SideGig AI: Your Privacy-First Financial Assistant for Freelancers

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle

I built SideGig AI, a privacy-first financial assistant for freelancers and small business owners.

Managing receipts, invoices, and expenses manually takes time. SideGig AI aims to simplify this process by helping users extract invoice details, categorize expenses, detect potential duplicate invoices, visualize spending, and export financial records as CSV files.

The goal is to make financial management easier for freelancers without requiring expensive AI subscriptions.

Potential users include freelance developers, designers, content creators, and small business owners who want to spend less time on paperwork.

A Privacy-First, Open-Weight AI Finance Assistant for Freelancers, Creators & Side Hustlers. Built for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge — Week Theme: Side Hustle.

Freelancers, independent developers, creative contractors, and students juggling side hustles receive bills, invoices, receipts, and payment receipts scattered across emails, PDFs, screenshots, and paper scans. Manually transcribing numbers into spreadsheets is slow, prone to errors, and tedious. At the same time, commercial AI accounting software often requires expensive monthly subscriptions and uploads private personal financial documents to centralized cloud servers.

SideGig AI is designed from the ground up around a zero-cloud-fees, local-first, privacy-by-default architecture: