ISO 27001Next quarter
your first capacity trade-off, not in 18 months.
Stop saying yes by default.
Qualify before you commit.
A centralized way in, with request templates that fit your organization (not one form imposed on everyone), qualification on value / workload / sponsor, and optional scoring: the free-for-all of incoming requests becomes a pipeline you can decide on. Two ways to submit a request: on your own, with AI structuring the need from two sentences, or by hand for those who prefer it. You stop spreading your teams across everything, and concentrate capacity on the projects that create value.
Already adopted by 100+ CIOs of mid-market companies and large groups
Kiabi · Valrhona · Leroy Merlin
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The queue of 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
The portfolio that fills up through the corridors.
One request on the way out of an executive committee, another by email to the CEO, a third because a contractor happened to be available.
When demand has no door, the portfolio reflects the balance of power, not a strategy. And every project that gets in without qualification is a future zombie project.
Visual coming soon · Diagram / illustration
The diagram of corridors vs the single door (design, brand style, one idea).
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The form and the generated brief. Realistic data: named projects, amounts in euros.
Channel
One single form. Easy to walk through, impossible to go around.
Configurable on your criteria: expected value, estimated workload, strategic alignment, sponsor. Short at submission; the fine-grained qualification comes at assessment.
For everyone: from the ExCom to the field, every request goes through the same door. Equal treatment kills the special favour.
A mandatory sponsor: no declared sponsor, no assessment. Visible sponsorship is the first anti-zombie filter.
Help with the writing: AI Brief turns two sentences into a structured brief. The requester is helped, not discouraged.
Qualify
The intake queue: every request scored and traced.
Statuses and scoring: where each request stands, what it is worth, what it costs. The queue is visible to everyone.
Questions and answers on the record: the assessment happens in the tool, not in lost email threads.
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 any commitment.
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The queue with statuses and scores. Realistic data: named projects, amounts in euros.
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A request presented at the trade-off against the capacity wall. Realistic data: named projects, amounts in euros.
Connect
A request is never evaluated in a vacuum.
Coupled to capacity: every request reaches the trade-off with its workload, against the capacity left in the quarter. Saying yes means seeing what it displaces.
The Quarter Plan as the only way in: there, and only there, does a request become a project. The portfolio is built by decision, no longer by accumulation.
Full traceability: who asked for what, when, what was decided and why. The memory of your governance.
A request that gets in badly costs for years.
The cost of poor demand management does not show up at the door, it shows up everywhere afterwards. A project accepted without a sponsor becomes a zombie nobody dares to kill. A workload never estimated blows up an entire quarter. A request approved in a corridor takes the place of a strategic project left outside.
Putting one door in place moves the trade-off effort to where it costs least: before the project exists, not after it has consumed six months of a team. It is the most profitable discipline in the whole chain, because it acts upstream of everything else.
Scoring, if you want it
Score requests on your own criteria. Ground the debate in facts.
Not every organization decides the same way. Some want a score to separate requests, others prefer judgement in the room. AirSaas does both, and imposes nothing.
→ Your criteria, your weights
Expected value, strategic alignment, effort, risk, regulatory urgency: you build the grid that reflects your priorities, and you change it when they change.
→ A score that informs, not one that decides
The score ranks requests and grounds the discussion, but the decision stays human. The machine prepares the trade-off, the decision-makers decide.
→ Comparable from one quarter to the next
One grid over time, and the trade-offs become consistent: you compare requests on the same scale, not by the mood of the day.
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A request scored against a custom grid, with the score recalculating as a criterion is adjusted. Realistic data.
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The AI Project Brief bot talking with a requester and turning a few sentences into a structured framing sheet. Realistic data. (6-8 s)
The AI Project Brief bot
An AI that understands the context and helps qualify properly.
The weak point of any demand management is the quality of what comes in.
A vague, badly framed request, and the whole trade-off is built on sand. The AI Project Brief bot, already in production at AirSaas, fixes that at the source.
→ It asks the right questions
Written or spoken, the bot questions the requester: what objective, what expected value, which beneficiaries, which dependencies. It understands the context and digs where things are vague.
→ It structures the need
From the conversation, it produces a clean framing sheet comparable with the others, without the requester having to know your criteria by heart.
→ It raises everyone's game
Even a requester with little project management experience produces a well-qualified request. The quality of what comes in goes up, and every trade-off downstream is better for it.
The numbers measured at our customers
70%
of requests reach the trade-off already qualified (value, workload, sponsor), ready to be decided.
400/month
incoming requests channelled through one way in (customer example), instead of getting lost in inboxes.
No more
back-and-forth on qualification: the AI Project Brief bot structures the request the moment it arrives.
Before / after the quarterly capacity trade-off
Without AirSaas
1
One request on the way out of an executive committee, another by email to the CEO
2
Projects launched with no sponsor and no estimated workload
3
The portfolio fills up through affinity
With AirSaas
1
Every request comes through the same door, from the ExCom to the field
2
No declared sponsor, no assessment: the anti-zombie filter
3
The portfolio is built by decision, at the Quarter Plan
They make their portfolio trade-offs with AirSaas
Full case studies on the customer stories page.
“The teams knew perfectly well they were overloaded. Thanks to the Quarter Plan, they could put a number on it.”
Sébastien LouyotIndustry
CommunicationsHeadcount
2,800“We can pass the ball back to the business, so that it owns the prioritization, based on our real capacity to deliver.”
Émilie LecartIndustry
HospitalityHeadcount
4,000“We narrowed the priority projects down considerably, to stand a chance of seeing them through.”
Laurent CittonIndustry
EnergyHeadcount
1,300KIABIVALRHONALEROY MERLINCHIESIINTUISGT SOLUTIONS
“Since a request without a sponsor stopped getting in, the portfolio has stopped inflating on its own. We assess, we no longer absorb.”
Transformation Director, services group
0
projects launched with no declared sponsor and no estimated workload
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
The process that channels, qualifies and assesses every request before it enters the portfolio. Without it, the portfolio is built by accumulation, not by decision.
A member of the leadership team who commits to the expected value and who will answer for the benefit after delivery.
By keeping it short and automating help with the writing (AI Brief). The door has to be easy to walk through, not easy to go around.
Yes. The way in is centralized, but you can offer several fitted templates (business request, regulatory project, AI initiative…). Each one collects the right information for its type of request, while feeding the same decidable pipeline.
No. Scoring is available and fully configurable, but you can decide without it, on judgement in the room. It is a decision-support tool, not a constraint.
It talks with the requester, written or spoken, asks the framing questions (objective, value, workload, dependencies) and produces a structured sheet. Even a requester with little project management experience ends up submitting a well-qualified request.
They do not disappear: they stay on the record and can be reconsidered at a future trade-off if the context changes. Nothing is lost, everything is decided.
See what AirSaas would change for you.
A 30-minute demo on your own context. We show you the ritual, you judge.