Drag a lever. Watch EBITDA move.
No run button. No batch job. Slide payroll to −10%, type average ticket +8%, set headcount to 1,200 — and the EBITDA bridge updates while your hand is still on the slider. Sub-second recompute against a consolidated 50-location view.
Interactivity is the magic. Latency kills it.
Every design choice in this feature is in service of sub-second per-lever recompute — including on consolidated views of a 50-location portfolio. If you can't move three levers in four seconds, you can't actually explore the space.
Soft warnings at ±1σ. Cite the history.
When a lever moves outside the ±1σ envelope of your prior moves, a yellow chip appears inline. Outside ±2σ, the chip turns orange and quotes the literal historical range. We don't stop you — you're the CEO. But we tell you when you're past where this business has actually gone before.
The hard bounds on each lever clamp the slider itself — the slider literally won't drag past values the cost function would diverge at. No popup, no error: the bound is the warning.
- Soft bounds from each lever's bound-driver envelope (historical_min, max, volatility)
- Hard bounds on slider range, so divergent values are impossible
- Same envelope feeds the feasibility narrative in Goal Seek
- "Explain this move" action sends the lever state to Prism, returns a CFO-style paragraph
- "Suggest a stack" action takes a natural-language prompt, returns draft slider positions
Same lever. Different scope.
The entity selector at the top of the page sets the scope. Apply a price increase to one location, one region, or the consolidated parent — same lever, three different views. When scope is consolidated, the projector runs per-entity in parallel inside the same request and aggregates with intercompany eliminations. Same sub-second budget.
Per-entity contributions are surfaced on every bar of the EBITDA bridge. The Dallas Plano location is dragging this scenario — here's why.
A What-If exploration becomes a saved scenario in one click. The scenario gets a name, a horizon, a CFO summary written by the AI, and full P&L / BS / CF projected at entity and consolidated levels. When the period closes, the forecast accuracy tracker measures how well your bet held up.