Project management that answers to you, not the builder
Independent client-side delivery leadership, feasibility to handover. One accountable project director, every fee published in full, and an AI back office that reads every document on the job. Based in Melbourne, working Australia-wide.
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Scope
Feasibility → handover
Fee basis
1.5–2.5% of contract
Reach
Australia-wide
The Proposition
Every project has two project managers
One works for the builder
Competent, often excellent, and entirely accountable to their own business. Their job is to protect margin, defend programme and convert scope ambiguity into variation. That is the role, not a criticism.
One should work for you
The scope you thought you were buying, the date you committed to your board, the number you put in the budget. Those are the things we are paid to protect.
The two positions diverge
On most projects they do.
Everything else is mechanics
Programme, procurement, cost reporting and risk are craft, and we take them seriously. Independence is the part that cannot be bought back later.
Someone needs to be in the room whose interests are the same as yours, reading the same documents with a different question in mind.
Programme and design
We interrogate programmes rather than file them, and reconcile drawing registers every issue so superseded revisions never reach the trades.
Contractor programmes read for logic, float and duration realism
Design coordination across all disciplines
Drawing registers reconciled against every issue
Long-lead items tracked against the critical path
Procurement and tender
How the work is packaged determines who can price it and what falls between packages. That decision is made before anyone is invited to tender.
Delivery model selection on the documentation you actually have
Package strategy and tenderer selection
Scopes of works cross-referenced to specification and addenda
Submissions assessed against scope, not against each other
Cost and risk
Variance explained in the terms your finance team uses, not construction shorthand. Risk registers that get revisited rather than archived.
Cost reporting against the approved budget
Committed, forecast and actual tracked separately
Variation exposure including what has not been claimed yet
Contingency drawdown visible as a trend, not a surprise
Handover and closeout
The part that gets abandoned once everyone has moved on. Defects, final certification and the commercial closeout that protects your position.
Practical completion and defects administration
Final account negotiation and certification
Warranties, manuals and as-built documentation
Commercial closeout completed, not left open
Timing
The expensive decisions happen before most project managers arrive
Most clients call at construction start
By then the delivery model is chosen, the contract form is picked and the scope of works has been written from whatever documentation existed.
Tenderers priced what they read
And what they read had gaps. Those gaps do not disappear at award. They return as variations, with a delay claim attached.
A gap caught early costs an hour
The same gap caught in month seven is a variation, a programme impact and an argument. The leverage is all at the front.
Already mid-construction?
We still take the work. We just start with a health check rather than a plan, and tell you plainly what we find.
The AI Back Office
Your project director spends their hours on judgement, not paperwork
Everything is read on receipt
Drawings, registers, programmes, contracts, specifications and addenda. Every revision, not just the set that arrived at tender.
Everything is reconciled against everything else
The register against the sheets actually issued. The scope against the clauses it cites. The programme against the contract dates and the access constraints.
Findings carry evidence
The exact sheet number, clause reference or programme line, with a snapshot of the drawing zone attached. Nothing is asserted without a source.
A person still decides
A project director reviews every flag before it goes anywhere. The agents do not email your builder and do not make determinations. Judgement stays human.
Melbourne
Melbourne projects, run from Melbourne
On the ground where it counts
Design workshops, authority meetings, tender interviews and site walks in person — we are a Melbourne practice, not a dashboard interstate.
The local layer, managed
Victorian security of payment, private surveyor and permit staging, council conditions and CBD logistics are sequenced into the plan, not discovered inside it.
1.5 to 2.5 per cent of construction contract value
1.5–2.5%of construction contract value
2.5–3.5%full lifecycle
Full lifecycle is 2.5 to 3.5 per centFeasibility through to commercial closeout, with the same project director across the whole engagement.
The rate is fixed at engagementIt does not move. No contingent fees, no success fees, and no percentage of savings claimed.
AI systems are includedThey are how we work, not an upsell. There is no separate technology line on our fee proposals.
Published before you contact usEvery fee we charge is set out on the services page. A consultancy that will not quote until it has read your budget is telling you something.