Hannan Malik

Stated - Privacy-first AI finance tracker

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Every personal finance app asks for your bank login. You hand over credentials to a third party, hope they're secure, and pray nothing leaks. For millions of people, that's a dealbreaker. The alternative? Spreadsheets that never get updated, or just... not knowing where your money goes. Stated lets you track spending, set budgets, and get AI-powered insights — just by uploading a bank statement PDF. No bank login, no personal info, no risk.

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Hannan Malik
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I built Stated because I was tired of every finance app demanding my bank login before I could even see what it does.

I'm based in the UAE, managing accounts across multiple countries and currencies. Every budgeting app I tried either didn't support my banks, required credentials I wasn't comfortable sharing, or just didn't work outside the US/UK fintech ecosystem.

So I asked a simple question: **why can't I just upload a bank statement and get the same insights?**

That's exactly what Stated does. Drop in a PDF, CSV, or Excel statement and you instantly get:
- Auto-categorised transactions (AI-powered, learns your habits)
- Budgets with real-time tracking
- Recurring payment detection (catch those forgotten subscriptions)
- AI insights on your spending patterns
- Cash flow projections
- Multiple currency support

Everything is encrypted with AES-256 the moment it hits the server. No bank connections, no personal info required to sign up.

**What's next:**
- MCP so you can access your data through Claude
- More bank parsers (currently 19+ supported but most will work out the box)
- Goal-based savings tracking
- Shared household budgets
- Multiple users (accountants, business partners)
- Mobile app

I'd love your feedback — what would make this useful for you? Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

— Hannan

Leah Dyke
Congrats on the launch - a brilliant idea! Can I ask, are bank statements stored anywhere once a user as input them? Or, can they be input, data extracted, and removed from the app?
Hannan Malik

@leah_dykeĀ Exactly that yeah! Originally it didn't store them at all as it doesn't need to, then I thought when I do accounts it would be handy to be able to download them from one place so I added in storage. But they can be deleted straight away from the app.

Jihwan Kim

Hello Hannan! This financial website is good! However I want to ask one thing Hannan! I have changed in Settings that I live in south korea so I typed our Korea(Won) not Euro. But it does not change. It is shown as Euro still.

Can you fix that?

I am in free version, but if it secures safety and privacy 100% i am willing to use in the future!

Nice work Hannan!

Hannan Malik

@jihwankim55Ā Hello! Yes! If you go into settings can you see currency? The app lets you set country / region + currency separately. For example I live in UAE but like to see GBP

Jihwan Kim

@hannwnĀ Thanks Hannan, but I typed south korea, and Base Currency south korea's 'won' and clicked 'Save changes' but it keeps goes back to GBP. Can you fix it? Overall app is pretty cool!

Hannan Malik

@jihwankim55Ā Thanks so much good to know, will fix it now!

Omar Choudhry

This is GENIUS! Funny I was having this exact headache organising headache a few weeks ago with my finances. Literally tried all the apps and gave up lol, ended up just doing a manual spreadsheet (old skool!). Then I scroll on PH and find this 🤩 great work @hannwn šŸ‘ about to fire this up!

Hannan Malik

@omarmakesĀ Thank you!