Capital Project Readiness & Execution Assessment
A defined four-to-six week engagement that tells an owner, board, or investor whether a project is positioned to be delivered — before major capital is committed.
The question this answers
Is this project positioned to succeed?
Not whether the project is a good idea, and not whether the team is working hard. Whether the thing as currently defined, funded, permitted, designed, procured, and governed can actually be built on the terms the owner is assuming.
The assessment is deliberately bounded. It runs on a fixed scope and a fixed fee, agreed in advance, and it ends with a document an owner can act on rather than a standing engagement.
What we examine
Sixteen dimensions, reviewed against the project as it actually stands today.
Project definition
What is actually being built, and is it settled.
Business and investment assumptions
The commercial case the project rests on.
Site readiness
Whether the site can carry the program as planned.
Power capacity and interconnection
Validated capacity, queue position, and energization path.
Water and utility capacity
Supply, discharge, and the constraints on both.
Permitting and entitlement
Sequence, dependencies, and the critical path through them.
Design status
Maturity, coordination, and readiness for release.
Capital budget
Basis, contingency structure, and exposure.
Schedule credibility
Whether the dates are derived or asserted.
Procurement and long-lead equipment
Order timing against the delivery window.
Delivery strategy
Contracting model and how risk is allocated by it.
Team structure
Who holds which decision, and whether anyone holds the whole.
Project controls
Cost, schedule, and change reporting that can be trusted.
Governance
Decision rights, escalation, and reporting to the board.
Risk allocation
Where risk actually sits versus where it is assumed to sit.
Operational readiness
What is required to run the asset once it exists.
What you receive
A single document, written for an executive audience, with the analysis behind it attached.
Executive readiness score
A defensible overall position, with the basis shown.
Critical risks
Ranked, with the consequence of each stated plainly.
Unresolved decisions
What the owner must decide, and by when.
Capital exposure
Where the budget is most likely to move, and why.
Schedule vulnerabilities
The dates that will not hold, and what drives them.
Utility and infrastructure constraints
Power, water, and interconnection limits on the plan.
Team deficiencies
Gaps in the delivery organization as currently constituted.
Governance weaknesses
Where decisions stall, or are made by the wrong party.
Recommended delivery structure
The contracting and organizational model we would advise.
Priority actions
What to do first, sequenced.
90-day implementation plan
A concrete plan for the first quarter after the review.
Who commissions it
The assessment is usually commissioned by whoever carries the consequence if the project underperforms.
Boards
Directors who must approve a commitment and be able to explain the basis for it.
Investment committees
Committees testing whether an execution plan supports the capital case.
Lenders
Credit parties assessing delivery risk before or during a facility.
Private equity operating partners
Operating teams underwriting a build inside a portfolio company.
Developers
Sponsors who need an unconflicted read before committing to a delivery structure.
CFOs and General Counsel
Executives carrying the financial and contractual exposure.
Four to six weeks. Fixed fee, scoped in advance.
The duration reflects the work: document review, interviews across the project organization, independent analysis, and a drafted findings review with the commissioning party before the report is final.
The fee is fixed and agreed before the engagement begins. It is not published, because it is scoped to the project — the range between a single-site review and a multi-site program is wide enough that any published figure would mislead.
Common questions about the assessment
Discuss an Assessment
Tell us about the project and the decision it is attached to. We will tell you what a scoped assessment would cover.