carta-create-budget

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the tedious manual work of building fund and management company budget workbooks by automating the extraction of prior-year actuals from Carta, applying inflation buffers, restructuring categories, and filling templates.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Build from Prior Actuals: Generate a new budget workbook populated with prior-year monthly actuals, organized by GL account with section subtotals and Net Operating Income formulas.
• Apply Inflation Buffers: Add a configurable contingency or inflation buffer to expense lines while preserving raw values for full reversibility.
• Restructure Categories: Group budget line items into intuitive top-level categories with collapsible subtotals and SUM-based totals.
• Use Case: A fund administrator needs to draft the 2026 budget for a $50M fund. They ask the AI to build it from 2025 actuals, apply a 5% inflation buffer to operating expenses, and group personnel costs under a "Compensation & Benefits" category.

Quick Start

Use the carta-create-budget skill to build a 2026 budget for your fund from last year's actuals and apply a 3% inflation buffer to all operating expenses.