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# StartupFinancePilot

StartupFinancePilot is an AI-powered financial assistant for startups that helps founders make better financial decisions and monitor investor fund usage. The application provides four main features:

1. **Financial Dashboard**: Visualize your startup's financial health, runway, and key metrics
2. **Decision Simulator**: Simulate the impact of business decisions on your startup's runway
3. **Fund Monitoring**: Detect suspicious transactions and monitor spending patterns
4. **Financial Advisory**: Get AI-powered financial advice through a conversational interface

## How to Use

This application is deployed on Hugging Face Spaces and can be accessed directly through the web interface. No installation is required.

### API Key Setup

To enable all AI features, you need to add your Google API key to the secrets:

1. Go to the Hugging Face Space settings
2. Click on "Repository secrets"
3. Add a new secret named `GOOGLE_API_KEY` with your Google API key

## Features

### Financial Dashboard

- View key financial metrics including cash balance, burn rate, and runway
- Interactive charts showing runway projections, revenue vs. expenses, and burn rate trends
- AI-powered financial analysis providing insights and recommendations

### Decision Simulator

- Simulate hiring decisions, marketing budget changes, and other expenses
- Visualize the impact on runway and financial health
- Get AI analysis of your decisions with specific recommendations

### Fund Monitoring

- Automatically detect suspicious transactions that might concern investors
- Track spending patterns across different categories
- Receive AI analysis of spending anomalies and recommendations

### Financial Advisory

- Ask financial questions through a conversational interface
- Get strategic guidance on fundraising, spending, and financial planning
- In the full version, receive voice-generated responses (text-only in this demo)

## Data Privacy

This application uses sample data for demonstration purposes. In a production environment, your financial data would remain private and secure.

## Technologies Used

- Streamlit for the web interface
- Google's Gemini Pro API for AI capabilities
- Plotly for interactive data visualizations
- Pandas for data processing and analysis
- Scikit-learn principles for fraud detection algorithms

## Extending This Application

This demo version can be extended with:

1. **Real Data Integration**: Connect to your actual financial systems and bank accounts
2. **Voice Capabilities**: Implement ElevenLabs for voice-based interactions
3. **Enhanced Fraud Detection**: Implement more sophisticated anomaly detection algorithms
4. **Custom Financial Models**: Tailor financial models to your specific business needs
5. **Team Collaboration**: Add multi-user support for your finance team

## Hackathon Notes

This application was developed for a fintech hackathon to showcase how generative AI can be applied to startup financial management. The key innovations are:

1. Using generative AI for financial planning and decision analysis
2. AI-powered detection of suspicious spending patterns
3. Conversational financial advisory capabilities
4. Visual simulation of financial decisions

## For Production Use

To adapt this for production use, you would need to:

1. Implement proper authentication and security measures
2. Integrate with your actual financial data sources
3. Set up a proper database for storing financial information
4. Add more sophisticated financial modeling capabilities
5. Implement the voice generation capabilities using ElevenLabs

## Credits

Developed for a fintech hackathon to demonstrate how AI can help startups make better financial decisions.