Large, complex projects routinely run up to 80% over budget — and the costliest problems are set in motion early, in the requirements and decisions that shape design. In practice, the root cause is usually requirements that were never clearly defined, agreed, and tracked. Gallant manages requirements as a governed discipline: defining, baselining, tracing, and monitoring them from programming through turnover. A purpose-built AI agent makes that practical at the scale real projects present — hundreds of pages, hundreds of requirements — surfacing the problems while they are still cheap to fix. The deliverable is not a status report; it is decision-grade intelligence: what is at risk, what you must decide, and who owns it — every cycle.
Cost-overrun figure: McKinsey & Company (large-project analysis). Early-phase cost influence: MacLeamy / CURT cost-influence curve. Gallant does not claim a project-specific savings figure.
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No software for your team to run, and no requirement that you arrive with a finished baseline. Gallant manages the document work and meets your project where it is.
We begin with the documents you already have — owner criteria, design narratives, codes and agency guidance, or an existing baseline. No required format, and no prerequisite to have everything in order first.
If the project has no formal requirements baseline, we build one using a structured Design Requirements Document (DRD). If you already have one, we structure and validate it as the authoritative baseline.
Gallant manages the document ingestion and builds the initial baseline register — extracting, classifying, and tracing requirements to their source. Your team does not operate any software to make that happen.
We establish a review cadence aligned to your delivery model — phase gates, design milestones, or a monthly cycle — and deliver the Requirements Intelligence Report™ each cycle. The rhythm fits your project, not a fixed Gallant sequence.
The methodology is the same on every project: structured requirements baselining, conflict detection, and decision-grade reporting. What changes is the engagement model and the governing requirements — VA design criteria and accreditation standards, USACE, NAVFAC, and AFCEC criteria, including UFC and service-specific guidance. Every engagement carries the same foundation: a defensible audit trail from owner intent through commissioning and turnover, and systems-engineering rigor applied to facility delivery.
Gallant applies a systems-engineering-based requirements process to project documentation. This is not a general-purpose AI reading your documents. Behind it is a purpose-built Gallant AI agent operating from a proprietary requirements-management methodology encoded into a trusted, structured knowledge base with defined meaning, relationships, and rules — applied consistently to every document and every cycle. AI accelerates the reading, extraction, comparison, and updating work — but the analysis, interpretation, and direction come from decades of capital delivery experience working alongside owners, designers, and contractors.
Gallant is a requirements discipline — not a document or workflow platform. The platforms manage your files and your schedule; Gallant governs what the project must actually achieve, and proves it cycle over cycle in the Requirements Intelligence Report™.
Source documents are gathered into the requirements process — owner criteria, design requirements, narratives, specifications, codes, agency guides, meeting minutes, BIM issue logs, and RFIs. Any document that contains a requirement or a decision.
If your project does not yet have a formal requirements baseline, Gallant can help establish one using a structured Design Requirements Document (DRD) template.
Project inputs are captured and structured into explicit requirements, categorized by type and discipline, and checked for gaps, conflicts, and unresolved decisions. The Design Requirements Document (DRD) establishes the authoritative baseline for what the project must achieve — separate from design solutions.
Requirements land in a structured, traceable register — normalized, categorized, and linked to their source. The register is linked forward to design, procurement, commissioning, and turnover verification. Delivered as a structured Excel workbook owned by the client — no software subscription, no lock-in.
The Requirements Intelligence Report™ is delivered at any phase, milestone, or decision point. It is the executive-level advisory analysis: what is open, what is conflicting, what decisions are required, and what the cost and schedule exposure looks like if unresolved items carry forward.
The RIR is generated from the live baseline — not from a stand-alone memo review.
Every Gallant engagement produces the same structured deliverables — owned by the client, traceable from document to decision, and continuously updated through design, the design-to-construction transition, construction, commissioning, and turnover. If a project does not yet have an owner requirements baseline, Gallant can help establish one.
The authoritative baseline of what the project must achieve. The DRD defines what must be delivered and why — not how it will be built — and establishes the baseline against which design, construction, commissioning, and turnover are measured.
Requirements extracted, normalized, and categorized from source documents — functional, regulatory, performance, schedule, budget, and safety — into a single living baseline the entire team can reference.
Requirements traced from source document through design, specifications, procurement, field verification, and closeout. Responsible discipline assigned. Owner intent documented from decision to delivery.
Automatic identification of contradictions between documents before they become RFIs. Parameter conflicts, scope conflicts, and authority mismatches flagged, classified, and queued for resolution.
When a document is updated, Gallant compares it against the approved baseline and classifies each change: New, Match, Supplement, Supersedes, or Conflict. Change impact is identified as it enters the project record — not weeks later. Ambiguous "should," "or," TBD, and conditional language is flagged as DECISION-PENDING until the owner resolves it.
Detect and report scope growth as it enters project documentation — not after it reaches cost exposure. Owners see exactly what is being added, by whom, and when it first appeared in the project record.
Each requirement is linked to its verification method — inspection, test, analysis, or demonstration — and assigned an acceptance path so delivery can be verified at commissioning and turnover. The register doubles as a near-ready QA/QC checklist and supports QA/QC plan development.
Complete traceability from source requirements through design decisions, edits, and revisions. Full audit trail from owner intent to delivered scope. Defensible through closeout.
Three documents from a simulated engagement on the Heritage Health Campus / Northstar Ambulatory Care Clinic. This is not an actual engagement with names changed — the issues, requirements, and conflicts are drawn from multiple real capital projects, synthesized into one representative simulated engagement. Requirement counts, conflict counts, dollar figures, deadlines, regulatory citations, and the analytical structure are exactly as Gallant produces them in live work.
Open the Baseline RIR first to see what the requirements baseline and initial conflicts look like at the founding work. Read the Cycle 1 RIR next to see what an executive deliverable looks like at a recurring cadence — scope drift, owner decisions, and cost variance against that baseline. Open the Sample Workbook to see the underlying register, decision log, conflict log, lineage, and verification matrix the RIRs are built on.
The Register, RTM, and conflict logs are the analytical engine. The RIR is the executive decision product leadership acts on — converting live requirements data into decision-grade reporting on scope drift, unresolved conflicts, owner actions, and cost or schedule exposure at key decision points throughout the phase.
This is not a summary memo. It is a decision-grade analysis of where the project stands against its requirements baseline, what is drifting now, and what needs to happen next.
Because the Requirements Intelligence Report™ is generated from a controlled requirements baseline, it shows not just what is wrong, but what requirement is at risk, who must decide, and what verification or downstream exposure is affected. Owner decisions hidden in "should," "or," TBD, and conditional language are surfaced as DECISION-PENDING items until resolved.
This is the table of contents for the Cycle 1 RIR — see the download cards above for the working sample.
Book a free guided walkthrough. We take you through a complete representative engagement — Heritage Health Campus, an ambulatory care clinic documented through 50% Schematic Design — live: the requirements register, the conflicts it surfaced, the decisions it forced into the open, and the Requirements Intelligence Report™ that leadership actually reads. No documents to send, no preparation, about 45 minutes. You see the deliverable and decide whether it fits your project.
Ready to see it on your own project? The $1,500 Requirements Snapshot (Tier 00) runs the same analysis on documents you provide — register draft, conflict scan, decision-pending items, and ranked findings in one week, 100% credited toward a Tier 01 Baseline Engagement. Documents handled per Gallant's data privacy policy. NDA available on request.
Each finding below came from tracing a requirement from source document to design consequence before it became rework, redesign, or a late owner decision.
The two findings below are drawn from Cycle 1 of the sample engagement available for download in the Sample Reports section — Heritage Health Campus, an ambulatory care clinic at 50% Schematic Design. This is a representative simulated engagement: the findings, conflicts, and figures are drawn from real conditions across multiple capital projects of this type, synthesized into one example.
The 50% Schematic Design BIM coordination run surfaced two compliance failures the design team would not have caught from drawings alone. A supply air duct penetrated the ACR Zone IV magnetic-field boundary at Grid C-4 without RF shielding — a non-compliance with the ACR Technical Standard. Three NFPA 99 Category 1 EES circuits ran in normal-power conduit at Grid B-2 to D-4 — a Chapter 6 violation. Both items were captured in the conflict register the same week and traced back to specific requirements (GR-0115, GR-0118).
The CMAR's constructability review introduced two new owner-decision items at the close of Cycle 1. The consequential one: the elevator package has a 52- to 64-week procurement lead time, which means an elevator contractor must be engaged during the SD phase to support the construction-phase energize milestone in March 2027. The second item — generator pad location confirmation — gates the gas service permit application. Both items appeared in the same week the CMAR review was issued and were already overdue at Cycle 1 close.
Project entities are fictitious. Findings, conflicts, and figures reflect real conditions drawn from actual capital projects of this type. Full simulation available upon request.
Gallant Core identifies scope risk. Controls Advisory translates it into dollars, schedule, and owner exposure. When a conflict is flagged, your team should not have to guess what it costs to resolve it at SD versus CD — or carry the variance forward as a claim.
Budget and milestone constraints are also requirements. Controls Advisory quantifies the consequence when baseline requirements and cost or schedule targets diverge, and surfaces the financial trade-off in time for the owner to act on it.
A veteran-owned chartered quantity surveying practice led by an owner-side principal estimator with deep experience in early-phase cost modeling, capital planning, and commercial risk management. Holds RICS, AACE, LEED, and BREEAM credentials. Has certified some of the highest-scoring LEED projects in the world.
Engagements are scoped to the decision moment — not to hours, headcount, or capacity. Each service category corresponds to a recurring decision point in a capital project, with a defined engagement structure and a clear client decision at risk.
Translate scope conflicts and requirement changes into probable cost and schedule exposure before they enter the field. Owner decides to act now, defer, or carry the risk forward.
Reconcile design-phase estimates against the requirements baseline at SD, DD, and CD to catch design-to-budget drift early. Available per gate or as an SD+DD+CD bundle.
Assess value engineering proposals against the requirements baseline — ensuring VE decisions do not create downstream compliance, life-safety, or operational scope gaps.
Link requirement progression and scope change to earned value variance forecasting. A stronger baseline produces more defensible variance attribution — scope movement separated from performance, with audit trail.
Engagements are structured as decision-event fixed fees or as retained advisory; retained services carry a three-month minimum. Detailed pricing is scoped per engagement under NDA.
Gallant is not just a gate review. It is continuous requirements monitoring with executive reporting at the decision points that shape scope, cost, and schedule.
Every engagement starts with a free guided walkthrough — see the deliverable on a representative project before you send anything of your own. From there, four ways to begin:
Standard engagements produce the deliverables described above from documents the client provides. Engagements that go beyond — requirements workshops, ongoing requirements management, stakeholder facilitation, owner's representative support, or recurring advisory roles — are scoped separately to fit the project.
Submit for Detailed Pricing Requirements →Controls Advisory is available as an add-on to any engagement.
Gallant Project Solutions LLC improves how complex capital projects are defined, designed, and delivered. The firm treats requirements management as a governed discipline — translating systems-engineering rigor into practical tools that owners, designers, and constructors apply immediately. Its methods are drawn from decades of executing large-scale facilities across healthcare, mixed-use development, hospitality, and military and federal construction, where design intent, constructability, regulatory approval, commissioning, and operational performance must align under real budget and schedule constraints.
The firm's primary service is Gallant Requirements Intelligence™ — a structured process that runs continuously through design and construction. Requirements are extracted from project documents, organized into a controlled baseline, monitored for conflicts and scope drift, and reported to leadership at the decision points that shape cost, schedule, and delivered scope. Each cycle produces the Requirements Intelligence Report™: what is at risk, what must be decided, and who owns it.
A U.S. Air Force veteran with 25+ years of large-scale program delivery — including Senior Project Manager on Universal Studios Epic Universe and Senior Director of Project Management at Meow Wolf, alongside hospitality and resort developments, complex mixed-use and institutional capital programs, and military facility construction. He holds a DAWIA Level III certification in Systems Engineering. Gallant Project Solutions LLC is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB / VOSB).
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