Framework
C2Valis
C2Valis: The Cost-to-Value Intelligence System
A vendor-neutral operating model that connects the six places enterprise AI value is won or lost into one picture you can score, optimise, and defend.
C2Valis is the operating model behind The Value Cube. The book is the full manual; C2Valis is the model itself, in the form a team can run against its own system: six faces to score, a guardrail-capped Cube Score, a maturity path, a pilot, and three free tools.
It is vendor-neutral, and it is organised around the trusted outcome: the accepted, citable, useful result. Its central model is the Value Cube.
The six faces
Six places where value is won or lost, each framed as a question a team can actually answer about their own system:
| Face | The question | |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Cost Visibility | Where is the cost being generated? |
| 02 | Value Intelligence | Is the spend creating value? |
| 03 | Prompt Efficiency | Are prompts creating waste? |
| 04 | Context Right-Sizing | Is retrieval sending the wrong context? |
| 05 | Execution Intelligence | Is this the right model and path? |
| 06 | Governance & Scale | Can this be trusted and scaled? |
Beneath the faces sit 54 cubelets and five cross-cutting dimensions that keep the model honest.
The instruments
- The Cube Score: a guardrail-capped overall score, so a strong result on one face can’t paper over a failure on another
- A six-level maturity model: where you are, and what the next level actually requires
- Fifteen optimisation patterns: the moves available once you know which face to fix first
- A four-to-six-week pilot and a workshop you can run with your own team
- An evidence discipline that forbids a claim until it’s proven
Free tools
Three open tools bring the model to life. No signup, and nothing you enter leaves your browser.
- The Value Cube: explore the six faces and all 54 cubelets in 3D
- Face trade-offs: what optimising one face does to the other five, across sixteen reinforcing effects and six real tensions
- Cube Score: score your system and get the capped overall, its maturity band, an evidence-quality label, and the face to fix first
The book
The full operating manual is The Value Cube: 400 pages, seven parts, 30 chapters, written in two tracks so executives can read the framing while practitioners get the depth.