Planning and delivery heads · What-if staffing for pre-sales
Check you can staff a deal before you win it
Pre-sales can test a deal against the real bench in seconds: roles, levels, skills and a start date in; staffable roles, people and weekly margin out.
The problem
Deals get signed with start dates nobody checked against the bench, and delivery finds out when it's too late to hire.
How it works
- 1Enter the start date, length and each role: people needed, level, highest cost band and must-have skills.
- 2FitRank checks who would be free and qualified in time, using rules only.
- 3See how many roles you can staff from inside, the people, and billing and margin per week.
- 4Nothing is created or reserved, so you can try as many scenarios as you like.
What's included
What-if staffing for pre-sales
Check whether you could staff a deal before you win it. It uses rules only and creates no task.
Where teams use it
- For delivery heads and resource management officesCut bench time and idle costSee who is free now and in the next 30, 60 and 90 days, what idle time costs each week, and which open tasks each person could take.
- For pre-sales and account teamsCheck you can staff a deal before you win itRun a what-if staffing check for a prospective deal using rules only, without creating a task.
Questions about what-if staffing for pre-sales
Does a what-if check reserve people?
No. It creates no task and holds nobody. Run matching on a real task when the deal is won.
Why rules only?
A what-if check needs to be instant and repeatable. The model's ranking runs on real tasks, where a manager reviews it.
More of FitRank
- Staffing dashboardOne screen for delivery leads: model agreement, profile readiness, open tasks with a shortlist, tasks by month and the next 12 months of bench idle cost.
- Bench and roll-offsSee who is free now or within 30, 60 or 90 days, the weekly idle cost, and the open tasks each person could take next, with roll-off warnings.
- Skill gap analysisFitRank marks every must-have skill across upcoming tasks as shortage, tight or covered, and shows who is closest, so you can train before you hire.
- Staff several tasks at oncePick the tasks of one project and FitRank proposes one person per task from finished matching runs, with alternatives and the margin of each plan.
- Hire or moveFor every task, FitRank compares the best internal person with the best outside candidate by fit, start date and margin, with the reasons for each side.
- Employee value and client profilesEstimated revenue, clients, ratings and margin per person from your rate card, plus a printable client profile with no costs or ratings on it.
Be one of the first teams to staff with FitRank
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