Lotus Collective Inc

Finance Cockpit

As of 19 Sep 2026 · spend refreshed
Prepared by CFO desk

Projection · plan people FTE + seats (live roster + scenario) + API billed shown separately.

Monthly known-cost Projection
$177,280.00
People FTE (salaries + eng tokens) + seat projection. API billed shown separately below — period cash, not monthly Projection.
People FTE
$175,000.00
Projection · salaries + token budgets
Seats
$2,280.00
Projection · ChatGPT + Cursor + Claude
API (this period)
$106.59
Billed · trailing 30d ending 17 Sep 2026
Projection plan seeded 17 Sep 2026

Composition

Category Projection $/mo Billed
People salaries 135,000.00
Token budgets 40,000.00
Seats 2,280.00
API (billed · trailing 30d ending 17 Sep) 106.59
Known Projection (excl. API period) 177,280.00 106.59

Projection · cost outflows (People FTE + seats + API run-rate). No cash-in-bank / runway.

Cost Overview

Month-over-month billed API expenses and a 12-month forward cost Projection. Toggle Today vs Projection above (same as Command).

Spend refreshed 2026-09-19

Seats Projection
$2,280.00
Projection · ChatGPT + Cursor + Claude · drill to Vendors
API billed
$
YTD cash · MoM chart below · not seat Projection

Expenses month-over-month (Billed API)

Certified billed API expenses by calendar month. The in-progress calendar month is labeled Current month only (never partial).

API total by month

Source: embedded certified MoM JSON
Month Anthropic OpenAI Cursor API total
Run-rate (last full month)

Forward cost projection

Projection outflows only · Month 1 starts at the current calendar month. People / seats follow the Today vs Projection toggle. API uses the run-rate from the last full MoM month.

Forward months

Month People FTE Seats API Total
12-mo Projection total 0.00 0.00 0.00

API spend

One table · Anthropic model cash from cost_report (description → model family) with tokens — · Anthropic key tokens from usage_report with cash — · OpenAI key cash + tokens. Grain = Model or Key (plain word). Model cash is never joined onto keys. Filter-in · Cmd/Ctrl+ multi · Reset clears.

Vendor plain = filter-in · Cmd/Ctrl+ = add
Grain Model = Anthropic cash · Key = tokens (+ OpenAI cash)
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Certified window in embedded JSON
Vendor Name Grain Cash billed USD Input tokens Output tokens Cache tokens
Anthropic model cash total (visible)
OpenAI key cash total (visible)
Token totals (all visible rows)

Spend by user

Normalized users table · Cursor on-demand cash + OpenAI usage tokens. Anthropic cash-by-user Missing (Analytics scope). Click vendor chip to filter-in; Cmd/Ctrl+ multi; Reset clears.

Vendor plain = filter-in · Cmd/Ctrl+ = add
Cursor cash · OpenAI tokens
Vendor User Cash (USD) Input tokens Output tokens Requests Notes
Cash total (visible)

Headcount & role tokens

Source of truth for Projection headcount (seed + scenario hires). FTE $/mo = salary $/mo + token $/mo.

Name Role Salary $/yr Salary $/mo Token budget $/yr Token $/mo FTE $/mo
Totals (Projection) 135,000.00 40,000.00 175,000.00

Seat projection

ChatGPT
$750.00
Projection · live roster
Cursor
$680.00
Projection · live roster
Claude
$850.00
Projection · live roster
Combined
$2,280.00
Projection

Seat model

Vendor Tier Seats Rate $/mo Projection $/mo
Combined Projection 2,280.00

People seats (detail)

Live roster from 16 Sep 2026 snapshot. Scenario hires (Projection) get editable ChatGPT / Cursor / Claude seat selectors.

Name Product Plan $/mo
Totals 2,280.00

API billed

Trailing 30 days ending 17 Sep 2026. Billed cash only — not monthly Projection.

Vendor Label Billed
Anthropic Billed 85.54
OpenAI Billed 21.05
Cursor Billed (on-demand) 0.00
API billed total (trailing 30d ending 17 Sep) 106.59

Hire levers

Enter role, tier, dollars, and seats — then add to scenario. Hire appears on People, Vendors, and Command (Projection). Base is the seeded 5 people.

Add hire

Scenario hires

Role Tier Salary $/yr Token $/yr FTE $/mo Seats
Base monthly FTE (seeded 5)$175,000.00
Scenario monthly FTE$175,000.00
Scenario seats $/mo$0.00
Δ monthly FTE$0.00
Scenario hire count0