
Spending · Step 2
Subscriptions Audit
Netflix$22.99
Spotify$10.99
ChatGPT Plus$20.00
Claude Pro$20.00
⚠️ 3 redundant found$72/mo
Spending · Step 5
Savings Opportunities
Reduce dining 3→1/wk+$180
Cancel 3 unused subs+$72
Grocery over DoorDash+$95
Cut impulse shopping+$120
Monthly savings$467
Homebuying · Step 4
True Monthly Cost
Mortgage P&I$4,210
Property taxes$820
Insurance + HOA$410
Maintenance + utils$580
True all-in cost$6,020/mo
Homebuying · Step 5
Down Payment Comparison
20% down$4,210/mo
30% down$3,820/mo
PMI savings (20%+)$220/mo
Opp. cost (7% return)$5,250/yr
Best strategy20% down
Spending · Step 6
Health Score Breakdown
Subscription load68/100
Dining/grocery ratio52/100
Discretionary ratio71/100
Consistency84/100
Overall Score74/100

Is it safe to paste financial data into AI?

A fair question — here's the honest, factual answer, and exactly what steps to take before you paste anything sensitive.

ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Free & Plus: opt-out required
How to turn off data training
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Click your profile iconSettings
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Go to Data Controls
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Toggle "Improve the model for everyone" to OFF
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Click Done. This applies to your entire account on all devices immediately.
💡 Tip: You can also use Temporary Chats for any sensitive session — they aren't stored or used for training, and are deleted after 30 days. Available on free and paid accounts.
Claude (Anthropic)
Free & Pro: opt-out required
How to turn off data training
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Go to SettingsPrivacy
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Find "Help improve Claude" (also called model training setting)
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Toggle it OFF. This stops new chats from being used in future model training.
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Do not reopen old sensitive chats — "resuming" a chat makes it eligible under your current setting.
💡 Note: As of October 2025, Anthropic updated its policy so Free and Pro users are opted in by default. If you haven't checked your settings recently, do it before pasting financial data.
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Best practices before you paste anything financial
Turn off training first. Do this before you paste any transaction data. Takes 30 seconds and applies to your whole account.
Never paste full card numbers. Your transaction history (amounts, merchants, dates) is fine. Full card or bank account numbers are not necessary and should never be shared.
Remove your name if you want. You can redact your name and address from exported CSVs before pasting — the prompt only needs amounts, dates, and merchant names to work.
Use Temporary Chat (ChatGPT) for sensitive sessions. Temporary chats aren't stored or used for training, and are automatically deleted after 30 days.
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Both OpenAI and Anthropic use standard encryption for all conversations. Neither platform sells your data to third parties.
Delete the chat when done. Deleted conversations are not used for future training on either platform. Clean up after yourself for extra peace of mind.
A note on enterprise vs. personal plans: If you use ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, or Claude for Work, your data is excluded from model training by default — no opt-out needed. For personal accounts (Free, Plus, and Pro on either platform), you need to manually disable training as described above. The steps above are accurate as of early 2026, but privacy settings can change — it's worth checking your account settings periodically. This information is provided for general awareness and is not legal or compliance advice.

Not an app. Real intelligence.

Most finance tools give you charts. These prompts give you a CPA's brain working on your actual numbers.

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No cost to get started
Both prompts are free to use right now. Copy them, paste them, and get your financial breakdown — no subscription, no signup required.
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ChatGPT or Claude — your choice
Engineered to work on both platforms. Use whichever you're comfortable with. The CPA logic is the same. The results are powerful on either.
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Specific, not generic
Forget "spend less on dining." These prompts tell you which merchants to cut, which frequency to reduce, and the exact dollars you'd save per month.
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CPA-built from 13+ years of experience
Every step mirrors how a real CPA reviews client finances — categories, subscriptions, trends, ratios, and action items. Built on real-world experience.
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Beyond just spending
The homebuying prompt reveals the true all-in cost of ownership that most buyers never calculate — before they're locked in.
Faster than manual research
What takes a financial advisor an hour, these prompts surface in seconds. AI does the heavy lifting. You get the clarity.
The AI Don — CPA and AI Finance Expert

CPA. Builder. AI tester.

I'm a CPA with 13+ years of experience. I've built finance teams and worked inside high-growth companies.

Now I test AI on real finances — so you don't have to. No theory. No fluff. Just what actually works. I use both ChatGPT and Claude every day, and I build prompts that get results on either.

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