Integration
Clarity gives Novel customers a Novel spending tracker that keeps Novel balances, merchant-level spending, recurring bills, direct deposits, and transfer activity inside one timeline instead of scattering those details across separate apps, portals, and manual spreadsheets. Novel becomes far more useful when you can compare it with brokerage accounts, crypto balances, liabilities, and total net worth, because the real question is not what happened inside Novel alone but how Novel changed your broader financial position. Clarity uses Plaid's tokenized, read-only connection flow for Novel, which helps refresh eligible balances and transactions without storing your Novel credentials in Clarity during normal sync cycles. That makes Novel useful for weekly cash flow reviews and month-end budget checkups, where faster visibility leads to better budgeting reviews, fewer surprises, and clearer follow-up actions around budgeting reviews, subscription cleanup, and recurring expense decisions.
Best fit workflows
Use these workflow guides to understand where this integration fits best inside Clarity.
Spending Analysis
Classify merchant activity, recurring charges, and category trends for daily cash-flow control.
Balance Verification
Validate account balances quickly for underwriting checks, onboarding, and account health workflows.
Income Verification
Identify payroll deposit patterns and recurring inflow behavior from connected cash accounts.
Loan Underwriting
Support underwriting with account-level cash flow, liabilities, and consistency checks.
Tax Reporting
Generate cost basis reports, capital gains summaries, and transaction exports for tax filing workflows.
Recurring Detection
Identify subscriptions, recurring bills, and payment patterns from connected bank transaction history.
Net Worth Tracking
Aggregate account balances across banks, brokerages, exchanges, and wallets into a single net worth timeline.
