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Can AI replace Portfolio Coach?

A private dashboard for holdings, family members, projections, and CSV imports is a credible weekend build. Reliable live pricing for UK funds, a ledger-correct Vanguard importer, household data boundaries, maintained tax rules, and AI advice grounded in every account turn the complete product into a multi-day project.

Verdict: Half-bot · AI gets you partway; the hard part stays hardBuild time: weekend for a local version, multi-day for the hosted product

Replacing a paid app means you set it up and keep it running: hosting, updates and backups can be on you. What you give up.

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01What it costs

Price variesAI credits, usage-based top-up

Checked Aug 13, 2026 · source: portfoliocoach.co.uk.

PlanMonthlyBilled yearlyWhat you get
Free portfolio trackingFreeFreePortfolio tracking/planning do not consume credit; £2 AI credit included (about $2.71 at the ECB 2026-08-12 reference rate); no card required
AI credit top-ups——Prepaid top-ups start at £5 (about $6.76); AI usage is charged at the selected model provider's cost +20%

Hidden costs: AI usage is variable and charged at the selected model provider's cost plus 20%; minimum top-up is £5 (about $6.76).

02Could AI build it for you?

The core job: Import or enter family holdings, value them, inspect allocation and projections, then ask an AI for a portfolio review grounded in that data.

What a working version needs:

  • Node 22
  • OpenAI-compatible API key for AI reviews
  • optional market-data API key
  • local SQLite database

Submitted by the maker · the complete hosted product is beyond a one-shot local tracker.

03What you'd give up

  • reliable live pricing and UK fund symbol mapping
  • ledger-backed Vanguard history import
  • secure cloud accounts, family sharing, and support access
  • maintained UK tax and estate-planning assumptions
  • hosted AI reviews with current web context

The core tracker is free to start. Paid AI credits cover the convenient part: a hosted coach already connected to the household's live holdings, while the product maintains pricing, imports, security boundaries, and UK planning logic.

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04The build prompt

Get the Build Kit for Portfolio Coach

The complete build prompt, plus 11 step-by-step prompts from research to launch, a design system file, a page-by-page spec, the data model and a launch checklist.

Get the Build Kit · $9 →

One-time payment. Delivered on screen and by email.

05Free open-source starting points

  • Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software with portfolio analytics
  • Portfolio Performance: Open-source desktop portfolio tracker with detailed performance analysis

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