PreBid Playbook is a structured go/no-go workspace for cities weighing a major-event bid. Work through feasibility, due diligence, real economic impact and cost exposure — and walk into the room with a board-ready decision, not a hunch.
A federation comes knocking. The timeline is tight, the excitement is high, and the city commits to a bid before anyone has honestly tested whether it can host, what it will really cost, and what happens in the worst case. Months and hundreds of thousands of euros later, the hard questions finally surface — often too late to change course.
The gap isn't ambition or expertise. It's the absence of a repeatable, defensible process that turns scattered assumptions into a structured decision — one that a board, a council and a finance director can all stand behind. That process is exactly what PreBid Playbook gives you.
Each step explains itself in plain language, carries editable defaults, and rolls up into a verdict. Nothing assumes prior expertise — the tool teaches the method as you go.
Frame the event, the ask, and whether it fits the city's cycle and ambitions.
Score alignment, impact, infrastructure, stakeholders and risk against hard gates.
Test whether a viable delivery entity and capable organiser actually exist this cycle.
Map the true scope of the event and the sectors it touches across the city.
Assess venue fit, upgrades and cross-venue demands with a detailed scorecard.
Consolidate everything into an executive or full feasibility study.
Six DD desks surface the gaps that sink bids — before you commit.
A quick, defensible estimate of the event's real economic footprint.
City-level economics, guarantees, event-triggered investment and worst-case exposure.
A board-ready recommendation with conditions, owners and an approval scope.
Go, Conditional Go, or No-Go — with the reasons, the conditions, and named owners behind each one.
Economic impact, net cash cost, guarantee exposure and worst-case — separated, never conflated.
Export a full feasibility study and a Go/No-Go decision pack to Word or PDF in one click.
Run several opportunities side by side. Two fully worked examples are built in to learn from.
Your work is stored securely and syncs across devices — pick up where you left off, anywhere.
Every term and choice explains itself in plain language. No prior bidding expertise required.
Open a fully worked championship bid — every step, verdict and report, filled in. Nothing to install.
Full-stack event strategist, Bonacube Oy. Twenty-five-plus major-event bid and negotiation projects.
PreBid Playbook is the method distilled from real host-city work — FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (2017 & 2029), the IMGA Winter World Masters Games, MXGP Finland, UCI Granfondo and the EcoCity Forum among them. It's the process I wished cities had before they committed: honest, structured, and built to survive a finance director's questions. Now it's a tool any city team can run in a week.
You get full access for 7 days. Your card is added at sign-up but not charged until day 7. Cancel anytime before then and you won't be billed.
City event and major-events teams, sports and culture departments, bid committees and the consultants who advise them — anyone who has to recommend whether a city should pursue a bid.
No. Every step, term and choice explains itself in plain language, and editable defaults get you moving. The tool teaches the method as you work.
Yes. Everything is stored securely against your account and syncs across devices. You can run multiple projects at once.
A defensible go/no-go recommendation with conditions and owners, plus a full feasibility study and a Go/No-Go decision pack you can export to Word or PDF for your board.
Anytime, from your account. The licence runs for the year you've paid for; there's no long-term lock-in.
Start free today. Work through your first opportunity this week.