Finance and admin
Actual Budget MCP
A standalone connector for Actual Budget, an open-source budgeting app popular with builders, that lets an AI read your accounts, transactions, and spending and answer questions in plain language.
If you track the business budget yourself, the numbers are there, but getting a straight answer, how much went to a category this quarter, what's trending up, means digging through the app.
What it is
A standalone connector for Actual Budget, the open-source budgeting app that builders favor as a private alternative to the big-name money apps. It lets an AI assistant read your accounts, transactions, and spending, so you can just ask.
What it does for you
You get answers about your money in plain language. "What did we spend on software this year?" or "which categories are creeping up?" become questions you ask, not reports you assemble by hand.
What you'll need
You need to already run Actual Budget somewhere, either a local file or a server, plus a way to run the small connector. Both Actual Budget and the connector are free and open source, so there's no subscription here.
How we'd set it up with you
It's community-maintained, so we check the source and pin a version first. Then we point it at your Actual setup safely, decide whether it only reads or can also make changes, and show you how to ask it useful questions. If you don't run Actual yet, we'll help you weigh whether it fits before you switch anything.
Ready when you are
Want this built into your business?
You can grab this yourself from the source. If you'd rather have it wired into your tools and your team trained to run it, that's what we do. The Free AI Opportunity Assessment is where we start.