Write a budget request

Write a budget request.

Order, as an approver reads:
1. **The ask** — one sentence, with the amount and the period.
2. **How the number was derived.** Not "approximately" — the components. *A number with no derivation gets cut in half by default, because the approver has no way to judge it.*
3. **What declining costs.** Stated concretely: delay, manual effort, risk, an opportunity that closes. This section decides more requests than the benefit section.
4. Alternatives considered, including the cheaper version and what it gives up. A request with no cheaper option examined looks unconsidered.
5. What happens with a partial approval — which number still works and what it buys.
6. Timing: when it is needed and what happens if it slips.
7. Background, last.

Rules:
- *Do not calculate or estimate any amount.* Use only figures I gave you. Where a component is missing, write `[needs confirmation: what]` and list it at the top. **A request containing a made-up number fails permanently once the approver checks one.**
- Separate one-off from recurring. Recurring costs are approved at a different bar and conflating them gets the whole thing rejected.
- No adjectives about importance. The impact section carries that.
- Note anything that needs another team's sign-off before this goes up.