Muse can see your balances. Ledgewise knows your plan — which debt to attack first, when you'll be free, and exactly what an extra $200 this month buys you. Connect in two minutes.
Muse's Plaid connector shows balances and transactions. Ledgewise gives it the structured intelligence Plaid can't provide.
| You ask Muse | Without Ledgewise | With Ledgewise |
|---|---|---|
| "When will I be debt-free?" | Cannot calculate | Exact payoff date and total interest, for avalanche or snowball |
| "Should I pay off my Visa or Amex first?" | Generic advice | Payoff order ranked by your exact APRs and balances |
| "Can I afford a $400 car repair?" | Checks balance only | Safe-to-spend number from your 60-day forecast of bills and debt minimums |
| "What if I pay an extra $200 this month?" | No simulation | New debt-free date, months sooner and interest saved, for an extra monthly payment or a one-time lump sum |
| "What changed with my debt plan?" | Cannot tell | What moved your debt-free date since you last looked (a new debt, rising balances, a rate or income change), in plain English |
| "When do I tend to overspend?" | Raw transaction data | Patterns such as the week after payday or weekends, how much extra, and whether today is one of those times |
| "Am I paying down debt faster than most people?" | No comparison | Your pace against other Ledgewise users, shown only when enough people are included to keep everyone anonymous |
| "Where does my monthly payoff stand?" | Cannot tell | Your monthly payoff commitment: payoff day, how much is planned and how much is still to pay this month |
| "Who do I pay this month, and how much?" | Cannot tell | Your payment instructions: debt by debt, with amounts and due dates, after you confirm the request in the Ledgewise app. Ledgewise never makes the payment |
| "How much do I have left in groceries?" | Raw transaction data | Envelope balance: budgeted vs. spent this month |
| "Will I have money before my next paycheck?" | Current balance | Safe-to-spend from a 60-day forecast with bills and debt minimums |
Two ways to connect: use the custom connector today, or wait for our official listing in the Muse Connector directory.
Sign up at app.ledgewise.app, then add your debts and set up your envelope budget. You can enter everything manually; bank sync via Plaid is available on Premium.
Create account →In Muse, type or paste the prompt below. Muse will fetch your endpoint, read its capabilities, and walk you through authorising access to your Ledgewise data.
Connect a custom MCP server at https://mcp.ledgewise.app/mcp so I can ask questions about my budget, debt payoff plan, and cash flow forecast.
Muse will show you a permission screen listing what Ledgewise can access. The data permissions are read-only — Muse can look, never change your budget or debts. One extra permission, for payment instructions, works differently: see below.
Envelope balances, income, and spending — the answer to "how much do I have left in X?"
Projected checking + savings balance up to 90 days out, based on recurring bills — the answer to "will I have money before payday?"
Your debts, payoff plan (avalanche or snowball, with optional extra monthly payment), what-if scenarios, what changed in your plan (including income changes), how your pace compares with other users, and your monthly commitment totals — the answer to "when will I be debt-free?"
Your most recent transactions — the answer to "what did I spend at the grocery store this week?"
Month-over-month spending, a pace alert when you're off-trend, and your spending patterns (such as the week after payday, which reveals your pay cycle).
Lets Muse ask to see this month's payment instructions: who to pay, how much and by when. Muse gets nothing until you confirm that request in the Ledgewise app, and you can stop sharing at any time. Ledgewise never makes a payment: you pay through your own bank. This permission is only offered to connections Ledgewise has approved, so it will not appear for every custom connector.
Avalanche or snowball plans, exact payoff dates, and interest-saved projections — updated as your balances change.
Every dollar gets a job. Muse can check any envelope in plain English: "how much do I have left for restaurants this month?"
Recurring bills and debt minimums feed a running safe-to-spend number, so "can I afford this?" accounts for what's coming.
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Budget, transaction and spending-insight questions are free. Listing your debts is free too. Muse's forecast, safe-to-spend, debt payoff, what-if, plan-changes, pace, spending-pattern, monthly-commitment and payment-instruction tools require a Premium subscription.
No. Ledgewise never moves money, and no Muse permission can make a payment or transfer. Muse can read your budget, debts, debt plan, forecast, transactions and insights; it cannot change your budget or debts. The one thing Muse can do besides read is ask to see your payment instructions: that creates a request you must confirm in the Ledgewise app, and nothing is shared until you do.
If your connection has the payment-instruction permission, Muse can ask for this month's instructions. You get a notification and a card in Ledgewise (Debt on the web, Payments on your phone) showing which app asked. Confirm, and that app can read the instructions for the next 10 minutes; decline, or ignore it, and nothing is shared. You can stop sharing at any time. After you decline or stop sharing, that app cannot ask again for an hour. Each request is recorded with the app, when you answered and how often it was read, and removed after 90 days. Ledgewise only tells you who to pay: you make the payment yourself, through your bank or the creditor.
Yes. Settings in Ledgewise shows a log of each tool call Muse makes: which tool, when, how long it took, and whether it worked or was blocked. It never records your figures, and entries are deleted after 90 days. Requests for payment instructions are also recorded separately, as described above.
Yes. All Muse → Ledgewise traffic uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. Tokens are short-lived, scoped to exactly the data Muse needs, and bound to the Ledgewise MCP server so they can't be used anywhere else. We never store your bank credentials — Plaid handles that.
We're applying to Muse's curated connector programme. While that review is ongoing, adding Ledgewise as a custom connector works identically — same endpoint, same auth, same tools.
Our MCP server at https://mcp.ledgewise.app/mcp is compatible with any client that supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec — including Meta AI Connectors when that programme opens to third-party servers.
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