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What Is Quietly Getting More Expensive: Subscription Price Increases
Trupocket now finds your recurring charges in your own ledger and flags the ones whose price crept up, with what each rise costs a year. No app screen yet.
AI
Every Trupocket post tagged AI, from newest to oldest.
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AI Subscriptions Are Your New Utility Bill
One AI subscription or four, the total is a household utility bill that barely existed three years ago. Businesses just got a tool for it. Households did not.
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How to Tell If a Product Is Really AI-Native
If you strip the AI out of a finance app, what still works? That one question sorts genuine AI-native products from marketing, so I ran it on Trupocket.
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Who Does Your AI Work For?
A stated duty of loyalty cannot be audited from outside a company. Incentives can. Three structural questions to ask any finance app with AI attached.
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Your Money App Should Not Be Trying to Keep You
An AI assistant built to keep you talking and an adviser bound to your interests pull in opposite directions. A new Consumer Reports standard finally names it.
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AI Agents End the Business of Consumer Inertia
AI agents and a new payment standard make switching, canceling, and price-shopping trivial. That shift finally puts everyday consumers ahead of inertia.
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What Makes It Safe to Let AI Touch Your Money
AI is moving from advising on your money to acting on it. The safe design for any agent that touches money is approval per action and access you can revoke.
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Can You Trust AI for Financial Advice?
AI can answer questions about your money, but it is not a fiduciary the way a licensed adviser is. Here is the line I draw between advice and education.
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Connect Any AI to Your Finances
Trupocket now runs a Model Context Protocol server, so you can connect Claude or any MCP assistant to your finances and ask about them in plain language.
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Is It Safe to Connect Your Bank to ChatGPT?
OpenAI now lets ChatGPT connect to your bank accounts. The tradeoff I see: convenience today versus owning your financial data and the AI that reads it.