Innovation Investment Gate System

Outcome: Each innovation investment reaches a timely management decision through proportionate evidence, agreed thresholds, alternatives and recorded judgement.

Who this is for: CEO, CFO, strategy lead or innovation sponsor deciding whether to fund, expand, pause or stop material innovation work without comparable evidence and explicit option logic.

Innovation, R&D and experimentation operations

Buy as much help as the problem deserves.

Each depth is complete in itself: you can stop after any of them and still have your money's worth.

Depth 1

The answer

OctaFlow reviews current funding stages, decision rights, evidence quality and recent cases. The customer receives a gate architecture, case standard, evidence thresholds, strategic and economic criteria, uncertainty treatment, decision options, authority route and implementation plan.

Finished when your team can carry out the plan without us.

$3,000
Depth 2

The working method

OctaFlow installs opportunity cases, gate checklists, investment ranges, resource and dependency views, evidence rooms, assumption registers, option comparisons, challenge notes, approval records, conditions, next-gate requirements and portfolio reporting.

Finished when your team runs it on real cases and it holds.

$10,000
Depth 3

The full system

OctaFlow connects project, experiment, finance, product and customer evidence. It prepares governed gate views, flags missing or changed assumptions, routes decisions to valid authorities and carries conditions into subsequent work and monitoring.

Finished when it works under real conditions we agreed in advance.

$45,000A 25% deposit commences the work. The remaining 75% is payable on completion.

A person reads every order before work starts. If it is the wrong fit, we say so and refund it. Prices are in USD and Octaflow adds no VAT or sales tax.

Proof and ownership

The answer passes when representative initiatives can be assessed through a common decision route. The working method passes when one gate produces a reproducible continue, change, pause or stop decision. The full system passes when connected evidence changes gate readiness, triggers authorised review and preserves conditions and downstream actions.

Commercial terms: Prices are in USD. OctaFlow adds no VAT, sales tax or other transaction tax. For any selected depth priced above $10,000, a 25% deposit is payable to commence and the remaining 75% is payable when the work is completed.

Standard exclusions: Travel, software licences, hosting, third-party data, external regulated opinions, major migration, custom applications and 24/7 support unless separately agreed.

Your business should get smarter every time it solves a problem. Even when we helped.

Five terms sit in every engagement, agreed before work starts. None of them can be traded out, at any depth, at any price.

training on your data never

Nothing you share with us teaches anyone else's system.

what we build for you yours

Files, rules, test cases and the record of what changed, in formats you can read.

model and provider swappable

Switch models, switch suppliers or step away from AI altogether. What we built still works.

decisions that matter your people

Automation does the carrying, never the choosing.

exit and handover day one

Handover, documentation and deletion of our access are agreed before we start.

For larger organisations
Work inside your perimeter or your cloud GDPR-aligned handling, agreed in writing Evidence an auditor can open Procurement-ready documentation Reference conversations on request

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