# Note from finance (claims-intake pipeline)

- September cost: $5,476 (taken from the usage export total).
- Claims received in September: 4,000 (from the claims system).
- Q1 2027 forecast: 8,000 claims per month once the broker partnership launches in January.
- Budget for this pipeline from January: $6,000 per month, hard ceiling.
- Please confirm cost per claim and how you will stay under the ceiling.

From ops, for context: claim C-88213 was a 412-page scanned PDF that kept failing validation.
It ran 140 times over a weekend before anyone noticed.