Meet Sparky, my new Financial Assistant

As a Software Development Manager at a Google Partner, I know every org is talking about AI and Agents. So, I decided to tackle a personal challenge: after a financially tight start to the year, I wanted to build an AI assistant to help me understand and improve my own spending patterns.
As a Firebase enthusiast, I've been so excited by all the new features and tools the team have given us over the last year. 🔥

This series is the result. It’s a practical journey showing how to leverage the full, modern Google AI stack to solve a real problem. We’ll build everything on a serverless Firebase foundation, using Genkit to orchestrate flows with the Gemini 2.5 models, Firestore as our database, and Firebase Studio for any front-end needs.

Alongside this tech stack, I also extensively used Gemini - from the models in my code, to the client and MCP servers to help me code, to the app for reviewing my articles. We're truly building in exciting times 💪