about solus
The text-first assistant for groups, trips, and receipts. Dashboards optional.
What Solus is
Solus is the AI assistant for shared money. It splits bills, captures receipts, runs trip and household spaces, sends reminders and nudges, and settles balances. You start the conversation anywhere; the ledger stays the same everywhere.
What Solus is not
Solus is not a budgeting spreadsheet. The job is coordinating social expenses that already happen in your chats, not policing latte spend. Spaces and analytics exist in the app, but coordination is the product.
Text first
Arrive on solus.live, tap "Text Solus Now", and start in Messages. The app and web add charts, receipt detail, subscriptions, and export. Downloads are optional by design.
Routing expands region by region. Texting stays the widest funnel.
Dashboards, pacing, and receipt detail when you want a screen.
Collaborative dashboards without forcing anyone through an install.
What works today
Creates spaces, logs expenses and splits, runs balances and settlements.
Spaces that match real groups: roommates, trips, memberships, dinners.
Email and phone normalize to a single person, however they joined.
OCR-backed receipts power line-aware splits.
Polite reminders over push and messaging. No screenshot copy-paste.
Categories, trends, and snapshots with humane copy, not punitive alerts.
Principles
The agent talks conversationally. Postgres and typed RPCs decide what is true.
An action in Messages reconciles identically in the app and on the web.
Balances, disputes, and confirmations stay visible without performative guilt.
Why now
Group spending keeps climbing: shared leases, travel, group chats that turn into ledgers. Incumbent tools still depend on manual forms. Conversational agents beat dormant dashboards, and Solus is built for exactly that shift.
The team
Computing Science, University of Alberta. Founded "Philo" (25k+ users in 2 months). Focus in mobile development, product integration, and product vision.
Computing Science, University of Alberta. Led development of a full-scale reporting application for one of Western Canada's largest fuel retailers.
Computing Science, University of Alberta. Co-Founder of "Philo." Founded Nexus Partners Marketing Agency.
Marketing Director who has scaled multiple early-stage startups. Runs brand positioning and growth automation.
Pricing and access
Solus Personal is free for core workflows. Paid tiers raise limits and add automation and multi-seat administration. Exact pricing lands with release; waitlist members hear first.
Messaging, splits, and dashboards with generous starter limits.
Higher limits, richer automation, and operator seats.
Release
Solus releases in July. SMS and WhatsApp regions unlock in stages alongside the App Store build.