Capacity charts that survive a budget meeting

Budget rooms punish decorative sparklines. Leaders want the decision date, the headroom number, and the assumption that breaks if traffic shifts.

Our capacity packs open with a one-page memo, then three charts: utilised versus committed, projected days to threshold, and the last material incident that ate headroom. Everything else becomes an appendix for the technical read-along.

If an extract arrives after the agreed cut-off, we leave it out and say so. Mixing incomplete days into a neat curve is how trust evaporates in the room.