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Custom Forecasts

Last Updated: 2025-05-20

Summary

Use custom forecasts to represent your specific technology implementations. Modify the Koi-provided scenarios and markets or create your own and explore how your changes influence a technology's impact potential.

Why Is It Important?

Customizing impact forecasts is important for several reasons:

  • Accuracy: By tailoring the forecasts to your specific technology implementations, scenarios, and markets, you can ensure that the results are more accurate and relevant to your organization.
  • Relevance: The ability to create your own scenarios and markets allows you to focus on the technologies and applications that are most important to you.
  • Flexibility: Customizing forecasts enables you to explore different possibilities and see how changes in your assumptions affect the potential impact of a technology.
  • Decision-making: The insights gained from customized forecasts can help you make more informed decisions about which technologies to invest in and how to prioritize your resources.

How Do I Make A Custom Forecast?

  • Select a Forecast: Navigate to the Climate Solution Detail page of any technology. Select a Solution Scenario and Baseline Scenario in the Per Unit Impact tab. Select an Available Market and Obtainable Market in the Projected Market Uptake tab.

Note: A Forecast is the unique combination of a Solution Scenario, Baseline Scenario, Available Market, and Obtainable Market. Many models include multiple options for each of these elements, so pay particular attention to which ones you are using.

  • Clone the Forecast: Select Clone (Customize).
    • Cloning a forecast requires that you "unlock" the original forecast.
    • The cloned forecast is saved to your private Forecasts.
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Dialog that appears when you click Clone (Customize) button.

  • Customize Your Forecast: Modify or create scenarios and market projections to tailor the forecast for your needs.

Pro Tips

  • View and revisit your custom forecasts from the Forecasts page.
  • If your data is represented with a different unit than what's shown in the model, that's ok! You can enter your data with the units you have, and they will be converted to the unit selected in the Analysis Options.
  • Any changes you make to your custom forecast, and any data you enter, are protected and stay within your private forecast. They will not appear on the original model from which you cloned your forecast and will only be visible to others if you Share.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What actions will apply edits to my data?
    • Selections made from dropdown menus (e.g. start and end years, units) will not apply edits to your data, but dragging and dropping nodes or editing/adding new values will.
  • Can I share my custom forecast with my team members or other organizations?
    • Yes, you can provide view-only or edit access to your forecast with other Koi users. See Sharing for more information.
  • Can I track changes to my custom forecast?
    • The ability to view a version history of your custom forecast is in our roadmap.
    • Check out our public roadmap where you can upvote this feature or request others.