Budgets and unit economics
Monthly targets with a labelled projection method, and spend attributed to the business dimension that matters to you.
Budgets #
An administrator sets monthly targets under Integrations, either for the whole estate or per subscription.
Flux then reports, for each target:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Budget | The target you set |
| MTD actual | Finalized month-to-date spend |
| Burn | Actual as a percentage of budget |
| Projected | Where the month is heading, with its percentage |
| Status | On track, at risk, or over |
Status thresholds are deliberately simple: projected above 100% is over, above 90% is at risk, otherwise on track.
The projection method, stated #
The projection is a linear run-rate over finalized days: month-to-date actual extrapolated by average daily spend across the remaining calendar days.
Flux labels this on the report rather than presenting a bare number. It is a transparent method with obvious limitations — it will over-project a month that began with a one-off migration, and under-project one with a launch coming.
[!NOTE] Why not something cleverer? A sophisticated projection that nobody can explain is worse than a simple one everybody can. For seasonally-aware projection with confidence bounds, use the forecast; budgets deliberately use the method a finance partner can reproduce on paper.
Unit economics #
Cloud spend in dollars is hard to act on. Cost per unit of the thing your business actually makes is not.
An administrator sets a business-dimension tag key and a display label — for
example tag key brand labelled “Brand”, or plant, product, customer,
environment.
Flux then reports spend per dimension value:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Dimension value | The tag value, e.g. a brand name |
| Resources | How many resources carry it |
| Monthly cost | Actual month-to-date spend |
| % of spend | Share of the estate |
Unattributed spend — resources without the tag — is reported explicitly, with an attributed percentage, exactly as allocation does.
Executive summary #
Both feed the executive summary: month-to-date spend with its prior-period delta, budget posture, active anomalies, the savings pipeline with measured realization, allocation coverage, and top services.
It is print-friendly, so it can go into a monthly pack directly — and every figure on it comes from the same governed snapshot as the rest of the product.