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The scratch pad is a working surface for projecting where your ARR will land at month-end. You take the contracts that are open or up for renewal this month, place the ones you think will close, set how confident you are, and watch a projected end-of-month number move as you go.

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A place to model freely

This is the one surface in HarborOS where what you enter doesn’t change anything real. Everywhere else, the calls you make move your forecast or your ARR — that’s the point of them. Here, your placements and confidence are just working assumptions, a sandbox for “what if these close this month?” Nothing you do on the scratch pad touches your committed ARR, your renewal book, or your forecast. It’s for thinking, not committing.

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How it works

  • It opens already filled with the real contracts that are open or renewing in the month you pick, scoped to your organization. Each one starts with a sensible default based on the renewal judgment you’ve already set, so you’re adjusting rather than starting blank.
  • You place each contract — closing this month or not — and set your own outcome, urgency, and confidence on the ones in play.
  • As you place and adjust, a projected end-of-month ARR updates live, so you can see the effect of each call immediately.

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Saving and sharing

  • Save a pad with a name, tied to a specific month, so you can return to it or keep more than one scenario side by side.
  • Share a pad through a private link — a frozen view someone can open without an account. They see exactly what you saved.

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When to use it

  • A month-end close projection: which deals land by the end of the month, and where does ARR end up if they do?
  • A quick what-if before a forecast review or a renewal call, with nothing committed.

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How it fits with everything else

The scratch pad is the other side of Judgment is the gate. The gate keeps uncommitted things out of your real numbers; the scratch pad gives you a safe place to work with them. When a deal actually closes, you record it where it counts — confirm the contract, mark the renewal — and it flows into your real ARR there. The scratch pad is for working things out; the committed surfaces are for truth.