What we read
The same set you hold, read against itself rather than one document at a time. Most findings sit between two documents, which is why separate readings produce a clean report and a later surprise.
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An independent review for owners representatives answerable for a price
You are accountable to a client for a price you did not build up, on a schedule somebody else wrote. What you need is a document, not a second opinion.
Why it happens
Why an independent review for owners representatives changes the meeting
An opinion is debated. A document with a page reference behind every line is answered.
Your client asks one question
Is this number defensible. The answer is in eight exhibits that nobody on your team has had four days to read.
Capacity runs out at signature
Your people are allocated to projects that are running, not to the two weeks before a contract is executed.
Disagreement needs evidence
When you and your client see a risk differently, a ranked register moves the conversation from judgment to figures.
The position you are in
A document survives the meeting, an opinion does not
Even a representative who has run forty projects is reading a document assembled by a party with a commercial interest in how it was assembled, on a timetable set by somebody else, alongside four other jobs.
The client is not asking whether the estimate is good. The client is asking whether you are comfortable, and your comfort is the deliverable. Comfort that rests on your own reading has to be taken on trust, and a client who takes it on trust will ask again in month nine.
An independent reading changes what you are offering. Instead of your judgment, you are offering a document. Documents survive personnel changes, board meetings and the passage of time. Judgment does not.
What you usually ask us
The four questions we hear most
Every one of them is answerable from documents you already hold, which is why the reading runs without asking the contractor for anything.
- Can I hand this to my client without caveats?
- What did I miss that a specialist would catch?
- Where does my exposure sit if this price moves?
- Will this stand up if somebody reads it back to me in two years?
How it works for you
What we read, and what you get
What you get
A register addressed to the owner, not to us. Every line carries a dollar figure, a page reference and a recommended position, so it goes into a client pack without any rewriting.
What we never do
We do not produce a competing estimate, give legal opinions or say whether a detail is buildable. A document that stays in its lane is one you can pass on without explanation.
Written for you
Three pieces from the same desk
Short notes on the mechanisms behind the questions above, written from the owner side of the contract.
What an independent review should contain
Defending a number in front of a board
When you and the client disagree about a risk
Defending a number in front of a board
When you and the client disagree about a risk
What you end up with
What you hand your client
A register you can defend line by line, on the date you promised it.
A ranked register
Every item citing the document and page, so your project manager can answer questions without calling us.
Your format if you want it
Unbranded and in your template through owner representative support, with our name nowhere on it.
The three items that matter
A short list for the meeting before signature, so the hour is spent on the lines that carry the value.
The other three
One position, four different rooms
The register is written the same way every time. What changes is who the memo has to survive being read by. The overview page sets out all four side by side.