Under a conventional general contract, one company signs every trade agreement and presents you a single price; whatever sits within it — margin, contingency, the cost of the work — is invisible to you. Under the agency model, you hold each trade contract directly and the practice holds none. Because we earn nothing from the trades, nothing is marked up and nothing is hidden.
Nothing is marked up. Nothing is hidden.
Construction begins before the design is resolved; gaps are filled, expensively, on site.
Trades appointed without true competition or defined scope; the budget loses its footing.
Eight or more specialists work in parallel, with no one reconciling one against the next.
Sequencing errors compound quietly until months have been lost.
Small revisions accumulate without discipline; the final cost bears little relation to the first.
The owner learns of a problem late — when the options have already narrowed.
Interrogated and reconciled before tender. Questions are raised on paper, not in concrete.
Each scope tendered on a defined basis and presented on a true, like-for-like comparison.
Every consultant and trade reports through one office; conflicts caught while still cheap.
A working construction programme, reissued, with the critical path identified throughout.
No commitment of consequence without your written authorisation; the cost record reconciled continuously.
Cost, correspondence and approval recorded so the project can be read — and audited — at any moment.
