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

What I Built

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 missing 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.

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Demo

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