WINS Decision Support Retainer
Standing decision-rehearsal cadence on WINS. Facilitation is the retainer; compute is estimated per game and billed on actuals.
Why this engagement exists
Organizations that game once get one answer. The environment keeps moving — competitors, regimes, supply — and every new decision starts from scratch because there is no standing rehearsal capability.
What it looks like in your organization
- A one-off game answered one decision; the next decision starts cold.
- Scenario capability decays because nobody keeps it warm.
- Decisions arrive faster than ad hoc games can be configured.
- The organization has no rehearsed responses to the current environment.
What we do and how it works
We keep WINS warm for your decisions: a standing rehearsal cadence, rapid configuration when decisions arrive, facilitation, and after-action that turns results into playbooks. Facilitation is the retainer. Compute is estimated per game and billed on actuals — you approve each estimate before games run.
The engagement includes
- Standing WINS configuration for your decision context
- Scheduled decision-rehearsal games across the year
- Rapid game configuration when urgent decisions arrive
- Facilitation and after-action for every game
- Playbook library maintained across games
What you take away
Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.
Standing decision-rehearsal capability
CapabilityWINS kept configured and warm for your decision context across the year.
Every decision can be rehearsed without starting from scratch.
Scheduled and rapid games
Game cadenceScheduled rehearsals plus rapid configuration when urgent decisions land.
Decisions meet tested futures on your timeline.
Facilitation and after-action
FacilitationEvery game facilitated with after-action analysis turning results into decisions.
Games produce usable answers, not raw outputs.
Maintained playbook library
Playbook libraryProactive and reactive playbooks accumulated and maintained across games.
The organization builds a rehearsed response asset over time.
How this engagement runs
Configure the standing context
Month 1WINS is configured for your decision context: the recurring decision types, scenario families, and players.
A warm rehearsal capability ready for decisions.
Run the cadence
Months 1–12Scheduled games run on cadence; urgent decisions get rapid configuration. Compute is estimated per game, billed on actuals.
Decisions are rehearsed as they arrive.
Facilitate and close
Per gameEvery game facilitated with after-action turning results into decision paths.
Each game closes with usable answers.
Maintain the library
ContinuousPlaybooks accumulate and stay current as the environment and decisions move.
A growing rehearsed-response asset.
How the fee is built
The engagement fee moves on three multipliers — sensitivity, involvement, and organization type — and the platform units the work consumes are their own lines. Nothing is hidden inside a flat number.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.
Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.
Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.
Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.
We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.
Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.
The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.
Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.
Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.
Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.
Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.
Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.
Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.
Scope & scale of platform units
The largest component of most totalsEvery engagement consumes platform units — CYBAIR workloads, AIR organization bands, GENOMIA twins, WINS scenarios, SiliconAIR systems. Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing: an 8-workload assessment and a 50-workload assessment are different engagements and are priced as such. You set the scope in the configurator; the total moves with it, and nothing is quietly under-scoped to fit a number.
Simulation compute
Estimated until configured · billed on actualsWINS simulations carry real compute costs that scale with scenario count, branching depth, and campaign length. A focused single-scenario game and a sustained multi-agent campaign are orders of magnitude apart. Facilitation and after-action are in the fee; compute is estimated once the game is configured, then billed on actuals — you pay for what actually runs, never a padded average.
Platform units in this engagement
Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing. You set the scope; the total moves with it. Each unit below is consumed by this engagement and billed as its own line.
The simulation campaign: scenario families, adjudication, facilitation, and after-action.
How many scenario families the decision needs and whether the game is a focused exercise or a sustained campaign. Compute is estimated after configuration and billed on actuals.
What the engagement fee covers
- Scoping, workshops, and interpretation
- Every deliverable listed on this page
- Cross-framework mapping where the package includes compliance
- Executive translation — board, program-office, or IC language
- Handoff and a defensible next-step recommendation
What it does not cover
- Platform units consumed by the work (shown as their own lines)
- WINS simulation compute (estimated, then billed on actuals)
Frequently asked questions
The retainer covers facilitation and cadence; the game schedule is set during configuration. Compute per game is estimated and billed on actuals.
Ready to brief us on the WINS Decision Support Retainer?
We choose who we work with and confirm scope, capacity, and final pricing in the briefing.