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/neuroflow:finance

Manage grant documents and track project expenses.

/finance helps you build and maintain the financial side of your research project — from the initial budget plan through expense tracking to funder-facing reports and compliance checks.

When to use it

  • You need to build or update the project budget
  • You want to log an expense against a budget line
  • You need to produce a financial report for your funder
  • You want to check whether current spending is within grant conditions

What it does

Claude reads your project memory (.neuroflow/grant-proposal/) for funder and budget context, then asks which mode applies:

  1. Budget plan — build the full project budget, broken down by personnel, equipment, consumables, travel, and indirect costs
  2. Expense log — record a new expense against a budget line; flags overspends immediately
  3. Financial report — produce a funder-facing report comparing budget to actual spend
  4. Grant compliance — check whether spending aligns with grant conditions and flag any issues

Budget plan

Claude asks for:

  • Funder and grant scheme (loaded from /grant-proposal if available)
  • Funding period (start and end dates)
  • Budget lines: personnel (names, roles, FTE), equipment, consumables, travel, overhead rate

It then produces a structured budget table with annual breakdowns for multi-year grants.

Output: budget-[funder]-[date].md saved to .neuroflow/finance/

Expense log

Claude records:

  • Category (personnel, equipment, consumables, travel, other)
  • Amount and currency
  • Date incurred
  • Description and justification
  • Which budget line it maps to

Overspends are flagged immediately.

Output: appended to expenses-[year].md in .neuroflow/finance/

Financial report

Claude produces a report covering:

Section Content
Summary Total budget vs total expenditure
By category Breakdown per budget line
Remaining balance Per budget line
Compliance notes Any flagged issues

Output: financial-report-[funder]-[date].md saved to .neuroflow/finance/

Grant compliance

Claude checks the current expense log against grant conditions:

  • Are all expenses within approved categories?
  • Are personnel costs within approved headcount and FTE?
  • Are budget reallocations needed — and does the grant allow them without prior approval?
  • Is the reporting deadline approaching?

Output: compliance-check-[date].md saved to .neuroflow/finance/

Files read and written

Direction Files
Reads .neuroflow/project_config.md, .neuroflow/flow.md, .neuroflow/finance/flow.md, .neuroflow/grant-proposal/flow.md
Writes .neuroflow/finance/, .neuroflow/finance/flow.md, .neuroflow/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD.md
  • /grant-proposal — write the grant application that defines the approved budget
  • /write-report — generate a progress report for funders alongside a financial report