Finish five high-payoff bets instead of starting fourteen

When every department runs its own wish list, your best engineers and creators get split across fourteen half-finished projects. We install a weighted scoring rubric, hard work-in-progress limits and stage-gate funding.

Portfolio governance drawing: incoming initiatives are scored by payback, fit, capacity and risk, funded in 2-week and 6-week stage gates, and measured 30 and 90 days after launch portfolio.governance.blueprint score · cap wip · stage-gate · roi WEIGHTED SCORING RUBRIC (100 PTS) 35% Cash Impact · 25% Moat Fit · 25% Capacity · 15% Risk GATE 1 · 2-WEEK PROVESmall credit tranchePrototype + buyer signal GATE 2 · 6-WEEK BUILDWIP-capped executionDedicated pod assigned SHARED CAPACITY & CREDIT LEDGER (WIP LIMIT = 4) BET A · 92 BET B · 86 BET C · 79 QUEUED 30 / 90-DAY POST-LAUNCH ROI VERIFICATION Compare actual revenue & adoption against the original investment memo

THE 100-POINT RUBRIC

How we decide what earns a team this quarter

Criterion · WeightUsuallyWith Orzed
12-Month Net Cash / Revenue Impact (35%) Loudest executive wins the budget Scored 1–5 with written payback model before any team is assigned
Strategic & Moat Alignment (25%) Side-quests dilute the core product Must strengthen core retention, acquisition or margin
Engineering & Ops Capacity Fit (25%) 14 projects started, 0 finished on time Hard work-in-progress (WIP) limit tied to real team throughput
Technical & Dependency Risk (15%) Discovered in month four 2-week stage-gate prototype clears risk before full funding
Leadership team reviewing portfolio priorities in a boardroom
Less work in progress, twice the output Capping active initiatives is the fastest way to unblock senior engineers
Running multiple brands or products?

Manage every brand and build from one Console

Share one pool of Delivery Credits across your websites, stores, campaigns and software builds, reallocated monthly to whichever bet is winning.

HOW IT WORKS

Four parts of portfolio discipline

01

Weighted intake and scoring rubric

Every new idea, brand or project is scored on the same one-page rubric.

Instead of funding whatever was discussed last, every initiative is scored on 12-month payback, strategic fit, capacity cost and risk before it enters the active queue.

Weighted rubric1-page investment memoPayback modelWIP limit
Install our intake rubric ↗
02

Stage-gate funding (2-week prove, 6-week build)

Fund initiatives in tranches, not 12-month blank cheques.

New bets get two weeks to prove demand and feasibility. Only the winners unlock a 6-week build tranche, and underperforming bets are paused cleanly without politics.

Tranche funding2-week validation gateKill / scale criteriaZero zombie projects
Set up stage gates ↗
03

Cross-project capacity and dependency map

See why five teams are all waiting on the same two senior engineers.

We map shared bottlenecks across engineering, creative and ops, cap active work-in-progress and sequence projects so throughput doubles without hiring.

WIP capBottleneck mapShared credit poolSequence plan
Unblock our capacity ↗
04

Post-launch value and ROI tracking

Did the feature we shipped three months ago actually move the number?

Thirty and ninety days after launch we compare actual adoption and revenue against the original investment memo, feeding the lessons into the next quarter's bets.

30/90-day ROI checkBoard portfolio viewCredit ledgerQuarterly rebalance
Build a portfolio dashboard ↗

WAYS TO START

Rank the bets, cap WIP and ship

Stop overload

Portfolio Triage & WIP Reset

When you have too many active projects and everything feels slow.

2 weeks
  • Audit of all active initiatives
  • Weighted scoring & stack rank
  • Pause / sequence recommendation
  • Bottleneck & capacity map
Triage our portfolio ↗
Most asked

Multi-Brand / Multi-Product Operating System

Run several products, brands or business units inside one Orzed Console view.

4 to 6 weeks
  • Unified intake & stage-gate process
  • Shared Delivery Credit allocation
  • Monthly board portfolio scorecard
  • 30/90-day post-launch ROI checks
Set up portfolio ops ↗
Quarterly

Quarterly Portfolio & Roadmap Partner

Facilitated quarterly planning, scoring and monthly stage-gate reviews.

Quarterly cadence
  • Quarterly bet scoring & capacity lock
  • Monthly stage-gate kill/scale review
  • Vendor & squad allocation review
  • Board-ready investment memo pack
Ask about quarterly partner ↗

Adjacent disciplines

Score · Focus · Ship

Ready to stop spreading your teamacross fourteen priorities?

Share your active project list. We reply with how a two-week Portfolio Triage would rank and unblock them.