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What is Solus?
Solus is a financial companion that works as both a mobile app and a chat agent. Use the app to manage budgets, track spending, split expenses, and plan ahead with visual breakdowns of your financial health. Or just text Solus from iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS, Slack, or Teams. Both stay in sync.
The Problem
Existing expense tools require you to remember to open an app, manually enter data, and awkwardly chase friends for payments. It's 2026, we are sick of databases, we need agents. Meanwhile, other tools can read a receipt if you ask, but they can't remember your running balance, track a 6-month lease, or nudge your roommate to pay rent.
The Solus App
The Solus app is a full-featured budgeting companion for people who want control without the effort.
Create weekly, monthly, yearly, or custom-range budgets. Add members, set limits, and watch your spending health update in real time. Budgets automatically archive when their period ends, and you can export them as PDFs before they expire.
Allocate portions of a budget to specific categories before you spend a dollar. Plan a trip, split rent, or pre-allocate monthly groceries. Divisions show you where your money is supposed to go versus where it actually went.
Log expenses manually, by voice, or by scanning a receipt. Split costs with anyone, even people who don't have the app. Solus tracks who owes what and sends settlement links through Venmo, Interac, or CashApp.
See where your money goes with category breakdowns, spending trends, and balance summaries. Analytics pull from every budget and expense, so nothing gets left out.
Talk to Solus directly inside the app. Ask it to create a budget, log an expense, check your balances, or do anything else. Solus understands natural language and can run commands across the entire app. You can type or use voice input.
Past budgets are automatically archived and stored for 30 days. Browse your archive anytime, and export any budget as a PDF with a single tap. Cleanup happens on its own.
Messaging Integration
Some people would rather just send a text. Solus works in iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS, Slack, and Teams.
Text Solus from iMessage, WhatsApp, or SMS to log a receipt, track a subscription, or draft a budget. Get alerts before free trials expire and return windows close.
Solus monitors your group chats and automatically tracks who paid for what. Receipt scanning identifies individual orders down to the line item. Nudge reminders and one-tap settlement links handle the awkward parts.
Deploy Solus in Slack or Teams in 30 seconds. Employees DM a receipt photo and Solus parses it, matches it to a corporate card transaction, and logs it into your accounting software. Dashboards flag anomalies before finance even sees them.
What Makes Solus Different
Solus works as a mobile app and as a chat agent. Use the app when you want the full experience, and text Solus when you just need something done. Everything stays in sync.
Solus works across 50+ integrations: WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Teams, Notion, Google Sheets, Outlook, and more. Your data goes where you need it.
Solus uses end-to-end encryption, retains zero message content, and runs on enclave computing. We can't see your budgeting data, and neither can anyone else.
Solus tracks expenses from your chat context, nudges friends to settle debts, and alerts you to expiring subscriptions without being asked. It understands intent, and deterministic code handles the math so the numbers are always right.
Why Now
Rising housing costs have driven a 30% increase in shared living arrangements. 90% of Gen Z prefers digital settlement over cash. People are leaving standalone apps for agents that live where conversations happen. Solus is built for that shift.
The Vision
Solus is working toward a single financial layer that sits on top of everything you already use: Slack, Excel, Venmo, your group chats. Instead of learning another app, you get a companion that makes your existing tools smarter.
The Team
Computing Science, University of Alberta. Founded "Philo" (25k+ users in 2 months). Focus in mobile development, product integration, and product vision.
Computing Science, University of Alberta. Led development of a full-scale reporting application for one of Western Canada's largest fuel retailers.
Computing Science, University of Alberta. Co-Founder of "Philo." Founded Nexus Partners Marketing Agency.
Marketing Director who has scaled multiple early-stage startups. Runs brand positioning and growth automation.
Pricing
Free. Core expense logging, basic splits, limited assistant interactions.
$4.99/month. Unlimited budgets, full messaging integration, advanced receipt scanning.
$14.99/month. Up to 6 members, centralized billing, deep-link settlement.
Timeline
Beta launch: March 2026. Waitlist is open now.