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Use cases
Every decision that commits capital, on one book.
Capibud is used wherever money is committed to physical assets: sanctioning plants, backing ventures, recovering projects in construction and funding this year's capex lines. Every use case runs on the same correlated scenarios, so the committee can weigh them against one envelope and one risk appetite.
Four decisions, one committee, one record. The use cases on this page are product capabilities, shown on illustrative examples with invented figures and on demo workspaces built from synthetic data. Capibud has no published client case studies yet; every example says what it is built from.
By decision
Eight jobs Capibud does
Four of them are capital decisions. The other four are what make those decisions hold up: a committee that sees them together, a monitoring layer that watches them, a reader for the files they rest on and a record that lets anyone replay them.
EvaluateFID and stage-gates
P10, P50 and P80 capex, schedule and NPV for each option and each size, on scenarios shared with the rest of the book. The value of building now, staging, deferring or walking away is priced, not argued.
Explore EvaluateWhich projects deserve capital, at what size, and what is waiting worth?
InvestCorporate venture and funds
Ticket sizes and follow-on reserves inside concentration limits, stage-by-stage survival, exits that follow a power law, and a clear split between value that comes from strategy and value that comes from the exit.
Explore InvestWhich companies or assets do we back, with how much, and what do we hold in reserve?
ExecuteRecovering projects in construction
P80 cost and finish for every unit, updated from actuals each month. Contractor dates are checked against the forecast, recovery options are priced in money and previewed, and change orders follow your authority matrix.
Explore ExecuteWhich projects are drifting, what will they really cost, and which recovery option works?
CapexThe annual small-project portfolio
A plan for a hundred or more sustaining, HSE, reliability and margin lines that fits the envelope, respects crew capacity and turnaround windows, meets every statutory deadline and shows what each deferral costs.
Explore CapexWhich of our small projects get funded this year, and what does deferring the rest cost?
Capital committeeOne pooled plan across decisions
Every candidate from the four decisions on one envelope and one risk appetite, beside today's separate plans on the same money. The shock that would break the plan, its return period and the thresholds that would change the answer.
Explore the committeeIf every budget holder's list met on one table, what would we fund?
The brainContinuous monitoring and tripwires
A scheduled layer that notices a market move, filing or actual, finds the exposed projects, prices the effect, drafts a proposal, verifies it in a sandbox and queues it for the right person. Nothing changes until someone approves.
How the brain worksWhat changed since the committee met, and does it matter to anything we approved?
IngestionReading un-templated files
Workbooks with several tables per sheet, memos with tracked changes, steering decks and scanned letters, read as they are. Every value keeps its cell, slide or page line, and low-confidence values wait for a person.
See the platformCan we use the files we already have, without a template project first?
Decision recordAudit and post-decision review
An append-only, hash-chained log. Each run stores digests of its inputs, parameters and output with its seed and engine version, so any decision can be replayed to an identical result and reviewed against what happened.
Read about the recordTwo years on, can we show exactly what we knew and why we chose what we chose?
Use-case guides
Go deeper on one decision
Each guide covers who the use case is for, the questions it answers, what Capibud produces, a worked illustrative example, how it connects to the rest of the book and where its limits are.
Evaluate: sanction and stage-gates
Options, sizes and timing on shared scenarios, with the market shift that would flip the case.
Read the guideInvest: venture and fund portfolios
Tickets, reserves and concentration limits for a book whose returns follow a power law.
Read the guideExecute: projects in construction
P80 cost and finish from actuals, recovery options priced in money before anyone commits.
Read the guideCapex: the annual round
A hundred-plus small projects fitted to the envelope, the crews and the statutory calendar.
Read the guideCapital committee: the pooled plan
All four decisions on one envelope and one risk appetite, with votes, dissent and tripwires recorded.
Read the guideCase studies
Worked examples and demo workspaces, each labelled with what it is built from.
Browse case studiesWho uses it
Where Capibud lives in their week
Capital decisions have many readers and few builders. These are the four groups who work in Capibud most often, and the moments in their week when they open it.
CFO and capex committee
Where Capibud lives in their week
- Before committee: the decision pack, with the pooled plan beside the separate plans on the same money and the alternatives the committee could still choose.
- In committee: the shock that would break the plan, its estimated return period and the thresholds that would change the recommendation.
- Midweek: a tripwire proposal in the queue, priced in money, with its evidence and a calibrated confidence, waiting for approval or rejection.
- Quarter end: the record of what was approved, the run it relied on, and how outcomes are tracking against it.
Project controls, PMO and project directors
Where Capibud lives in their week
- Monthly close: cost ledgers and progress reports go in as exported; P80 cost and finish update for every unit.
- Weekly: contractor-reported milestone dates checked against Capibud's P50 and P80, with drift between reports flagged.
- When a unit slips: recovery options such as a second shift or crew moves priced in money and previewed against crew ceilings before commitment.
- Change orders routed by the authority matrix, with pending claims simulated against remaining contingency.
Corporate venture, investment committee and fund teams
Where Capibud lives in their week
- Pipeline review: diligence scorecards move each company's survival odds, and the move is shown rather than asserted.
- Deal sizing: ticket and structure inside single-name, sector and stage limits, with reserves set against follow-on demand at P80.
- Investment committee: a memo routed by ticket size, separating strategic value from the financial return.
- When markets move: carbon price, funding cycle or commodity shocks re-price the whole book, not one deal at a time.
Strategy and corporate planning
Where Capibud lives in their week
- Stage-gate preparation: P10, P50 and P80 capex, schedule and NPV for each option and size, from a researched industry baseline.
- Option framing: what waiting, staging or abandoning is worth, and which plants compete for the same feed, plot or grid connection.
- Assumption tests: swap a flat demand line for a tracked capacity pipeline and see the portfolio and its bad year move.
- Annual planning: the envelope, the split between sustaining and growth, and the plan the committee will see.
One decision, end to end
The use cases are stages of the same loop
Case studies
See the use cases worked end to end
Illustrative examples of a coastal refiner, an infrastructure investor and a plant capex round, demo workspaces for a climate fund and a data-centre developer, and an explainer of how a megaproject replay works. Each one names what it is built from.
Browse case studiesIndustries
Start from a researched baseline
37 versioned industry packs, from refining and LNG to data centres and transmission, supply sourced parameters, price feeds, risk archetypes and project templates for every use case.
Explore industriesBring us the decision on your desk this quarter.
One real decision on your own files, in six weeks, with success criteria agreed before work starts.