GallantProject Solutions LLC
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AI-Powered Requirements Intelligence for Complex Capital Projects

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

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

25+
Years Complex Capital Delivery
43-field
Requirements Register Schema
AI-Powered
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 requirements register doubles as a near-ready QA/QC checklist for field verification
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 set-aside percentage and source selection points to your team
  • 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
  • Award-winning theme park, immersive entertainment, and hospitality delivery experience on the bench
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

Eight 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

Automatic identification of contradictions between documents 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 DECISION-PENDING 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. The register doubles as a near-ready QA/QC checklist and supports QA/QC plan development.

08 / LINEAGE

Document Lineage Log

Complete traceability from source requirements through design decisions, edits, and revisions. Full audit trail from owner intent to delivered scope. Defensible through closeout.

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 · 43 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 ↓
Also available: .docx
Document 02 · 43 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 ↓
Also available: .docx
Document 03 · 17 pages
Sample Workbook
The underlying data file: requirements register (124 records), decision register, conflict register, lineage log, Gate 2 integrity check, verification matrix, and top priority items.
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 DECISION-PENDING items 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.

Price $1,500 fixed
Turnaround 1 week
Deliverable 12–15 page Snapshot Report (PDF)
Credit-back 100% toward Tier 01 within 30 days

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.

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.

Delivered in Partnership With

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.

SDVOSB Certified VOSB Certified FL VBE Certified

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
$1,500
1 week · 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
  • One-week turnaround from documents received
  • Fixed price · NDA available on request
  • 100% credit toward a Tier 01 Baseline Engagement within 30 days
Tier 01 · Baseline Engagement
Requirements Baseline Engagement
$7,500 – $12,500
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
$12,500 – $25,000
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, 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.

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 Tuite, PE, PMP brings 25+ years of large-scale program delivery across award-winning theme park and immersive entertainment projects, 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.

His project experience spans award-winning theme park and immersive entertainment projects, hospitality and resort capital programs, complex mixed-use and institutional development, and U.S. military facility design and construction — program management across multiple installations and commands, from design through commissioning on large-scale capital programs. He holds a DAWIA Level III certification in Systems Engineering, is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) and Project Management Professional (PMP), and is a U.S. Air Force veteran. Gallant Project Solutions LLC is SDVOSB / VOSB certified and SAM.gov registered.

Certifications & Registrations
SBA-Certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business SBA-Certified Veteran-Owned Small Business
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SAM.gov RegisteredFederal contracting eligible · SDVOSB set-aside eligible
NAICS Codes
541330 · Engineering Services
541611 · Management Consulting
541614 · Process, Physical Distribution & Logistics
541618 · Other Management Consulting
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