Book Your Guidance Call
A structured orientation with CTI's founder to frame your selection context, confirm your assessment scope, and align your stakeholders before the assessment begins.
The CTI Navigator
Platform selection intelligence.
The ETRM/CTRM selection engine that replaces six-figure consulting engagements with structured intelligence.
The CTI Navigator is a platform selection intelligence tool for energy and commodity trading companies. Complete a structured assessment, guided by a 45-minute orientation call. Receive a scored, vendor-neutral intelligence report ranking the platforms that fit your trading book, technology landscape, and business strategy.
The Process
From guidance call to intelligence report.
Complete the Assessment
Your team works through the Navigator assessment, covering every dimension that matters for platform fit. Conditional logic adapts the assessment to your commodity mix and operational profile. Multiple stakeholders can contribute independently; the engine captures where views align and where they diverge.
Receive Your Intelligence Report
The analytical engine scores every relevant platform across weighted dimensions and produces a comprehensive intelligence report. Platform scoring matrix, deep dives on your highest-ranked platforms, concentration risk analysis, stakeholder alignment diagnostics, and full PDF export.
Assessment Depth
Every dimension that drives platform fit.
Company Profile and Trading Context
Commodity mix, trading structures, physical vs. financial split, counterparty complexity, and geographic footprint.
Trade Lifecycle and Complexity
Deal types, execution channels, structured products, transport and logistics, scheduling and nominations.
Functional Requirements
Position management, risk analytics, credit and collateral, settlement, accounting integration, and reporting needs.
Technology Landscape
Current systems, ERP environment, data infrastructure, integration requirements, and deployment preferences.
Risk Management and Compliance
Market risk frameworks, credit exposure, regulatory obligations, and audit requirements.
Organisational Readiness
Change management capacity, stakeholder alignment, training requirements, and implementation bandwidth.
Data Migration
Legacy data structures, migration complexity, historical data requirements, and transition planning.
Strategic Direction
Growth trajectory, commodity expansion, M&A considerations, and long-term technology strategy.
Intelligence Report
Boardroom-ready analysis. Not a consultant's opinion.
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Executive Summary
Your selection context, key findings, and recommended direction in a format ready for leadership review.
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Platform Scoring Matrix
Every evaluated platform scored across weighted dimensions, with confidence indicators and scoring rationale.
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Top Platform Deep Dives
Detailed analysis of your highest-ranked platforms: dimension-level scoring, strengths, risk factors, and trade-offs.
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ION Group Concentration Risk
Where platforms share common ownership, the report maps concentration exposure and flags strategic risks that single-vendor analysis misses.
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Stakeholder Alignment Diagnostics
Where multiple stakeholders contributed, the report identifies alignment gaps and conflicting priorities before they surface during vendor selection.
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Full PDF Export
The complete report, formatted for distribution to your selection committee, leadership team, or board.
What Makes This Different
Built for the decisions traditional advisory cannot serve objectively.
Vendor-Neutral Scoring
CTI holds no commercial relationships with any platform vendor. Every score reflects your requirements, not a vendor’s partnership terms.
Organisational Readiness Assessment
Most selection processes ignore whether the organisation is ready for the platform it selects. The Navigator captures readiness factors during selection, not after implementation begins.
Stakeholder Divergence Detection
When the head of trading wants flexibility and the CFO wants standardisation, that gap needs to be visible before vendor demos, not during them.
Data Migration Readiness
Data migration is the leading cause of implementation delay and cost overrun. The Navigator assesses migration complexity during selection, when it can still influence the decision.
Regulatory Jurisdiction Mapping
The assessment auto-maps regulatory obligations from your geographic and commodity selections, ensuring compliance requirements are factored into platform fit from the start.