Feasibility Studies and Business Planning

We help establish a clear basis for the study before detailed analysis begins.

Our support may include:

• Clarifying the project concept, objectives, and proposed scope.
• Defining the intended products, services, customers, and markets.
• Identifying the investment decision and intended users of the study.
• Establishing the analysis period and evaluation criteria.
• Identifying available information and material evidence gaps.
• Agreeing the principal assumptions, limitations, and workstreams.
• Defining specialist input required for technical, legal, tax, environmental, or regulatory matters.

We assess the commercial basis of the proposed project using available evidence and clearly stated assumptions.

Our support may include:

• Reviewing relevant market structure, size, and development.
• Assessing customer segments, needs, and purchasing considerations.
• Examining demand indicators and potential demand drivers.
• Reviewing the competitive environment and available alternatives.
• Assessing proposed products, services, positioning, and pricing.
• Evaluating potential sales channels and routes to market.
• Identifying market-entry considerations and commercial constraints.
• Developing demand and revenue assumptions for financial analysis.

We examine whether the proposed operating approach is practical and aligned with the project’s intended scale.

Our support may include:

• Reviewing the proposed operating model and delivery requirements.
• Assessing capacity, location, facilities, and infrastructure needs.
• Identifying equipment, technology, and other enabling requirements.
• Reviewing sourcing, supply chain, and logistics considerations.
• Assessing staffing, organization, and capability requirements.
• Identifying implementation dependencies and operating constraints.
• Estimating relevant capital and operating inputs for the financial analysis.
• Coordinating appropriate specialist input where technical assessment falls outside the agreed advisory scope.

We translate market and operational assumptions into an integrated financial view of the proposed project.

Our support may include:

• Developing revenue, cost, capital expenditure, and working capital assumptions.
• Preparing projected income statements, cash flows, and balance sheets where appropriate.
• Estimating funding requirements and the proposed financing mix.
• Assessing projected liquidity and cash-generation patterns.
• Calculating relevant investment appraisal measures.
• Identifying break-even considerations and key financial drivers.
• Evaluating the consistency of financial assumptions across the study.
• Documenting the basis, limitations, and dependencies of the projections.

Where required by the project’s purpose, we assess broader economic or developmental considerations separately from the project’s commercial returns.

Our support may include:

• Defining the economic or development objectives relevant to the assessment.
• Identifying potential employment, sector, or local economic effects.
• Distinguishing financial returns to the project from broader economic considerations.
• Assessing the distribution and timing of relevant costs and benefits.
• Reviewing applicable economic evaluation criteria.
• Documenting assumptions, evidence limitations, and attribution considerations.
• Coordinating specialist analysis where the assessment requires defined sectoral or technical expertise.

We test how changes in material assumptions may affect the project’s expected viability.

Our support may include:

• Identifying critical commercial, operational, financial, and implementation risks.
• Determining the assumptions most influential to projected outcomes.
• Developing base, downside, and alternative scenarios.
• Testing changes in demand, pricing, costs, timing, and funding assumptions.
• Assessing break-even points and financial resilience.
• Identifying dependencies, thresholds, and potential mitigating actions.
• Presenting the results in a form that supports comparison and decision-making.

We develop structured business plans that translate the approved concept and supporting analysis into a coherent operating and financial framework.

Our support may include:

• Defining the business model and strategic objectives.
• Presenting the market context and commercial proposition.
• Setting out products, services, customers, and routes to market.
• Describing the operating model and organizational requirements.
• Incorporating implementation priorities, milestones, and responsibilities.
• Integrating financial projections and funding requirements.
• Identifying principal risks, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Structuring the plan for management, shareholders, lenders, investors, or other defined users.