The Missing Middle

What's inside

What this guide helps you decide

A practical playbook for the stage after the audit or roadmap, when a good finding still has to become a project that engineering, finance and operations can all stand behind.

1. 01

   Why findings do not automatically become fundable projects

   The gap between a good opportunity and a project that engineering and finance can actually approve.

2. 02

   A simple decision framework for every finding

   A clear way to sort each finding into the right next step instead of treating them all the same.

3. 03

   When to act now, investigate, run feasibility, or hold

   When to move straight to delivery, when to develop further, and when to wait or re-sequence.

4. 04

   What Basis of Design is, and what it is not

   The stage where a promising opportunity becomes a defined project case that different teams can review.

5. 05

   Why project readiness matters for funding

   How readiness affects capital approval, grant timing and rebate windows that often open before a project is ready.

6. 06

   What a capital-ready project needs to show

   Design intent, cost confidence, site constraints, savings evidence, a risk view and a clear next decision.

7. 07

   Common mistakes that weaken good projects

   The avoidable errors that turn strong findings into weak business cases before they reach funding.

8. 08

   Questions to ask before the next capital window

   Practical checks site leaders can run so the right projects are ready when the funding window opens.