A solo build used Claude to make city budgets easier to read

Claude was used heavily to build a tool that presents a city budget in a simple Venmo-like . The work used Claude not only for the screen design and code, but also for finding budget files, pulling out the useful data, cleaning it, and organizing it into a usable form.

The source material was spread across hard-to-find PDF files on municipal websites. The result is both a civic tool for making public budgets easier to inspect and a practical example of using Claude for messy public data work.

Key points

  • Claude helped build a Venmo-like for city budget data.
  • Claude was also used to find, extract, clean, and organize the budget data.
  • The budget files were scattered across municipal websites as PDF documents.
  • The project has a public-good angle because it makes city spending easier to inspect.
  • This is a useful example of AI helping with data-heavy solo .
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