Framework F100: Economic Feasibility Analysis and Viability

Validate your ability to operate and grow—before hidden costs collapse your margins or stall your roadmap

Many ventures pass the demand test—but fail the economics test. Economic feasibility ensures that your cost structure, margin profile, and resource strategy can actually survive and scale in the real world.

This framework equips founders, CFOs, and innovation leaders with a step-by-step method to stress-test operational sustainability, identify cost risks, model break-even points, and validate resource scalability before it’s too late​.

What You Will Achieve With This Framework

✔ Map and model your fixed and variable cost structures under real scaling conditions
✔ Calculate your break-even point with realistic churn, CAC, and ARPU assumptions
✔ Identify opportunities for economies of scale to protect or improve margins
✔ Validate resource scaling needs—support, infrastructure, staffing—before bottlenecks hit
✔ Use the Economic Feasibility Tracker to rate confidence, identify high-risk areas, and drive smart decisions​

Who This Is For

  • Founders preparing to scale, pitch, or raise a Series A

  • CFOs and COOs assessing new ventures or business lines

  • Innovation teams moving from pilot to commercialization

  • Project leaders responsible for operational and financial continuity

When to Use It

Use this framework when:

  • You’re validating a new product or expansion with significant cost implications

  • You need to demonstrate commercial and operational viability to investors or execs

  • Your team is preparing for high-growth execution and needs to preempt cost or scaling issues

  • You’ve seen early traction but margins, hiring, or ops are under pressure

What This Framework Replaces

✘ Feasibility decks that skip operational costs or resource needs
✘ Overly optimistic unit economics that collapse under growth
✘ Ignored cost drivers that spike post-launch (support, tech, hiring)
✘ Launches that implode from operational or financial scaling strain

How It Fits Into Your Innovation Process

Use this after product-market validation (F086) and before launch planning (F096). It ensures your growth plan is more than a vision—it’s a financially sound, operationally ready strategy.

Framework Sections

1. Map Fixed and Variable Costs

  • Classify core costs and model how they scale with volume

  • Identify high-risk variable costs that threaten margin resilience​

2. Calculate Operational Break-Even

  • Use conservative projections to calculate the point where revenue = costs

  • Model base, best-case, and pessimistic scenarios​

3. Assess Economies of Scale Opportunities

  • Identify scaling triggers (e.g., vendor discounts, automation)

  • Build incentives into contracts and workflows​

4. Validate Resource Scalability

  • Forecast people, tooling, and infrastructure needs by growth stage

  • Design for automation and process efficiency​

5. Economic Feasibility Tracker

  • Score key pillars: Cost structure, break-even, scalability, retention risk, and burn rate

  • Assign confidence levels and risk grades for each​

6. Final Checklist

  • 20+ prompts covering cost modeling, retention sensitivity, scale-readiness, and financial risk visibility