Case Studies

A major US Federal Agency oversees one of the most complex capital programs in the federal government: 660+ projects, $15 billion in total value, and a 34-year lifecycle spanning environmental remediation, demolition, facility decontamination, plant modernization, utility reconfiguration, and waste management. This is the program that built Invizion. When our team was brought in to support it, no software on the market could handle the complexity. So we built what was needed. That capability — rapid scenario analysis, unified portfolio data, and defensible decision-making — is what Invizion delivers to every client today.

Managing $2.8 billion in annual capital investment across numerous utility systems and over a dozen states is not a planning problem — it’s a coordination challenge of a fundamentally different order. For one of America’s top investor-owned water utilities, that coordination happened in spreadsheets. Each year, two dedicated senior analysts spent five months manually extracting data from corporate systems across finance, engineering, treasury, and operations — assembling a master model for a $14 billion, six-year capital portfolio that included more than 10,000 active projects. The model was vast, fragile, and dependent on institutional knowledge held by a small number of people. One broken link. One version mismatch. One analyst change — and the plan was at risk. The plan got made every year. But it couldn’t be made faster, it was difficult to defend under regulatory scrutiny, and it couldn’t keep pace with the scale of the program it was supposed to manage. Something had to change.