Pre-FID Stress Test Audit

Pre-FID Stress Test Audit

Validate before capital commitment.

In 5-7 days, we pressure-test the assumptions that determine whether your project is investable under real operating conditions.

You are not buying a full TEA rebuild. You are buying a decision intervention before FEED, lender diligence, or board capital allocation.

For projects approaching pre-FID and capital allocation decisions:

• FEED / FEL stage transitions
• Board or IC approval gates
• External diligence where assumptions must be defensible

10-Second Decision Clarity

• What is this? A pre-FID stress test focused on dominant failure assumptions.
• Why now? Once capital timelines lock, hidden fragility becomes expensive to unwind.
• What if you skip it? You can advance with non-defensible assumptions and hidden downside concentration.

What You Get in 5-7 Days

• Decision posture: Proceed / Proceed with Conditions / Do Not Proceed to FID
• Dominant failure boundaries (fracture points) with threshold logic
• Downside stress impact on MFSP, NPV, ROI, and directional IRR consequence
• Capital-call blockers and explicit gate conditions
• Client-ready decision artifact (PDF) for internal or investor-facing use

Why This Exists

Projects rarely fail in the model. They fail when assumptions meet reality.

Most models are coherent in base case and fragile in operations. We identify where the decision fails under realistic conditions, before capital is committed.

Stylized Real-Project Output (Sanitized)

• Project: SAF Export Concept | FEED Screen | US 2026
• Decision: Do not proceed to FID
• Fracture points:
• Conversion efficiency breach below threshold
• Hydrogen delivered cost breach above threshold
• Policy-credit dependence unresolved
• Capital instruction: Hold spend to pre-FID de-risk envelope until gates close

If You Skip This Step

• You proceed with assumptions that may not be decision-defensible.
• Your downside case remains hidden inside aggregate model outputs.
• Capital is allocated before threshold breaches are made explicit.
• FID timing can outrun technical and economic validation closure.

If you skip this checkpoint, capital is exposed to non-defensible assumptions.

Engagement Fit

Best fit if you are at a pre-FID decision moment and need an explicit go/no-go boundary before money is committed.

Capacity

We accept a limited number of audits per quarter to preserve analytical rigor and turnaround.

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If needed, email: jamie@insightquantix.com