Sandbox demo · Northside Food Bank
A charity ledger you can see through.
Every gift lands in the open. Every spend needs a receipt. Claude reads each one and holds anything that looks wrong before a trustee pays it out through PayPal.
PayPal sandbox · no real money moves
Demo · 1:31
Watch the 90-second demo.
One donation, followed from the donate button to the receipt it paid for.
How a gift travels
Five stops, all of them on the record.
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01 · Give
A donor gives through PayPal
The gift is tied to an appeal, such as Winter Food Parcels, and appears on the public ledger straight away.
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02 · Receipt
A volunteer uploads the receipt
Money only leaves with proof. Each spend starts as a photo of a real receipt, attached to its row.
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03 · AI check
Claude reads it and flags risk
Totals, supplier and history are checked. A spend far above the usual, or a likely duplicate, is held in amber.
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04 · Approve
A trustee makes the call
A person, not the model, approves or rejects. The reason is written next to the row for anyone to read.
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05 · Payout
PayPal pays the supplier
PayPal Payouts sends the money and the batch id is stamped on the row, so the trail ends at a real transfer.
The demo ledger today
Northside Food Bank, in numbers.
$935.00
Raised across three appeals
$310.00
Spent, every row with a receipt
2
Spends held by the AI check ($515.00)
5
Supplier payouts via PayPal ($310.00)
Held, not hidden
- Winter Food Parcelsgoal $3,000
- Kitchen Equipmentgoal $1,500
- Delivery Van Fuelgoal $600
“$480.00 is more than 3x the rolling mean of the last 3 spends.”
That is a real flag from the demo ledger. Another reads “looks like a duplicate of spend #5”. Held spends stay visible in amber until a trustee decides, and the reason stays on the row.
See it for yourself
Follow one gift end to end.
Gift 12 goes from donor to receipt to AI check to payout. Every step is on one page.
Sandbox demo for the PayPal AI Hackathon. Northside Food Bank is a fictional charity.
