Q2 expenses by department against budget
The request
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Hiroshi wants Q2 expenses by department, month by month, and a note on who went over budget. Build it as dept_expenses.xlsx with live formulas and write the memo as memo.md. His note and the booth thread are in the folder with the export.
Workspace
- budget_note_from_hiroshi.txt
- cost_centers.xlsx
- email_thread_nab_booth.txt
- expense_lines_2026-04-01_to_2026-06-30.csv
Expected deliverables
- dept_expenses.xlsx
- memo.md
Recorded acceptance checks
The table uses check names and outcomes from the frozen campaign ledger. Acceptance requires all required predicates to pass; a predicate may itself contain a tolerance or coverage threshold. Its scope is part of the measurement contract.
| Recorded check | Type | Required | Failed / observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| dept_expenses.xlsx exists | file_exists | yes | 0 / 6 |
| live formulas | xlsx_has_formulas | yes | 0 / 6 |
| no error cells | xlsx_no_errors | yes | 0 / 6 |
| Sales Q2 total (booth moved in) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 / 6 |
| Marketing Q2 total (booth moved out) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 / 6 |
| Production Q2 total (blank cost centers resolved) | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 / 6 |
| total Q2 spend | xlsx_value_present | yes | 0 / 6 |
| memo says Sales is over budget | text_sentence_matches | yes | 1 / 6 |
| memo says Production is over budget | text_sentence_matches | yes | 1 / 6 |
| memo carries both overrun amounts | text_numbers_present | yes | 0 / 6 |
Current task declaration (10 checks)
From task.yaml. Original runner grading and frozen retrospective scoring are separate. Read the frozen source for the rules behind the reported results.
- dept_expenses.xlsx exists —
file_exists, required - live formulas —
xlsx_has_formulas, required - no error cells —
xlsx_no_errors, required - Sales Q2 total (booth moved in) —
xlsx_value_present, required - Marketing Q2 total (booth moved out) —
xlsx_value_present, required - Production Q2 total (blank cost centers resolved) —
xlsx_value_present, required - total Q2 spend —
xlsx_value_present, required - memo says Sales is over budget —
text_sentence_matches, required - memo says Production is over budget —
text_sentence_matches, required - memo carries both overrun amounts —
text_numbers_present, required
Recorded results, desk release
| System | Repetitions | Frozen / 3 | Original / 3 | Median minutes | Mean model estimate (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 2 | 1 | 4.5 | 0.0554 | |
| Codex / GPT-5.6 sol | 2 | 2 | 7.9 | 0.7331 |
These are repeated executions on the released fixture, not independent new business cases. Cost is captured model usage priced under the recorded assumptions, excluding infrastructure and human review. Per-attempt check verdicts, raw and frozen verdicts, usage, receipt and artifact hashes for this task are in results/latest/attempts.jsonl under "task": "dept-expense-report".
Recorded results, desk comparison, 28 September 2026
| System | Repetitions | Frozen / 3 | Original / 3 | Median minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proto / GPT-6 sol | 3 | 3 | 3.2 | |
| Codex / GPT-6 sol | 2 | 2 | 4.7 | |
| Proto / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 3 | 3 | 1.8 |
A separate campaign under the same frozen scorer, not pooled with the release. Conditions and data.