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Most often it is plotting the business's own demand curve month by month across several years, and then reporting fixed cost monthly instead of spread evenly across the year.

After that it is calculating the peak capacity ceiling, and comparing permanent against temporary capacity as a number rather than a feeling.

Because it describes a month that never occurs. In a business where one quarter carries most of the year, the average sits above every quiet month and below every busy one.

Staffing, pricing and cash decisions made from it are therefore wrong in both directions, and the error repeats every year because the figure it came from never changes shape.

More reliably here than in most seasonal businesses, because the calendar driving the pattern does not move. The surge arrives in the same weeks each year.

What changes is amplitude rather than timing, so the curve gives you the shape and recent years give you the scale, which together are enough to plan from.

From people, available hours, equipment and the throughput your own records show during past peaks, rather than from a theoretical maximum.

The output is a weekly volume you can actually deliver well. Reported beside booked volume it shows whether you are genuinely full or have room you have been declining.

Almost always cash. The cost is largely fixed and cutting it in the trough tends to damage the capacity the next surge depends on, which is the expensive mistake.

Knowing the trough's depth and length early lets you reserve from the peak or arrange a facility while recent figures still look strong, which is a better position.

It becomes a calculation once the curve and the ceiling exist: how much of the peak is worth carrying through the trough, and how much is better met by temporary help or overtime.

Businesses get this wrong in both directions, and the model does not decide for you so much as make the cost of each choice explicit.

Scope decides it, which is why the records are examined before any figure is named and why that examination is free. A plotted curve with monthly cost is small and fixed-price.

In every case the deliverable and the price are agreed in writing before any building begins.

The work is delivered remotely by design rather than by limitation. Going through monthly figures together on a shared screen is identical at any distance.

It also means a decision needed before the season starts gets looked at this week, and no part of the invoice is travel.

Usually. The workbook gets read back to first principles, the fragile parts identified, and each one repaired or replaced depending on what is honestly warranted.

What the work needs is time with whoever uses the reporting now, because the conventions they apply matter as much as the file.

Plotting the curve and reporting fixed cost monthly is often a few days. Adding the capacity ceiling and a weekly cash model usually runs one to two weeks.

Whatever the size, that estimate is committed in writing before building starts rather than emerging as the work proceeds.

The workbooks, any macro source code, a written account of how the curve and the ceiling were derived, and training for whoever will maintain it.

Nothing is locked to us and no subscription is needed to keep it running. Support afterward is available and entirely optional.

No. They describe where most of the work has come from rather than what is accepted, and what decides scope is the nature of the problem rather than the sector.

A demand curve, a capacity ceiling, a cash forecast and a clinic rota are considerably more alike underneath than they look from outside.