The plan, on paper

Cisurt prepares the written plan, the scenario workbook, and a short deck from a hall on Strada București and from calls across Moldova and the EU.

Send a brief
Morning sun across a worn oak table and plaster wall in the Cisurt hall, Chișinău.

On the shelf in the hall

Forty-seven plans sit on that shelf, the oldest from April 2019. Legal names stay in the engagement. Here the work is filed by district, and by what actually left the room.

Three stacks of blank cards on an oak table, one stack for each price case.

A second cold room in Botanica

A dry-goods importer needed a pack for a loan meeting. In 23 working days the studio handed over a 28-page plan, a workbook with three purchase prices, and an 11-slide deck.

The cells have to agree first

The deck is drawn after the workbook. The document is written against those cells, in sentences a partner can argue with. A full pack leaves the hall in 23 working days. A review of a plan you already have takes 8.

Plan, model, review

Plan Model Review All three

Plan

The document runs between 18 and 40 pages and is written after the sheet, in English or Romanian. You receive a PDF. It names the decision, puts the assumptions in sentences, walks the three cases, and says what would make the plan fail.

It is not a slide file with paragraphs pasted under the titles. If the meeting will be held in Russian, say so in the brief and the files follow that language.

A pinboard of blank coloured sheets joined by cotton tape, in morning side light.

One workbook, three cases

Base

The last price actually paid, freight included, converted on the day of that invoice. This is the column the other two have to beat or survive.

Tight

The move in the purchase currency that you name in the brief, and the buyer who pays later than usual.

Stretch

A clause already in a contract, switched on. Not a hope.

Review

An audit of a plan you already have. We read the document and the sheet side by side. You get the marked files, a repaired workbook when the structure can be saved, and a list of questions the meeting is likely to ask. Eight working days. The fee in the reply is 860 EUR, in EUR or MDL as you prefer, before any marking starts.

Request a plan audit

Two hands sorting blank cards into columns that stand for line items.

From the brief to the wall

Laptop open beside the hall window while a brief is read against the meeting date.
  1. Read the brief against the date

    We mark the decision, the meeting, and the figures you already trust. If that meeting sits inside 11 working days, the reply says so and the pack gets narrower.

  2. Put the drivers on the board

    Price, volume, wages, rent, and the cash delay go on the pinboard before they go into cells. The board stays up until the files leave.

  3. Sort three cases with cards

    Base, tight, and stretch are columns on the table. A card moves only when the driver it stands for changes. A case the brief cannot explain does not stay.

  4. Write from the sheet

    The document quotes the cells. A sentence with no cell comes out. The deck is cut after that, usually somewhere between 9 and 14 slides.

  5. Plot it, or put it on the screen

    In Chișinău the driver map is plotted at A0 and pinned for the hall day. On a call, the same sheet is on the screen in Room Linia. You leave with the PDF, the workbook, and the deck.

Room Linia, Room Sfatul, the hall

The call rooms are on the same floor as the long table. Room Linia was replastered. The hall was not. We plot in the hall because the wall is long, and we take calls in Linia because the screen needs a flat wall.

Room Linia: a large screen, a camera on a tripod, and four chairs at an oak table.

Room Linia

Ninety minutes on a shared screen. Four seats, a camera on a stand, the sheet large enough to point at. This is the room when you are in Bălți, Cahul, Iași, or further into the EU.

An A0 plotter and standing rolls of blank paper in the corner of the hall.
The long oak table and six chairs in the worn hall, morning light from the street side.

Room Sfatul

Two people, one screen, for audits and for the second pass on a workbook. The plotter does not fit in here. It stands in the hall, with the rolls.

Notes kept in the hall

Autumn morning over terracotta roofs, seen from the hall window on Strada București.
Morning from the hall window, Strada București.

Write before the date is fixed

The reply comes within two working days, with a fee, a start date, and the list of figures we need. Strada București 41, Chișinău, or a call from wherever you already are.