# CouchPotato Expenses: I built an autonomous sloth agent to never look at a utility bill again > Source: > Published: 2026-10-23 10:42:23+00:00 # CouchPotato Expenses: I built an autonomous sloth agent to never look at a utility bill again This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Every month, freelancers and small business owners dread the same chore: logging into 10 different utility and cloud portals, waiting for 2FA codes, downloading statements, figuring out IRS tax lines, and mis sing billing spikes. CouchPotato Expenses is built for pure, unapologetic laziness. Once a week, a background worker wakes up, drives a real browser via Browserbase (Stagehand v4) to log into recurring utility portals, downloads PDFs, extracts financial metadata using local Gemma 2 (via Ollama), uses Prior Labs' TabPFN-3.5 to classify IRS Schedule C tax write-offs and flag abnormal bill spikes, and quietly files them into your encrypted local vault. You do literally nothing. You take a nap. Who gets to be lazy: Anyone who would rather sleep than spend 38 hours a year managing receipts. Runs 100% local (privacy-first: your financial records and utility account numbers never touch any third-party server): bash git clone https://github.com/SynthReaper/ghw-hacktoberfest26.git cd ghw-hacktoberfest26/couchpotato pnpm install pnpm agent:hunt # Runs autonomous browser + Gemma OCR + TabPFN pipeline pnpm web:dev # Launches Next.js 15 Sloth Command Center on localhost:3000 ## Key Takeaways - •CouchPotato Expenses is built for pure, unapologetic laziness. - •This story was reported by **Dev.to** , covering developments in the**dev** space. - •AI advancements continue to reshape industries — read the full article on Dev.to for complete coverage. 📖 Continue reading the full article: [Read Full Article on Dev.to →](https://dev.to/synthreaper/couchpotato-expenses-i-built-an-autonomous-sloth-agent-to-never-look-at-a-utility-bill-again-39bp)