CouchPotato Expenses: I built an autonomous sloth agent to never look at a utility bill again

A developer publishing as SynthReaper on Dev.to released CouchPotato Expenses, an open-source agent that runs weekly to log into utility and cloud portals, download PDF statements, extract financial metadata with local Gemma 2 via Ollama, and classify IRS Schedule C tax write-offs using Prior Labs' TabPFN-3.5. The agent drives a real browser through Browserbase's Stagehand v4 and stores results in an encrypted local vault, with the developer claiming it saves 38 hours a year of receipt management and keeps financial records and account numbers off third-party servers. The project, submitted to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3, ships as a GitHub repository with a pnpm-based pipeline and a Next.js 15 dashboard on localhost:3000.

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