Building a Self-Hosted AI WhatsApp Agent for Structured Invoice Extraction

Rohan
As an engineering manager and developer, I constantly look for ways to eliminate repetitive business friction using automation. One of the most common manual bottlenecks is bookkeeping—specifically, reading utility bills or vendor invoices and logging them into financial trackers. To solve this, I built a production-ready, self-hosted AI Agent using a pure automation stack. It allows users to simply snap a photo of an invoice, send it over WhatsApp, and have the structured data extracted and log