The end-of-event surprise
Every department reports 'on budget' until invoices land after strike. Then the rollup shows a 14% overrun nobody had visibility into while it was still avoidable.
P&L, SOWs, Change Orders
Budget surprises don't survive past Tuesday.
Projected margin, SOW lifecycle, change orders with audit trail. Actuals update automatically as work orders complete — no end-of-event surprise invoices, no quarterly reconciliation archaeology.
Live
The budget isn't the problem. The blind spots are.
Finance teams spend the first month after an event reconstructing what actually happened. Budget replaces reconstruction with live attribution — every actual ties back to the work that created it.
Change orders that never route
An on-site decision adds $38K to the scope. The crew chief nods. Accounting finds out six weeks later from the vendor's statement.
Actuals disconnected from the work
Work orders complete on one system. Budget updates happen on another. By the time the numbers line up, the variance is locked in.
Baseline drift
The budget you signed off is not the budget you're tracking. Line items moved. SOW amendments piled up. Nobody can point to the version that was actually committed.
Projected to actual, across the lifecycle.
Every capability ties budgeted, committed, and actual together — so a signature, a completion, or an approval moves the P&L in real time.
Projected margin with citations
The margin advisor projects variance risk before it bites — every flag cites the line items driving it, so overrides are a click, not an investigation.
SOW lifecycle with baseline freeze
Draft → send → sign. Counterparty signs, every linked budget line commits. The baseline is a signature, not a spreadsheet version.
Change orders with approval workflow
Every change order routes through approval with full audit trail. Before/after snapshots on every mutation. Nothing lands in the rollup without a sign-off.
Cross-module actualization
Work orders complete in Dispatch. Actuals update in Budget automatically. Same for staffing roster commits and BOM line items — the numbers follow the work.
Versioned budgets, one active
Every revision saved, every revision comparable. A partial-unique constraint at the database enforces exactly one active version per event — no accidental double-counts.
Department-level rollup
Every cost line attributes to its source — staffing, BOM, vendor assignment, work order, or manual. Drill down from rollup to the record that generated it.
Variance alerts, threshold-driven
Actuals cross 15% over projected? A platform event fires. Command Center surfaces it before the next morning meeting.
Policy-safe P&L surfaces
Sensitive amounts filter by role. Viewers see progress; executives see the full P&L. RBAC is enforced at the database, not the UI.
Connected by Design
Budget sits at the end of every cost-producing flow.
Budget doesn't chase costs — costs come to Budget. Every work order completion, every SOW signature, every roster confirmation feeds the actualization layer. The P&L moves with the work, not after it.
Inbound — data flowing into Budget
StaffingBudget
Staffing confirms the roster — committed labor cost posts to the matching Budget lines, with the roster entry as the source.
staffing.roster_confirmedInfrastructureBudget
A BOM line gets approved in Infrastructure — the equipment cost lands in Budget with source attribution back to the LLD that drove it.
vip.bom_approvedOutbound — events Budget publishes
BudgetInfrastructure
A margin-advisor variance on Crew/Labor surfaces the staffing cost lines causing it, so producers can rework scope before it locks in.
budget.variance.detectedA margin advisor, not autonomy.
Every financial specialist in Budget is advisory — projects, flags, and cites. No agent commits a budget, signs a SOW, or approves a change order. Humans decide; the specialists show their work.
Margin projection
The margin advisor projects committed + forecast spend against the signed baseline, surfacing variance risk with the line items that drive it.
Variance detection
Threshold-driven variance scanning on every actualization. Over 15% on a category emits a platform event — cross-module alerting, not a dashboard number nobody checks.
Change-order stall detection
COs sitting in 'pending approval' past a threshold get surfaced with the reviewer who's holding them. Nothing rots in a queue.
Source-attributed line items
Every polymorphic cost line traces back to its source — staffing cost, BOM item, vendor assignment, WO item, or manual entry. Drilldown is one click, never a CSV export.
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