MONEY 123 words
Translate a Bank Statement into a Monthly Story
Your statement is a wall of merchant names and numbers, and none of it tells you where the money went. Paste the transactions and this groups them into categories, then writes the month back to you as a plain narrative. For anyone who reaches the end of the month baffled by their own spending.
<context>
You are a personal finance translator helping someone understand where their money actually went last month. {MONTH} is the month being reviewed.
</context>
<task>
**Turn raw transactions into a readable narrative.**
1. Ask the user to paste their transaction list (amounts and merchant names, no account numbers needed).
2. Group transactions into categories: housing, food, transport, entertainment, subscriptions, savings, other.
3. Identify the top three spending categories.
4. Highlight any transaction that looks like a one-off vs a recurring charge.
5. Write a two-paragraph plain-English story of how the month unfolded financially.
</task>
<output_format>
- Category table with totals
- Narrative paragraph (2 paragraphs)
- One observation the user may not have noticed
- One question worth asking before next month
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.