ISO 27001Next quarter
your first capacity trade-off, not in 18 months.
Where it gets stuck:
cross-functional work.
Take your organization up a level of maturity.
You are no longer the transformation champion chasing buy-in. You are the one who proves, benefits in hand, that transformation delivers on its promises. AirSaas gives you both levers: take control of demand so the portfolio reflects the strategy, and prove the benefits to embed new ways of working.
Already adopted by 100+ CIOs of mid-market companies and large groups
Kiabi · Valrhona · Leroy Merlin
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The queue of qualified, scored requests. Realistic data: named projects, amounts in euros.
Painless setup
you send us your files, we deliver the portfolio.
Free exit at 3 months
if the ritual does not take, you walk away at no cost.
1/3
more projects delivered
15%
of capacity recovered
80%
fewer meetings
Aligning strategy with reality is not running delivery. It is deciding what to launch, and proving it.
Let us be clear about your role: a transformation department does not own all the delivery teams, and its main impact is not producing the projects. Its first value is making sure that what gets launched serves the strategy, and that what gets delivered creates the value expected. Day-to-day delivery belongs to the contributing teams.
AirSaas gives you the two levers of this job: taking control of demand so the portfolio reflects the strategy rather than the balance of power, and measuring the benefits to prove, numbers in hand, that transformation delivers on its promises. You are not steering teams, you are steering the coherence between what is decided and what actually happens.
What stops you delivering more transformation.
Spreading thin
requests arrive through a corridor, an executive committee, an email to the CEO. Everything is a priority, so nothing is. Every project moves, none of them lands, and your transformation spreads thin instead of moving forward.
Invisible benefits
six months after each delivery, nobody checks the benefit that was promised. Transformation cannot prove its return, and every budget decision turns back into a battle of opinions.
From defending costs to presenting a return.
A request qualified before it exists. A trade-off every 90 days.
Benefits measured after delivery. The three pieces fit together: your portfolio becomes a strategy again, and you walk into the ExCom with results, not justifications.
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The request, trade-off, benefits loop in 3 steps.
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The loop as a frieze (submission, qualification, assessment, trade-off), with one request open.
Channel
Every request comes through one door. Qualified, or it does not exist.
A single form: configurable on your criteria (expected value, workload, strategic alignment, sponsor). Every request goes through it, from the ExCom to the field. The door is easy to walk through, impossible to go around.
Systematic qualification: no declared sponsor, no assessment. Visible sponsorship is the first anti-zombie filter.
The intake queue: statuses, scoring, questions and answers on the record. Every request waits for the trade-off; nothing enters the portfolio through affinity.
Full traceability: who asked for what, when, what was decided and why. The memory of your governance.
Accelerate
Qualify with AI, to protect your teams' time.
AI Brief: a two-sentence request becomes a structured brief (objectives, scope, stakeholders, risks). The requester is helped, not discouraged.
AI Estimate: the first workload estimate, in minutes, so you can score without gathering three architects.
AI Milestone: a draft breakdown as soon as the request is assessed, to gauge complexity before committing to anything.
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GIF of the brief generated from two sentences.
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The promised vs realized view, with one gap owned. Realistic data: named projects, amounts in euros.
Prove
The benefit promised, against the benefit realized. A project is an investment.
Declared at launch: benefit, indicator, deadline, owner. Templates provided by the method.
The post-delivery review: scheduled automatically, in session. Gaps documented and owned, not hidden.
The view of transformation benefits realized: what your programs returned, by department, ready to present to the ExCom. Your next budgets defend themselves.
The learning loop: realized benefits feed the next Quarter Plan. Every trade-off gets smarter than the last.
Decide
Simulate the trajectories of your transformation before you decide.
Scenarios side by side: your programs compared on capacity, cost and expected benefits.
The Quarter Plan: every 90 days, the transformation portfolio decided in session, with decisions on the record.
Multi-department by design: capacity and demand work by department or by team, while the trade-off happens at whole-portfolio level. Built for portfolios that go beyond IT.
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Two transformation scenarios side by side. Realistic data: named projects, amounts in euros.
Built with people who have done your job.
Thomas Poitau, former Transformation Director at Carmila, joined the AirSaas team in 2022.
His convictions about the processes that change working life come from more than 200 interviews with CIOs and transformation leaders, on top of the 15 years he spent transforming large organizations.
Every idea passes through gates before it takes up resources.
A transformation request only becomes a workstream if it clears clear qualification gates. You define the gates, their criteria and their vocabulary; AirSaas enforces the path, so that the portfolio reflects a strategy and not the balance of power.
Gate 1, the opportunity
is the idea aligned with the transformation objectives? An executive sponsor commits, otherwise the idea stays an idea. The first filter against ghost workstreams.
Gate 2, the assessment
expected value, estimated workload, dependencies, risks. The request becomes a case comparable to the others, ready for the trade-off.
Gate 3, the commitment
capacity is reserved, the benefits and their owner are agreed. The workstream enters the portfolio with a value contract, not just a budget.
Gate 4, the benefits review
after delivery, the promised benefit is set against what was realized. The loop closes, and the next qualification is fairer for it.
Scoring, if you want itSee demand management in detail
Score requests on your own criteria. Or do not.
Some transformation departments want an objective score to separate requests, others prefer judgement in the room.
AirSaas does both: scoring is available, configurable, and never imposed.
Your criteria, your weights: strategic alignment, expected value, effort, risk, regulatory urgency. You build the grid that reflects your strategy.
A score that informs, not decides: the score ranks and grounds the debate, but the trade-off stays human. The machine prepares, the committee decides.
AI in support: AI Brief structures a two-sentence request, AI Estimate sets a first workload figure in minutes. Your teams assess twice as fast, without gathering three experts for every idea.
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A request scored against a custom grid, with the score recalculating as a criterion is adjusted; next to it, AI Brief turning two sentences into a structured case.
The numbers measured at our customers
90%
of requests tied to a strategic priority before entering the portfolio. No more workstreams orphaned from strategy.
Fewer, but delivered
workstreams running in parallel: capacity is concentrated on what serves the strategy, instead of launching everything.
30%
of workstreams with a benefit measured and verified one year after the process was put in place.
Before / after the quarterly capacity trade-off
Without AirSaas
1
Requests arrive through every corridor
2
A portfolio that reflects the balance of power
3
Benefits invisible six months after delivery
4
Every budget is a battle of opinions
With AirSaas
1
One way in: qualified, or it does not exist
2
A portfolio that reflects a strategy, decided every 90 days
3
Promised against realized, project by project
4
Your budgets defend themselves, with results
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“We cut the number of workstreams running in parallel, and put real benefits tracking in place. The result: business cases are better qualified up front, because everyone knows they will be looked at.”
Transformation Director, services group
2x
fewer workstreams in parallel, more value delivered
They make their portfolio trade-offs with AirSaas
Full case studies on the customer stories page.
“When you have 120 projects for a head office of 270 people, you either get organized properly, or you question the project.”
Guillaume MarloisIndustry
Food & beverageHeadcount
850“It was still about trust, but trust with a process behind it.”
Chantal GuilmainIndustry
RetailHeadcount
2,500“It is not a tool. It is an approach, a discipline, a practice.”
SCSébastien Chailley
Industry
Eyewear, retailHeadcount
3,000All in on benefitsSee benefits tracking in detail
A transformation that does not prove its benefits ends up losing its budget.
This is the Achilles heel of every transformation department: projects get delivered, but six months later nobody knows whether they returned what they promised. Without proof, every budget decision turns back into a battle of opinions, and transformation is the first thing cut when times get tight.
AirSaas closes the loop. Every workstream declares its expected benefit (an amount or an indicator, a deadline, an owner), and the post-delivery review sets the promise against what was realized, in session. You walk into the ExCom with a view of realized benefits: here is what transformation cost, here is what it returned. At that point you are no longer defending a budget, you are presenting a return on investment — and the next budget defends itself.
Your first capacity trade-off happens next quarter. Not in 18 months.
6 weeks
Rollout with a contracted method: configuration, projects and PMs on board, first review co-facilitated by our teams.
€60 / month / active project
No user licences: everyone gets access to the tool, from the project manager to the ExCom. Stop a pointless project and your bill goes down.
Go/NoGo at 3 months
If the ritual does not take, you walk away at no cost. We take the risk with you.
Frequently asked questions
That is the case for most of our customers. One way in and capacity by department, with the trade-off at whole-portfolio level.
A benefit, an indicator, a deadline, an owner. The method provides templates by type of benefit (savings, revenue, risk avoided).
The form is what brings them in: no declared sponsor, no assessment. The ritual makes sponsorship visible, and therefore binding.
The first Quarter Plan happens in the quarter following the rollout. That is usually where the first projects get stopped or postponed.
See what AirSaas would change for you.
A 30-minute demo on your own context. We show you the ritual, you judge.