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Bid exclusions
The low number looks sharp until you discover what was quietly left out of scope.
Owner-side construction intelligence
NYC · MTHN · BKLYN · 2026
Manhattan + Brooklyn residential
Informed advocates.
Fair projects.
Calm outcomes.
Construction expertise on the homeowner's side of the table. Fixed-fee Audit, Oversight, and Full Rep for renovations from $500k to $5M - before bid games, schedule drift, and DOB risk blow up cost, time, and trust.
Not a contractor. Not a designer. The informed advocate who keeps the job legible for the person paying for it.
Operating depth
15 years
Primary markets
Manhattan · Brooklyn
Project band
$500k–$5M
Pricing model
Fixed fee
01 · The gap
Big enough to hurt. Too mid-market for institutional owner's rep.
Pure GC or self-managed jobs leave you as the least-informed person at the table. Large owner's-rep firms chase institutional work. Buildteligence sits in the band where most serious residential renos actually live - $500k to $5M - and works for you.
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Allowance games
Fixtures, finishes, and appliances priced below market so the bid wins - then the real cost arrives mid-job.
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Schedule slippage
Milestones drift without a clear owner of sequence, dependencies, and site reality.
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DOB & building traps
Alteration agreements, filings, and code paths that only surface when they are expensive to unwind.
02 · Services
Three tiers. Fixed fees. Clear value.
Start with a bounded Audit. Expand into Oversight or Full Rep when the job is live. Protection is priced up front - no percentage fog on mid-market residential work.
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Pre-sign / pre-construction
Audit
A bounded review of bids, contracts, scope gaps, and red flags before you commit - so you know what you are buying.
- Bid comparison with exclusions called out
- Contract and allowance risk flags
- Plain-language go / no-go notes
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During construction
Oversight
Ongoing owner-side monitoring while the job is live: schedule, change orders, and what is actually happening on site.
- Schedule and change-order clarity
- Site reality checked against the story
- Decision support when pressure rises
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Bid through closeout
Full Rep
End-to-end companion from first bids to final punch - one informed advocate for the full arc of the renovation.
- Single owner-side thread across phases
- Continuity from award to closeout
- Calm handoff of issues before they compound
03 · Method
Built on intelligence. Delivered in clarity.
Your project. Our advocacy. Your advantage. The work is pattern recognition from high-end NYC sites, translated so a non-builder can act.
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Frame the job
Budget band, building type, timeline pressure, and who already sits at the table.
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Stress-test the paper
Bids, contracts, allowances, and scope lines get read the way a builder reads them - for what is missing.
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Translate to decisions
You get plain-language options, not jargon. What to push, what to accept, what to walk away from.
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Stay on the owner side
Through Oversight or Full Rep, loyalty stays with you - not the bid, not the GC relationship.
04 · Field depth
Fifteen years running high-end renovation sites.
Pattern recognition on where residential jobs actually fail - bid paper, allowances, sequence, and building process - plus the credibility remote advisors and pure project managers lack in this market.
Owner-first loyalty
Advocacy stays with the homeowner, not the bid or the GC relationship.
Plain-language truth
Site, contract, and code reality become decisions you can actually make.
Prevention over cleanup
Exclusions and regulatory traps are cheaper to catch before ink is dry.
Respect for the build team
Projects get smoother by clarifying ownership - not by competing with GCs or designers.
05 · Start
Get an informed read before you sign.
Open a short intake with project basics. We will route you toward Audit, Oversight, or Full Rep based on where you are in the job - and keep the next step concrete.
What you should expect
- A fixed-fee conversation, not a vague retainer pitch
- Red flags named in plain language
- Respect for good GCs and designers already on the job
- A path sized to your stage: pre-sign, live, or full arc
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