# Why run an infrastructure healthcheck before CAPEX approval?

## Direct answer

An infrastructure healthcheck before CAPEX approval reduces the risk of funding the wrong scope, underestimating dependencies, or approving a roadmap that cannot be executed safely. It gives leadership a baseline, priority risks, upgrade logic, and decision options before money is committed.

## What to verify

- Baseline current state
- Map operational and technical risks
- Validate assumptions before budget approval
- Prioritize fixes by business impact
- Create a decision-ready roadmap

## FAQs

### When should the healthcheck happen?
Before major CAPEX, modernization, RFP, vendor selection, AI workload deployment or recovery redesign.

### What does it prevent?
It prevents misaligned scope, missing dependencies, surprise costs and weak governance.

### Is it only for large data centers?
No. It can apply to data centers, IT rooms, critical infrastructure and hybrid platforms.

### What is the output?
A baseline, risk register, priority roadmap and executive decision memo.

## Service page

https://growthinfra.org/infrastructure-healthcheck/