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Set up your business.
How your business runs becomes the basis every decision is judged against.
For retainer- and
project-based businesses
project-based businesses
See the impact of
each decision
before you commit.
Growthsim helps agency leaders make consequential decisions with the whole business in view.
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Why it matters
A decision only works when the whole business can carry it.
Most agency decisions look sound on their own. The trouble starts when they collide. Here are nine common ways that happens, and how Growthsim helps you see them coming.
01Capacity
A deal lands before the team has the capacity to deliver it.
→ See whether the team can absorb the deal without overloading critical roles or delaying delivery.
02Margin
A profitable quote becomes an unprofitable project.
→ Compare the quoted margin with the wider impact of labour, external costs and delivery pressure.
03External capacity
Freelancers save the deadline but erase the margin.
→ Account for availability, rush costs, coordination overhead and rework before adding external capacity.
04Hiring
A new hire starts months before the work arrives.
→ Find the hiring window that matches expected demand without adding payroll too early.
05Workload
Overtime saves this month and quietly breaks the next.
→ Trace how sustained overload can lead to rework, fatigue, staff departures and reduced capacity.
06Bottlenecks
One critical role becomes every project’s bottleneck.
→ Identify which role constrains delivery, when it overloads and how much additional capacity is needed.
07Cash flow
A late payment drains the cash your plan was counting on.
→ Spot when delayed payments collide with payroll and whether earlier collection would prevent the shortfall.
08Resilience
Growth arrives as margins shrink and payments slow.
→ Stress-test demand growth, margin pressure and collection delays together to see whether the plan still holds.
09Clients
Losing one client shakes the whole agency.
→ Measure how client concentration and churn affect cash, workload and the resilience of the plan.
Test your plan
Choose a growth scenario. See whether the business can support it.
Select the increase in lead demand you want to prepare for and the timeframe you want to examine. Growthsim shows the impact on cash, delivery capacity and hiring, where the plan becomes fragile, and what could strengthen it.
Bring your growth plan1
Growth scenario
1x1.5x2x lead demand3x5x
Timeframe
3 mo6 mo1 year2 yr5 yr
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What happens
A critical role overloads in month 7
Hiring needs to begin earlier
Cash reaches its lowest point in month 9
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What could strengthen the plan
→Add capacity before the bottleneck
→Improve conversion or project value
→Negotiate earlier payments
What you get
A result you can act on the same afternoon.
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Know whether your business is ready for the next phase.
One readiness score, and the four drivers underneath it.
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See the risks as well.
The upside is only half the plan. You should know the other half too.
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Find out what’s holding back your growth.
Identify blockers and see which change produces the desired outcome.
How it works
From a target to a plan you can act on.
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Set a growth target.
Choose how far you want to grow, and how fast.
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Get your readiness score.
Know where you stand against the target, and what's holding you back.
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Shape your
plan.
Test a hire, a new client or higher rates, and see which gets you to your goal safely.
Where this is different
A plan can work on paper and still break the business.
General planning tools provide flexible building blocks. Growthsim has the operating logic of a project-based business already built in, then tests whether the business can carry the decision.
01Operating logic
Planning tools
Generic blocks. You wire up how the business works.
Growthsim
Project-based businesses logic already built in.
02Assumptions
Planning tools
Separate inputs. You link them by hand.
Growthsim
One connected range, from demand to cash.
03Hiring capacity
Planning tools
You estimate when new people arrive.
Growthsim
Hiring delays flow through the result.
04New deal
Planning tools
You judge the wider effects yourself.
Growthsim
The deal is evaluated against the whole business.
05Risk signals
Planning tools
You interpret the warning signs.
Growthsim
Exposes risks and what breaks first.
06Proposed fix
Planning tools
You interpret how it affects your business.
Growthsim
See the likeliest outcomes before making the decision.
Questions
What people ask before they sign up.
Pricing
Straightforward pricing for your business.
Company revenueBelow €1M
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- Full Growthsim platform
Company revenue€1M to €5M
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Includes
- Full Growthsim platform
- Guided onboarding and calibration
Company revenueAbove €5M
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Includes
- Full Growthsim platform
- Guided onboarding and calibration
Every plan includes
- Test growth decisions across cash, demand, delivery capacity and hiring
- Evaluate prospective deals before accepting them, including the effects on cash, margins, delivery and team capacity
- See P10/P50/P90 ranges instead of relying on a single forecast
- Forecast cash balance and identify potential cash crunches
- See how revenue and costs develop over time
- Track team utilisation and identify likely bottleneck roles
- Account for hiring search, interviews and onboarding delays
- Reveal fragility, operational pressure and key risk events
- Rank the assumptions and business drivers with the greatest impact
- Test what-if changes to demand, pricing, staffing, margins and payment terms
- Run alternative scenarios and revisit previous analyses
- Ask the grounded copilot to explain risks, drivers and possible actions
- Receive insights based on the company’s own inputs and results
The tier uses company-only recognised revenue, including VAT, from the latest completed fiscal year. Non-euro revenue is converted to euros and short fiscal periods are annualised.