Cost and resource governance. One place.

CoGe unifies cost allocation, budgets, timesheets and analytics for business units that want to know exactly where every euro goes.

Chapter 01

The Problem

Scattered spreadsheets, late timesheets, budgets no one reconciles. Real costs surface at quarter-end, when it's too late. CoGe moves the truth of the numbers from Q+1 to day one.

Chapter 02

What CoGe Does

Cost Allocation

Tracking per project, customer, unit, with a draft → published lifecycle.

Budget & Forecast

Revenue vs. cost planning with variance against actuals.

Resource Planning

Workload, productivity, skills matrix.

Analytics

Read-only dashboards over live data.

Chapter 03

Feature Tour

CAC lifecycle

Wizard to create a Cost Allocation Code for fixed-price or T&M projects. Draft → published lifecycle with revisable baselines.

Budget & variance

Plan annual revenue and cost, compare to actuals, read the month-by-month variance on the dashboard.

Timesheets + Excel import

Log hours per user and CAC. Excel import with validation, duplicate detection, automatic TBD row realignment.

Resource workload

Workload and availability per person and unit. Surfaces over- and under-allocation before it becomes a problem.

Productivity analytics

Productivity indicators per user, team, and unit, computed from logged hours and CAC sold value.

Skills matrix

Per-person skills map with levels and reverse search "who can do what" — handy for staffing decisions.

Data quality alerts

Automatic checks on timesheets, CACs, and baselines. Flags inconsistencies before they pollute the close.

Economics

Actual vs. budget with drill-down by CAC, customer, unit, and accounting period.

Business settings

Business parameters (standard costs, rate cards, calendars) editable without going through code.

Role-based admin

Filament admin panel with role-based permissions. Users see only what their unit owns.

Chapter 04

Under the Hood

Laravel

12

Application framework

Filament

3

Admin panel

MongoDB

8

Document database

PHP

8.5

Runtime

Docker Compose

—

Local dev + deploy

Redis

—

Queue & cache

Blade dashboard (read-only) Laravel 12 · Blade Filament admin Filament 3 MongoDB 8 Redis queue

Two layers over the same MongoDB: a read-only Blade dashboard for consumption, a Filament admin for writes. Redis queue for imports and heavy jobs.

Chapter 05

Evolution

  1. v3.5.0 · 2025-09-10

    Timesheet Excel import

    Excel hours import with validation, duplicate detection, TBD row realignment.

  2. v3.8.0 · 2025-11-02

    Resource workload

    New workload and availability view per person and unit, with over-/under-allocation highlights.

  3. v3.10.0 · 2025-12-15

    Productivity analytics

    Productivity indicators per user, team, and unit from hours and CAC sold value.

  4. v3.12.0 · 2026-01-20

    Skills matrix

    Per-person skills matrix with levels and reverse search.

  5. v3.13.0 · 2026-02-03

    Economics

    Actual vs. budget with drill-down by CAC, customer, unit.

  6. v3.14.0 · 2026-02-18

    Business settings

    Business parameters editable from admin without code changes.

  7. v3.15.0 · 2026-03-05

    Audit logging

    Full audit log on administrative writes.

  8. v3.16.0 · 2026-03-25

    Baseline editor

    Visual cost-baseline editor with configurable commercial margin and historical revisions.

  9. v3.17.0 · 2026-04-17

    Baseline revision export

    XLSX export of baseline revisions with target-price snapshot and rounded margin.

  10. v3.18.0 · 2026-04-20

    Data quality alerts

    Automatic checks on timesheets, CACs, and baselines with early warning on inconsistencies.

Chapter 06

Who It's For

Multi-unit service companies, 20 to 500 people, running mixed T&M and fixed-price portfolios. Finance and delivery teams currently stitching the picture together across scattered spreadsheets and patchy BI. CoGe replaces that fragmentation with a single source of truth.