{"id":"legalops-budget-variance-table","audience":"legal","category":"legal-compliance","track":"legal","level":"intermediate","technique":"verification","title":"Flag outside-counsel budget phases that run over 10%","free":false,"task":"Make a markdown table with the columns Phase, Budget, Billed, Difference, Percent, one row per phase in order. Show the math in the Difference cell (for example \"$52,200 - $45,000 = +$7,200\") and the percent as a whole number of the budget. After the table add one last line exactly in the form: Flagged for GC review: names. Flag only phases more than 10% over budget; exactly 10% is not flagged. Nothing else.","materialLabel":"Budget report (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Cedar Row matter - Budget vs billed to Oct 31 (Fairmont & Lowe LLP)\n\nPhase | Budget | Billed to date\nPleadings | $40,000 | $44,000\nDiscovery | $120,000 | $138,000\nExperts | $60,000 | $30,000\nMotions | $50,000 | $55,500\nMediation | $25,000 | $0\n\nNotes: Experts phase work starts in December. The firm's cover note says \"Discovery overage is due to the other side's late documents.\" Mediation has not started. All amounts exclude disbursements.\n\nBackground: the matter was opened in March after the landlord sent a demand letter. The approved overall budget is $295,000 across the five phases. Fairmont & Lowe sends this report on the first business day of each month, and the GC's office reviews any phase that looks out of line. Last month's report showed Discovery at $121,000 billed, so the jump this month reflects two large document batches. The figures above were pulled from the firm's invoicing system on Nov 2 and have not been adjusted for write-offs.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":190}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Exactly 10% flagged","why":"The AI flags Pleadings.","fix":"Say: \"Flag only more than 10% over; exactly 10% is not flagged.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Math wrong or hidden","why":"The AI gives percents without working.","fix":"Say: \"Show the math in the Difference cell.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Explanation echoed","why":"The AI adds the firm's reason or its own opinion.","fix":"Say: \"No commentary beyond the table and last line.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Table columns","patterns":["phase","difference","percent"]},{"label":"Show math","patterns":["show the math"]},{"label":"Flag rule","patterns":["more than 10%","over 10%"]},{"label":"Exact last line","patterns":["flagged for gc review"]},{"label":"Nothing else","patterns":["nothing else","no commentary"]}],"hint":"Name the columns, show the math and state the flag rule including the 10% edge.","mission":"Spot budget phases that run over by more than 10%.","musts":["Show the math","More than 10% rule","Fixed last line"],"rubricLabels":["A markdown table with columns Phase, Budget, Billed, Difference, Percent and five rows in order, with the math shown in each Difference cell","Differences and percents are right: Pleadings +$4,000 (10%), Discovery +$18,000 (15%), Experts -$30,000 (-50%), Motions +$5,500 (11%), Mediation -$25,000 (-100%)","The last line is exactly \"Flagged for GC review: Discovery, Motions\" and it does not repeat or evaluate the firm's explanation for the overage"]}