Decision Thresholds
What Decision Screens Govern
What Decision Screens Govern
A Decision Screen is used when an organization is approaching a real commitment threshold and needs an independent determination before authorizing the next step.
A screen becomes necessary at thresholds such as:
- interconnection queue entry
- site control or land acquisition
- integrated site and grid commitment
- staged capital release
- drilling, excavation, or injection authorization
- offshore corridor or cable commitment
- advancement from exploration into committed development
These decisions can appear incremental while simultaneously destroying refusal freedom.
What Decision Screens Govern
What Decision Screens Govern
What Decision Screens Govern
A Decision Screen is a formal pre-commitment review used to assess whether a specific project step (such as queue entry, site control, drilling, or capital escalation) should be authorized before it becomes difficult to unwind.
It identifies what begins to lock-in if the organization acts, what uncertainty still matters to the legitimacy of the step, and whether the commitment remains admissible before loss becomes embedded.
Each active screen results in a formal pre-commitment review tied to a specific project threshold. The review records the decision under evaluation, the governing constraints, the structural failure modes identified, and the resulting determination.
What Clients Receive
What Decision Screens Govern
What Clients Receive
Each engagement produces a formal pre-commitment determination tied to a specific decision threshold. Depending on the stage of the project, that may include:
- a Decision Exposure Review identifying whether commitment is already forming
- an Admissibility Screen determining whether the next step should be considered at all
- an Integrity Determination assessing whether authority remains coherent before commitment hardens
The result is a decisive institutional outcome: proceed, defer, or do not proceed.
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Site Advancement Admissibility Screen
Grid Interconnection Admissibility Screen
Grid Interconnection Admissibility Screen
Decision point: before site control, land acquisition, corridor fixation, or location-based development commitment.
What hardens if you act: location can begin to fix future access, permitting exposure, and structural dependency.
What the screen determines: whether the proposed site remains admissible before location hardens into irreversible infrastructure and institutional exposure.
Grid Interconnection Admissibility Screen
Grid Interconnection Admissibility Screen
Grid Interconnection Admissibility Screen
Decision point: before interconnection queue entry or related pre-queue development commitments.
What hardens if you act: queue exposure, upgrade dependency, network coupling, sunk-cost pressure, and institutional momentum.
What the screen determines: whether interconnection entry remains admissible under present infrastructure access, queue conditions, network coupling, environmental constraints, and decision authority.
Selectective Engagements
Integrated Site + Interconnection Admissibility Screen
Decision point: before site and grid decisions are allowed to harden together.
What hardens if you act: the organization can become committed to a coupled system before either side is independently defensible.
What the screen determines: whether the combined site and interconnection pathway remains admissible as a single system under commitment conditions.
Capital Escalation Admissibility Screen
Decision point: before preliminary spend, counterpart alignment, phased deployment, or major follow-on capital release.
What hardens if you act: escalation can convert a tentative project into a structurally committed one before that commitment is formally acknowledged.
What the screen determines: whether capital advancement remains admissible, or whether exposure is already being embedded through sequencing, sunk cost, and lock-in pressure.
Library Expansion
Designed and Upcoming
The Decision Library is expanding. The following pre-commitment admissibility screens are designed and available for selective or custom engagements:
- Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (Offshore, Onshore)
- Geothermal
- Critical Minerals & Mining
- Offshore Wind
- Disturbance Authorization
- Sequencing
- Precedent Formation
- Closure & Responsibility Transfer
More information about our application environments can be found on the Applications page.