A Read-Only Money Coach for Europe: Grok Bot Syncs Bank Transactions to a Google Sheet Every Morning and Sends a Weekly Coaching Page
- Level Intermediate
- Setup1–3 hrs (estimated)
- Evidence Some evidence
- CostNot stated in source
- No-codeNo
What they did
In Europe, getting an AI to read your bank account is hard, so this user wrote a step-by-step guide for a separate Money Coach Grok Bot. It connects read-only through a free Enable Banking account (keys saved as secrets, approved in the user's own bank app), adds new transactions to a Google Sheet called Money every morning at 7 and sorts them into categories. It only messages when something looks off, like a new subscription or an unusually big charge, and every Monday it makes a short coaching Page: total spent, top categories, changes from last week and one or two suggestions. It never moves money.
How it went
X article by the user (Oct 29, 2026): full setup with prompts; Grok Bot + free Enable Banking account (EU bank) + Google Sheet; keys handed over as secrets, read-only access approved in the bank app; daily 7:00 sync, alert only on anomalies, weekly coaching Page on Mondays; banks often ask to re-approve after about 180 days. No savings figures claimed
Worth knowing
- X article by the user (Oct 29, 2026): full setup with prompts; Grok Bot + free Enable Banking account (EU bank) + Google Sheet; keys handed over as secrets, read-only access approved in the bank app; daily 7:00 sync, alert only on anomalies, weekly coaching Page on Mondays; banks often ask to re-approve after about 180 days. No savings figures claimed.
Prompt
Original prompt, as posted by the author.
Set up a routine that runs every morning at 7:00. Pull my new transactions from my bank account (read-only), add them to a Google Sheet called Money, and sort them into categories. Only message me if something looks off: a new subscription, a charge much bigger than usual, or the bank connection failing. Every Monday at 08:00, go through last week's spending in my Money sheet and make me a Page. Show what I spent in total, my top categories, what changed compared to the week before, any subscriptions, and one or two things I could do differently. Keep it short and honest, no lecturing. Remind me a week before my bank asks me to re-approve access.
Recommended
Try it in Grok Bot
- Copy the prompt (button below).
- Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
- Connect the listed tools (as needed) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
- If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."
Alternatives: the same prompt works in Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.
Set it up
Stack: Grok Bot
- Read the original source for full context.
- Connect the tools your agent needs.
- Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
- Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.
Generic suggested steps, not from the source.
Evidence
X article by the user (Oct 29, 2026): full setup with prompts; Grok Bot + free Enable Banking account (EU bank) + Google Sheet; keys handed over as secrets, read-only access approved in the bank app; daily 7:00 sync, alert only on anomalies, weekly coaching Page on Mondays; banks often ask to re-approve after about 180 days. No savings figures claimed
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