Capital governance
Modern intelligence. Familiar financial controls.
Move faster without giving up financial discipline. GRIDSTROM combines connected data, financial modeling, and decision intelligence with familiar capital-planning controls — including configurable approvals, supporting evidence, decision history, and traceability from proposal through operating asset.
What stays under control
Designed to support disciplined, auditable capital governance.
Configurable Approvals
Route capital requests through the appropriate review and approval paths based on organizational policy, authority, and context.
Roles & Decision Authority
Control who can view, submit, review, approve, modify, or administer sensitive financial and capital information.
Complete Decision History
Preserve who submitted, reviewed, changed, approved, rejected, returned, or reassigned a decision — and when.
Evidence & Documentation
Keep assumptions, calculations, quotes, supporting documents, comments, and decision evidence connected to the capital request.
Budget-to-Actual Visibility
Connect approved capital decisions with budgets, commitments, forecasts, and actual results where source-system data is available.
Lifecycle Traceability
Carry the financial context behind an approved investment forward into procurement, deployment, the operating asset, service, and eventual replacement.
Architecture
Designed for governed CapEx.
GRIDSTROM's CapEx architecture is built to support the capital-management process your organization already runs — the same approval structures, authority models, evidence expectations, and financial terminology — rather than replacing established controls with unfamiliar concepts. The most important controls are shown first; the detail is there when finance, accounting, compliance, or audit stakeholders want it.
Approval structureApproval workflows, thresholds, and authority levels configured to your policy.
- Approval thresholds by amount, project type, or risk
- Business units, legal entities, and departments
- Multi-level approvals and multi-stakeholder review
- Authority levels aligned to delegation of authority policy
Access and delegationRole-based access with authorized delegation that stays traceable.
- Role-based access to financial and capital information
- Delegation, reassignment, and out-of-office routing
- Escalation paths for stalled or time-sensitive reviews
- Every material override recorded with actor and timestamp
Evidence and decisionsThe reasoning behind a decision stays attached to the request.
- Supporting documentation, quotes, assumptions, and calculations
- Comments and reviewer questions in context
- Approve, reject, or return for revision
- Version history, timestamps, and decision history
Financial connectionThe investment case connects to the numbers that follow it.
- Budget, commitments, forecasts, and actuals where available
- Variance against the approved case
- Project-to-asset traceability
- Lifecycle economics carried forward
Capital decision flow
CapEx does not end at the signature.
A capital decision is the beginning of an asset. The financial context behind an approved investment is designed to follow it into procurement, deployment, and daily operation.
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Request
- 02
Model
- 03
Compare
- 04
Review
- 05
Approve
- 06
Procure
- 07
Deploy
- 08
Operate
- 09
Measure
- 10
Reassess
Evidence chain
Know what was decided — and why.
A capital decision is more than an approval status. GRIDSTROM keeps the supporting context connected so authorized users can understand the assumptions, alternatives, evidence, approvals, changes, and reasoning behind a decision later.
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Source data
Metering, tariffs, utilization, quotes, and system-of-record inputs.
- 02
Assumptions
Stated, dated, and attributed to the person who set them.
- 03
Financial model
CapEx, lifecycle cost, NPV, IRR, payback, and cash-flow effects.
- 04
Scenarios
Alternatives compared side by side, not replaced silently.
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Supporting evidence
Quotes, documents, calculations, and reviewer comments.
- 06
Review & approval
Who reviewed, who approved, under what authority, and when.
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Decision
The approved case, with its rationale preserved.
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Operating asset
The asset record inherits the approved financial context.
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Actual performance
What was expected, compared with what actually happened.
GRIDSTROM is designed to maintain the evidence, approvals, and decision history needed to support internal review and audit processes. Available detail depends on the data your source systems provide and the workflows you configure.
Finance and accounting
From investment case to financial reality.
Connect the original investment case with the financial information that follows — approved budget, commitments, actual spend, forecasts, variances, and asset performance — so teams can compare what was expected with what actually happened.
GRIDSTROM is not your general ledger. Your ERP and accounting platforms remain the authoritative systems of record; GRIDSTROM is designed to integrate with them so capital decisions and their financial results stay connected.
Adoption
Modernize without abandoning proven controls.
Enterprises do not need to discard established financial policies simply to gain better intelligence. GRIDSTROM is designed to support familiar approval structures, authority models, evidence requirements, and financial terminology while connecting with the ERP, accounting, procurement, planning, and business systems organizations already rely on.
Good controls are what make a capital decision trustworthy. Finance, accounting, procurement, compliance, and IT stakeholders get the evidence and traceability they require — with less manual assembly of spreadsheets, email threads, and attachments.
Keep the controls.
Improve the experience.
Connect the lifecycle.
Configurability
Sophisticated underneath. Simple on the surface.
Administrators configure the policy. Everyone else sees only what their role requires — the request in front of them, the financial context behind it, and the action they can take next.
Administrator configures
- Approval rules and thresholds
- Roles and decision authority
- Routing and escalation
- Evidence requirements
Everyone else sees
- What needs attention, and why
- The relevant financial information
- Required supporting evidence
- Available actions and the next step
Review that travels well
Approval is designed to work on a phone: what is being requested, the amount, the business rationale, the relevant financial metrics, assumptions, risks, supporting evidence, previous approvals, comments, and the actions available. Depth of review is set by policy — significant decisions can still require the scrutiny they deserve.
Organizational reality
Governance that adapts to how organizations actually work.
Support authorized delegation, reassignment, out-of-office coverage, escalation, and organizational changes while preserving decision authority and history.
Situations this is designed to handle
- Approver vacation or leave
- Personnel changes
- Reorganizations
- Temporary delegation
- Changed responsibilities
- Escalation of stalled approvals
Every material override, delegation, or reassignment is designed to remain traceable.
Connected lifecycle
The approved investment becomes the operating asset.
The differentiation is not financial modeling or approval workflow on its own. It is that an approved capital decision can carry its requirements, financial context, and history forward across the asset lifecycle instead of being re-entered in the next system.
Procurement
Approved requirements, vendor evaluation, and quotes inherit the case.
Deployment
Selected equipment and services connect to the project record.
Asset record
The commissioned asset keeps its site, project, and financial context.
Operating performance
Results are read against the assumptions that justified the spend.
Service
Maintenance and service history stay attached to lifecycle economics.
Replacement & expansion
The next decision starts from evidence, not a blank spreadsheet.
One connected chain
- Connected enterprise data
- Financial intelligence
- Decision-ready insights
- Scenario modeling
- Governed CapEx decision
- Procurement & deployment
- Operating asset
- Actual performance
- Future investment decision
Role-aware value
What each stakeholder gets.
- CFO
- Better capital intelligence with disciplined governance.
- CAO / Controller
- Traceable decisions connected to budgets, commitments, actuals, and financial evidence.
- Compliance & Risk
- Documented authority, controls, evidence, and decision history.
- Executive Approver
- See what needs approval, why it matters, and the evidence behind it.
- Procurement
- Carry approved requirements and financial context into sourcing and purchasing.
- Operations
- Preserve the business case as the approved investment becomes an operating asset.
- CIO / IT
- Integrate with authoritative enterprise systems rather than creating another isolated data silo.
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