> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://valuemap.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Scenarios

Every initiative includes three default financial scenarios that model different assumptions about benefit confidence and cost contingency. These scenarios allow you to evaluate the range of possible outcomes before committing to a projection.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Conservative">
    Uses the **low end** of the confidence interval for benefits and the **high end** of the contingency interval for costs. Represents the worst-case financial outcome.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Base (default)">
    Applies no interval adjustment. Values are used exactly as entered. This is the default scenario, ensuring the numbers you see in the overview always match what you entered in your benefits and costs.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Optimistic">
    Uses the **high end** of the confidence interval for benefits and the **low end** of the contingency interval for costs. Represents the best-case financial outcome.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

<Note>
  **Why Base is the default**<br />Defaulting to Base means the numbers shown in the Overview always reflect exactly what you entered - no upward or downward adjustments from confidence intervals. This avoids confusion when comparing what you put into a benefit or cost against what you see in the metrics.
</Note>

**Super Admin**, **Admin**, and **Contributor** users see the full **Live Financial Summary** panel on the Benefits and Costs tabs, which allows them to select a scenario, configure its applied values, and publish it to the initiative.

Within the configuration view, you can adjust the applied value percentage for individual benefit and cost items. Click **Apply** to save, or **Reset** to restore defaults. Once satisfied, click **Publish** to set it as the active scenario - this is the one reflected in all overview and analysis pages.

<Note>
  **Viewer experience**<br />**Viewer** users do not see the Live Financial Summary panel and cannot configure or publish scenarios. Instead, Viewers see the name of the currently published scenario displayed in the top-right corner of the initiative Overview tab. Clicking the **ⓘ** icon next to the scenario name opens a read-only view of the scenario configuration, showing the applied values for each benefit and cost item.
</Note>