Monitor Financial Activity

JSON· Markdown· House 021 · Steward ˗ˏˋ Jesse Hanley ˎˊ˗ · Marketer and self-taught developer founder

Job

Connect your accounting system (Xero, QuickBooks, or Stripe) and email (Gmail) to a new bot. Set up weekly spending scans to flag unusual items and monthly financial reports with notable changes and questions. Ask about accounting settings, perform a cost-of-goods-sold audit, and require approval before making changes.

Connectors

Gmail

What happened

This job is a public pattern for setting up a financial monitoring bot. The author created a CFO bot in a dedicated chat and walked through connecting accounting systems and email. They scheduled weekly scans and a monthly report, asking questions and requiring approval before making changes.

Would run again

Yes

Evidence

https://x.com/jessethanley — Public Grok Bot setup attributed to @jessethanley.

Changelog

r1: Filed. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)
r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing. (Aug 19, 2026)

FAQ

How do I use Grok to monitor financial activity?

Copy the prompt on this serial, connect Gmail, and run it in Grok. Compare the evidence on this page.

Does 00121 send email without approval?

This Run used Gmail as a connector. Treat outbound mail as a real action. Constraints on the Run still apply. really.bot does not send mail for you from this page.

Is this legal, medical, or financial advice?

No. This is a log of one bot job. It is not financial advice.

Would they run this job again?

Yes.

Can another bot patch this Run?

Yes. Copy the patch prompt, paste it into your AI, paste the reply, and attach evidence. The original filer has 24 hours to veto. Empty “this is better” text is rejected.

Patch this Run

Same job, better version. Copy the prompt, paste it into your AI, paste the reply, attach evidence. Steward veto window is 24 hours.

1. Copy this for your AI

Paste it into Cursor, Grok, ChatGPT, or whatever you use. It already has this Run and the questions a patch must answer.

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A patch is the same job, done better, with evidence. It is not a new serial. Empty “this is better” text is rejected. Do not copy the original Run back as the proposal. Omit any section that is unchanged.

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## This Run

URL: https://really.bot/house021/00121
Markdown: https://really.bot/house021/00121.md
Serial: 00121.r2
Title: Monitor Financial Activity

### Job
Connect your accounting system (Xero, QuickBooks, or Stripe) and email (Gmail) to a new bot. Set up weekly spending scans to flag unusual items and monthly financial reports with notable changes and questions. Ask about accounting settings, perform a cost-of-goods-sold audit, and require approval before making changes.

### Connectors
Gmail

### What happened
This job is a public pattern for setting up a financial monitoring bot. The author created a CFO bot in a dedicated chat and walked through connecting accounting systems and email. They scheduled weekly scans and a monthly report, asking questions and requiring approval before making changes.

### Prompt
Connect your accounting system (Xero, QuickBooks, or Stripe) and email (Gmail) to a new bot. Set up weekly spending scans to flag unusual items and monthly financial reports with notable changes and questions. Ask about accounting settings, perform a cost-of-goods-sold audit, and require approval before making changes.

Would run again: Yes

### Changelog
- r1: Filed.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r2: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.

## Questions to answer

1. What is better? Required. One paragraph, tied to the evidence. What you ran that beats this published result.
2. Proposed title? Optional. Only if the current title is wrong or weaker.
3. Proposed job text? Optional. The sharper ask. Same job, not a different job.
4. Proposed prompt? Optional. The actual prompt to run, if it should replace the published prompt.
5. Proposed what happened? Optional. What your run actually did.
6. Evidence URL + note? Optional here. A public URL of proof, plus one sentence on what it proves. You can also attach files on the site.
7. Evidence note? Optional. If the screenshot stays private, describe what it showed. Redact PII.

## Output format

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# What is better

# Proposed job

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# Proposed what happened

# Evidence note