What this is
The Impact Forecaster is your practice's starting picture — the "before" photo. It captures where things stand today: your case fees, how many starts you do, and how the team is staffed. Turn any dial and you instantly see the effect on production. It's how we agree on a baseline before we plan what's next. (The Schedule Canvas is the "after" — the day-to-day schedule we build from the growth targets you settle on here.)
How the page is laid out
The blue-bordered cards are your settings: case fees, patient days, treatment mix, and your team. The purple-bordered cards are the results those choices produce: staffing signal, pipeline health, and appointment counts. Across the page, color shows where things stand — green, yellow, or red — marking growth, shrinkage, or capacity.
The number up top
The large figure at the left of the banner is the practice's total production for the year, with the change from baseline shown directly beneath it. Across the center of the banner, that same production is broken down: production per clinical day, per staff hour, the average fee per start, and how many starts that works out to per year.
Growth target
The Growth Target slider sits in the upper-right corner of the banner. Each 1% increase shows how many starts per year it takes to achieve that goal. Slide it and watch the banner and the panels respond.
Fee structure
These are the four case fees the practice charges: Traditional braces, Clear aligners, Custom 3D braces, and Phase I. Phase II folds into the Comprehensive start count rather than carrying its own fee. The Rate increase slider models a fee adjustment across all of them at once, so you can see what a modest price change does to the year.
Patient days
This is the practice's real chair time. Mark each day Full, Half, or Off, then set the number of clinical weeks. It's what the production-per-day numbers are built on.
Treatment modalities
Treatment Modalities models how the practice delivers care: Virtual Monitoring adoption frees chair time, and the case-mix sliders (aligner / custom / traditional) reflect the mix of cases you take on.
Human resources
Who's on the team and what each role costs. These counts and salaries drive the Staffing Signal panel.
The panels
- Staffing Signal: each role's capacity based on how many minutes they are available to be patient facing.
- Pipeline Health — patients coming in versus finishing (starts vs. debonds per month), plus the three-tier start mix (Phase I, Comprehensive, Phase II).
- Appointments / Month — the full appointment count by type, with the change from baseline. Use ⬇ Export appointment counts to download it.
The buttons
- ↺ Baseline — return everything to the practice's starting point.
- ↺ Growth — return to the growth targets we settled on during your consultation.
- 💾 Save — save your current adjustments so they stick until the next time you save.
A note
Nothing here is a grade. The Forecaster just makes visible what the team already feels day to day, so the practice can choose its next step with the full picture in front of it.