Headcount Forecast Draft — Per-Cell Provenance
An agent drafts five headcount/comp/burden changes into a draft version of next quarter's plan — never the locked, approved version. Every changed line is tagged with the source data that justifies it, the stated assumption behind the number, and whether it feeds a management-review-control-sensitive forecast. Toggle any line's Approve/Reject to see the draft-vs-approved diff move. 100% synthetic data: an invented five-department org, not connected to any real Workday Adaptive Planning tenant.
Proposed lines
5
FY2027 Q1 Headcount Plan — Draft v3 (not locked)
MRC-sensitive lines
3
goodwill / going-concern / deferred-tax inputs
Approved by reviewer
4 / 5
only approved lines enter the draft total
Net budget impact
+$730,700
draft vs. approved, annualized
Why this stays a draft, not a budget line
The agent never writes to the locked, approved budget — it only ever proposes into a draft. Every proposed number is traceable to a named source input and a named assumption, not asserted as fact, so a bad number is falsifiable before it becomes consequential. A human reviewer approves or rejects each line individually; nothing here moves from draft to approved without that sign-off, and nothing on this page ever posts anywhere. The lines flagged MRC-sensitive below are the sharper case: their inputs also feed a forecast that genuinely enters the financials (goodwill impairment, going-concern cash flow, deferred-tax valuation allowance) — this is what makes the control SOX-adjacent rather than just a planning nicety.
Current (approved)
42 FTE
Proposed (draft)
43 FTE
Annualized cost impact
+$191,400
Source data
Q2 2026 attrition actuals — Engineering: 3 departures, 2 already backfilled, 1 open requisition on file (REQ-2027-ENG-014).
Stated assumption
Backfill completes within 45 days of the attrition date, hired at the departing employee's comp-band midpoint ($145K); no burden-rate change.
Current (approved)
18 FTE
Proposed (draft)
21 FTE
Annualized cost impact
+$422,400
Source data
Sales Dept. Hiring Request HR-2027-03 (VP Sales, submitted 2026-08-15) — 3 net-new Account Executive requisitions for Q1 FY27 territory expansion.
Stated assumption
New hires ramp to full quota productivity within 90 days; hired at the $110K OTE midpoint; no change to the current 28% burden rate.
Why this line is MRC-sensitive
Sales is a reporting unit carrying goodwill from a prior acquisition; its headcount-cost trajectory is a direct input to the FY2026 Q4 goodwill-impairment test's cash-flow forecast for that unit — this line doesn't just plan headcount, it feeds a number an auditor will scrutinize.
Current (approved)
$68,000
Proposed (draft)
$70,720
Annualized cost impact
+$88,400
Source data
FY2027 Comp Guidelines — Merit Increase Matrix, Support/CS band: 4.0% company-wide merit pool.
Stated assumption
The 4.0% merit increase applies uniformly across all 25 current Support FTEs effective Q1 FY27; no change to headcount or burden rate.
Current (approved)
60 FTE
Proposed (draft)
58 FTE
Annualized cost impact
-$156,600
Source data
Ops Hiring-Freeze Memo (2026-08-01) + Q2 2026 attrition actuals: 2 line-technician departures, no backfill approved pending automation-line completion (Project Sable).
Stated assumption
No backfill through Q1 FY27; Project Sable's automation line fully offsets the lost capacity by the start of the quarter; burden rate unchanged at 35%.
Why this line is MRC-sensitive
Manufacturing & Ops labor-cost trajectory is a named input to the going-concern cash-flow forecast under review with the FY2026 audit, given an active covenant-headroom review — an over-optimistic automation-offset assumption here would understate a cash-flow forecast that genuinely feeds that assessment.
Reviewer decision: FP&A Director rejected: Project Sable's automation line is not yet at full capacity per the latest Ops status update, so 'fully offsets by start of quarter' is not yet supportable. Sent back for a revised assumption tied to the actual automation-line ramp schedule before this line re-enters draft.
Current (approved)
30.0%
Proposed (draft)
32.0%
Annualized cost impact
+$28,500
Source data
Benefits Renewal Notice (2026-07-20) — health/dental premium increase effective the 2027 plan year.
Stated assumption
The 2-point burden-rate increase applies uniformly to all current G&A headcount; no other G&A comp or headcount change.
Why this line is MRC-sensitive
G&A cost trajectory is one input to the multi-year profitability forecast supporting the deferred-tax valuation-allowance assessment — a routine-looking burden-rate tick still lands inside a forecast that has real financial-statement consequences if it's wrong.
Diff summary: FY2027 Q1 Headcount Plan — Draft v3 (not locked) vs. FY2027 Approved Budget (current)
Recomputed live from the Approve/Reject decisions above — a rejected line stays at its current approved value and contributes zero diff.
| Department | Approved (annualized) | Draft (annualized) | Diff | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | $8,038,800 | $8,230,200 | +$191,400 | Approved into draft |
| Sales | $2,534,400 | $2,956,800 | +$422,400 | Approved into draft |
| Customer Support | $2,210,000 | $2,298,400 | +$88,400 | Approved into draft |
| Manufacturing & Ops | $4,698,000 | $4,698,000 | $0 | Rejected — held at approved |
| G&A | $1,852,500 | $1,881,000 | +$28,500 | Approved into draft |
| Total | $19,333,700 | $20,064,400 | +$730,700 | — |
Underlying synthetic approved budget
The current approved FY2027 budget the draft above diffs against — an invented five-department org. Every department, headcount, comp, and burden-rate figure is synthetic and does not represent any real company.
| Department | FTE | Avg. comp | Burden rate | Annualized cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 42 | $145,000 | 32.0% | $8,038,800 |
| Sales | 18 | $110,000 | 28.0% | $2,534,400 |
| Customer Support | 25 | $68,000 | 30.0% | $2,210,000 |
| Manufacturing & Ops | 60 | $58,000 | 35.0% | $4,698,000 |
| G&A | 15 | $95,000 | 30.0% | $1,852,500 |
Draft-only means exactly this: the agent proposes, a human reviewer approves or rejects each line individually, and nothing here ever writes to a locked/approved budget or posts anywhere. Every proposed number carries a named source and a named assumption so a bad number is falsifiable, not asserted as fact — that's how "hallucination doesn't silently become a real budget line." Everything on this page runs in your browser; nothing is sent to a server. 100% synthetic data — invented for this demo, not sourced from or connected to any real Workday Adaptive Planning tenant, sandbox, or export. Workday Adaptive Planning sandboxes come bundled with a customer license Tioga doesn't have, so this is built against the product's publicly documented import/API shape, not a live tenant, and calls no real vendor API.
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