WAYPOINT
How we work

Three ways to engage. One way of working.

However the engagement is shaped, the method is the same: a basis for every number, one record for the whole project, and deliverables in the format your readers already use.

Engagement shapes

Pick the shape that fits the work

Fractional controls lead

A standing seat on your project team on a monthly retainer. Cost, schedule and risk reporting on your cadence, and someone who knows the project when a question comes up.

Project engagement

A defined scope with a deliverable — an estimate, a baseline, an RFQ cycle, a schedule review — priced as such and finished when it is finished.

Second opinion

Independent review of an estimate, forecast or schedule before you sign it — with the reasons, not just a number.

Start to finish

What an engagement looks like

  1. 01

    First conversation

    Thirty minutes on your project, in your language. What is the decision in front of you, what number or date does it turn on, and what do you have today. No deck.

  2. 02

    Scope memo

    A one-page note back: what we would do, what you would get, what it costs and how long it takes. Priced as a retainer, a fixed scope, or a review — whichever fits the work.

  3. 03

    The work

    Done on our own governed instrument so the estimate, budget, commitments and schedule are one record. You see progress as it happens, not at the end.

  4. 04

    Hand-off

    Deliverables in the format your readers already use — Excel, PDF, your reporting template — with the basis, assumptions and exclusions written down. Nothing lives only in our heads.

What we hold to

Three principles

  • A number without a basis is a rumor with a dollar sign.

    Every estimate line, forecast and schedule date carries where it came from and how firm it is. Firm, budgetary, quoted, judgment — captured at entry, not reconstructed later.

  • The report is computed, never retyped.

    Cost, schedule, risk and procurement share one record. The monthly report is derived from it, so it reconciles to what was reported last month by construction, not by effort.

  • Independence is the product.

    We do not bid the engineering, supply the equipment or build the work. The only thing we are selling is a number and a date you can rely on.

What we refuse

Not every number is honest

  • ✕Vanity metrics that impress a slide and mislead a decision
  • ✕A forecast quietly restated to match the last one
  • ✕A schedule drawn to a date instead of driven by logic
  • ✕A contingency percentage nobody can explain
Our own instrument

The work runs on WayPoint’s governed data spine — a platform we built for exactly this: estimate, budget, buyout, schedule, risk and reporting on one record, with the nature of every number kept at entry. It is how the deliverables reconcile without a weekend of archaeology.

Have a project that needs its numbers to hold?

Thirty minutes, in your project’s language. No deck.

Start a conversation

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