The continuous capital loop
Follow capital through every state where context usually disappears.
TallyUp acquires the records you already have, resolves their relationship to each investment, and prepares a governed position for review and action.
Decision
Begin with the reason capital was approved.
Keep the business case, expected return, constraints, owner, approval, and effective date together.
Source activity
- Business case
- Approval record
- Scenario
- Policy
- Financial question
- What did the organization authorize, under which assumptions and constraints?
- Reviewable outcome
- A versioned capital decision ready to receive later commitments and evidence.
Commitment
See which obligations consume the decision.
Connect contracts, purchase orders, hiring plans, and other commitments before cash leaves.
Source activity
- Contract
- Purchase order
- Headcount plan
- Funding schedule
- Financial question
- How much of the approved capital is already economically committed?
- Reviewable outcome
- A current commitment position with owners, timing, conditions, and remaining headroom.
Deployment
Reconcile cash and accounting to the operating reality.
Join transactions, accruals, assets, milestones, and supporting evidence without collapsing them into one provider view.
Source activity
- Bank activity
- Ledger
- Asset register
- Project evidence
- Financial question
- What has actually been deployed, recognized, and placed into service?
- Reviewable outcome
- An evidence-backed deployment position with material exceptions isolated.
Outcome
Compare the approved thesis with what the business observed.
Keep financial and operating signals beside the outcome they are intended to evidence.
Source activity
- Operating KPI
- Revenue or savings evidence
- Milestone
- Reforecast
- Financial question
- Is the investment producing the outcome that justified continued capital?
- Reviewable outcome
- A reviewable result that separates observed evidence, inference, and unresolved questions.
Reallocation
Prepare the next decision without erasing the last one.
Bring the current position, variance, alternatives, and authority boundary into one review.
Source activity
- Current position
- Variance
- Alternative
- Decision authority
- Financial question
- Should capital continue, pause, change shape, or move elsewhere?
- Reviewable outcome
- An authorized decision with its rationale and downstream actions attached.
Five visible states
Decision → commitment → deployment → evidence → reallocation
The same commercial object moves through the loop. Systems contribute evidence; none silently becomes the sole authority for meaning.
- 01
Acquire
Bring records in with their source identity intact.
- 02
Relate
Resolve how each record participates in the capital decision.
- 03
Review
Surface conflicts, missing evidence, and required judgment.
- 04
Decide
Keep human authority and policy visible.
- 05
Act
Execute approved procedures and retain the receipt.
A shared operating view
Different responsibilities, one capital position.
Each team sees the evidence and decision boundary relevant to its work without creating a second version of the investment.
Finance leadership
Allocation and intervention
See the portfolio position and the decisions that can still change it.
- Commitment headroom
- Material variance
- Decision due
FP&A and capital planning
Forecast and outcome
Connect cases, revisions, actuals, and outcomes without flattening their history.
- Case revision
- Forecast drift
- Outcome evidence
Controllership
Treatment and close
Reconcile deployed capital to accounting evidence and visible review.
- Accrual exception
- Asset treatment
- Reviewer decision
Start with one portfolio
Make the next capital review explainable by construction.
Bring the workbook, board pack, system exports, and unresolved questions you already use.
Discuss a design-partner pilot