One path to resolution

Resolve

Where what you asked for and what people committed don't yet line up. Work each gap to a committed answer.

2 open1 resolved
Changed · awaiting the trade

Budget

You asked for $50M. Finance committed $46M and changed the ask. The $4M is a trade, priced from what people actually said — not a guess.

You asked
$50M
Committed
$46M
Still open
$4M
arithmetic — not a forecast
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The trade

priced from committed answers
S. Iyer · Finance
asked $46M, awaiting the trade
changed
“I can commit $46M this cycle — the last $4M is real, it just needs Q2, not now.”
Choose the trade
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Or resolve another way

equal paths — none is the "failure" button
Accept the $4M risk
Take the Q2 timing on the record, named and eyes-open. It lands on the plan as an accepted risk.
Carry up to D. Okafor
Above your call? Open a round at their level. You're not a party inside it — it comes back as their answer.
Commit this resolution
Take $46M now · $4M accepted to Q2 · check-in stays with G. Tan
Committed — Budget resolved. The check-in is set.

Nothing here decays if you step away. The gap is a fact; the trade is priced; the call is yours.