Budget Variance Tracker

This skill ensures that the CEO’s plans stay on track by monitoring the “Actuals.”

Capabilities

1. Variance Analysis

• Imports actual financial data and compares it against financial-modeling-maestro forecasts.
• Highlights “Negative Variances” (e.g., higher than expected AWS costs) and deviations from IT Cost Benchmarks.

2. Root Cause Insight

• Connects with cloud-waste-hunter and agent-activity-monitor to explain why costs deviated.

Usage

• “Perform a month-end variance analysis for the Engineering department.”
• “Why are our API costs 20% over budget this month? Provide a breakdown.”

Knowledge Protocol

• Adheres to knowledge/orchestration/knowledge-protocol.md.
• References IT Cost Benchmarks for assessing budget health relative to company size and sector.