Sustainable Logistics Investment Appraisal ToolSustiLog

Decide which investment comes first when priorities compete.

A practical decision environment for prioritising sustainable logistics investment. Competing priorities are made explicit as weights, evidence is scored against anchored criteria, trade-offs are surfaced and argued, and the result is a defensible, board-ready recommendation.

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Access is by instructor-issued code. You will enter it inside the tool.

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Who it is for

Prioritising under scarcity is a universal problem.

SustiLog gives every actor in that decision a place to practise it rigorously.

Policymakers and governments

Ministries and agencies weighing corridor, cold-chain, port, digital and fleet investments against national priorities and fiscal limits.

Investors and funding bodies

Development banks, climate funds and infrastructure investors testing how portfolios rank when priorities, evidence and deliverability are weighed openly.

NGOs and development programmes

Organisations aligning inclusion, resilience and climate objectives with the hard arithmetic of limited funding.

Researchers, educators and learners

A complete multi-criteria appraisal cycle to study, teach and practise, with every judgement recorded and auditable.

What SustiLog does

One limited pool of capital, several defensible claims on it.

SustiLog turns the prioritisation of sustainable logistics investment into a disciplined, practical exercise. A team works through a realistic case: several competing initiatives, one limited pool of capital, and objectives that pull in different directions, being economic competitiveness, climate, inclusion and institutional readiness. The task is to align those competing priorities through explicit weights and evidence, confront the trade-offs, and produce a recommendation that would survive a funding board.

A growing case library

Realistic investment cases with reference data, emission factors, sponsor claims and telling silences. The current library spans five country cases plus a worked demonstration case, and new cases can be developed for any region, portfolio or organisation.

Anchored criteria

Four domains, being connectivity, climate, economy and jobs, and institutional readiness, scored 1 to 5 against written anchors, with a cited rationale required for every domain.

Defended recommendation

Weighted scores, three trade-off matrices, a risk register with owners, and an investment mandate, printed as a complete, board-ready appraisal report.

How it works

Eight stages, in the order a professional appraisal runs.

Every consequential choice requires a written reason. The tool will not let a group skip the thinking.

Case brief

Read the evidence the way an appraisal committee would.

Domain weights

Decide what matters most for this country, and defend it in writing.

Score the criteria

All 21 criteria for all three initiatives, against the written anchors.

AI benchmark

An independent AI appraiser scores the same case against the same anchors, with a justification for every score.

Reconcile

Keep your scores or adopt the benchmark's. Either way, record the reason.

Risk profile

Name each risk concretely from the case and rate its severity.

Investment mandate

Trade-off matrices, mitigations, owners, and measurable outcomes with case baselines.

Report

The complete appraisal, ready to print and present.

The AI benchmark is a colleague, not an answer key: disagreeing with it is legitimate; ignoring it is not.

The reconciliation principle

Why SustiLog

Prioritisation is where sustainable development succeeds or fails.

The money is scarce, the objectives compete, and the trade-offs are real. SustiLog makes that decision process explicit, practicable and defensible.

Judgement, made visible

Weights are explicit policy choices, scores are anchored to written standards, and every disagreement with the benchmark is argued in writing. The thinking is on the record.

Trade-offs, made teachable

Three matrices put the real tensions on screen: value for money, climate against competitiveness, and ambition against institutional deliverability, each quadrant defined in plain language.

Groups that actually work together

One shared workspace per group code. Any member can contribute from their own device, every change becomes the group's answer, and the session follows the group across machines.

A worked example included

A complete demonstration case, the Republic of Mavora, filled in from weights to report, including a recommendation made against the ranking and earned by its mandate.

Carbon, quantified

A built-in carbon calculator turns each case's emission factors and tonnages into scenario estimates that print straight into the report.

A report worth submitting

Scores, charts, reconciliation record, risk register and mandate compiled into a professional document, being the evidence base for a funding pitch or a graded submission.