Owners and boards
Another truck, more sorters, a second crushing shift or a new grading line: which one actually lifts output, what it costs per extra tonne and when it pays back.
Mining & agriculture
Can this mine or harvest hit its plan, and what is the cheapest way to get there?
An Operation Check models your operation as a chain of stages, from pit or orchard to the gate. It finds the one stage that limits output, ranks every fix by cost per extra tonne, shows the risk of missing target in a normal week and tells you which spend adds nothing. You get a decision pack a board, lender or buyer can read in five minutes, targeted within 48 hours of a usable intake.
Scoped, with the price confirmed before any payment.
Who it is for
The people deciding on an operation, not only the people running it.
Mine planning software is built for the planning team and needs months of fleet data. An Operation Check answers a capital or credit question quickly from the evidence available, and says plainly which inputs are assumed.
Lenders and investors
Is the plan's tonnage achievable with the equipment and crews on site? Where does it break, and how likely is a miss in a normal week?
Buyers and acquirers
Test an operation's claimed output before you sign, using the plan figures and public site evidence, then confirm the assumed inputs in due diligence.
What the decision pack shows
The answer first, then the evidence behind it.
Every number comes from one model of the operation, rerun for each option. Nothing is hidden behind the 3D view.
What limits output
Each stage's capacity against what it must handle, from digging or picking through sorting, hauling, crushing or grading, packing, storage and loadout.
Options ranked by cost per extra tonne
Every option tested on the model, with extra output, payback and three-year value. Options at a stage that is not the constraint show zero, so you do not buy them.
A step-up plan
Fix one constraint, find the next, and stop when the target is met: the order to spend in and what each step adds.
Risk of missing target
Hundreds of runs with normal week-to-week variation, before and after the plan, so a plan that only works on a good week is visible.
Grades, prices and blend or sell
Product streams by ore grade or fruit class, priced by grade or class, with the break-even metal price and whether blending to the buyer's grade earns more than selling separately.
What to confirm
Each input is labelled actual, surveyed, calibrated, assumed or (in demos) illustrative, with the inputs that move the margin most, so you know which figures to verify before relying on the answer.
The model is labelled calibrated only when at least 8 of your operating periods fit within the error budget; until then it runs on stated template rates, labelled as assumed.
Two worked examples
What the check finds, with the engine's numbers.
Both run on fictional operations with illustrative inputs, so you can see the method before sharing anything confidential.
Mining · Demo Copper Co. (fictional)
Can the mine hit its plan, and what should it fix first?
- What you see
- Pit to gate: two excavators, a 40-person hand-sorting crew, three 30 t trucks on a 3.5 km haul, a high-grade crusher and a gate loadout, with ore grades and the copper price.
- What it tells you
- 5,173 t a week against a 6,500 t target. The high-grade crusher binds at 100% and hand sorting is almost tied at 99.8%, so a second crusher shift on its own adds only 12 t. Trucks run at 57%, so another truck adds nothing.
- The decision
- More sorters, a second crusher shift, another truck or a new crusher: in what order, and at what cost per extra tonne?
- Example result
- Lift sorting first (20 more sorters), then add a second crusher shift: 7,000 t a week with no capital and about US$386k more margin a week. Normal variation still misses the target in 42.8% of weeks. Break-even copper today: about US$5,215/t.
Fictional operation, illustrative inputs. Numbers are the engine's output for those inputs.
Agriculture · Demo Orchards (fictional)
Will the harvest window hold?
- What you see
- Orchard to dispatch: 55 pickers, 3 bin tractors, 1 grading line, 28 packers, a 120 t cool room and one dispatch dock, packing Class 1, Class 2 and processing fruit.
- What it tells you
- 380 t a week against a 480 t target. The grading line binds at 100% while bin tractors run at 34%.
- The decision
- A second grading shift or a second line? More pickers, tractors or cool room?
- Example result
- A second grading shift (+24 h): 520 t a week, no capital, about $54 per extra tonne. A second line adds the same 140 t at about $154/t. Pickers, tractors, packers or cool room add nothing until grading is fixed. 47.5% of normal weeks still miss.
Fictional operation, illustrative inputs. Numbers are the engine's output for those inputs.
Showcase operations are fictional and their inputs are illustrative. 3D models include Kenney assets (CC0, kenney.nl); outdoor lighting uses a CC0 Poly Haven sky.
The 48-hour process
From intake sheet to decision pack.
Timing starts when we have a usable intake. Scope and price are confirmed before any payment.
Intake
You complete the intake sheet: stages, crews and equipment, rates, grades or classes, prices and costs. Add a site plan, KML or coordinates and any production exports you have. Unknown values stay as marked assumptions.
Build and check
We configure the stage chain and site layout, then check it against your recent operating periods before testing anything new. It is labelled calibrated only when at least 8 periods fit within the error budget; otherwise the inputs stay marked as assumed.
Test and review
We run the options, the step-up plan, the risk and the sensitivities, and review the assumed inputs with you.
Decision pack
You receive the decision pack and a private workspace to change inputs and rerun the answer yourself.
What it is, and what it is not
An Operation Check is directional decision support from an operations model, checked against your actuals where you supply them. It is not a mine plan, an engineering design, a competent-person report, a valuation or financial advice. The showcase operations (Demo Copper Co. and Demo Orchards) are fictional.