Matt Watson

Founder & CEO @useorigin - Making Money Easy
Previously Founder @ Indio (acq)

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

Financial advice has been broken for decades.
We just fixed it.

@useorigin is now the first AI financial advisor regulated by the SEC.

* 95%+ cheaper than traditional advisors
* Always-on, context-aware
* Available to everyone

The future of money is here. Check it out and let me know what you think :)

[Origin Financial @useorigin]

Bad financial advice has existed for ages. Origin’s AI Advisor changes that.

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@heysamir_ @RohitAtKubera 🙏 appreciate you!

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

We launched this product six months ago at @useorigin and have learned a lot in answering over 1,000,000 personal finance questions from our users.

1. For specific, repetitive use cases customers want purpose built features. Chat is an amazing accompaniment that enhances our experience, but when a user has a defined task (eg tracking or managing money), richer, deep features are much more useful.

2. Finance Chat is poweful to the extent you know what and how to ask. Simple queries (how much did I spend where) are more easily discovered and engaged with in product UI. The value of chat is in the complex and idiosyncratic. Equipping users with the tools to become power users in this way is critical.

3. The user doesn’t know what they don’t know. The killer feature is taking all known financial questions a user should be asking, turning that schema into proactive monitoring and telling the user exactly what financial opportunities exist in real time and allowing agentic execution of that opportunity. This requires the right combination of determinism, grounding and LLM to execute well and is my personal product focus at the moment.

[ChatGPT @ChatGPTapp]

A preview for Pro users: a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT.

Pro users in the U.S. can securely connect financial accounts, see where their money is going, and ask questions based on the information they choose to connect.

Your full financial picture, now in ChatGPT.

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@AClinkmarketing @useorigin next couple weeks sir. thanks for the patience

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@Carcraftz @useorigin let me look into it

don't think we've come across it yet as the product is so new

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@rtiwary23 @useorigin Hey will you email me with specifics so we can sort out whatever issues you’re seeing? [email protected]. Thanks for using the product and apologies for any issues!

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

Hey Scott...appreciate the feedback and you taking the time to check out Origin. Fair point on the time ranges.

Our default net worth view is 30 days today, and it automatically expands as you’re with us longer. The reason longer ranges look flat right now is that we’re constrained by how far back aggregators provide historical net worth data when you first connect accounts.

That said, we’re actively building historical import so you can bring in past data and get a much more meaningful long-term view from day one.

Shoot over more feedback as you continue to use the platform!

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

🤝🙏🤝🙏🤝🙏

Much more to come @jona_s_c !

[Jona Smulders-Cohen @jona_s_c]

Shoutout to @useorigin for being one of the best experiences I’ve had with the new generation of AI-first apps.

I constantly find myself feeling like it’s two steps ahead of what I’m looking for.

They put information in front of you that you didn’t know you wanted. And any detail you go looking for is always there exactly where you hoped it would be.

It feels effortless in a way that all other finance and budgeting apps have never been able to achieve. Big kudos.

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@Chassdesk @useorigin hell ya! thanks sir

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

We're now over 60,000 financial questions answered on @useorigin since we launched our AI advisor two weeks ago.

Nothing better than seeing feedback like this

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

The more the AI slop, the more important the UI

@useorigin design team is 🔥

[KP @kvnc99peltek]

Hard to describe how good the UI of @useorigin is! Big inspiration for my upcoming projects…

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

Really appreciate the feedback here. Keep it coming as you get further into the product. We have some work to do on importing data for our pro-users (appreciate you flagging)!

And please do create a trust. If it doesn't suit you/you don't like the process just ping me and we'll refund you.

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@raveeshbhalla @meetgranola @joinrosebud @WisprFlow @macrofactorapp @useorigin @snipd_app @vetted_ai @NotebookLM appreciate the love! 💪💪

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@branmcconnell @copilotmoney 🫡🫡🫡 thank you!

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@bradwrage @useorigin @bradwrage going to make a change here. tks for flagging!

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@alikhvni @mal_shaik @useorigin soon soon :)

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

Steadfast in your vision, flexible in your approach.

and congrats @crazyfoo on joining as Exec Chair!

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

A new product, a new customer, a new financing!

Introducing Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters, built on our supersonic technology. Superpower launches with a 1.21GW order from @CrusoeAI Backstory 🧵👇

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

Calling all product and design leaders!

We are offering a $10,000 referral bonus if you introduce us to someone we end up hiring for one of the roles below.

We are wrapping up our best year ever at @useorigin and are looking for exceptional people to join our team in Boston.

At Origin we are building the first AI Native Financial Advisor. We grew our consumer base more than 10x this year, and we are looking for gritty, intellectually curious, and tenacious builders to help us grow into a national leader in financial services.

We are now hiring for several key roles as we continue to build a world-class product organization:
* VP of Product
* Head of Product (2)
* Principal Product Designer

These are high-leverage roles that will shape the future of how millions of people manage their money. We are looking for people who are scrappy, curious, and energized by building something new.

If that sounds like you or someone you know, I would love to talk.

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

Added the tiniest bit of friction to our application process.

Has made my life so much easier.

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@burntout_autist @useorigin Ping me. Happy to grandfather you in

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

Love when I can copy past the same message to the @useorigin team 3 weeks in a row :)

[Matt Watson @_M_Watson]

@pitdesi This is me🤣. Fixing my 911 -- would've cost me a few k at the shop. Was able to replace the broken alarm/security system in a couple hours thanks to mechanicGPT