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ClaevaAI Spending Tracker

A spending tracker that logs from a receipt photo or a typed sentence, categorizes with AI, and never asks for a bank connection.

Company
Founder-built SaaS
Period
2025
Role
Founder. Product, design, full-stack, launch
Shipped
claeva.com, live with a free tier
Visit claeva.com
The Claeva landing page: the headline 'A simpler, smarter way to understand your money.' above the dashboard, showing $1,846 spent this month at 12% under budget, a bar chart of spending, category bars, and a toast confirming a $42 grocery expense was logged automatically.
  • Shipped solo, concept to launch
  • Live with a free tier
  • Multi-currency, no bank connection

Context

Most spending tools start by asking for your bank credentials, then assume you will keep coming back to a dashboard. The credential step is a privacy question, and it is also a coverage problem: aggregators only reach a handful of markets. The habit is the harder part: manual tracking works right up until the evening you cannot face the spreadsheet.

The problem

Make logging a purchase quick enough that the habit survives a bad week, without asking anyone to hand over bank access.

What I did

  1. Built entry around the two lowest-effort inputs available: photograph the receipt, or type the expense as a sentence.

  2. Put AI on the step people actually abandon (categorizing and summarizing) so the ledger stays useful without upkeep.

  3. Kept it bank-connection-free by design, which doubles as coverage: it works the same in markets no aggregator serves.

  4. Designed and shipped solo on the same AI-powered workflow as my other products.

Methods and tools. Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, AI-powered dev

What changed

Live at claeva.com with a free tier, multi-currency support and receipt-photo logging. Taken from idea to production alongside a full-time role.

Dashboard, with an expense just logged from a receipt
The Claeva dashboard: a month's spending total of $1,846 marked 12% under budget, above a bar chart of daily spend and category bars for groceries, dining and transport, with a toast confirming a $42 grocery expense was logged and categorized automatically.