Vermont town meeting reports locked the budget away in PDFs. A volunteer had Claude Code and Gemini pull the numbers out and build a comparison site, deployed in under an hour. Rough, but it works.
Result Deployed in under an hour
“this is absolutely 100% not something I'd have been able to do or remotely have considered doing without LLMs”
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Extracted budget information from Vermont town meeting documents into JSON, built a website with budget comparison functionality, deployed via Cloud Run in under an hour.
Rapid deployment with good tool support; acknowledged it’s a rough draft but functional and fast to build.
I need to parse budget data from PDF documents and build a website showing comparative budget information. The PDFs have budget data on pages [X-Y]. Extract into JSON, validate structure, then generate a responsive web app [framework] that displays budget trends and comparisons.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.