Spend Beam

Spend Beam — keep your renovation budget from bending. Almost every renovation goes over budget. Not in one dramatic moment, but quietly — a little extra on materials here, an unplanned bill there — until the final number looks nothing like the one you started with. Spend Beam is built to catch that drift early, while you still have room to react. Set your total budget and break it into the parts of the job that actually cost money — demolition, rough work, materials, finishing, furniture. As real spending comes in, your budget appears as a single beam carrying the weight of the whole project. Each section loads the beam. While you are on track it stays level and steady. When a section starts pushing past its limit, the beam bends and turns red, and you see at a glance exactly which part of the job is dragging the rest down. The part that earns its place is the forecast. Instead of only showing what you have already spent, Spend Beam looks at your current pace and projects where the project is heading — the likely final cost, how much of your budget is already gone, and when you will run out if nothing changes. You learn you are heading for an overrun while there is still time to do something about it, not after the money is gone.