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WattShed Pace

Live, self-serve

Know the month the money runs out, before it does.

Pace watches the one number every program manager is quietly tracking in a spreadsheet: how fast the budget is going. Load the program's spend ledger, and Pace separates committed money from disbursed money, computes the recent run rate, and names the month the budget exhausts at that pace. The projection is straight-line arithmetic, stated as such: a program that changes pace changes the answer, and Pace never pretends otherwise.

What it does.

  • Separates committed money from disbursed money, so promised dollars are never mistaken for remaining ones.

  • Computes the recent run rate over the last full months of activity, with the window stated.

  • Names the projected exhaustion month at that run rate, as arithmetic rather than a forecast.

  • Flags overcommitment beyond the budget, thin runway, and stale ledgers plainly.

  • Runs in the browser on the program's own export. Nothing uploaded or stored.

Who it is for.

Program managers

Replace the burn-rate spreadsheet with a report that states its window and its assumptions.

Funders watching a commitment

See whether the program will land the year inside its budget while there is still time to act.

Utilities and public program administrators

Answer the mid-cycle question every commission asks: how much is left, and how long will it last.

How it works.

01

Load the ledger

The program's spend export: dates, amounts, and whether each line is committed or disbursed.

02

Read the burn

Committed, disbursed, and remaining, with the monthly series laid out beside the budget.

03

Watch the runway

The recent run rate and the month the budget exhausts at that pace, flagged when the runway is thin.

What it does, and what it deliberately does not.

Pace does

Computes burn, run rate, and a straight-line exhaustion month

Pace does not

Does not forecast participation or promise the pace will hold

Pace does

Works from the program's own spend ledger

Pace does not

Does not upload, store, or transmit the ledger anywhere

Availability.

The pace check is live today as a public self-serve tool, no account required, nothing uploaded. Standing budget monitoring wired to a live WattShed program is arranged with WattShed directly.

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