diff --git a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
index 34305d5..901a60a 100644
--- a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
+++ b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
@@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ export default function Forecast({ sources = [], sourceId, versions = [], versio
       viewer.addEventListener('perspective-select', viewer._pspSelect)
 
       gridRef.current = await viewer.getPlugin()
+      applyGroupRules()
       setLargeDataset(false)
 
     } catch (err) {
@@ -929,6 +930,67 @@ export default function Forecast({ sources = [], sourceId, versions = [], versio
     }
   }
 
+  // Rule off the column groups, and mark each group's subtotal.
+  //
+  // Scanning across "prior · plan · forecast, each with twelve months and a
+  // total" is twelve columns of identical-looking numbers with nothing to say
+  // where one domain ends and the next begins. The annual figures and the
+  // monthly ones read as one run.
+  //
+  // Done through regular_table's style listener rather than CSS: which column
+  // starts a group, and which one is a group's subtotal, are facts about the
+  // data that only the cell metadata knows. The listener runs on every draw, so
+  // it survives scrolling and virtualisation -- a stylesheet cannot, since the
+  // DOM cells are recycled across columns as you scroll.
+  function applyGroupRules() {
+    const grid = gridRef.current
+    const table = grid?.regular_table
+    if (!table || table._pfGroupRules) return
+    table._pfGroupRules = true
+
+    // The grid lives in a shadow root, so a stylesheet on the page cannot reach
+    // these cells. Inject into whichever root actually contains the table.
+    // currentColor rather than a fixed grey, so the rule follows the theme
+    // instead of vanishing against Pro Dark.
+    const root = table.getRootNode() || document
+    if (!root.querySelector('#pf-group-rules')) {
+      const style = document.createElement('style')
+      style.id = 'pf-group-rules'
+      style.textContent = `
+        td.pf-group-start { border-left: 2px solid currentColor; opacity: 1; }
+        td.pf-subtotal    { font-weight: 600; background: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 7%, transparent); }
+      `
+      ;(root.head || root).appendChild(style)
+    }
+
+    table.addStyleListener(() => {
+      const body = table.querySelectorAll('tbody td')
+      // The deepest column path is a leaf; anything shorter is an aggregate of
+      // the levels below it, which is what makes a subtotal a subtotal.
+      let depth = 0
+      const metas = []
+      for (const td of body) {
+        let meta
+        try { meta = table.getMeta(td) } catch { meta = null }
+        metas.push([td, meta])
+        const path = meta?.column_header
+        if (Array.isArray(path)) depth = Math.max(depth, path.filter(v => v != null && v !== '').length)
+      }
+
+      let prevGroup = null
+      for (const [td, meta] of metas) {
+        td.classList.remove('pf-group-start', 'pf-subtotal')
+        const path = meta?.column_header
+        if (!Array.isArray(path) || !path.length) { prevGroup = null; continue }
+        const named = path.filter(v => v != null && v !== '')
+        const group = named[0]
+        if (group !== prevGroup) { td.classList.add('pf-group-start'); prevGroup = group }
+        if (named.length < depth) td.classList.add('pf-subtotal')
+      }
+    })
+    table.draw()
+  }
+
   // Size every column to its contents.
   //
   // Values fit on their own: draw() calls regular_table.resetAutoSize(), which