HOW RUNPILOT WORKS

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Bring geography, engineering and investment choices into one workflow. Use the RunPilot platform, connect it to your tools or work with our team on a defined infrastructure decision.

PROJECT VIEWConstraints

Constraint layersSupply and demand sites

Project inputs5 sites

Screening layers2 areas

Next decisionConnect

STEP 01 / 05

Start with the real constraints.

Locate supply and demand. Bring together geography, land constraints and engineering requirements so the options begin with the project context.

Spatial dataDemandEngineering inputs

Decision: which constraints must every option respect?

The workflow: set constraints, explore alternative connections, test capacity, compare demand assumptions and review the investment sequence. Enable JavaScript to use the illustrative walkthrough.

BUILD YOUR BUSINESS CASE

What would better decisions be worth?

Estimate the value of fewer project delays and less planning work. Start with your infrastructure, test your assumptions and see what it would take for the investment to pay back.

Enter your project assumptions and compare delay and planning savings.*

01Your infrastructure

Infrastructure type

Assessment currency

Hydrogen: consider connection dependencies, offtake timing and contractor standby. Use net contribution rather than gross sales for delayed operation.

Use one project and assessment period. Currency changes the label, not the amounts.

02Delay you could help avoid

Potential delay (calendar days)

Likelihood of that delay (%)

Share RunPilot could help avoid (%)

The share of delay you expect better planning to avoid.

Additional cost per delay day (£)

Exclude financing added below and planning costs counted in section 03.

7.5 expected calendar days avoided, weighted by the likelihood of delay.

Add financing exposure (optional)

Capital tied up during delay (£)

Annual financing rate (%)

Capital exposed to delay. Leave zero when financing is already in your daily cost.

03Planning work you could save

People on the planning team

Planning workdays per person

Cost per person-day (£)

Planning effort reduction (%)

Share of saved effort that reduces cash spend (%)

Use 0% for staff time redeployed. Include only avoided spend in cash savings.

04Cost of the investment

Quoted RunPilot cost (£)

Your quoted platform or service cost for this period.

Internal setup and training (£)

Evidence and assumptions to validate

POTENTIAL CASH BENEFIT

£75,000

Likelihood-weighted delay benefit plus planning spend avoided, before RunPilot and setup costs.

Delay benefit: £75,000
Planning cash saving: £0
RunPilot + setup cost: Add quoted cost

Net cash benefit—

Cash ROI—

Enter your quoted RunPilot cost to calculate net benefit and ROI.

30 person-days released

£18,000 of planning time value. £18,000 is capacity released, excluded from cash ROI.

Sensitivity to the improvement assumed
Improvement	Cash benefit	Cash ROI
Half your estimate	£37,500	—
Your estimate	£75,000	—
50% more	£112,500	—

Break-even will appear once a quoted cost is entered.

PLATFORM, INTEGRATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

Engineering intelligence in your workflow.

Use RunPilot to explore infrastructure options, scope an API connection to existing tools or develop an approach with our technical team. Start with the decision, data and engineering methods your project needs.

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RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS

Plan for demand that can change.

Hammond and Brown’s published hydrogen infrastructure research studies route selection and hydraulic sizing across demand scenarios and investment periods. It provides a concrete foundation for discussions about uncertainty and staged development.

Read the least-regret infrastructure study →^*

Bring your next infrastructure decision.

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* About the examples. Diagrams and demand indices illustrate the workflow. Research methods and integrations are scoped for each project.

* Business case. Starting values are examples, not benchmarks or promised savings. Replace them with project evidence. Estimates are undiscounted and exclude non-cash outcomes. Infrastructure type changes the prompts, not the calculation.

Business case calculations and assumptions

Expected delay days avoided: Potential delay days × likelihood of delay × avoidable share.
Delay benefit: Expected days avoided × (additional daily cost + capital tied up × annual financing rate ÷ 365).
Planning time value: Team size × workdays per person × effort reduction × person-day cost.
Planning cash saving: Planning time value × the share that reduces cash spend.
Cash ROI: (Delay benefit + planning cash saving − RunPilot cost − setup cost) ÷ (RunPilot cost + setup cost) × 100.

Percentage inputs are divided by 100 in the calculation.

Count each cost once. Delay costs should cover genuine incremental cost or lost net contribution, not gross revenue. Remove planning and financing amounts already counted elsewhere. Use the same project scope, assessment period and price basis throughout.

Record where each assumption comes from and validate it with your finance and engineering teams. Separating cash savings from released capacity and avoiding duplicate benefits is consistent with the UK Digital and Data Benefits framework.

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