Capital allocation
Extend ICE platform investment by 24 months, or accelerate full-EV pivot to 2028?
82% defensibility5d to brief21 signals
7 assumptions tested across base, demand-soft, and regulatory-acceleration scenarios.
Strategy · Corp Dev · M&A · Innovation
Strategic decisions in days. Defended for years.
The end-to-end decision platform for strategy teams. Days from question to board-ready call, with the evidence chain to defend it and the outcome learning that makes the next call sharper than the last.
Your competitor can buy intelligence. They cannot buy your decision history.
EU-resident deployment · GDPR-ready workflowsEnd-to-end · learns from every outcome
Strategy doesn't fail in the boardroom. It fails between decisions.
Sample briefs
Real briefs for real strategic decisions.
Four decision archetypes. Four verdict types: HOLD, GO, REALLOCATE, STAGED. Each is illustrative and identifying details are abstracted.
HOLD
M&A and partnerships
Acquire EUR 180M battery cell management software stack, or partner with Tier-1 incumbent?
91% defensibility3d to brief18 signals
6 assumptions across 4 scenarios. Four post-close milestones tracked.
Geographic strategy
Re-enter China BEV market via local JV, or redirect EUR 450M to India accelerator?
76% defensibility8d to brief34 signals
9 assumptions across 4 geopolitical scenarios, monitored weekly.
Energy · technology bet
Commit EUR 2B to green hydrogen capacity by 2028, or stage against cost-curve milestones?
78% defensibility7d to brief26 signals
8 assumptions across 3 scenarios. Three gates to maintain the staged GO.
Built for
The questions strategy teams are actually carrying.
Six decision categories. Current strategic questions, not retrofitted from a generic strategy tool.
Capital allocation
ICE-vs-EV pacing, capex timing, R&D portfolio mix.
- Extend ICE platform 24 months, or accelerate full-EV by 2028?
- Scale H2 infrastructure capex now, or stage against cost-curve clarity?
M&A and partnerships
Software IP, sensor stacks, JV structures, charging networks.
- Acquire battery management software, or partner with Tier-1?
- Acquire mobile manipulation IP, or license from incumbents?
Geographic strategy
China exposure, India entry, tariff regimes, market exits.
- Re-enter China BEV via JV, or redirect to India?
- Expand renewables into India via local partner, or consolidate EU PPAs?
Technology bets
Architecture commitments with 5 to 10 year tails.
- Commit to LiDAR L3 ADAS, or vision-only with delay?
- Build on NVIDIA Isaac, or invest in proprietary simulation?
Regulatory response
Euro 7, EU AI Act, CSRD, NHTSA, tariff regimes.
- Accelerate Euro 7 compliance, or absorb fine exposure?
- Position for EU CBAM expansion, or hedge via offsets portfolio?
Supply integration
Vertical integration, supplier risk, raw materials, geography.
- Vertically integrate cell production, or stay supplier-diverse?
- Bring actuator design in-house, or maintain Tier-1 dependency?
Capital flows to the loudest advocate. Sunk cost drives allocation. Signal quality doesn't.
The platform
Clarity, confidence, speed. Then sharper decisions every cycle.
Aquilix connects market signals, internal context, initiatives, assumptions, and outcomes into one decision system. You see clearly, decide faster, track reality, and re-decide when the world shifts.
See with clarity.
External signals and internal evidence resolve into one board-ready picture, not five disconnected narratives.
Decide faster.
Named assumptions, scenarios, and evidence chains help teams move from question to defensible call in days.
Track when reality shifts.
Every active decision carries the conditions that would trigger a hold, go, stop, or pivot.
One portfolio story.
Capital, initiatives, and strategic rationale stay connected so the portfolio tells one coherent story.
Align inside and outside.
Leadership, teams, and market context stay synchronized as the evidence changes.
Teach how your company decides.
Outcomes feed back into the system, showing which assumptions, signals, and decision patterns led to better calls.
7 scouts ingest signals
Tech · Market · Regulation · Finance · Geopolitics · Politics · Cyber Security
Signals become decision context
Options become scored paths
Best path becomes a memo
Confidence · tradeoffs · provenance
Memo becomes roadmap
Outcomes become memory
Your company learns how it decides
Seven scouts collect external signals. Your org model turns them into decision context, scored options, a defended memo, tracked execution, and decision memory.
Sense
Seven scouts collect technology, market, regulation, finance, geopolitical, political, and cyber-security signals continuously.
Frame
Your org model transforms raw signals into decision context: relevant evidence, constraints, options, and assumptions.
Simulate
Multiple options compete across scenarios so the strongest path, trade-offs, and kill conditions are visible.
Decide
The selected call becomes a board-ready memo with confidence, conditions, and evidence behind every claim.
Track
A roadmap shows how signals drove the decision, then tracks execution through deployment and push to market.
Learn
Market response and execution outcomes teach the system how your company decides.
Six months on, no one remembers why we invested or what assumptions we accepted.
2026 focus
Three industries where strategic decisions cannot wait.
The platform is industry-agnostic. In 2026, we are concentrating early partnerships in three sectors where the strategic stakes are highest.
Automotive
EV transition pacing, autonomy commitments, China exposure, battery economics.
Physical AI
Architecture bets, simulation choices, talent strategy, market entry.
Energy
Hydrogen capex, grid storage, CBAM positioning, regional reallocation.
Design partnership
Join the 2026 design partnership. Automotive, physical AI, and energy.
Aquilix is being built with strategy and corp-dev teams in our three focus industries. Founder-led, focused, and anchored in real strategic questions.
What you get
- Two real strategic questions run end-to-end as briefs.
- Direct input into roadmap and decision frameworks.
- Founder-led pilot with EU-resident deployment options.
- Founding-customer pricing, locked for 24 months.
What we ask
- Two strategic questions you are actually carrying.
- One hour every two weeks for 90 days.
- Honest feedback when something does not work.
- Optional permission to use anonymized learnings.
Start with one question.
Send us one strategic question. We will run a 15-minute teardown and show what an Aquilix brief would look like for it.