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Understand why delays happen on your projects — early enough to change it
Quarterly deep-dives on supplier patterns, bottlenecks, and what's actually broken.
The problem
Reactive early warning is good. Strategic prevention is better.
You've now run several projects with early warning in place. You've caught risks early, filed clean variations. But you're still seeing the same suppliers slip, the same categories of delay, the same friction points.
Risk Reviews give you the pattern — why certain suppliers consistently slip, which procurement categories are inherently tight in your market, which supplier relationships need renegotiating, and where your own design or procurement process is adding delay risk.
What you get
A strategic brief, once a quarter.
- Your top 5–10 supplier bottlenecks across all active projects
- Pattern analysis — is this supplier unreliable, or is the category tight?
- Market signal — is your region experiencing scarcity in this category?
- Relationship health — are you getting early warnings, or surprises?
- Root cause — supplier capacity, design changes, or your own lead-time planning?
- Recommendations — renegotiate terms, shift suppliers, change your design-lock process, pre-qualify alternates
How it works
Every 13 weeks, we look at the pattern.
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Aggregate and categorise
We pull together supplier performance data across your projects — on-time rate, lead-time reliability, response time — and categorise delays as supplier-driven, design-driven, or market-driven.
- 02
Correlate and research the market
We check patterns against your current supplier agreements and pricing, and research whether market conditions are tight in that category across your region.
- 03
Interview your teams
We talk to your PMs directly — what's working, what's broken, what would help most.
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Deliver the brief
A strategic brief for your procurement and construction leadership, not a complaint report.
In practice
What this looks like when it works.
Illustrative examples based on common patterns we're validating — not a specific, named client engagement.
After two consecutive Risk Reviews, one regional construction team traces a recurring pattern in MEP delays back to their own design-lock timing rather than supplier unreliability. Shifting the design handoff date forward on future projects gives suppliers earlier notice, and on-time completion improves noticeably across the projects that follow.
On another project, a Risk Review shows that a facade supplier keeps flagging changes late — after manufacturing has already started. Rather than treat it as an unreliable supplier, the team introduces an earlier pre-manufacturing coordination meeting. On the next project with the same supplier, there are no late change orders — the process, not the relationship, had been the problem.
A third team uses a Risk Review's aggregated pattern data to renegotiate terms with a repeat-offending supplier, moving to a performance-based pricing model. On-time delivery improves substantially on the projects that follow.
Who this is for
Built for the people managing the pattern, not just the project.
Today and tomorrow
Manual analysis today. A living database tomorrow.
Today
We manually aggregate project data, interview your teams, research market conditions, and write the brief ourselves.
Tomorrow
The platform maintains a rolling supplier performance database, auto-flags pattern alerts, and surfaces insights to a leadership dashboard every quarter.
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