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03 · Decision support

Should you take on this project? Yes or no.

Proactive analysis that models margin, capacity, and risk against your real position — and gives a clear, defensible recommendation.

Go / no-go with rationale

The problem

The data to evaluate a project exists. The answer does not.

The data to evaluate a new project usually exists, scattered across margin history, capacity, and cash position, but assembling it into a clear answer is a slow, manual exercise. So decisions get made on a dashboard someone still has to interpret, or on gut.

Why it happens

Everything you need to judge a new project is already there, but scattered: margin history in one place, capacity in another, cash position in a third. Pulling it into a single clear answer is a slow, manual exercise every time.

Where it lands

So the decision gets made on a dashboard someone still has to interpret, or on gut. Either way there is no defensible rationale to take into the room, just a number and an instinct.

What it is

The hard part is not having the figures. It is assembling margin, capacity, and risk against your real position fast enough that the answer arrives before the decision is already made.

Get a go / no-go you can defend in the meeting.

Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show it live, then a free pilot on your own data.

The solution

A clear recommendation, with the reasoning attached.

Autessa models margin, capacity, and risk against your real financial position and gives a clear, defensible recommendation instead of a dashboard you have to interpret. You get a go / no-go with the rationale behind it, in seconds.

Model

Against your real position

Projected margin, team capacity impact, and cash exposure are modelled against your actual financials, so the analysis reflects what you can really take on, not a generic template.

Margin 31% · Capacity +12% · Peak cash $140K
Recommend

Go or no-go, with the rationale

Autessa returns a clear recommendation with each factor shown against your targets and limits, so the answer is defensible rather than a dashboard you still have to interpret.

Recommend: YES · margin above target, capacity within limits
The point is not to make the decision for you. Autessa assembles the analysis and shows its reasoning, so you walk into the meeting with a defensible answer instead of a chart and a hunch. The call stays yours; the legwork does not.
Go / no-go with rationale

How it fits

From a new project to a defensible answer, in seconds.

Point Autessa at the project you are weighing. It pulls the relevant figures, models them against your position, and returns a recommendation with the factors that drove it shown in full.

1You name the project you are evaluating
2Margin, capacity, and cash exposure are assembled from your numbers
3Each factor is modelled against your targets and limits
4A go / no-go recommendation is returned with the rationale
5Your team takes the recommendation, and its reasoning, into the call

Autessa does not make the decision for you. It gives a recommendation with the reasoning behind it, and your team makes the call.

Because each factor is shown against your own targets and limits, the recommendation is transparent enough to challenge, not a black box.

This is one of several finance workflows Autessa runs. Start here; the rest is there when you want it. See all →

Questions finance teams ask

Straight answers before you book.

Does Autessa make the decision for me?+

No. It assembles the analysis and gives a recommendation with the reasoning behind it. Your team makes the call. The point is a defensible answer you can take into a meeting, not an automated decision.

What does it factor in?+

Projected margin, team capacity impact, and cash exposure are modelled against your real financial position, with each factor shown against your targets and limits so the recommendation is transparent.

Can we set our own thresholds for a "yes"?+

Yes. The recommendation is modelled against your own targets and limits — your minimum margin, your capacity ceiling, your cash exposure tolerance — and each factor is shown against them, so the go/no-go reflects your risk appetite, not a generic rule.

What if a project is borderline?+

Autessa shows each factor against your limits rather than reducing everything to a single yes or no, so a borderline project surfaces as exactly that — margin above target but cash exposure to monitor, for example — and your team weighs the tradeoff with the figures in front of them.

Can it compare two projects against each other?+

Yes. Because each evaluation models margin, capacity, and cash against the same position, you can run two prospective projects and compare their recommendations and the factors behind them side by side before committing capacity to either.

Book a meeting

See a real project evaluated, with the rationale shown.

Thirty minutes turning a project like yours into a go / no-go, with margin, capacity, and cash exposure laid out against your limits. Then prove it on your own numbers.

Live in two weeks. Run it on your own data for 30 days. If it doesn't do what we showed you, walk away owing nothing.

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