Lotus Collective Inc

Finance Cockpit

As of 17 Sep 2026
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) 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).

Expenses month-over-month (Billed API)

Certified billed API expenses by calendar month. Current-month data is marked partial when noted by the certified source.

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

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 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.

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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