AI Budget Planner
Tell askROI your income and bills. Get back a monthly budget spreadsheet with working formulas that show what is left to save.
Export formats
- Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx): Opens in Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets.
Every export also lands in your Library as an artifact you can revise, share with a link, and pick up again in another chat.
Examples to start from
- Single income: Build a monthly budget spreadsheet with formulas that show what is left to save. My numbers: take home pay 3,400, rent 1,250, utilities 180, groceries 420, transport 160, phone 45, subscriptions 60, and a gym membership at 35.
- Couple: Build a monthly budget spreadsheet for two incomes with formulas that show what is left to save. My numbers: combined take home 6,100, mortgage 1,900, childcare 1,100, car 380, groceries 700, insurance 210.
- Student: Build a monthly budget spreadsheet with formulas that show what is left to save. My numbers: loan instalment 1,200 a month, part time job 500, rent 620, food 250, travel 80, books and supplies 40.
- Debt payoff: Build a monthly budget spreadsheet that shows what is left to save and how much can go toward clearing a 4,200 credit card balance. My numbers: take home 2,900, rent 950, bills 310, food 380, transport 120.
How it works
- Give askROI your income and your typical monthly bills, roughly is fine.
- It builds a spreadsheet with categories, planned versus actual columns, and formulas for totals and what is left.
- Download the Excel file and change any number; the totals update on their own.
What people use it for
- First budget: see where the money goes without building a spreadsheet from scratch.
- Savings goal: see what is left to save each month and change a category until it meets the goal.
- Household: combine two incomes and shared bills in one place.
- Debt payoff: see how much can go toward a balance each month after essentials.
Questions
- Does it use real formulas or just typed numbers?
- Real formulas. Totals, remaining amounts, and savings figures are calculated in the sheet, so editing a bill updates everything else.
- Will it make up bills I did not mention?
- No. It uses your numbers and adds empty rows for common categories you did not list, so you can fill them in or delete them.
- Can I open it in Google Sheets or Numbers?
- Yes. It is a standard Excel file and opens in Google Sheets, Numbers, and LibreOffice with the formulas intact.
- Can I change the categories later?
- Yes. Ask askROI to add, rename, or split categories and it rebuilds the file, or edit it directly in your spreadsheet app.
