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Budget Season Starter Kit

Evaluate and prepare a clients budget, while setting the agenda for your upcoming scheduled Annual Budget Review meeting with your client.

Lifecycle Manager
Requires MCPby Shay Mac · Sr Solutions Engineer

Needs an LLM client connected to ScalePad MCP — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf or similar. Without it the assistant cannot call the recipe's tools.

User prompt

2 inputs to fill
Prepare [CLIENT]'s annual budget review: pull IT debt, budget availabilities, planned initiatives, and active contracts. Generate the budget forecast Deliverable and set up a budget meeting for [MONTH] with an agenda note summarizing the big decisions. Finalize everything by linking the Deliverable to the Meeting.

# Budget Season Starter Kit

Hook: The annual budget conversation, prepped in minutes: IT debt, availabilities, forecast, and the meeting to present it.

APIs: Lifecycle Manager + Core

Endpoints

| API | Method | Endpoint | Purpose | |---|---|---|---| | Lifecycle Manager | GET | /lifecycle-manager/v1/budget/{client_id}/it-debt | List the client's IT debt | | Lifecycle Manager | GET | /lifecycle-manager/v1/budget/{client_id}/availabilities | Get budget availabilities | | Lifecycle Manager | GET | /lifecycle-manager/v1/budget/{client_id}/initiatives | List budget initiatives | | Lifecycle Manager | GET | /lifecycle-manager/v1/budget/{client_id}/forecast/pdf | Generate the budget forecast PDF | | Lifecycle Manager | POST | /lifecycle-manager/v2/meetings | Create the budget-planning meeting | | Core | GET | /core/v1/service/contracts | List active contract commitments |

Flow

  1. 1.Compile the client's IT debt, budget availabilities, planned initiatives, and contract commitments.
  2. 2.Generate the budget forecast PDF.
  3. 3.Create a budget-planning meeting with the forecast attached and a summary agenda note.

Prompt seed

> Prepare [client]'s annual budget review: pull IT debt, budget availabilities, planned initiatives, and active contracts. Generate the budget forecast deliverable and set up a budget meeting for [month] with an agenda note summarizing the big decisions. Finalize everything by linking the deliverable to the meeting.

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SMAuthorShay MacSr Solutions Engineer · ScalePad

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