GallantRequirements Intelligence™
SDVOSB Certified VOSB Certified PE Licensed · PMP Certified
AI-Assisted Requirements Intelligence for Complex Capital Projects

Improving how complex capital projects
are defined, designed,
and delivered.

Our job is to keep what the owner asked for aligned with what the project is actually delivering — through programming, design, construction, and turnover.

Requirements live in dozens of documents and across multiple stakeholders — owners, designers, regulators, constructors, vendors, operators, end users. None of those sources is wrong, but no single record ties them together, and there is no systematic way to detect when one of them drifts from another. Gallant closes that gap through structured requirements management — defining, baselining, tracing, and monitoring requirements from programming through turnover. The deliverable is not reporting. It is decision-grade intelligence: interpretation, recommended action, and named owner accountability at each cycle, drawn from decades of large-scale capital delivery experience.

New to requirements management? Download the free primer: Running Requirements — A Practical Primer for Design and Construction Projects

27 years
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An afternoon
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AI-Assisted
Requirements Extraction & Traceability
The Problem

On complex projects, scope failures are almost always visible before they become expensive.

Without Requirements Control

Missing requirements · Scope drift · Unresolved conflicts

  • Scope evolves across email, meeting notes, and redlines with no traceable record
  • Tenant requirements and lease obligations not tracked against design progress
  • Conflicts between owner criteria, design documents, and vendor submittals surface mid-construction
  • Regulatory compliance gaps discovered at permit — or at occupancy inspection
  • Commissioning failures traced back to requirements that were never clearly defined
With Gallant Requirements Intelligence™
  • Requirements extracted and baselined from owner criteria, lease documents, and regulatory standards from day one
  • Tenant and developer requirements tracked against design deliverables at every phase
  • Conflicts flagged at the document level — before they reach the design team
  • Regulatory compliance gaps identified early, while correction is inexpensive
  • Earned value management and design-to-budget tracking grounded in a requirements baseline — variance attribution tied to scope movement, not assumption
  • Commissioning readiness tracked from design intent through turnover; the register carries each requirement’s verification method and acceptance path, so the party responsible for verification is working from a complete list
Who Gallant Works With

One discipline. Tailored to your project type.

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.

Every engagement includes
Requirements tracked against design deliverables at every phase, through construction and turnover
Cost variance and scope movement attributed to the requirements baseline, not assumption
Phase-gate decision discipline and audit-ready document lineage
Changes and drift from requirements documented and traceable to the design baseline
Owner-direct vendor scope outside the GC contract coordinated against design and readiness milestones
VA Healthcare
VA design criteria & accreditation standards. OPC, CBOC, MTF, modernization, activation.
EngagementSDVOSB set-aside or under A/E IDIQ
Federal & MILCON
UFC, service-specific criteria & GSA design guides. USACE, NAVFAC, AFCEC, GSA.
EngagementSDVOSB set-aside or under prime contractor
Commercial & Mixed-Use
Owner criteria, AHJ codes & landlord obligations. Healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, fit-out.
EngagementDirect prime or under your A/E
Track 04 — Teaming

A/E & GC Teaming Partners

Pursuit support, set-aside qualification, requirements scope add-on
  • Adds SDVOSB participation to your team, strengthening small-business subcontracting-goal performance
  • Non-competitive — supports your design and delivery work, does not review it
  • Structured register and phase-gate RIR stand alone as deliverables your client values
  • A technical approach you can demonstrate rather than promise — a worked register and conflict log in front of an evaluation board
EngagementSubcontract or teaming partner
How It Works

Your documents go in. Intelligence comes out.

Gallant applies a systems-engineering-based requirements process to project documentation. This is not a general-purpose AI reading your documents — Gallant runs on a purpose-built requirements methodology, with a structured classification standard, conflict-detection framework, and traceability schema refined across capital projects, that the AI applies 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.

01

Capture

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.

02

Define & Baseline

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.

03

Trace & Monitor

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.

Core Deliverables

Ten outputs. One integrated system.

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.

01 / BASELINE

Design Requirements Document (DRD)

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.

02 / REGISTER

Requirements Register

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.

03 / TRACEABILITY

Requirements Traceability Matrix

Requirements traced from source document through design, specifications, procurement, field verification, and closeout. Responsible discipline assigned. Owner intent documented from decision to delivery.

04 / CONFLICTS

Conflict Detection

Contradictions between documents identified, typed, and routed to a named owner with a date — before they become RFIs. Parameter conflicts, scope conflicts, and authority mismatches flagged, classified, and queued for resolution.

05 / CHANGE

Change Impact Analysis

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 an open decision, carried against the requirement until the owner resolves it.

06 / SCOPE

Scope Creep Monitoring

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.

07 / VERIFICATION

Verification Planning Matrix

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. Verification is recorded as a chain, not a single status. A requirement is verified by the design team's QA before a set is issued, again by the authority having jurisdiction, again by the contractor during construction, again at commissioning, and again at owner acceptance — each a separate dated record with its own evidence and named party, and a later verification never overwrites an earlier one. The register gives the responsible party a complete, cited list to verify against; the verification itself stays with them.

08 / LINEAGE

Document Lineage Log

Complete traceability from source requirements through design decisions, edits, and revisions. The record is append-only. Every change to a requirement is written as a dated event carrying the prior value, the new value, the source that caused it, and the register version after — so the register holds its history rather than only its current state. Full audit trail from owner intent to delivered scope. Defensible through closeout.

09 / RISK

At-Risk Assessment

Conflicts, open decisions, and long-lead exposures are scored for likelihood and for impact assessed separately against budget, schedule, and quality. Overall impact is the worst of the three. Every score is computed from its inputs, never typed — an override requires written rationale in the row. Each risk carries a named owner, a response, and an early-warning trigger. A risk whose trigger has fired and whose response has not started appears in the executive summary regardless of its numeric score — because a low-scored risk already in motion outranks a higher-scored one still dormant.

10 / CONSTRUCTION QA

Construction QA Extract

Derived from the same record. For a single definable feature of work: every governing requirement with its source citation, the verification method, the responsible party, and any conflict between documents stated on the face of the row. Supports contractor quality control plan review, submittal review, and preparatory-phase readiness. Generic checklists carry what usually goes wrong; this one carries what is specific to the contract in front of you.

Scope & Position

What Gallant is — and what it is not.

AI-assisted, governed

Reading every governing document against every other one was never a judgment problem. It was an arithmetic one — too many pages, too many cross-references, too little time. Language models removed that constraint. They do the reading, the cross-comparison, and the bookkeeping, applying a documented classification standard, conflict-detection framework, and traceability schema the same way to every document and every cycle. What they do not do is decide. Which criteria govern, which conflict matters, and what the owner should do about it stay with the credentialed engineer. Every finding carries its source citation so you can check the work.

Not a platform

The platforms manage files and schedules and leave the hard part to your team: getting documents in, keeping the record current, and keeping people working from it. Gallant is a service, not a subscription. Deliverables are structured files you own, portable to any environment, with no license to procure and no security review to clear. Designing that intake and keeping the team aligned to it is the part we manage — and it is the part that determines whether the discipline holds on a live project.

Where the work stops

Gallant works from written requirements — specification text, general notes, schedules, narratives, criteria, review comments, RFI responses, and contract language — and maintains the record. We do not perform design review or QA audit. Determining which codes and criteria govern is engineer-of-record judgment; we record and attribute that determination, we do not make it. We do not interpret drawings or field conditions. Verification stays with the party responsible for it.

Data handling. Client documents are used only for the engagement they were provided for, are never shared across clients, and are never used to train AI models. Controlled documents are handled to client direction. Full policy →

Sample Reports — Demo Package

What you are about to download is a representative engagement, documented through 50% Schematic Design.

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.

Document 01 · 13 pages
Baseline Requirements Intelligence Report
The founding work. Shows what the project looked like at baseline — the requirements baseline, initial conflicts, and the decisions Cycle 1 was working against.
Download Baseline RIR ↓
Document 02 · 12 pages
Cycle 1 Requirements Intelligence Report
The executive deliverable for one cycle of work at 50% Schematic Design. Scope drift, conflicts, owner decisions, cost variance, and confidence indicators going into the next gate.
Download Cycle 1 RIR ↓
Document 03 · 14 pages
Sample Workbook
The underlying data file: requirements register (124 records), decision register, conflict register, risk register, lineage log, event register, traceability and change-impact matrices, the staged verification matrix, and the twelve-test Gate 2 integrity check.
Download Sample Workbook ↓
Executive Intelligence Layer

The document leadership reads.
Gallant Requirements Intelligence Report™.

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 open decisions until resolved.

  • Emerging scope growth identified before it reaches cost exposure
  • Unresolved requirement conflicts escalated for owner decision
  • Design maturity assessed against requirements baseline at key decision points
  • Cost and schedule exposure signals quantified and ranked
  • Priority actions with recommended decision sequence
Sample Report Contents — Phase Gate Brief
Gallant Requirements Intelligence Report™
Schematic Design Cycle · Phase Gate
  • Executive Decision Page — 3 blockers, deadlines, total exposure
  • Executive Summary — 5 findings, condition / consequence / action
  • Requirements Readiness Dashboard — 7 views
  • Top Priority Items — ranked, all 8 columns
  • Cost & Schedule Exposure — gross and net-after-VE
  • Conflict Register — all 9 conflict types
  • Document Lineage Log — append-only, full history
  • Next Cycle Dependencies — what must happen before DD

This is the table of contents for the Cycle 1 RIR — see the download cards above for the working sample.

Tier 00 · Entry Engagement

Want to see what this looks like on a project of yours?

Start with a Requirements Snapshot. Send the governing documents you have — owner criteria, design narratives, applicable codes and standards, agency guidance, or existing baselines like an owner requirements baseline or applicable UFC requirements. Gallant produces a structured Requirements Snapshot Report in one week: register draft, conflict scan, decision-pending items, and ranked findings on the project you sent.

Fee Fixed, quoted on the document set
Turnaround Confirmed when scope is agreed
Deliverable Snapshot Report (PDF)
Full terms See Tier 00 below

Documents handled per Gallant's data privacy policy. NDA available on request.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Two findings from the sample project below.

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.

Cycle 1 · BIM Coordination · MRI Zone IV + EES
A supply duct crossed the MRI magnetic-field boundary. Three life-safety circuits were routed in normal-power conduit.

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).

Cost band if redesign forced after subcontractor pricing: $150,000 – $400,000
ACTION REQUIRED: MEP Engineer of Record issues design directive memo by September 26 selecting the duct re-route or shielded-penetration option, and re-routing the three EES circuits to dedicated red-coded conduit. Resolved before 60% DD, this is a coordination-level event handled inside the existing MEP fee.
Cycle 1 · CMAR Constructability Review · Long-Lead Procurement
A 52-to-64-week elevator package needed an owner decision in seven days.

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.

Schedule consequence if elevator engagement slips beyond 4 weeks: Direct schedule slip — non-negotiable
ACTION REQUIRED: Owner's PM to issue written direction on elevator contractor engagement within 7 calendar days; generator pad location confirmed in the same window. If not closed within two weeks, the elevator schedule risk becomes the dominant DD-phase critical path concern.
Heritage Health Campus · 50% SD · Cycle 1
4 active conflicts · 3 Tier 1 items · cost variance brought from 5.9% to 4.4% (under the VE trigger for the first time)
All surfaced at Schematic Design — when correction costs a fraction of what it costs at Construction Documents.
See the Report ↓

Project entities are fictitious. Findings, conflicts, and figures reflect real conditions drawn from actual capital projects of this type. Full simulation available upon request.

Research · White Paper

The Root Cause Nobody Owns

How requirements failures drive capital-project cost overruns, schedule slippage, and quality defects.

A research-based analysis of 20+ named project failures across federal, VA healthcare, and commercial construction — more than $30 billion in documented cost growth above stated baselines, every figure read in the document that issues it — and the discipline that could have prevented them.

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Optional Add-On · Decision-Based Pricing

Gallant Controls Advisory

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.

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Decision-Based Cost Advisory Services

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.

Decision Event
Cost Consequence Modeling

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.

When scope conflicts, requirement changes, or unresolved design deltas surface in the register.
Phase-Gate Advisory
Phase-Based Cost Validation

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.

At each formal phase gate where the design-to-budget delta determines whether to advance, correct, or re-baseline.
Decision Event · Event or Batch
VE Impact Analysis

Assess value engineering proposals against the requirements baseline — ensuring VE decisions do not create downstream compliance, life-safety, or operational scope gaps.

When VE packages or portfolio-level alternates require owner accept / modify / reject decisions.
Retained Advisory · 3-month minimum
Requirements-Driven EVM

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.

When variance disputes, productivity claims, or owner exposure require defensible attribution rather than narrative.

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.

Engagement Options

Four ways to start.
One system behind all of them.

Tier 00 · Entry Engagement
Requirements Snapshot
Fixed fee
Quoted on your document set · sample on your project
  • Send the governing documents you have — owner criteria, design narratives, codes, agency guidance, or an existing owner requirements baseline or applicable UFC requirements
  • Requirements Snapshot Report — register draft, conflict scan, decision-pending items, ranked findings
  • 12–15 page Snapshot Report PDF — working files (DRD, register .xlsx, traceability matrix) are delivered in Tier 01 Baseline
  • Turnaround confirmed once the document set is reviewed — it depends on volume, not a standard clock
  • Fixed fee · NDA available on request
  • 100% credit toward a Tier 01 Baseline Engagement within 30 days
Tier 01 · Baseline Engagement
Requirements Baseline Engagement
Fixed fee · scoped in advance
2–3 weeks · Project launch or phase entry
  • Design Requirements Document (DRD) — establishes the authoritative baseline of what the project must achieve
  • Requirements Register from kick-off documents
  • Initial Traceability Matrix
  • Conflict identification from day one
  • Requirements Intelligence Report — Cycle 1
  • Ideal for pre-design or phase entry
Tier 03 · Project Recovery
Requirements Audit
Fixed fee · scoped in advance
3–4 weeks · distressed projects at DD or CD
  • Reconstruct requirements baseline from existing docs
  • Full CD document set comparison cycle
  • Conflict register with prioritized resolution actions
  • Owner advisory report with cost exposure estimates
  • Deliverable in 3–4 weeks
Scope Beyond Standard Engagements

Need more than the standard deliverable?

Standard engagements produce the deliverables described above from documents the client provides. Engagements that go beyond — requirements workshops, ongoing requirements management, stakeholder facilitation, 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.

About Gallant
Gregory Tuite, PE, PMP
Founder & Principal · PE · PMP · U.S. Air Force Veteran

Gallant Project Solutions LLC is a consulting practice focused on improving how complex capital projects are defined, designed, and delivered. The firm’s methods are drawn from decades of experience executing large-scale facilities across entertainment, hospitality, military, healthcare, and mixed-use development — where design intent, constructability, regulatory approvals, commissioning, and operational performance must align under real budget and schedule constraints. These practices translate systems-engineering discipline into practical tools that owners, designers, and constructors can apply immediately.

The firm’s primary service is Gallant Requirements Intelligence™ — a structured requirements management 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 owners at the decision points that shape cost, schedule, and delivered scope. The firm's methods are grounded in requirements definition, baseline control, traceability, change control, and verification planning.

Gregory A. Tuite, PE, PMP — a 27-year U.S. Air Force civil engineering officer, lead systems engineer on U.S. Marine Corps programs, and owner-side project executive on large-scale commercial capital projects. He holds a DAWIA Level III certification in Systems Engineering. Gallant Project Solutions LLC is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.

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NAICS Codes
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541611 · Administrative Management & General Management Consulting
541690 · Other Scientific & Technical Consulting Consulting
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