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AI Agent·Weekly · Sunday 18:00 UTC·Plus tier

Savings Coach

Savings Coach watches your declared savings goals - house down payment, vacation, emergency fund - and computes what each goal needs per month based on its deadline. When you fall behind it suggests a realistic catch-up; when you're ahead it tells you to redirect the surplus.

Savings Coach · Sample nudge

Vacation goal is about $600 behind target for May. Adding ~$150/mo for the next 4 months would land you back on schedule for August.

The problem

Goals without recurring math are dreams. You decide to save $30K for a down payment in 3 years, you put $500 in this month, you feel great, you forget. Two years later it's $4,000. The discipline doesn't come from the goal - it comes from a monthly check-in that compares actual progress to where you should be by now.

How it works

Each goal has a target amount, deadline, and current balance. The agent computes "where you should be this month" as a straight-line ramp (or front-loaded if you specified). Actual progress comes from your tagged savings transactions. Any month with an actual-vs-target gap of more than 15% gets a coaching nudge - either "catch up by $X to stay on track" or "you're ahead by $X, consider speeding up the deadline."

A real example

"Vacation goal: $4,200 by August. You should be at $2,800. You're at $1,900."

You set a $4,200 vacation fund for August. Straight-line, that's ~$300/mo for 14 months. By the 5th month you should be at $1,500. You're actually at $1,900 - ahead. But by month 10 you should be at $3,000 and you're at $2,400. Savings Coach surfaces the gap and recommends $150/mo extra to land on the original deadline.

Want Savings Coach running on your accounts?

Included with Plus ($4.99/mo) and Pro. Connect your bank read-only via Plaid; the agent starts watching from the first sync.

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FAQ

Can I have multiple goals at once?

Yes - Plus tier allows unlimited goals. Each one is tracked independently, and Savings Coach prioritizes which goal is most behind when generating the weekly nudge.

How does it know what counts as savings?

Transactions tagged with a savings category or sent to a goal-linked account. You can also manually attribute transfers to goals - that's the most reliable signal.

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