A budget alert flags the variance. The governance gap is everything that follows: what drove the spend, who owns it, and whether it changes the department’s position against plan. Closing that gap before period close is what makes technology spend governable with the same rigor Finance applies to headcount and capital.

Budget alerts can now be delivered by webhook to an AI agent or workflow tool, alongside existing email and Slack notifications. When a threshold is crossed, follow-up begins immediately. An agent investigates the variance in Ternary and returns a finance-ready finding, or a workflow routes the alert to the accountable owner for acknowledgement and approval.

• Claude Routine - A Claude agent uses Ternary MCP to attribute the variance to a specific driver and owner, and to size its impact on budget vs. actuals.
• OpenAI Workspace Agent - The same investigation in ChatGPT, with every alert for a budget continuing one conversation so the agent can tell whether a driver is persisting or growing.
• Custom HTTPS - A signed payload to Zapier, Make, Power Automate, or your own service to open tickets, request approvals, or update planning systems.

Agents act with the permissions of the user who connects them, so every finding respects existing access controls. Budget alerts are the first event available via webhook, and more are coming soon.

Admins create webhooks in Admin › Integrations › Webhooks. Budget owners can then attach them in a budget’s alerts step under Add Subscribers › Webhooks.