Primary Submission Category: Applicants in Social Sciences
A Platform for Personalized Financial Interventions
Authors: Simon Smith, Brian Knaeble,
Presenting Author: Simon Smith*
Consumers struggle to make and follow realistic budgets. Yet traditional budgeting platforms (such as the top 10 Forbes’ budgeting apps of 2026) categorize expenses by vendor, hiding the specific products which make up the total cost. This poster introduces a platform to tackle this over-generalization by recording expenses at the product level: scanning receipts and storing itemized product and price information. The platform’s product-level schema helps consumers make informed financial decisions and provides detail-rich input for the development of causal AI. Visitors to this poster can expect to interact with the technology and discuss how it fits into larger models of consumer financial behavior.