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Categorize a bank statement with AI

A month of bank lines needs categories before the accountant asks. Claude sorts a pasted statement once. Store the lines with your category rules, and next month's lines sort themselves.

Claude can suggest categories for a pasted statement, but it saves nothing. With the Bank Statement server, Claude imports the CSV, applies saved rules to every line, finds recurring charges and exports a categorized file for your accountant. Next month the same rules run again.

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What you get

Recurring charges, mBank CSV

Last 3 months

Table
ChargeEveryPLN
Software planmonth49.00
Software planmonth89.00
Software planmonth120.00
A month258.00
Example from "Find forgotten subscriptions". Invented names, real math from the tools.

Free to start. Bank Statement Pro is $19 once. Free vs Pro

Without a tool, and with the tool

Without a tool

Paste a CSV into Claude and it will suggest a category for each line in that chat. Long statements can hit the context limit, the categories aren't saved, and next month you start again with no rules and no history to compare.

With Bank Statement

Bank Statement imports the bank CSV into a stored ledger, applies your category rules to every line, and lets you set one-off categories by id. It finds recurring charges, summarizes spend by category and month, and exports a CSV or JSON file for your accountant.

An example, from prompt to finished file

Example scenarios built on the real tools of Bank Statement. Names and amounts are invented.

Example · Owner of a small cafe

Categorize a bank statement with AI

You

Import my Revolut Business CSV for Q3. Put anything with 'Makro' under stock, 'Uber Eats' under platform fees, then give me spend per category per month and export it for my accountant.

  1. statement_import Reads the CSV and detects the columns
  2. category_rules Stores the two match rules and applies them
  3. statement_summary Totals spend per category per month
  4. statement_export Writes the categorized lines to a CSV file
Result

Q3 spend grouped by category and month, plus a categorized CSV file the accountant can import.

Example · Freelance developer in Gdansk with an mBank account

Find forgotten subscriptions

You

Import my mBank CSV for the last 3 months and list every recurring charge.

  1. statement_import Reads the mBank export
  2. recurring_detect Groups charges that repeat each month
Result

A list of recurring charges with amount and cadence, for example 3 software plans at PLN 49, PLN 89 and PLN 120 a month.

About 30 min saved (estimate)

Example · UK consultant with a Wise account in GBP and EUR

Month-end summary for two currencies

You

Import my Wise statement, put Tesco and Sainsbury's under groceries, and summarise October by category.

  1. statement_import Reads the Wise CSV
  2. category_rules Adds rules for the two merchants
  3. statement_summary Totals October by category per currency
Result

October spend by category, with GBP and EUR kept apart, never mixed into one total.

About 25 min saved (estimate)

Every example here works on the free tier. One $39 key removes the limits on all of them. Pricing

Common mistakes with this job

  • Categorizing by hand every month instead of writing rules once.
  • Mixing personal and business accounts in one import, so totals are wrong.
  • Exporting before checking the uncategorized lines, which then end up as 'other'.

Connect in 1 minute

Paste one URL into Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code. No install, no account.

1. Get a free token (30 days, 600 calls an hour)

curl -s -X POST https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/token

2. Paste this URL as a custom connector

https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/bank-statement/t/<token>

Or run it locally (Node.js 18+)

npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-bank-statement

Free vs Pro for Bank Statement

Free ($0, no key)Pro ($19 once)
2 accountsUnlimited accounts and rules
Last 12 months of historyFull history
5 category rulesReconcile any date range
Reconcile 31 days at a timeEvery recurring charge over full history
Recurring charges: last 3 months, 5 chargesstatement_export
Where these limits come from

servers/bank-statement/src/index.ts:25-35 (FREE_ACCOUNTS, FREE_WINDOW_MONTHS, FREE_RULES, FREE_RECONCILE_DAYS, FREE_RECURRING_*), :730 (statement_export)

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Questions

Can I do this in Claude?
Claude can suggest categories for a pasted statement, but it saves nothing. With the Bank Statement server, Claude imports the CSV, applies saved rules to every line, finds recurring charges and exports a categorized file for your accountant. Next month the same rules run again.
Does it connect to my bank?
No. You export a CSV from your bank and import the file. There's no bank login.
Which banks are supported?
Profiles for Revolut, Wise, mBank, PKO, ING and N26, plus a generic mode that reads the column headers.

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