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Hunting recurring subscriptions in your statements
The agent read statements in CSV, spreadsheet and PDF formats and listed charges that repeat, ignoring groceries and fees.
- Profession
- Consumer
- Tools
- Claude Cowork
- Source
- artificialcorner.com ↗
- Country
- 🌐 International
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
The author saved statements in a folder, with one subfolder per bank. The agent read every format and flagged charges that repeated across two or more months, leaving out one-off purchases, groceries and bank fees.
How it went
The result was a list of subscriptions to review.
Good to know
Run it every quarter; new subscriptions show up without you noticing.
The prompt
Read the statements for [period] in [folder]. List charges that repeat across 2 or more months, with amount, frequency and annual total. Ignore [groceries, fees, transfers]. Sort from highest annual total to lowest.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Case found via agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn); text and prompt rewritten by us. Found a mistake?
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