Era vs PaperMoney (formerly AI Financial Report Analysis)

Era links your bank accounts, cards, and investments to AI assistants through a personal MCP server called Context. You connect accounts once, then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client about balances, spending, and goals without uploading spreadsheets or leaving the chat window.

Most budgeting apps keep your data inside their own dashboard. Era takes the opposite path: it exposes typed financial tools over the open Model Context Protocol, with shared memory that carries goals and preferences when you switch assistants. Context is read-write, so an agent can categorize transactions, set rules, and move money between your own accounts only after you approve each transfer.

Era also ships Agency, a native app for proactive alerts and automations, and Thesis, a research-grade investing product. The free Basic plan covers two connected accounts with 250 daily MCP tool calls. Paid tiers add faster sync, edit access, higher MCP limits, and more connected accounts. Era Financial Advisors LLC is SEC-registered, and the company states it never sells user financial data.

PaperMoney turns public company filings into visual financial reports you can scan in minutes instead of hours in a spreadsheet. It covers more than 5,000 listed companies across US, Hong Kong, and China A-share exchanges, mapping income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows into charts that still show the underlying revenue, margin, and net income figures.

Most finance tools hand you ratio tables or ticker screens and leave you to rebuild the narrative yourself. PaperMoney keeps the filing structure intact but draws the relationships between revenue, costs, and profit as a visual map, then layers rankings, industry filters, and period comparisons on top. The single PaperMoney Pro plan bundles the full report library, cross-company comparisons, AI-assisted change summaries, and subscriber insights without splitting features across tiers.

The product fits individual investors comparing margins before they buy, analysts who need a consistent read on earnings season, and students learning to read 10-K statements. You can browse exchanges by market, run screeners with preset strategies like blue-chip or growth, or start from gross margin and market cap leaderboards when you want a shortcut into sector context.