I Automated My Bookkeeping With an AI and a Spreadsheet

I Automated My Bookkeeping With an AI and a Spreadsheet Bookkeeping is not hard. It’s just tedious in a way that compounds if you ignore it. An email comes in — a receipt, a bill, an invoice. You file it later. Later becomes a month. A month becomes tax season. Tax season becomes suffering. I got tired of the suffering. So I automated it. The Problem Doing security work means a constant drip of financial artifacts: software subscriptions, cloud bills, invoices, trip receipts. Each one needs to be: ...

March 28, 2026 · 3 min