Era vs Rocket Statements

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.

Rocket Statements converts bank statement PDFs and images into structured Excel, CSV, and JSON files ready for accounting work. Upload a statement and get normalized transaction data you can import into spreadsheets or bookkeeping software, without building templates or cleaning rows by hand. It targets solo bookkeepers, small businesses, and accounting firms that process statements regularly.

The platform runs uploaded documents through a multi-stage OCR pipeline that recognizes layouts from hundreds of banks worldwide, including major institutions in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. It handles PDF, PNG, JPG, and TIF files, auto-detects bank formats, and outputs data formatted for reconciliation, analysis, or import into tools like QuickBooks Online.

Beyond one-off conversions, Rocket Statements includes cloud document management, team workspaces with role-based permissions, and client portals for collecting statements from customers. Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel add-ons let you process statements inside spreadsheets, and higher tiers add live bank account syncing, automatic transaction categorization, and bulk processing for firm-scale workloads.