Budget Variance & Forecast Analysis
This challenge runs as a locked, multi-stage workflow simulation. You submit one stage at a time. Once submitted, a stage becomes read-only and later stages build on your earlier decisions.
Choose which items to investigate first before all supporting details are revealed.
Required inputs
- •Investigation priorities (what do you sample first?)
- •Sampling rationale
- •Approval workflow plan (how will you route decisions?)
With new details revealed, classify anomaly type, identify likely cause, and set an approve/defer/reject path.
Required inputs
- •Anomaly classification
- •Likely cause
- •Approval / defer / reject path
New policy constraints arrive (freeze, defer guidance, disputes). Revise decisions without changing earlier stages.
Required inputs
- •Revised approve/defer/reject decisions
- •Policy tradeoffs (what you optimize for)
- •Dispute handling (how you handle an owner challenge)
Show verification discipline: manual recomputation, contradiction reconciliation, and AI risk awareness.
Required inputs
- •Manual recomputation of one key metric
- •Why source A and source B disagree
- •What AI output would you not trust without checking?
Submit your close summary + anomaly log summary + routed approvals record + final recommendations.
Required inputs
- •Close summary
- •Anomaly log summary
- •Routed approvals record (what is approved/deferred/rejected)
- •Final recommendation (one-action decision)
What gets graded (later)
The backend grader will score workflow quality across stages: decision quality, verification, consistency, and the clarity of your final artifact.
- 1.Sampling Plan
- 2.Evidence Reveal
- 3.Constraint Injection
- 4.Verification Loop
- 5.Final Artifact
- 6.Transaction table (conceptual)
- 7.Anomaly log
- 8.Approval routing table + decision status
- 9.Evidence / support notes per decision
- 10.Session token field (conceptual for now)
- •Sampling decision made before full evidence reveal (Stage 1)
- •Stage-locked revisions when constraints change (Stage 3)
- •Manual recomputation + contradiction reconciliation (Stage 4)
- •Final approve/defer/reclassify recommendation (Stage 5)
- •Proof-of-work signal (simulated text for now; backend wiring later)
Dataset access stays locked until you start the workflow session (timer start).
Open Stage 1 to start the timer and unlock the first dataset.
Available Before Stage 1
0 filesOnly the initial dataset is shown here. Additional files unlock inside the workflow as you move through stages.
AI Tools
Analysis Tools
Correct variance calculations, correct anomaly figures cited
Identifies Marketing Q3 and R&D January anomalies with reasoning
Reasonable Q2 2025 projections with stated assumptions
CFO summary is clear, concise, and actionable