ChatGPT Can Now Read Your Bank Accounts and Help You Plan Your Finances

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OpenAI has launched personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US, allowing users to connect their financial accounts and ask questions ranging from spending analysis to long-term financial planning. The product is built on a partnership with Plaid, supporting connections to over 12,000 financial institutions including Schwab, Fidelity, Chase, Robinhood, American Express, and Capital One. Once accounts are connected, users see a dashboard covering portfolio performance, spending patterns, subscriptions, and upcoming payments, and can ask natural language questions like "I feel like I've been spending more recently — has anything changed?" or "Help me build a plan to be ready to buy a house in my area in the next five years." The launch comes one month after OpenAI acquired the team behind personal finance startup Hiro, backed by Ribbit, General Catalyst, and Restive, though OpenAI did not specify how much of the feature was built by the Hiro team specifically. OpenAI also noted that more than 200 million users already ask financial questions to ChatGPT every month, suggesting the product is formalizing behavior that was already happening organically without the data connections needed to make those answers genuinely personalized.

The tool is accessible by selecting "Finances" in the ChatGPT sidebar or typing "@Finances, connect my accounts" directly in a conversation. Future integrations with Intuit would expand the analysis to include tax impact modeling — such as the effect of a stock sale on a user's tax bill — and credit card approval probability assessments. Users retain control over their data through settings that allow disconnection of specific accounts, with synced data removed from ChatGPT within 30 days of disconnection and financial memories viewable and deletable from the Finances page. The preview is currently limited to Pro users on web and iOS, with OpenAI planning to expand to Plus users based on feedback. The launch positions ChatGPT directly against dedicated personal finance apps and robo-advisory tools by combining the flexibility of a general-purpose AI assistant with the account-level data connectivity that makes financial advice genuinely specific to the user's situation.

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Built for AI agents, not human operators

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ChatGPT now sees your bank account, interesting