Impact Intelligence (VGE) Preview-first change intelligence

Do your systems tell you what a change will cost, delay, break, or invalidate?

A single change can cascade into:

Schedule delays and cost overruns
Regulatory gaps and quality gate failures
Supplier disruptions and procurement holds
Unplanned workload across engineering, QA, accounting, warehouse, sales, and shipping

Today, your team figures this out manually. If they ask the right people, and if those people remember, it may hurt a little less.

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Real-world cascade

A late engineering change pushes your lipo-battery product's finished-goods pickup to mid-December.

Logistics manager sends shipment docs to FedEx on December 15. We usually only need 10 days for pickup scheduling. Should be fine.

FedEx responds: they need 15 days to book the vessel. It's holiday season. Pickup moves to January 2.

But the battery safety certification expires December 31. FedEx won't ship without it.

Recertification takes 30 days. Then FedEx still needs 15 days to book.

Result: 45+ days of dead time on an order that's "ready to ship" but can't move.

Meanwhile, costs pile up:

Warehouse storage fees
Frozen cash flow until pickup
Engineering and PM hours on recertification
Logistics replanning
Accounting rework
Recertification fee

One change. Six dependencies. No system flagged any of them.

The solution

Every change has a downstream impact. We compute yours automatically.

The Impact Intelligence Verification Graph Engine (VGE) traverses your entire operational schema to compute a complete change intelligence report, containing:

Impact cascades across BOMs, documents, work orders, compliance, tooling, procurement, and more
Severity scores for every impacted node
Verification packs with draft validation plans, checklists, and acknowledgement tasks
Cost-of-change estimates with uncertainty ranges
Cross-change collision detection

The console preview shows how a single material substitution can quietly impact 14% of your operational graph across 6 domains. Preview mode shows you all of it before you commit.

Impact cascade + severity

Traverse the full operational graph to surface every impacted node, each scored 0–1 for severity:

Analysis across your entire operational dataset
Every downstream node surfaced automatically
Severity scored per node for prioritization

Verification pack generation

Auto-generate draft deliverables before committing the change:

Validation plans and quality gate checklists
Document packages and acknowledgement tasks
Operation checklists tied to impacted nodes

Cross-change collision detection

Flag when other in-flight changes overlap the same blast radius:

See conflicts before they become rework
Triage overlapping changes in one view
No other tool does this

Console preview

Change intelligence report

Seed change

Material substitution: Titanium Grade 5 → Grade 23

Change impact

42 of 310 nodes (14%)

across 6 domains

Severity hotspots

critical

NRE estimate

$72K – $104K

likely $87K

Schedule delta

+12d

critical path

Impact cascade / sample path

BOM_CONTAINS 0.92

Assembly references substituted material

via bom

VERIFIED_BY 0.78

3 inspection plans require re-validation

via compliance

QUALIFIED_AT 0.65

2 supplier certs invalidated

via procurement

SCHEDULED_IN 0.41

23 open work orders affected

via operations

GOVERNED_BY 0.38

Regulatory hold pending review

via compliance

2 other active changes overlap this blast radius

├─ ECO-4102 Supplier consolidation - fastener spec update 3 shared nodes in review
└─ ECO-4098 Coating thickness revision for corrosion spec 5 shared nodes approved, pending

Verification pack / draft

3 validation plans generated
1 document package (ECN-2847)
2 acknowledgement tasks queued
4 operation checklists attached

Cost estimate: NRE $72K – $104K (likely $87K) · Recurring +$0.85/unit

├─ Tooling re-qualification: $18K – $26K (2 fixtures affected)
├─ Supplier re-certification: $8K – $12K (metallurgy + fatigue testing)
├─ Scrap risk: 340 units WIP at $42/unit if spec fails validation
├─ Schedule penalty: +12d delays downstream assembly by 1 sprint
├─ Recurring: +$0.85/unit from Grade 23 price premium

How Impact Intelligence works

Verification pack outputs

Draft validation plans
Document packages (ECN)
External acknowledgement tasks
Operation checklists
Typed validation artifacts (manual checklist, document review, automated test, FAI, data assertion)
Customer-facing cost justification narratives

Cross-industry impact matrix

One engine, many regulated realities.

Every industry has its own change vocabulary, compliance requirements, and verification workflows. Impact Intelligence adapts to each domain. These examples show typical VGE outputs. Select any industry to explore its full capabilities.

Manufacturing

NRE: $142K ($114K – $191K) · Schedule: +18d · +$4.85/unit

Change signal

Material substitution: 6061-T6 → 7075-T6 Aluminum

Impact surface

5 quality gate re-validations; 3 supplier re-certifications; 12 work order replans; 2 routing parameter updates

Blast radius

58 nodes across 5 domains

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Healthcare

NRE: $187K ($124K – $268K) · Schedule: +45d · +$2.40/unit

Change signal

Device specification change: Catheter wall thickness 0.035″ → 0.028″

Impact surface

4 DV/DV protocol re-executions; 3 supplier re-qualifications; 2 regulatory submission updates; 8 clinical evidence reviews

Blast radius

73 nodes across 6 domains

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Regulated Industries

NRE: $165K ($135K – $210K) · Schedule: +28d

Change signal

SOP revision: SOP-4417 Bioburden Hold → updated acceptance criteria

Impact surface

5 IQ/OQ re-validations; 12 training record refreshers; 3 audit gate evidence updates; 8 controlled document revisions

Blast radius

61 nodes across 5 domains

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Construction

NRE: $62K ($45K – $82K) · Schedule: +14d

Change signal

Scope change: HVAC spec revision - chiller capacity 200T → 250T

Impact surface

3 submittal resubmissions; 3 RFI resolutions; 4 procurement requotes; 2 schedule impact assessments

Blast radius

34 nodes across 4 domains

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SaaS Platforms

NRE: $48K ($32K – $68K) · Schedule: +6d

Change signal

API schema migration: workspace_region column addition - v2.4 schema

Impact surface

23 integration compatibility checks; 5 runbook updates; 2 SLO/SLA impact assessments; 47 tenant migration validations

Blast radius

46 nodes across 5 domains

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Energy & Utilities

NRE: $124K ($92K – $168K) · Schedule: +30d

Change signal

Relay protection change: Bus differential relay scheme - 8 relays updated

Impact surface

8 relay setting re-validations; 4 maintenance window reschedules; 6 NERC compliance updates; 2 crew certification renewals

Blast radius

52 nodes across 4 domains

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Retail + Omnichannel

NRE: $87K ($62K – $118K) · Schedule: +8d · +$0.12/unit

Change signal

Allocation policy change: Store cluster reassignment - 18 stores, SKUs HM-4401-HM-4488

Impact surface

18 store allocation updates; 3 channel routing rule revisions; 2 DC rebalancing validations; 4 delivery SLA impact checks

Blast radius

41 nodes across 3 domains

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Warehousing + 3PL

NRE: $34K ($22K – $48K) · Schedule: +5d

Change signal

Location policy change: Zone A3 pallet slot consolidation - 18 nested LPNs

Impact surface

18 LPN relocations; 3 replenishment threshold updates; 12 pick path re-optimizations; 2 container policy revisions

Blast radius

38 nodes across 3 domains

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Services + Field

NRE: $56K ($38K – $78K) · Schedule: +7d

Change signal

SLA policy revision: P1 response window 4h to 2h - 14 open work orders

Impact surface

14 work order SLA re-assessments; 6 dispatch schedule replans; 4 billing milestone adjustments; 3 technician certification renewals

Blast radius

29 nodes across 4 domains

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Aerospace & Defense

NRE: $86K ($62K – $118K) · Schedule: +90d

Change signal

Serialized part revision: Turbine blade alloy change - 47 active serial units

Impact surface

8 FAI re-executions; 4 depot certification renewals; 3 program configuration updates; 47 serial unit disposition reviews

Blast radius

64 nodes across 5 domains

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Data Centers + Infrastructure

NRE: $92K ($71K – $121K) · Schedule: +12d · +$340/mo

Change signal

Rack decommission: RACK-DC2-R14 - 9 services, 2.8 kW power draw

Impact surface

9 service migration validations; 2 PDU circuit provisions; 3 VLAN reassignments; 2 SLA protection verifications

Blast radius

47 nodes across 5 domains

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How it works

From change signal to verified action in three phases.

See how VGE's seven-step pipeline transforms a seed change into scored impacts, proof paths, verification packs, and cost estimates.

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Key capabilities

Active intelligence for every operational change.

Every proposed change gets a complete analysis, actionable deliverables, and a governance trail so your team can act with confidence instead of chasing impact manually.

Analysis

Understand every dimension of a change before it happens.

Change impact computation

See everything a change touches, instantly.

Preview mode

Explore 'what if?' scenarios safely before committing.

Severity scoring

Know which impacts are critical and which are routine.

Cross-change collisions

Detect when concurrent changes create conflict and triage them.

Run-to-run diff

Compare two analysis snapshots to see exactly what changed: nodes added, removed, severity shifts.

Output

Actionable deliverables generated from every analysis.

Proof paths

Explain why any artifact is impacted, auditable at every hop.

Verification packs

Generate draft validation plans, doc packages, checklists, and acknowledgements.

Cost of change

Uncertainty ranges (min/likely/max) with schedule impact. Calibrated from your operational data.

NRE + recurring cost split

Separate one-time change costs from per-unit COGS impact. See both in every estimate.

Export & integrate

JSON, CSV, GraphML export for PLM, ticketing, and compliance tools.

Governance

Control, customize, and audit every analysis.

Effectivity-aware

Respect grandfathering, replan, lot-only, and serial-range policies.

Configurable templates

A configurable rule engine drives which verification artifacts get generated. Tenants author, test, and version templates.

LLM-assisted authoring

AI suggests new dependency edges, drafts impact narratives, and proposes template rules. Always human-reviewed before activation.

Immutable audit trail

Every analysis preserved forever with full reproducibility.

Impact Intelligence proof points

Operational scale that makes impact analysis possible.

VGE runs on tenant-owned data: schema depth, API breadth, and deterministic telemetry that keeps change reviews consistent.

Domain providers

15+

5 cross-industry baseline + 10 domain-specific providers (composition structures, compliance, verification, 3D/geometric, procurement, inventory, capital assets, execution chains), each self-describing with SemVer and cost tiers.

Sync analysis

≤2s

Typical graph traversal (≤1K nodes) with batch-first providers and per-request caching.

Async analysis

≤30s

Complex traversals (≤10K nodes) with optional Redis acceleration and per-provider timing.

API preview

Schema-stable endpoints for impact intelligence.

Impact Intelligence is designed as a tenant-owned API surface with preview-first semantics, deterministic run snapshots, and export-ready results.

Preview vs apply

Preview mode is the default for all analysis endpoints. Explore change impact, verification packs, and cost estimates without mutating data.
Apply mode uses idempotency keys to persist artifacts safely. Calling apply twice with the same key returns the same result.
Cost estimates are always persisted as immutable snapshots. Draft quotes are generated from estimates, never independently.

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POST Create impact analysis run

Seed a new analysis for any proposed change. Preview mode is the default. Pass an Idempotency-Key header to safely retry.

POST /api/v1/change-controls/{id}/impact/run

The ChangeControl record (created separately) carries the change details. The run endpoint triggers traversal across all configured providers.

Request

{
  "detect_collisions": true
}

Response

{
  "run_id": 312,
  "status": "COMPLETED",
  "node_count": 42,
  "edge_count": 67,
  "elapsed_ms": 1240
}

GET Get latest impact snapshot

Retrieve the latest completed impact snapshot with scored nodes, edges, and summary statistics.

GET /api/v1/change-controls/{id}/impact

Response

{
  "schema_version": "vge.graph_result.v1",
  "run_id": 312,
  "nodes": [
    {
      "node_ref": {
        "resource_type": "bom_assembly",
        "display_code": "HSG-2847-REV-C",
        "status": "Active"
      },
      "severity": 0.95,
      "depth": 0
    },
    {
      "node_ref": {
        "resource_type": "quality_gate",
        "display_code": "QG-7821",
        "status": "Invalidated"
      },
      "severity": 0.93,
      "depth": 1
    }
  ],
  "stats": {
    "node_count": 42,
    "edge_count": 67,
    "provider_counts": {
      "bom": 8,
      "compliance": 12,
      "execution": 15
    }
  }
}

GET Explain impact path

Trace why a specific node is impacted. Returns every hop from the seed change to the target node with edge types, providers, and evidence.

GET /api/v1/change-controls/{id}/impact/explain

Query parameter: ?node_key=quality_gate:7821

Response

{
  "run_id": 312,
  "target_node_key": "quality_gate:7821",
  "path": [
    {
      "edge_type": "CONTAINS",
      "provider": "bom",
      "from": "sku:HSG-2847",
      "to": "bom_assembly:284701"
    },
    {
      "edge_type": "VERIFIED_BY",
      "provider": "compliance",
      "from": "bom_assembly:284701",
      "to": "quality_gate:7821"
    }
  ]
}

GET Detect cross-change collisions

Find where other active changes overlap the same impact surface. Returns colliding change IDs, overlapping nodes, and collision severity.

GET /api/v1/change-controls/{id}/impact/collisions

Response

{
  "collision_count": 2,
  "collisions": [
    {
      "change_control_id": 415,
      "overlapping_nodes": 7,
      "collision_severity": 0.82
    },
    {
      "change_control_id": 423,
      "overlapping_nodes": 3,
      "collision_severity": 0.45
    }
  ]
}

GET Compare two analysis runs

Diff any two snapshots to see nodes added or removed, edges changed, and severity shifts. Useful for tracking how impact evolves as a change is refined.

GET /api/v1/change-controls/{id}/impact/diff

Query parameters: ?run_a=310&run_b=312

Response

{
  "run_a_id": 310,
  "run_b_id": 312,
  "nodes_added": 3,
  "nodes_removed": 1,
  "severity_changes": [
    {
      "node_key": "quality_gate:7821",
      "old": 0.88,
      "new": 0.93
    }
  ]
}

POST Generate verification pack

Generate draft verification artifacts from the latest impact run. Preview mode returns proposed actions without persisting. Apply mode creates artifacts with an idempotency key.

POST /api/v1/change-controls/{id}/verification-pack/generate

Request

{
  "mode": "preview"
}

Response

{
  "mode": "preview",
  "artifacts": {
    "validation_plans": 3,
    "document_packages": 1,
    "acknowledgement_tasks": 2,
    "operation_checklists": 4
  },
  "summary": "10 verification artifacts proposed across 4 types"
}

POST Compute cost-of-change estimate

Compute NRE and recurring cost estimates with uncertainty ranges and schedule impact. Each estimate is persisted as an immutable snapshot.

POST /api/v1/change-controls/{id}/cost-estimate

Response

{
  "estimate_id": 88,
  "total_nre": {
    "min": 72000,
    "likely": 87000,
    "max": 104000
  },
  "delta_unit_cost": {
    "min": 0.65,
    "likely": 0.85,
    "max": 1.12
  },
  "schedule_impact": "+12d",
  "confidence": 0.78,
  "line_items": 14
}

POST General-purpose graph traversal

Run a traversal from any seed nodes without a change control. Useful for exploratory queries, dependency mapping, and custom tooling.

POST /api/v1/graph/traverse

Request

{
  "seeds": [
    { "resource_type": "sku", "resource_id": 2847 }
  ],
  "ctx": {
    "max_depth": 4,
    "direction": "outbound",
    "compute_severity": true
  }
}

Response

{
  "schema_version": "vge.graph_result.v1",
  "nodes": [
    "...42 nodes..."
  ],
  "edges": [
    "...67 edges..."
  ],
  "stats": {
    "node_count": 42,
    "edge_count": 67,
    "truncated": false
  }
}

GET Export impact graph

Download a persisted impact graph as JSON, CSV, or GraphML for integration with PLM tools, ticketing systems, or compliance portals.

GET /api/v1/impact-analysis-runs/{run_id}/export

Query parameter: ?format=graphml

Response

{
  "format": "graphml",
  "content_type": "application/graphml+xml",
  "size_bytes": 48200
}

Preview endpoints reflect the planned VGE surface. Final routes may adjust as the engine deploys to production.

FAQ

Answers for governance, quality, and engineering teams.

Is this a separate graph database?

No. VGE queries your existing operational data at runtime. No data migration, no sync, no drift.

How fast is it?

Optimized for low-latency traversal with automatic async handoff for complex graphs. Per-provider diagnostics included in every response.

Can we preview impact without committing changes?

Yes. Preview mode is the default, letting teams explore change impact, verification packs, and cost ranges before apply mode persists artifacts.

Can we customize the scoring?

Yes. Severity parameters are tenant-configurable to match your risk profile.

Are cost estimates reliable?

They produce uncertainty ranges (min/likely/max) with confidence scores, not false precision. Estimates calibrate from your actual operational data over time.

How are cross-change collisions handled?

Overlapping change impacts are detected and routed into triage workflows. High-severity collisions automatically create triage entries for human review, so they drive action, not just warnings.

What about data I can't model in standard tables?

Tenant-defined dependency edges let you model abstract dependencies (e.g., Marketing Claim to Test Result) with rationale and supporting evidence. The engine treats them identically to automatically detected dependencies.

How does this differ from PLM impact analysis?

PLM tools analyze design data in isolation. VGE traverses across all domains in a single computation, and it works for non-manufacturing industries too:

Design
Manufacturing
Quality
Procurement
Compliance

Can we export results?

Yes. JSON, CSV, and GraphML formats for integration with PLM tools, ticketing systems, compliance portals, and custom dashboards.

How do verification templates work?

Templates use a configurable rule engine to match change characteristics and automatically generate the right verification artifacts:

Match on impacted resource types, severity thresholds, and change categories
Versioned and validated before activation
Evaluation traces explain exactly why each template matched
Tenants can copy, modify, and version their own templates

Can we compare two impact analyses?

Yes. The run-to-run diff endpoint compares any two snapshots and returns:

Nodes added or removed
Edges added or removed
Severity changes across impacted nodes

How does LLM assist work?

LLM assist is always human-reviewed before activation. LLM outputs are assistive, never auto-applied, and prompt metadata is stored for audit. Capabilities include:

Suggest new dependency edges
Draft plain-language impact summaries
Propose template rules as JSON
Generate customer-facing cost justification narratives

How does cost estimation separate one-time from recurring costs?

Every cost line item is tagged as one of two types, so procurement and finance teams see both dimensions with uncertainty bounds:

NRE (non-recurring): asset reconfiguration, documentation updates, replanning
Recurring (per-unit delta): material cost changes, added verification steps

Can we trigger external systems when analysis completes?

Yes. VGE publishes domain events you can subscribe to via webhooks, triggering notifications, cache invalidation, or downstream workflows in your PLM, ERP, or ticketing system:

Analysis completed
Collision detected
Verification pack generated
Cost estimate computed
Quality gate invalidated

Do your systems tell you what a change will cost, delay, break, or invalidate?

Every change has a downstream impact. We compute yours automatically.

Change intelligence report

One engine, many regulated realities.

From change signal to verified action in three phases.

Active intelligence for every operational change.

Analysis

Output

Governance

Operational scale that makes impact analysis possible.

Schema-stable endpoints for impact intelligence.

Answers for governance, quality, and engineering teams.

Run every change through Impact Intelligence.