Kick-start · Budget Stress Test

From budget file to board one-pager in ten working days.

No system migration, no IT project. The model lives in one standard Excel template; we map your budget, forecast or business case into it, your team ranges it, the Studio runs it. $20,000 fixed, in USD: up to 25 drivers, EBITDA to cash flow, covenant headroom, built fully for you. If the driver model does not reconcile to your budget to the dollar, you do not pay. Calls and workshops on Microsoft Teams, every weekday between 09:00 and 20:00 Amsterdam time, booked in your own time zone.

The plan

Ten working days.

Day 1–2

Intake

You send the budget or business-case workbook as-is — linked tabs, hard-coded cells, all of it. We map the outputs you defend and who owns which assumption. Your time: one file, one hour.

Day 3–5

Driver model

We rebuild the logic as a driver tree in the ScenarioCast template — every driver with its cell, owner and note. You review the read-back in the Studio's Logic view: if the tree tells your story, the model is right. You check the picture, not the formulas.

Day 6–9

Ranges workshop

Ninety minutes with the assumption owners. Each driver gets a low and a high the owner would accept, a shape, and a one-line note. Steel, gas, copper, diesel, FX and tariff drivers arrive pre-ranged from public forward curves and bank forecasts. Disagreements get settled by width, not by winner.

Day 10

First run, first answer

10,000 scenarios through your own logic. You leave with the board one-pager: the chance of hitting budget, the median, the 1-in-10 downside, and the two drivers that carry the year. Plus the Excel report next to your source file.

After

Keep it live

Re-run whenever an assumption moves — it takes seconds, not a consulting engagement. Monthly commodity updates drop in. Every version stays available; the source file is never overwritten.

The deal

What you give, what you get.

From you

One workbook, three hours

The budget file, one hour of the controller's time at intake, and ninety minutes of the assumption owners for the workshop. That's the whole ask.

From us

The working setup

Your model in the Studio, the driver tree, ranged assumptions with owners and notes, the first 10,000-scenario run, and your team trained on the loop: change a range, run, read.

Terms

$20,000 fixed, or you do not pay

The Budget Stress Test is $20,000 fixed, in USD: up to 25 drivers, the model carried through to cash flow, covenant headroom, and we build it fully for you. If the driver model does not reconcile to your budget to the dollar, you do not pay. Invoiced 50% at intake and 50% on delivery of the board one-pager. After that, the Studio is $1,000 a month if you manage it yourself, or $6,000 a month if we manage it for you. Cancel and the template still works in Excel — it always did. Full pricing →

Start

Day one is sending a file.

Book the demo first — if your budget fits the template, the demo runs on your own numbers. Intake calls are booked like demos: Microsoft Teams, every weekday between 09:00 and 20:00 Amsterdam time, in your own time zone.

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