Project Margin Rescue Engine
Determine which active project requires intervention now to protect margin, cash timing or delivery economics.
- Primary operator
- Finance, PMO and delivery leadership
- Cadence
- Weekly, with month-end escalation
Fable connects the systems of record you already run to forecast what happens next, compare the permitted actions and recommend what to do now.
Across revenue, cash, supply, workforce, operations and risk, for UK and US upper-mid-market and enterprise operators.
Follow one project through the Project Margin Rescue Engine as it joins the cross-system record, forecasts margin with production ML and prices each permitted action through financial attribution.
Five systems describe one project five ways. Fable joins them at the weekly cutoff and strikes the figure that no longer holds.
Matched onProject identity, contract, cost centre and period, with the most authoritative source kept for each figure.
Production models forecast margin at completion as a range, with the likely timing of a breach and what is driving it.
DriversUnpriced variation, labour burn 9% above plan and supplier price drift.
Every permitted action is priced in margin and cash. One is held for capacity, the rest re-rank and the top action gets an owner.
ConstraintProcurement is at capacity this week, so owner time goes to the highest-value permitted actions.
Exposure, expected effect and observed outcome are tracked separately, so finance can recognise what the action changed. Every result is fed back to the engine.
Margin at completion 10.4%, with a 68% chance of finishing below the 12% floor
+$190k to $260k margin from the change order
Submitted by the commercial lead on Friday
Accepted at $228k, two cutoffs later
AttributionFinance recognises the $228k against the original exposure, and the outcome is returned to the engine.
Explore detailed examples from a wider library covering commercial economics, revenue, cash, supply, workforce, operations, procurement, capital and risk.
Commercial economics & pricing
Revenue growth & retention
Billing, cash & revenue cycle
Supply chain & inventory
Workforce, capacity & fulfilment
Operations & asset reliability
Procurement & cost-to-serve
Capital & strategic allocation
Risk, fraud & loss control
Determine which active project requires intervention now to protect margin, cash timing or delivery economics.
Choose the product, customer and branch actions that improve cash, contribution and service together.
Reporting remains useful. Fable adds the forecast, constraint logic and action recommendation required to change the next decision.
| Legacy BI & Dashboards | Fable Decision Engines |
|---|---|
| Shows historical operational data | Forecasts future financial outcomes |
| Requires manual spreadsheet analysis | Recommends specific operational actions |
| Leaves the next action to manual interpretation | Ranks feasible actions across cross-system records |
| Static charts and passive metrics | Machine learning models tied to financial and operational attribution |
Start with the records already running the operation. Fable makes the decision path visible, measurable and usable inside the existing workflow.
We identify the recurring choice, accountable operator, constraints and value at stake.
Fable connects the ERP, CRM, billing, workforce, supply, asset and operational records that inform the choice.
Your team receives a named action with evidence, uncertainty and expected effect inside the existing workflow.
The Fable Systems Library provides annual software for CRM, scheduling, finance, accounting, quoting, billing, workflow, portals and integration. It can provide the workflow and evidence base that a Decision Engine needs.
Enterprise decision software has to work with the systems, controls and commercial model already in place.
Fable works alongside your existing software and supports standard enterprise data protection protocols.
Keep the systems that run the business. Fable works across their records, adds forecast and constraint logic, and makes the next decision explicit without creating another passive reporting layer.
Integrating enterprise data takes effort. Our team requires focused access to your technical records. Initial setup demands internal engineering time. We run a scoped pilot first to prove financial uplift before full deployment.
Data privacy is critical. Enterprise security reviews take time. Compliance sign-offs usually add two to three weeks to our onboarding timeline. We support standard enterprise data protection protocols.
Our model includes an implementation fee plus an annual licence tied to performance. Fable collects roughly 30% of the calculated financial uplift in year one. That share drops to 10-20% in following years. If your operational spend is small, this pricing model will not make financial sense.
Fable is designed for upper-mid-market and enterprise organisations operating across commercial, financial, supply, workforce, operational, capital and risk decisions.
It is operational software that combines machine learning, cross-system evidence, fixed constraints and financial or operational attribution to recommend a specific action.
Initial opportunity assessments and pilots take a few weeks. Full software deployment timelines depend on the complexity of your enterprise data stack.
We charge an initial implementation fee plus an annual software subscription. The fee structure scales based on the financial uplift created by the engine.
No. Fable works across your existing software infrastructure and pulls together the records already used to make the decision.
Book a live walkthrough with a Fable representative using the software and decision path that fit your operation.