LLM-MCP-Driven Financial-Assistant-with-SMS-Notifications

An intelligent financial assistant powered by LLMs + MCP (Model Context Protocol) that automates expense tracking, budgeting insights, and real-time notifications using Twilio SMS.

📌 Overview

Managing personal finances manually is time-consuming and inefficient.

This project solves that by combining:

• 🤖 LLM-powered intelligence (Claude Desktop)
• 🔗 MCP (Model Context Protocol) for structured tool interaction
• 📊 MySQL-backed analytics
• 📩 Real-time SMS notifications via Twilio

to deliver a smart, automated expense tracking and budgeting system.

❗ Problem Statement

• Manual expense tracking is tedious
• No real-time spending insights
• Lack of automated budgeting analysis
• Poor user engagement in financial planning

💡 Solution

Built a LLM + MCP-driven financial assistant that:

• Tracks expenses automatically
• Analyzes spending patterns
• Generates budgeting insights
• Sends real-time summaries via SMS

🧠 Key Features

• 📥 Automated Expense Tracking via LLM understanding
• 🧩 MCP Integration for structured tool execution
• 📊 Savings & Budget Analytics using MySQL
• 📩 SMS Notifications using Twilio
• 🤖 Conversational Interface via Claude Desktop
• ⚡ Real-Time Insights & Summaries

🛠️ Technical Architecture

User Input (Claude Desktop)
        ↓
MCP Layer (Tool Invocation)
        ↓
Expense Processing (LLM + Python)
        ↓
Database Storage (MySQL)
        ↓
Analytics Engine
        ↓
SMS Notifications (Twilio API)