The Budget Builder
DolceDrago 053 — a skill for futures that argue on paper first
What it is
Builds budgets as plans, not wishes with columns: revenue from real drivers (units × price × frequency), costs including the chronically forgotten ones, seasonality instead of flat twelfths, the cash-versus-profit ambush flagged, the slow case computed for survival, and the monthly actuals review that keeps the document alive. Use this for a business annual budget, a freelancer's irregular income, a department or project budget, or fixing the budget that never matches the bank. Any size, any language.
What you receive
a complete working budget — revenue from drivers, costs with the forgotten ones in, seasonality honest, the slow case computed, plus the monthly review rhythm that keeps it alive
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “build a budget for my small business”
- “annual budget with seasonality”
- “freelancer budget with irregular income”
- “budget vs actuals review every month”
- “why does the budget never match the bank account”
Record
lineage: first-party house build
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.