# Leadership wants both a live operational dashboard (seconds) and an exact end-of-day financial close

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Domain: Pipeline Design · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

Leadership wants both a live operational dashboard (seconds) and an exact end-of-day financial close (counted once) from the same order events. One pipeline can't satisfy both correctness budgets. Design the hybrid.

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