Scenarios & decision reporting

Rank the cases, then defend the one you picked

Compare development scenarios against thresholds you set, see what has to be true for each to work, and export a decision record that survives the review, on the same numbers your economics ran on.

This is the end of the workflow: Scenario Planning for ranking cases, the Decision Dashboard for putting them on one scale, and Executive Summary for the memo that leaves the room with the decision. All three read the workspace you have already built, so the story in the memo and the numbers in the model cannot drift apart.

Scenario Planning and the Decision Dashboard are included with the Professional and Team plans. Professional compares up to five scenarios in the Decision Dashboard table and exports; Team sees the full scenario ladder. See pricing

Scenario Planning showing a probability-weighted expected NPV of $1,221.9MM and expected IRR of 31.3%, three of three scenarios passing their thresholds, and a comparison matrix giving downside, base and upside NPV, IRR, payback and expected value.
Probability-weighted outcome and the scenario ladder behind it, with pass/fail against your thresholds. Illustrative demo case.

Two modes, deliberately different

Fast ranking and defensible numbers are different jobs, and pretending one tool does both is how reviews go wrong:

  • Screening mode: rank a lot of cases quickly on consistent assumptions, when the question is which candidates are worth modelling properly
  • Investment-aligned mode: run scenarios through the Investment engine so the numbers reconcile with the case you will actually present
  • Explicit sync from Investment with visible diffs, so you can see what changed between the economics model and the scenario set instead of guessing
  • Oil and gas workspace modes, flat or annual price decks, and per-scenario scaling

Make each case state its own conditions

The useful question is rarely "which NPV is biggest"; it is what each case needs in order to work:

  • Break-even solving: the oil price, gas price, capex, or opex at which a case reaches NPV zero, solved directly rather than found by nudging inputs
  • Thresholds: set the NPV and IRR bars a case has to clear and see pass or fail explicitly, instead of eyeballing a table
  • Expected value across cases, for when the decision is a portfolio choice rather than a single project
  • Payback year, and a risk score for ranking cases that are close on value but not on exposure
  • Waterfall views showing what each change contributed, so a swing in value is attributable rather than mysterious

One scale, then one memo

The Decision Dashboard puts scenarios on a single NPV scale with sensitivity context, so a reviewer is not asked to compare charts with different axes. Export it as CSV or PDF. Executive Summary takes a snapshot of the workspace and generates a decision memo in your browser (headline numbers, the assumptions behind them, and the narrative) as a PDF or a structured CSV. Saved cases carry a draft, review-ready, and reviewed workflow with last-sync visibility, and on the Team plan cases can be shared read-only with a reviewer note.

Why this is the part that usually breaks

In most teams the technical case lives in one tool, the economics in another, and the decision story in slides rebuilt by hand. By the time the deck is finished, nobody can say for certain that the number on the summary slide is the number the model produced. Keeping ranking, dashboard, and memo on the same workspace is not a convenience feature; it is what makes the decision auditable six months later when someone asks why.

Upstream of the decision

Common questions

How many scenarios can I compare?

Scenario Planning itself is not capped. In the Decision Dashboard table and its CSV/PDF exports, Professional compares up to five scenarios; the Team plan shows the full scenario ladder.

Do scenario results match my Investment model?

In investment-aligned mode, yes: scenarios run through the Investment engine so the numbers reconcile. Screening mode is deliberately faster and simpler, for ranking candidates before you model them properly; it is not intended to be quoted as the final economics.

Is Scenario Planning CSV-driven?

No. CSV import covers Volumetrics and Investment in the current release. Scenario inputs come from the workspace or are entered directly.

What exactly does the Executive Summary export contain?

A snapshot of the workspace: headline figures, the run manifest and key assumptions behind them, and the decision narrative, as a PDF memo or a structured CSV, both generated in your browser.

Walk into the review with the working shown

Scenario ranking, break-even conditions, a single-scale dashboard, and an executive memo generated from the same workspace. Included with Professional and Team.