UTLYZE
Budget scenarios at a glance · generated from the current planning model

What each planning budget
is estimated to provide.

The interactive simulator lets a reader slide the budget and watch coverage move. This page freezes that motion onto paper: the coverage curve from zero to $300,000, then four budgets worked out college by college — machines, people covered, staffing, and the three-year total — using the same engine, the same demand model, and the same prices. Everything here is an estimate for planning; the validation pilot's real numbers replace it.

How to use this page. This is the interactive simulator frozen onto paper, for a meeting with no laptop: one curve showing how coverage grows with money, then four budgets worked out college by college. Pick the scenario nearest the figure you actually have, and read its college bars.
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The coverage curve

How many people can be served by on-campus computers as the budget rises — and where the bends are

Read this like a road: the steep parts are where each dollar buys the most, the flat parts are where a college is already covered and the next dollar goes to extra capacity, spare machines, or the larger heavyweight computer. The four marked points are the worked scenarios below.

Why the line dips near $40,000: that is where the plan starts funding the research pool for heavy math, physics, and engineering work (about $5,500), so a slice of the next dollars goes to frontier-model access instead of more machines. The engine shows that honestly rather than smoothing it away. Curve computed by running the budget engine at every $5,000 step from $0 to $300,000 (ordinary-day demand, campus phase 1). "Covered" counts people in colleges whose local capacity meets modeled demand; partially covered colleges count proportionally. The horizontal axis is the whole one-time equipment and launch budget allocated by the planning model — which includes the roughly $5,500 the model diverts to the paid research pool, so it is not hardware money alone. Yearly staff cost and the adoption program are shown inside each scenario, never hidden. est

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Four budgets, worked out

Same engine, same rules — what changes is only the number at the top

Bars show how much of each college's estimated busiest-hour demand is met on campus: green = met on an ordinary day, gold = partly met, copper = no local computers funded, so that college keeps the tools UVU already licenses. Colleges are funded in the proposed order from Appendix A, which is an estimate of readiness rather than a UVU survey. Staff is the operating band the plan states openly — a fraction of one person for the four-computer test, more as the fleet grows — and it recurs every year. The renting comparison uses about $19.26 a person a year, the lowest figure on public record; it is a comparison, not a quote. est

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How to use this page

For a meeting with no laptop

Pick the scenario nearest the number you have. Read its college bars: whatever is green is served locally on day one; whatever is copper has no local computers funded at that budget, and its people keep the tools UVU already licenses. If a college you care about is copper, the interactive version lets you move it up the order or give it its own budget — money that goes to a college stays with that college.