CoinDesk news: Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of software company HashiCorp and the author of the open-source terminal Ghostty, used ChatGPT to connect to read-only emails and automatically check construction invoices. The system reviewed records from 3 years and identified about $45,000 in accounting errors. The issues included incorrect amounts, duplicate invoicing, and incorrect recipients. These invoices are typically low-resolution scanned PDFs of around 50 pages. Hashimoto said he manually verified each item one by one and received refunds or credits. In the past, he spent about $1,800 on ChatGPT; the amount recovered this time is equivalent to 25 times the cost.

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ProofOfSnack
· 2h ago
1800 USD turned into 45k, yielding an ROI far better than most VC projects
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DivergenceHunter
· 2h ago
Find duplicate invoices in a low-resolution PDF of 50 pages—before, you’d have needed to hire an accountant to do it for a week.
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KeyArchivist
· 2h ago
Review the three-year bills, manually verify them, and you can still get a refund—execution is at maximum intensity.
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DogBarkObserver
· 2h ago
Scan-based recognition + cross-year reconciliation—GPT really does this job thoroughly.
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TrendWatcher
· 2h ago
Hashimoto’s kind of geek spirit—using AI like a screwdriver is the right way.
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FixedCapture
· 2h ago
Read-only email to the API—pretty smart balancing security and automation.
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