Welcome to Bean

What is Bean, you ask?

Jess Rego
Bean Blog
2 min readJun 28, 2016

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Good question. We’re your new personal financial assistant… Hi!

We believe that there’s no reason for personal finance to be so difficult. In this day and age, no one should struggle to get enough information to effectively manage their money. Sure, if you have loads of it already then there’s a queue of people who will happily help you spend it. However, most people don’t fall into that category. We know we don’t.

So, we’re building something different, something for the rest of us, something that’s going to help keep your money in your pocket and make your life that bit easier.

Welcome to Bean.

So how do we plan to do all that? Three simple steps.

1. Provide tools designed to analyse your finances and spending habits across all of your accounts;

2. Offer recommendations, based on your personal spending, on how to save and otherwise improve your financial situation; and

3. Automate the boring paperwork where possible, so things just work!

You might wonder how that’s different to your bank’s financial advisors. Well, we aren’t trying to invest your money and we have no vested interest in how you use your earnings. We want to help you accumulate more by giving you the information and tools you need to make effective decisions. So, don’t think of us as a financial advisor, think of us as your personal finance assistant. We’ll do the heavy lifting, you just figure out what you want to do with your extra cash.

This isn’t just about saving up for “the future” or giving you a cushion for when the boiler breaks. We can do better than that. We want to help you reach a place of financial freedom where you can not only save effectively but also spend without guilt. With Bean in your back pocket, you can afford to dream, whether it’s of an exotic holiday, a cottage in the country or a night out which is not followed by the dreaded receipt hunt.

We need more than just great software to do that though; we want to actively engage with you, our users. We’ll be posting the latest tips, tricks and updates from our community, so make sure you tell us what you want to hear about. Our vision is vast, we have lots of ideas about how we can do this and are working feverishly to get them to you. However, we can’t do this on our own; we need your help to make sure that what we build is useful and will help you in your day-to-day life.

Managing your personal finances is boring and difficult.

There isn’t much we can do to make managing your personal finances less boring, but we know we can make it less difficult. So, join up and let’s see what we can build for you… and we promise we’ll do what we can to make it fun too!

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