See what arrives in Sarah's inbox every Sunday.
Sarah (32, dental assistant, single mom of 2, Las Vegas) has been a paychq subscriber for 6 weeks. This is her dashboard today and the email she got last Sunday — the actual artifacts the production pipeline produced, nothing hand-edited.
Sarah's dashboard
as of Fri, May 22This week
Delay the Costco run until after rent posts on Tuesday Jun 2.
Buffer on Fri, May 29 goes from $40.00 to $180.00 if you defer the Costco run to Sat, Jun 6.
Coming up that matters
- Sun, Jun 14 — projected $52.00 buffer (car insurance ($145 on Jun 15)).
- Mon, Jul 13 — projected $48.00 buffer (same shape, next cycle).
Reply to any Sunday email with anything that changed — a paycheck, a bill, a one-off expense — and the projection updates within a minute.
Sarah's Sunday email (last week)
From paychq@forage.bot · subject: paychq: you're good til Friday, but watch Wednesday Jun 14
Hi Sarah, You're good until Friday. Buffer today: $214. Buffer Friday after the $1,180 paycheck: $1,322. Next payday (Jun 5) projects $238 of buffer. That's a healthy two weeks if nothing changes. One thing for this week: rent posts Tuesday Jun 2, and the Costco run you usually do on Saturday is what made last cycle tight. If you push Costco to Sunday Jun 6 (after the next paycheck lands), you'll have $180 of buffer Friday instead of $40. One thing for the next cycle: Sunday Jun 14 projects $52 of buffer because car insurance ($145) hits the following day. You won't feel it now, but two Sundays from today I'll flag it again with a specific suggestion. Reply with anything that changed since this morning — a paycheck, a bill, a one-off expense — and the projection updates. Free-form is fine: "$1,210 paycheck Friday and paid $52 at Trader Joe's" works. — paychq
What happens when Sarah replies
Sarah types back in plain English. paychq parses the reply and within about a minute sends a confirmation that names what it logged and how her buffer changed.
Sarah's reply:
“$1,210 paycheck Friday (extra tips this week) and paid $52 at Trader Joe's yesterday”
paychq's confirmation (~1 minute later):
Got it. Two updates: + Friday May 23 paycheck: $1,180 → $1,210 (logged $30 of tips) − May 23 Trader Joe's expense: $52 (logged as variable spend) Your Friday buffer just went from $1,322 to $1,300. Your next-payday (Jun 5) buffer just went from $238 to $216. — paychq