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StatusNext · Decision analysis

Fixed promises. Variable costs.

Fixed fees, service levels, and performance contracts usually get priced on the typical case, and they lose money on the hard ones. StatusNext models the full range of what delivery will take and turns it into a pricing and negotiating strategy, so you set terms you'll keep before you sign.

After StatusNext talked one client out of service levels it couldn't control, the client hired it back to renegotiate the contract and asked Walker to present the analysis at the table.

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sla_capability.sim

Achievable service level · 10,000 simulated months

P(hit 97.5% ask)
0.05
P(hit 93% commit)
0.89
Expected penalties
−84%
Illustrative model output

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What StatusNext does

Decision analysis

Before you sign a contract, roll out a plan, or buy equipment, StatusNext models it. The work starts from your historical data, builds a baseline of how things actually run today, then tests the alternatives with simulation, optimization, and statistical models, and translates the results into the financial terms leadership decides on. You get a recommendation and the evidence behind it. When it helps, StatusNext presents that evidence in the room with you, including at the negotiating table.

Typical work: service-level and performance contracts · fixed-fee pricing · fleet and distribution network planning

When the answer needs to live in a system, StatusNext builds it: data migrations, planning tools your team uses day to day, analytics applications, and the pipelines behind them. Modern AI tooling makes the work faster; the engineering and the accountability stay with StatusNext.

How an engagement runs

  1. 01

    Understand the decision.

    Discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews, and customer conversations when your customer is part of the problem. The aim is to learn the goal, the hard constraints, and what everyone already believes.

  2. 02

    Model it.

    A baseline built from your own history, then the alternatives tested against it. This is usually where optimism meets data.

  3. 03

    Put it to work.

    A recommendation with a financial case, plus whatever makes it usable: a playbook, a planning tool, a phased rollout, or negotiation support.

Selected work

Service contracts

Talked a fast-growing client out of service levels it couldn't control — before it signed.

Simulation showed the proposed metrics depended on customer behavior, not the client's performance. The client negotiated achievable terms and hit its financial targets on the contract.

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Service contracts, round two

Renegotiated the same contract so the customer finally got what it wanted.

New metrics the end customer valued and the client fully controlled. A satisfied customer and a profitable contract. The client brought StatusNext back for this one, and again asked StatusNext to present the analysis at the table.

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Fleet & network planning

Redesigned a cargo fleet's distribution network after a major aircraft upgrade.

The client adopted the new hub-and-spoke model, realized the projected fuel savings, and avoided equipment purchases the old model would have required.

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Data migration

Moved a small independent school from disparate legacy systems to a single consolidated platform.

The school had no migration skills in house and no migration service from the new vendor. It switched over with no downtime, onboarded on time, and avoided hundreds of hours of manual data work.

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Twenty years across aerospace and enterprise software.

F-16 crew chief · Lockheed Martin Skunk Works · Sales leadership at SAS (President's Club) · Master's in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Auburn University

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