{
  "id": 15388826,
  "title": "Auditly: the shopkeeper talks, the ledger writes itself",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/auditly-the-shopkeeper-talks-the-ledger-writes-itself",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-18T10:01:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/purohitpriyanshu20/auditly-the-shopkeeper-talks-the-ledger-writes-itself-5f8a"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Auditly is an open-source AI application designed to help small shopkeepers in India keep their accounts in a paper ledger, called a khata, by speaking into it instead of typing. The owner of a kirana shop writes down transactions twice a day from memory, which often leads to inaccuracies and inefficiency. Auditly removes the need for typing and instead allows the shopkeeper to speak their transactions in Hindi or Hinglish, and the app converts them into structured records.\n\nTo use Auditly, the shopkeeper presses a green microphone button and says their transaction, such as \"paanch kilo cheeni bechi do sau rupaye kilo\" (sold five kilos of sugar at two hundred a kilo). The app then displays a record of the sale, including the quantity, price per kilo, and total amount. It also records any expenses, such as the electricity bill. The shopkeeper can review the day's transactions, make corrections, and save them.\n\nAuditly uses an open-weight model called gpt-oss-120b, which is hosted via Groq's OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The model converts spoken transactions into JSON format and validates the data before saving. It handles various nuances of spoken Hindi, such as converting spoken numbers to the correct numerical values and identifying product names. Additionally, Auditly includes features like a review screen for checking transactions before saving and a voice feature that reads the day's records back to the shopkeeper in Hindi.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built My local kirana shop keeps its accounts in a paper khata. The owner writes in it twice a day, when the shop is quiet, from memory. Some days he doesn't. He has a smartphone. He has tried two accounting apps. Both wanted him to tap through four screens to record one sale of sugar — slower than the…",
  "key_points": [
    "Auditly simplifies Indian shopkeepers' paper ledgers by speech input.",
    "Users speak transactions in Hindi/Hinglish, app converts to structured records.",
    "Features include expense recording, review screen, and Hindi voice output."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}