Every project that lost money was fine until suddenly it was not, and the warning was in the hours weeks earlier. This prompt builds the burn monitor: budgeted hours against actual, phase by phase, with the alert set at a percentage you can still act on.
What's Included
- Budget versus actual per project and per phase.
- Burn rate that projects the finish line from the hours so far.
- Threshold alerts at fifty, seventy-five, and ninety percent of budget.
- An AI agent that names the phase pulling the project over and what it usually means.
How To Use
- Set the hour budget per phase, not just per project.
- Feed it approved time daily so the burn is current.
- Act on the seventy-five percent alert, not the ninety.
- Compare estimate to actual at close, and price the next one better.
Feed it from the billable hours tracker and hand overruns to negotiation prompts when a scope conversation is needed.