Blog
- How to track spending across multiple bank accounts2026-06-04
When your money is spread across multiple institutions, tracking gets messy fast. Here is a simple system to see everything in one place.
- Are AI finance apps safe? What to check before you connect accounts2026-05-28
AI finance tools can be safe, but only if the security and data practices are clear. Use this checklist before you connect your accounts.
- Where does my money go each month? A simple way to find out2026-05-21
If your spending feels fuzzy, this guide shows a practical way to find where your money is going each month and what to fix first.
- Alerts and budgets that show up before it’s too late2026-05-14
Budgets only work when they reach you at the right moment. Here’s how Cently helps you catch overspending early with alerts, pacing, and projections.
- Introducing Cently for iOS: Your Financial Dashboard in Your Pocket2026-03-15
We're bringing Cently to iPhone. Track spending, manage accounts, and chat with your financial data, all from your pocket.
- Building Email Systems That Scale: Why We Stopped Using Templates2026-01-02
We moved from Supabase email templates to a custom Edge Function system. Here's why owning your email infrastructure matters.
- Eating Your Own Dog Food: Building the Extraction API for Cently (and Everyone Else)2025-12-18
We built dedicated deskew and parse APIs on Cloudflare for Cently. Then we realized other companies needed exactly what we built.
- The Progress Bar Nobody Expects: Why Seeing Your Imports Matters2025-11-20
Real-time transaction import progress changed how Cently users trust the upload process. Here's why visibility beats speed.
- From Text to Charts: Interactive Financial Visualizations in Cently's AI Chat2025-09-13
How we enhanced Cently's AI chat with rich formatting, mathematical expressions, and interactive data visualizations using MDX.
- Why we started writing about how we build things2025-09-12
A customer's email about lost categories pushed us to rethink how we handle transactions. Here's why we share the thinking behind our work.
- How Cently Categorizes Your Transactions (Reliably, Fast, and With Context)2025-09-12
Cently hybrid approach combines LLM mapping, pg_trgm fuzzy matching, and contextual AI for reliable, fast categorization.