What this engagement actually is
Multi-dimensional studies assessing technical, commercial, financial, market and regulatory viability for capital-intensive projects.
A feasibility engagement at GIVE Analytics interrogates a proposed project across five dimensions: technical, commercial, financial, market and regulatory. The work is part desk research, part modelling, part stakeholder interview. Market and regulatory data are sourced, a feasibility model is built, and demand and cost assumptions are tested against external evidence rather than asserted.
The output is an evidence-led report that the decision-makers, lenders or planning authorities involved can act on. Where the project sits inside the UK planning system, the work can be framed for viability submission alongside developer contribution negotiations. Where the project sits in an emerging or arid-climate context, the assumption layer is built with independent operational input rather than transplanted from a temperate-zone template.
What you get
Six concrete deliverables. Each is an artefact on a shared drive, not a promise.
- Multi-dimensional viability report covering technical, commercial, financial, market and regulatory dimensions.
- Site or asset-specific feasibility model with capital expenditure phasing, operating economics and returns analysis.
- Demand and market assessment using primary research, transaction data and comparable-project benchmarking.
- Planning viability appraisal (UK) suitable for submission alongside developer contribution negotiations.
- Risk register and mitigation matrix mapping commercial, regulatory, operational and counterparty exposures.
- Decision-grade executive report with go, no-go, or conditional recommendation and required next steps.
How long, how priced
Engagements are scoped to the decision the study must serve and priced on a fixed-fee basis once that scope is agreed. Typical studies run between six and ten weeks, with the duration driven by site access, the availability of comparable evidence, and the breadth of regulatory engagement required. UK planning viability work is sequenced to the relevant planning timetable.
A senior practitioner leads the engagement from scoping through delivery. Where site visits, operator interviews or specialist external input are required (agronomy, engineering, planning counsel), these are coordinated with the client and either included in scope or invoiced at cost; nothing is added quietly. The report is signed off at senior level before issue.
Best for
Three sectors where this service typically comes first.
Real Estate and Development
Development appraisal and UK planning viability for residential, commercial and mixed-use schemes.
Energy, Sustainability and Infrastructure
Project finance, feasibility and rollout modelling under regulatory and offtake constraints.
Agriculture and AgTech
Capital-intensive ventures where commodity, climate and land-cycle risks defy standard frameworks.
A typical engagement
Three phases. Senior practitioner involvement at every stage.
Discover (week 1 to 2)
A brief intake session establishes the decision the study must serve and the audience that will act on it. Stakeholders are mapped, comparable evidence is identified, and the scope is agreed across the five viability dimensions. The output of this phase is a written scope of work and a data request, sequenced so that subsequent phases are not held up by missing inputs. Where site visits or operator interviews are required, they are scheduled at this stage.
Design (week 2 to 6)
Site visits or operator interviews are conducted where relevant, and data is collected across cost, market and regulatory inputs. The feasibility model is built, with capital expenditure phasing, operating economics and returns mechanics wired by hand. Viability thresholds are tested iteratively against the evidence; assumptions that do not hold are revised rather than smoothed. Comparable transaction and project benchmarks are sourced to ground the demand and cost layers.
Deliver (week 6 to 10)
Findings across the five dimensions are reconciled into a single view, sensitivity and downside scenarios are stressed, and the report is drafted for the decision audience. An internal senior review pass is run before issue. The report is presented to stakeholders (board, investment committee, planning authority, lender as relevant) and a go, no-go or conditional recommendation is set out with the required next steps. Post-issue queries are handled within a defined window.
When the question is bigger than the numbers
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GIVE Analytics is one of three firms in the GIVE Network. The non-financial dimensions of most engagements (legal structuring, market research, communications, people, regulatory positioning) are addressed by GIVE Consultancy Limited, a separate firm operating under the same standards. The GIVE Foundation, the charitable entity through which both firms donate ten per cent of annual profits, is held separately again. The network exists because consequential decisions rarely have a single dimension; clients tell us they value being able to draw on adjacent capability without renegotiating confidentiality. We do not cross-refer unless the client asks us to.
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Confidentiality
The organisations that engage us ask not to be named, and we give that undertaking to every client without exception. Past work on this page is described by what was analysed and what was delivered, never by who commissioned it. The same discretion applies prospectively: any engagement with you would be held to the same standard.
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