Operations · Intelligence
Expense
Spend trend, by category and recent bills.
Where the money goes — spend trended over time, broken down by category, with the latest bills in reach.
See it in action
Every rupee out the door — categorised, trended, controlled.
Spend by category, team and month; the approval pipeline; the people trending up; and the unusual claims — all computed from real claims, with a Nova read on what to clear first.
This period
28,053
157 claims
Pending approval
26
9.0k value
Approved
33
3.7k
Refused
16
2.0k
Expense digest · Nova
157 claims totalling 28,053 this period, with 26 awaiting approval and 6 flagged as unusual. Travel & Accommodation (34%) and Uncategorised lead spend; Engineering and HR are the heaviest departments, and three employees show double-digit T&E growth. Clear the approval backlog, recategorise the uncategorised, and review the flagged large claims.
Categorised, trended and flagged — live.
No spreadsheets, no manual coding. Every claim lands categorised, rolls into the trends, and re-flags itself the moment something looks off.
Nova · AI
Ask, don't filter.
Type what you're after — "travel claims over 500 pending approval", "top 5 spenders this period" — and the board filters itself to the answer.
- “Pending approvals only”
- “Travel claims over 500”
- “Top 5 spenders” · “Meals last 30 days”
Trend
Spend and claim volume, month by month.
Travel-and-expense spend as bars against the claim-count line — so a quiet month with one big bill, or a flood of small claims, both stand out instantly.
- Spend bars + claim-count line
- Hover any month for both
- Spikes before they add up
Watch
The people whose spend is climbing.
Employees whose recent T&E is running well ahead of their prior months — surfaced with the exact growth, so a creeping habit gets a conversation early, not at audit.
- Recent 2mo vs prior 4mo
- Growth % per employee
- Imran Shah +90% · Zain Ahmed +76%
Mix
Where the money actually goes.
Every claim rolled into a category breakdown — Travel & Accommodation, Uncategorised, Meals, Mileage and more — so the categories quietly eating the budget are obvious.
- Share of spend per category
- Uncategorised flagged for cleanup
- Travel & Accommodation 34%
Trends
Every category, every month.
A category × month heatmap that turns a year of spend into one colour field — so a category trending up lights up long before it blows the budget.
- Categories down, months across
- Colour = spend intensity
- Hover any cell for the figure
Owners
Spend by team, at a glance.
Total spend, claim count and headcount per department — so you know which team drives the bill, and whether it's many small claims or a few big ones.
- Spend · claims · people per dept
- Engineering & HR lead spend
- Cost per head, implied
Flow
Follow every claim, end to end.
A department → category → state flow showing which teams spend on what, and where those claims sit — done, submitted, approved, refused or still in draft.
- Department → category → state
- See refusals & drafts pile up
- Bottlenecks become obvious
Pipeline
The approval pipeline, counted.
Every claim by state — done, submitted, approved, draft, refused — with the amount behind each, so the size of the approval backlog is never a guess.
- Done · Submit · Approve · Draft · Refused
- Amount behind each state
- 26 awaiting approval
Flagged
The claims worth a second look.
Unusually large claims and ones missing a description, flagged across employees and categories — so policy slips and fat-finger errors surface before they're paid.
- 6 anomalies flagged this period
- Unusually large + missing description
- Name, category & amount on each
What it surfaces
The signals, ready to read.
Spend trend
Total spend period-over-period with the spikes.
By category
The categories eating the budget, ranked.
Recent bills
The latest payables with status.
Nova · AI (Aurora)
Nova calls out the category trending above plan and the bills worth questioning.
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