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Audit Gmail subscriptions into keep, review and cancel lists with Claude

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Claude scanned Abhijay Arora Vuyyuru's Gmail and found about $2,600 a year in subscriptions, flagging roughly $590 as recoverable.

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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish.

Goal: Find every subscription I'm paying for in my email and tell me what to keep, review or cancel.

Questions to ask me first:
- How far back should you search (6 or 12 months)?
- Which services are shared with family or used for work?
- Should I see monthly or yearly cost first?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Email account connected: [GMAIL]
- Search window: [MONTHS]
- Services I know I use: [LIST]

Rules:
- Search receipts, renewals and trial-conversion emails.
- Label each charge KEEP, REVIEW or CANCEL with a confidence score.
- Flag duplicate charges and plans that were upgraded without canceling the old one.
- Don't cancel anything or email anyone; just report.

Checkpoint: Show the first ten charges and how you labeled them before finishing the table.

If you get stuck: If a receipt is ambiguous, mark it REVIEW and say why.

Verify before you finish: Cross-check the top five charges against my card statement before I cancel.

Output: A table sorted by yearly cost with label, confidence and cancel link or steps.

Done when: I know exactly which subscriptions to cancel this week.

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find every subscription I’m paying for, flag the ones I’m not using, and tell me what to cancel.

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Outcome

After an unwanted renewal receipt, Abhijay Arora Vuyyuru connected Gmail to Claude with one instruction: find every subscription, flag the unused ones and say what to cancel. About three minutes later Claude returned a table of recurring charges sorted by yearly cost, each labeled KEEP, REVIEW or CANCEL with a confidence score for lines worth double-checking. It tracked about $2,600 a year in subscriptions, flagged roughly $590 as recoverable right away, and confirmed about $450 already canceled earlier in the year. It also caught a tool billed twice in the same month and a forgotten $4-a-month app.

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Source

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by Abhijay Arora Vuyyuru
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How we verify

https://abhijayvuyyuru.substack.com/p/ai-saved-me-hundreds-of-dollars-by

Context: Improved prompt expands the author's one-line quoted instruction. Dollar figures are the author's estimates; check charges against your statements before canceling.

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