How it works

One project, read from the owner's side, in eight modules.

Each module records one thing the contractor's report does not show the owner. Together they produce the anticipated final cost and the monthly report. Every screen below is the product rendering its own fictional project, not a picture.

The project dashboard. Fictional project, live rendering.

The shape of it

The baseline feeds four registers. The registers feed two figures. The figures feed one report.

The GMP baseline is set once and never edited. The contingency ledger, the change order register, the buyout tracker and the allowance register each record one stream of events against it. The anticipated final cost and the shared savings projection are computed from the four registers on every entry. On the first of the month a snapshot is written and the report is generated from it. Rules raise flags along the way. People decide causes.

Module 1 of 8

GMP baseline

The GMP as signed, line by line, with a basis flag on every line: priced, allowance or assumption. Set once by a senior reviewer, frozen, and versioned with a reason whenever it changes. Everything else reads from it.

Read the gmp baseline page

Module 2 of 8

Contingency ledger

Two funds on two ledgers. Each draw carries a date, a reason, an authorizing party and a document. The chart shows each fund against percent complete, and the month the contractor's fund runs out is computed from the trailing rate.

Read the contingency ledger page

Module 3 of 8

Change order register

A cause on every change: owner scope, design gap, unforeseen, coordination or unclassified. The cause decides which fund pays. Every reclassification is written to an audit table, and notice deadlines are counted in days.

Read the change order register page

Module 4 of 8

Buyout tracker

Per package, the GMP line value against the awarded value. Savings above the line, overruns in the flag color. The running pool feeds the shared savings projection.

Read the buyout tracker page

Module 5 of 8

Allowance register

Per allowance, the carried value, the actual, the variance, the decision deadline and the status. Overdue decisions are flagged. The bullet chart shows carried against actual with the overrun past the track.

Read the allowance register page

Module 6 of 8

Anticipated final cost

GMP plus approved owner changes, plus owner contingency draws, plus weighted open items, plus booked allowance overruns, less projected unused funds. A stored snapshot on the first of each month makes the trend real.

Read the anticipated final cost page

Module 7 of 8

Shared savings

The pool on the terms read from your contract: split, cap, carve outs. A sensitivity table shows what the open change orders do to the pool, and to your cost, either way.

Read the shared savings page

Module 8 of 8

Monthly owner report

Twelve pages in a fixed order, generated on the first from the month's entries. Every chart inline SVG. Prints to PDF from the browser. The one pager for the board and the lender is a separate page.

Read the monthly owner report page

Rules for every chart

Charts are the imagery. Each one has one job.

Never a pie, a donut or a gauge.

They read as consumer software. Columns, bars, lines and waterfalls only.

Never a legend where a direct label fits.

Labels sit on or next to the thing they name.

One accent per chart.

The flag color is reserved for exposure and overrun.

Legible in grayscale.

Flag fills carry a hatch. Lines differ in weight and dash, not only in color. Every chart prints.

One next step

See the eight modules on a project like yours.

Thirty minutes on a call. We open the fictional project at your GMP size and walk each module in order.

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