Track department budgets in one dashboard
The monthly question — “are we on budget?” — is harder to answer than it should be. Not because the numbers are hidden, but because they’re scattered. To get a real picture you export from finance, log into two billing tools, chase a card statement, and stitch it all together in a spreadsheet that’s stale by the time it’s done. So the answer arrives late, and “what’s driving the overage?” turns into another afternoon of digging.
This mini app assembles that picture for you and keeps it live. It opens as an interactive dashboard inside Skynet: spend rolled up by category against plan, the variances highlighted, and every number clickable down to the transaction that produced it.
How it works
Connect your spend sources
Point Skynet at where the money shows up — finance exports, SaaS billing, the corporate card, the spreadsheets people maintain by hand. It pulls them into unified memory with your categories and budget lines, so it knows what “Marketing” includes and what your plan said it would cost.
Let Skynet run the numbers
Skynet rolls spend up by department and category, compares it to plan, and works out the variances — month to date, against forecast, versus last period. The arithmetic that ate your spreadsheet afternoons happens on its own.
Read it on one dashboard
It all lands on a single interactive view: budget vs. actual per line, the overages flagged, the trend over time. No tab-switching, no reconciling — the whole picture in one place, refreshed from the sources whenever you open it.
Click any line to drill down
A category looks high — click it. The dashboard opens the spend behind it, down to the individual charges and the source they came from. The answer to “what’s driving this?” is one click away instead of one more export, and every figure is cited so you can verify it.
You describe the budget you want to watch and let the dashboard keep itself current.
Because Skynet takes action in the tools you already use, the dashboard doesn’t stay locked in one window. Schedule a monthly summary to land in Slack, or have Skynet flag you the moment a category crosses its budget — so you hear about an overage while you can still do something about it.
Where this lands
The “are we on budget?” scramble turns into a glance. The follow-up — “why?” — turns into a click instead of a dig. Because every number drills to its source and cites where it came from, the dashboard is something you can defend in a review, not just a tidy summary. What took an afternoon of exporting and stitching now updates itself, and you keep a human eye exactly where the money’s moving.
Frequently asked questions
The sources you connect — finance exports, SaaS and ad billing, corporate cards, manual spreadsheets — held in unified memory with your categories and budget lines. Skynet rolls them into one view and cites where every figure came from.
Yes — that's the point of a dashboard over a report. Click any line item and it drills to the transactions beneath it, down to individual charges and their source. You verify the figure instead of trusting a total.
It refreshes from the connected sources, so the picture reflects current spend rather than a stale export. You can also schedule a recurring summary to Slack and have Skynet flag you the moment a category goes over budget.
Treat it as a fast, well-sourced view and keep a human in the loop on the numbers that drive decisions. Every figure traces to its source precisely so you can check it — verify the line items that matter before they go into a board deck.