The Intraday Budget Watchdog

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The “Intraday” Budget Watchdog Subject: Mechanical Spend Prevention for High-Volume Accounts The Pacing Problem A campaign can spend 50% of its daily budget in 2 hours if a bidding algorithm goes aggressive. Traditional reporting only catches this 24 hours later. The n8n Logic (Appendix A4) Schedule: Run every 2 hours. Pacing Calc: * hoursElapsed / 24 = DayFraction SpendToday / DailyBudget = PacingRatio Variance = (PacingRatio - DayFraction) / DayFraction Alerting: * If Variance > 30% -> WATCH (Slack alert). If PacingRatio > 1.05 -> CRITICAL (Escalated alert). Business Impact This system prevents “Budget Bleed.

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The “Intraday” Budget Watchdog

Subject: Mechanical Spend Prevention for High-Volume Accounts

The Pacing Problem

A campaign can spend 50% of its daily budget in 2 hours if a bidding algorithm goes aggressive. Traditional reporting only catches this 24 hours later.

The n8n Logic (Appendix A4)

Schedule: Run every 2 hours.

Pacing Calc: * hoursElapsed / 24 = DayFraction

SpendToday / DailyBudget = PacingRatio

Variance = (PacingRatio - DayFraction) / DayFraction

Alerting: * If Variance > 30% -> WATCH (Slack alert).

If PacingRatio > 1.05 -> CRITICAL (Escalated alert).

Business Impact

This system prevents “Budget Bleed.” It allows a marketing manager to sleep, knowing the system will “bark” the moment spend deviates from the 8-week same-day baseline.