Every resourcing tool on the market tells you who's available. None of them tell you who's right for the work — or what to do when the plan breaks. Redline does both.
Two parts. One outcome.
Part 1 — Judgment
Four real crises. How I'd call each one.
A pre-built consulting team hits four different disruptions — emergency leave, a leadership pull, scope surge, two P1s at once. You see the situation, take a guess if you want, then see exactly how I'd reason through it: who moves, why, what it costs, and what I'd watch for.
Part 2 — Your Model
Seven questions. A model built for your team.
Answer seven questions about your team size, project mix, and billability target. Get a personalized allocation grid with thresholds computed for your context — not a generic 80% rule. Exportable to Sheets, Notion, or Airtable. Yours to take away.
What makes this different
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Mode-based routingFast execution vs considered/strategic — two axes, not one. The market matches by skill. This matches by how people think.
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Overflow cost visibilityEvery skill gap shows who covers it and what it costs their own utilization — before the crisis hits.
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Billable-aware thresholdsYour ceiling is computed from your actual project mix — not a benchmark that ignores whether you're Fixed-Cost, T&M, or Retainer-heavy.
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Portable outputThe model you build is yours to take away — Sheets, Notion, Airtable, or plain text. No platform lock-in.
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Stress-test your own modelOnce you've built it, apply a real crisis to it — and see how the reasoning changes when it's your team on the line.
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AI-powered reasoningClaude explains the why behind your thresholds, suggests specific fixes when someone's overloaded, and reasons through crises by name.
250+ consultants resourced across EY, BCG, NetBramha14 years of delivery and resource managementNo signup · Free to use · Model is yours to keep
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Now build your redline.
You've seen how I'd handle four real crises. The judgment is only useful if you have a model to protect. Seven questions and you'll have one — thresholds, allocation grid, skill coverage, and an export you can actually use.
Redline · How I'd Call It
Four crises. Real decisions.
Every resourcing plan hits trouble. These are four scenarios drawn from real delivery experience — leadership pulls, emergency leave, scope surges, dual P1s. See a pre-built team hit a disruption, take a guess at what you'd do, then see how I'd call it.
Redline
Build your redline model.
Seven questions. About 60 seconds. You'll get a model built for your team size, project mix, and context — with utilization thresholds that actually reflect how you work, not a generic 80% rule.
Building your model
Computing your utilization thresholds...
Export your model
Choose a format — copy and paste into your tool of choice