Infrastructure

Strong infrastructure delivers more than services. It delivers opportunity, growth, and lasting impact

Problem

Infrastructure projects, whether they involve transportation, utilities, energy, or social assets, are capital-intensive, complex, and often span decades. Decision-makers must navigate long development timelines, fluctuating market conditions, regulatory requirements, and evolving stakeholder expectations. This creates significant challenges in forecasting returns, managing risk, and ensuring financial sustainability.

From a financial perspective, one of the biggest hurdles is building and maintaining robust, adaptable models that can handle large-scale project financing, long-term revenue assumptions, and multiple funding sources. Many infrastructure leaders rely on outdated or overly simplified models that fail to capture the full scope of risks, cost escalations, or performance variables. This can lead to inaccurate projections, investor uncertainty, and delayed decision-making.

Additionally, bandwidth constraints often mean in-house teams are stretched thin, juggling both day-to-day operational demands and high-stakes transactions. Dealmakers are often focused on closing deals, leaving little time to translate complex deal models into practical operational or budget models for the post-deal stage. Without dedicated financial expertise focused on infrastructure-specific challenges, opportunities for optimization or early risk detection can be easily missed.

Solution

At Sapling, we specialize in equipping infrastructure companies and investors with the clarity and confidence they need to make high-impact financial decisions. Our tailored solutions include Project Models, Portfolio Models, and Model Audits designed specifically for the infrastructure sector. These models support everything from capital raises and strategic planning to enhancing investor confidence, at both the asset and platform level.

We also offer flexible, on-demand resourcing, acting as an outsourced infrastructure associate when your team faces capacity constraints. Whether you need an analyst, associate, or senior-level expert, we integrate seamlessly into your workflow, providing interim support during critical project phases.

Our comprehensive service offering includes model review and validation, scenario and sensitivity analysis, custom model development, transaction and capital planning support, business intelligence dashboarding and bespoke data analysis, and ongoing strategic advisory. With Sapling, infrastructure stakeholders can anticipate challenges, optimize capital structures, and make decisions grounded in accurate, transparent, and actionable financial insights.

What We Do