What the source did
- The agent pulls the week's data and builds the variance report.
- Flags a few line items that look wrong.
- A person spends minutes checking instead of hours building it.
- Heads-up: this comes from a commenter describing setups they have seen, not one they run themselves.
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Copy the prompt
Ours Our version, based on what r/AI_Agents described. Not their wording. Fill in the [BRACKETS].
Compare this week's [EXPORT] with last week's and the budget.
Build a variance table: line, actual, budget, variance %, variance $.
Flag up to 5 lines that look off (unusual vs 8-week history, or likely data errors) with your reasoning. Don't adjust any numbers.
Approval rule
🛡
Anything touching money or customers gets a human sign-off.
Set it up
- Export the same report format each week.
- Run and check the flagged lines.
- Schedule once the format is stable.
Common failures
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- Format changes in the export break comparisons; validate columns first.
Variations
- Codex version reading a Sheets file.
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