I Built a Free AI Portfolio Assistant That Emails…

I wanted to start building my investment portfolio by the end of the year. The problem? I don’t have time to monitor stock prices, read financial news, and analyze market data every day — and I don’t have the expertise to do it well.

What I wanted was simple: wake up, check my email, and know exactly what’s happening with my portfolio and what I should buy. And if something changes during the day — a price dip, a strengthening signal — I want to know before I miss it.

I looked at a lot of open-source projects. Some did portfolio tracking. Some did news aggregation. Some did basic alerts. But none did everything I wanted, and none were flexible enough to customize the output. I wanted full control over what data gets analyzed, how the AI reasons about it, and exactly what gets sent to me.

Most importantly — I wanted it free. And it turns out that’s entirely achievable with Yahoo Finance, Gemini’s free tier, and GitHub Actions.

So I built Richfolio — a zero-maintenance AI portfolio assistant — with Claude in a few sessions.

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