{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "title": "Expense Approval System",
  "lang": "en",
  "prd": {
    "oneLiner": "Provide one workflow for request creation, evidence, approval routing, budget validation, approval history, and reporting.",
    "goal": "Move 90% of expense requests to electronic approval and reduce average approval lead time by 30%.",
    "whyNow": "Expense evidence and approval history are spread across email and files, making budget checks and audit trails difficult.",
    "category": "Internal operations system",
    "platforms": [
      "Web"
    ],
    "problem": "Expense evidence and approval history are spread across email and files, making budget checks and audit trails difficult.",
    "solution": "Provide one workflow for request creation, evidence, approval routing, budget validation, approval history, and reporting.",
    "alternatives": "Email, chat, spreadsheets, and manual ledgers",
    "differentiator": "Manage intake, processing, and operations data as one connected source of truth.",
    "targets": [
      {
        "name": "Employee requester",
        "role": "Requester and operational user",
        "needs": "Quickly register needed work and know its status.",
        "pain": "Expense evidence and approval history are spread across email and files, making budget checks and audit trails difficult."
      },
      {
        "name": "Finance and approval operator",
        "role": "Operations administrator",
        "needs": "Manage priority and history and review operations metrics.",
        "pain": "Expense evidence and approval history are spread across email and files, making budget checks and audit trails difficult."
      },
      {
        "name": "System and policy administrator",
        "role": "Operations and security administrator",
        "needs": "Manage access, policy, and audit history.",
        "pain": "Expense evidence and approval history are spread across email and files, making budget checks and audit trails difficult."
      }
    ],
    "scenarios": [
      {
        "text": "An operational user registers required work and checks its status.",
        "start": "P1"
      },
      {
        "text": "An operator processes queued work and handles exceptions.",
        "start": "P5"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews policy and access.",
        "start": "P9"
      },
      {
        "text": "System and policy administrator reviews audit records and operating metrics.",
        "start": "P10"
      }
    ],
    "northStar": "Share of operations requests completed on time",
    "kpis": [
      {
        "name": "On-time processing rate",
        "target": "Move 90% of expense requests to electronic approval and reduce average approval lead time by 30%.",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly aggregation of state changes against target dates",
        "refs": [
          "F6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Operations visibility",
        "target": "100% of key work tracked",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Share of records connected to reporting",
        "refs": [
          "F11"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Auditable operations rate",
        "target": "100% of key changes retained",
        "baseline": "Not measured",
        "method": "Monthly audit-log and change-history review",
        "refs": [
          "F12"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "inScope": [
      "Expense request and evidence submission",
      "My expense requests and approval status",
      "Approval routing, approval or rejection, and budget validation",
      "Department, category, and approval operations reporting",
      "Expense request and evidence submission validation and duplicate prevention",
      "Search, filter, and history management",
      "Owner, priority, and SLA management",
      "Approval and policy review",
      "Exception, rejection, and reprocessing",
      "Notifications and subscriptions",
      "External integration and data synchronization",
      "Role, permission, and audit management"
    ],
    "nonGoals": [
      "External customer portal",
      "Replacing adjacent systems such as accounting or payroll"
    ],
    "assumptions": [
      "User and organization data are available through company SSO.",
      "Operators manage policy and classification criteria."
    ],
    "risks": [
      "Weak initial classification can cause incorrect processing.",
      "Stale source data can reduce operational trust."
    ],
    "openQuestions": [
      "What defines urgent processing and approval?",
      "What are the post-completion verification and reopen rules?"
    ],
    "constraints": [
      "State, owner, and priority changes require audit logs.",
      "Access is limited by role.",
      "Permission, policy, and state changes require audit logs."
    ]
  },
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      "status": "todo",
      "priority": "high",
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        {
          "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
          "done": false
        }
      ],
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            {
              "text": "Required context, changes, ownership, and status are retained in an auditable record.",
              "done": false
            }
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            {
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            {
              "title": "Expense request and evidence submission exception and audit handling",
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              "title": "Expense request and evidence submission validation and duplicate prevention core processing rule",
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      {
        "from": "P10",
        "to": "P4",
        "ref": "F11"
      },
      {
        "from": "P4",
        "to": "P1",
        "label": "Refresh operations status"
      },
      {
        "from": "P5",
        "to": "P6",
        "ref": "F7"
      }
    ]
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}