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OBJ. 2025-001
A shoebox of receipts, sorted
Receipts that read and file themselves.
Everyone has the shoebox: a crumple of receipts they know they should sort and never do, until a tax deadline forces a miserable afternoon. PaperTrail empties the shoebox as you go. You photograph a receipt and it reads it — the shop, the date, the amount — and files it under the right heading.
By the time you need the totals, they are already there. The dread of the shoebox, quietly removed.
What it does
- 01Receipts read and filed the moment you photograph them
- 02Totals ready before you need them, not after a scramble
- 03The dreaded shoebox, emptied as you go
For the curious — the making of it
Receipt capture with presigned S3 uploads, BullMQ workers, and OpenAI parsing into a categorised dashboard. 166 commits in six days.
- Photograph in, structured expense out
- Queue-backed parsing with presigned uploads
- Built in a six-day sprint