Claude Cafe – Buildathon

This is a fully hands-on workshop, not a talk and not a slide deck. Attendees bring their laptops and actually build their own personal finance automations during the session, connecting Claude to tools they already use like Gmail, Google Drive, and Sheets. By the end, people walk out with something real already running, like a tracker that logs spending automatically, an alert for a subscription creeping up, or a simple system that pulls monthly numbers together without touching a spreadsheet by hand.

We’re doing this because money stress is one of the most common, least talked about grand challenges people are dealing with right now: inflation, a tighter job market, and the sheer mental load of tracking it all. AI tools can genuinely help here, but most people have never actually connected one to their real accounts and watched it work. This session walks through it live, step by step, with attendees staying in full control of what they connect and able to disconnect anytime.