Many productions maintain multiple phases within a budget—for example a Client Budget, Internal/Hard Costs, and Actuals. While Phase Rollups can currently show variance between phases (including as a percentage), users often want a clearer margin or profit percentage derived from these comparisons.

A built-in margin metric would allow users to quickly see:

Estimated Margin % → Client Budget vs Internal/Hard Costs

Actual Margin % → Client Budget vs Actuals

This would help producers and production companies quickly evaluate profitability directly within Saturation without exporting totals to spreadsheets.

Example:

Client Budget: $100,000

Hard Costs: $80,000

Estimated Margin: 20%

Suggested functionality:

Ability to select two phases and display a Margin % calculation

Surface this metric in Phase Rollups, totals, or budget summaries

Label it clearly as Margin or Profit % rather than just variance

Why this matters:

Production teams commonly structure budgets with client-facing pricing and internal cost phases, so having a dedicated margin metric would make it much easier to track profitability throughout budgeting and reconciliation.