Turn a real objection into an isolate-and-respond script, not a rebuttal

A prospect just said this during a sales call: "It's more than we budgeted for this year."

Context: deal stage is proposal sent, second follow-up, they're evaluating us against a cheaper competitor and the option of doing nothing this year, and here's what I know about their priorities so far: They said the current process costs them a full day per week in manual work.

Help me respond using the isolate-the-real-objection technique instead of rebutting the surface statement:

1. ACKNOWLEDGE — one sentence that shows I heard them without agreeing or conceding yet.
2. ISOLATE — one question that tests whether "It's more than we budgeted for this year." is the real blocker or a stand-in for something else (price objections are often a value or urgency problem in disguise; give me a question that would surface which one this is).
3. TWO RESPONSE PATHS — write a version of the response for each way they could answer the isolating question, so I'm not stuck if the first path doesn't fit.
4. CONFIRM — one closing question that checks whether the objection is actually resolved, not just whether they've stopped arguing.

Keep every line something I could actually say out loud on a call — no marketing language, no more than 2 sentences per step.

Then tell me: based on They said the current process costs them a full day per week in manual work, is this objection likely genuine, or a polite way of saying no to something else? Be direct even if the honest answer is "you may be further behind in this deal than the objection suggests."