A city budget example: 50 projects. The budget "only" € 100 million - with € 220 million project investment requirement - 1.125 quadrillion project combination possibilities.

Why all cities no longer have to "decide" their investment portfolio, but rather calculate it.

The initial situation - typical for small cities ➜ Also scalable to large cities and metropolitan areas

A small city with 50,000-80,000 inhabitants faces a realistic situation:

These 50 projects include

• Schools and daycare centers
• Road renovations
• New development areas
• Climate protection and energy
• Digitization
• Sports halls
• Social and care infrastructure
• Administration buildings
• Neighborhood development
• Transportation
• and much more...

Each of these projects makes sense in its own right.
But: more than half of them cannot be financed.

So the crucial question is not:

"Which project is important?"

but rather:

"Which combination of these 50 projects will generate the highest overall impact for this city within €100 million?"

The invisible mathematical problem

With 50 projects, there are not 50 decision options.

There are:

2⁵⁰ = 1,125,899,906,842,624 possible project portfolios

Over a quadrillion different combinations!

Political bodies see perhaps 20-50 variants of these.
The rest remain invisible - even though that's where the best solutions lie.

This is not an organizational problem.
It is a calculation problem.

A size comparison:

our Milky Way and a city decision space with "only" 50 projects

Our Milky Way has 100-400 billion stars

~10¹¹

A city with 50 projects has a decision space
of 1.125 quadrillion possible project combinations

~10¹⁵

A city decision space has more possible combinations than the Milky Way has stars.

What StratePlan changes here

StratePlan calculates the entire decision space and finds from it:

The one project combination that generates the maximum overall benefit for this city.

Not politically negotiated.
Not based on gut feeling.
But mathematically optimized from over 1 quadrillion possibilities.

What "up to 60 % more impact" means

Real municipal portfolios show that

Cities rarely make the wrong individual decisions.
They make the wrong combination decisions.

When StratePlan optimizes the portfolio ex ante - i.e. before any political decisions are made - the result is typically:

In other words:

The same €100 million generates 30-60% more educational quality, climate impact, location attractiveness and future security.

Without an additional euro.

1 out of 1.125 quadrillion - guess or calculate?

Effect / cost efficiency

What is not calculated is guessed

1 : 1.125 quadrillion decision combinations

What the city gains in concrete terms

1. More service from the same budget

More:

• School quality
• Degree of refurbishment
• Climate protection
• Quality of life

with an unchanged budget.

2. Political security

The city council and administration can say:

"This combination is demonstrably the best of over a quadrillion alternatives."

Political decisions can be objectively justified.

3. Protection against structurally wrong decisions

Projects that look good individually but worsen the portfolio become visible - before they are built.

4. Sustainable urban development

StratePlan optimizes not only for today, but also for the

• long-term operating costs
• Follow-up costs
• demographic effects
• Growth dynamics

flow directly into the decision.

The future of municipal management

A city with:

• 50 projects
• 220 million € requirement
• 100 million € budget
• and 1,125,899,906,842,624 possible portfolios

can no longer rely on:

• Excel
• Committees
• political intuition

intuition.

They need a new kind of calculation engine to fully penetrate their decision-making space.

And that is exactly what StratePlan from mAInthink GmbH from Worms am Rhein is.

Optimize the city budget now