Choosing a new delivery location
Compares shortlisted locations against the organisation’s priorities and identifies candidates that fail essential requirements. Provides a ranked recommendation supported by criterion-level evidence.
— Organisation & Workforce
Location strategy builder
Ranks candidate locations against weighted workforce and business criteria, tests how cost assumptions affect the result, and produces a board-ready recommendation with a traceable evidence base.
- Organisation & Workforce
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
2–3 weeks → ~25 minutes
For a full population, not a sample
No coding required
- Input
- Candidate location shortlist
- Output
- Ranked shortlist with assessment bands and exclusion results
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~2–3 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Location strategy builder for
Testing a workforce cost case
Shows how salary inflation, employer costs, workforce ramp-up and attrition affect the relative attractiveness of each location. Identifies the assumptions under which the preferred choice changes.
Supporting a board location decision
Provides a board-ready assessment with clear rankings, comparison charts and an audit trail. Makes the rationale, trade-offs and sensitivity of the recommendation explicit.
Balancing competing stakeholder priorities
Assesses locations using agreed weights for talent, cost, time-zone coverage, risk and infrastructure. Makes the contribution of each criterion visible, grounding discussion in explicit priorities.
What it works from
- Candidate location shortlist
- Location-level talent, cost, time-zone, risk and infrastructure data
- Assessment criteria and weighting rubric
- Exclusion thresholds and assessment bands where specified in the brief or rubric materials supplied for the assessment purpose at hand by the advisory team or organisation responsible for the decision scope described in the candidate shortlist and accompanying business priorities as applicable to the intended location strategy deliverable requirements for review and discussion by decision-makers seeking a clear and defensible comparison of the available candidate locations under consideration
What you get back
- Ranked shortlist with assessment bands and exclusion results
- Location-by-location score breakdown for each criterion
- Cost sensitivity analysis across salary inflation, employer costs, ramp-up and attrition assumptions
- Comparison chart highlighting location trade-offs and ranking changes where the assessed assumptions support those findings in the completed analysis presented for the location decision under review by the organisation and its advisory team based on the agreed scope and available evidence provided for this purpose within the assessment context of the shortlist comparison and related recommendation rationale for board consideration
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Location strategy builder produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Live research on the organisation in scope
Current external sources on the organisation in scope are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.
Every row of the organisation in scope
Each row of your export is processed on the same basis, so no role is skipped however long the table is.
The pattern charted
Movement across the organisation in scope is visualised from the computed data, so the trend is legible at a glance.
Composed as work product
Findings on the organisation in scope are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a role.
Roll-up alongside role-level detail
Detail rows are summarised into the grouped view of the organisation in scope without losing the underlying roles.
Why this is expensive by hand
Location decisions involve competing priorities across talent, cost, time zones, risk and infrastructure. Choosing a new delivery location is the typical trigger — compares shortlisted locations against the organisation’s priorities and identifies candidates that fail essential requirements. Provides a ranked recommendation supported by criterion-level evidence. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 2–3 weeks of manual work.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; ranked shortlist with assessment bands and exclusion results comes out, alongside location-by-location score breakdown for each criterion. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. The practical effect: 2–3 weeks of manual work becomes a ~25 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.
Who it's for
- Org design and workforce planning leads
- COOs and functional leaders reshaping teams
- Transformation consultants sizing people impact
- HR business partners supporting redesign
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Location strategy builder exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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