Budget Modeling & Scenarios
Model unlimited budget scenarios, analyze tax impact, forecast multi-year financials, and provide public budget visualization — with AI-powered intelligence, NLP queries, and performance-based budgeting.
Scenario Creation
Tax Impact Calc
NLP Query
Public Portal
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
12Delegated to
6Base budget data
Assessment growth data
ML forecasting models
Dashboards & report generation
Public visualization portal hosting
WCAG/AODA portal compliance
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
3 capability groups comprising 10 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Create unlimited scenarios from base budget — adjust revenue, expenditure, staffing, rates, and initiatives with side-by-side comparison and tax impact per scenario.
Unlimited Scenarios
Create any number of what-if scenarios from the base budget with full parameter control.
Adjustments
Adjust revenue, expenditure, staffing levels, tax rates, and new initiatives independently.
Side-by-Side
Compare multiple scenarios in a unified view for informed decision-making.
Tax Impact
Calculate tax impact per scenario showing levy, rate changes, and average residential impact.
Calculate levy & rate by property class per scenario with impact on average residential property and assessment growth modeling.
Property Class Rates
Calculate levy and tax rate by property class (residential, commercial, industrial, multi-residential).
Residential Impact
Impact on average residential property in dollars and percentage for public communication.
Assessment Growth
Model assessment growth and its effect on tax rates and revenue.
Council Presentation
Export council-ready presentation materials with tax impact analysis.
Apply inflation globally or by category — CPI, insurance, hydro, fuel — and model population growth, new infrastructure costs, union settlements, and sensitivity analysis.
Category Inflation
Apply inflation by category: CPI, insurance, hydro, fuel with distinct rates per category.
Population Growth
Model population growth impacts on service delivery costs and revenue.
Infrastructure Costs
Project operating costs for newly completed capital projects.
Sensitivity Analysis
Analyze how changing one variable affects the overall budget position.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
4 entities with 5 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
Select an entity to explore its fields and relationships
API Surface
Integration Endpoints
11 RESTful endpoints across 8 resource groups — plus 4 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/budget/scenarios
Create budget scenario
/api/v1/budget/scenarios/{id}
Get scenario with tax impact
/api/v1/budget/scenarios/compare
Compare scenarios side-by-side
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
2 Civic products consume Budget Modeling & Scenarios — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Scenario Creation
Tax Impact Calculation
Multi-Year Forecast
NLP Query Response
Public Portal Load
Concurrent Scenario Users
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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