“Is this really the best option we have?”
You know the question is coming.
From your board. From your peers. From the teams who will have to execute it.
With Paradygma, leadership teams answer that question in the room.
They can work directly on a quantified model of their company: explore thousands of feasible options, see what each constraint costs, and converge on the best achievable decision.
And the model stays.
- Your data never leaves your environment
- Every number traceable to its hypothesis
- Deployed in 4–6 weeks
Built for leadership teams who dare to disagree
Paradygma is a trade-off intelligence platform for leadership teams, built for complex decisions and designed to turn disagreement into a decision, in the room.
- Executives work the model themselves
- Every objection is computed instantly
- Every constraint is priced
- Everyone sees the same trade-off, at the same moment
- Best achievable trade-offs are computed
Deployed in your environment in 4–6 weeks
How strategic decisions still get made
The spreadsheet
Forty tabs, inherited from a predecessor, whose formulas two people still understand. The most critical model in the company and the least governed asset in it.
The slide
Three scenarios out of thousands of possibilities. No visibility into whether they represent the best trade-offs, or just the easiest ones to analyse.
The one-off study
Weeks of work, a handful of scenarios, and a model no one can re-run next quarter. The next question starts from zero.
Speed of decision, not just speed of calculation
When everyone in the room sees the same trade-offs, disagreement becomes productive.
Answers in the meeting, not six weeks later
Once your model exists, a new hypothesis gets computed instantly, from a deterministic engine. Leadership teams can directly use the model and can check all intuitions they've developed through experience.
See the options that matter, not just the ones you had time to build.
The engine explores every feasible configuration, within your constraints. The best trade-offs become visible, comparable, and defensible. You can see what every constraint is costing you.
Defend every number
Each result traces back to the constraint, hypothesis and the objectives that produced it. Nothing is a black box, including to your auditors.
Keep the model
Built on your constraints, in your environment, and it stays yours. The next question does not require a new mission.
Six families of decision
Across industries and functions, some questions are specifically complex: many variables, hard constraints, competing objectives, and a decision that must withstand challenge while creating alignment.
Manufacturing footprint
“Which sites should produce what, for which markets? And what does moving it really cost?”
Capex arbitration across sites, relocation, reshoring, network redesign, plant-to-market allocation, make-or-buy on an industrial scale, geographical sourcing.
ViewCapacity and ramp-up
“Can we absorb a doubling of cadence, and where does it break first?”
Load allocation, ramp-up feasibility, maintenance and shutdown policy, surge capacity, workforce and shift models.
ViewPortfolio and resource allocation
“Where should the next hundred million go? And what are we giving up by choosing it?”
Programmes and marketing allocations, multi-year budget trade-offs, decarbonisation trajectories, portfolio rationalisation.
ViewCommercial Strategy
“A tariff moves by ten points. What happens to our margin, and what is our best response?”
Pricing and discount policy, tariff and inflation pass-through, channel and contract mix, revenue and promotion trade-offs.
ViewOwnership and partnerships
“Do we make it, buy it, partner on it, or acquire it — and can we prove which, before the letter of intent?”
Synergy quantification, post-merger footprint integration, carve-outs, insourcing versus outsourcing, offset and partnership structuring.
ViewStress testing and resilience
“What if the worst happened tomorrow? How can we get ready for anything?”
Macro stress testing, new competitor entry, supply disruption, cyber incident impact, crisis response, building resilience.
ViewLive in four to six weeks
A fast delivery approach, based on the best principles of design thinking methodologies.
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Your question
We start from the complex arbitration you are facing, with its decision date and its decision-makers.
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Your model
We build the “ontography” of your problem: your sites, your constraints, your costs, your dependencies. Read-only from your ERP or data lake, your spreadsheets and external data.
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Your scenarios
Thousands of them, explored and compared. Not just one optimum — the trade-off curve, so you can see what each constraint is costing you.
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Your decision, and the next one
You obtain a defensible answer. Then you keep the model and the simulation tool to run the following question yourselves.
Built by people who have been on your side of the table
Pierre-Yves Calloc'h
École Polytechnique. Twenty years at Pernod Ricard, from Managing Director of an affiliate with multi country full P&L responsibility to Global Chief Digital Officer. Spent a decade in executive committee debates on decisions that commit capital for years.
Nicolas Corouge
Télécom Paris. Spent two decades making critical systems that security teams would vet for critical data and operations. Built secure & reliable technology platforms for companies such as Safran, Airbus and Thales.