Today I was wondering how much I might spend before my next paycheck comes through ~Sept 21st so that I would know how much was safe to transfer to savings.
I used the Tiller Claude Connector to figure this out.
Here’s my prompt:
Based on my spending last month in the Foundation Budget sheet in Tiller, how much more would I expect to need to spend this month before Sept 21 based on upcoming bills and normal day to day spending (e.g. groceries, etc)?
And here’s what it came up with:
Recurring bills likely due before Sept 21 (not yet posted):
Bill Amount Expected due Utilities (French Broad EMC) $110.10 ~Sept 12 Ladder Life Insurance $32.96 ~Sept 20 SoFi Plus subscription $10.00 ~Sept 11 Subtotal ≈ $153 (AT&T cell phone ~$76 still a wildcard — may land right at or just after Sept 21.)
Normal day-to-day spending, remaining days before Sept 21:
- Groceries: ~$100 (your estimate — updated from the festival-trip-inflated figure)
- Restaurants: ~$45–50
- Gas: ~$25–30
- Snacks/Coffee: ~$15–20
- Household: ~$10–20
- “Maggie” discretionary: ~$40–75
Day-to-day subtotal: roughly $235–295
Total expected additional spend before Sept 21: roughly $390–450, plus the AT&T bill (~$76) if it lands before the cutoff, bringing it to as much as ~$465–525.
I had to make a few corrections to the groceries assumptions because of higher spend in prep for a festival over Labor Day weekend, but with that context and its corrected estimates, I think this is pretty decent. Of course being that my spreadsheet is the source of truth and I can easily verify its accuracy, I did a quick scan of my monthly budget sheet to make sure it lines up.
This gives me more confidence about how much I can put aside in my HYS account before my next paycheck.
What’s a prompt you’re using to have AI help you answer a question?