Outcome
Defend your fee
Somebody else's change becomes your unpaid redraw.
The brief moves. A client decision late in design development, a planning condition, another consultant's revision that lands in your scope. The redraw happens either way. Whether it is an additional service or absorbed into the fee usually comes down to whether anyone recorded that the change happened, and when.
CIM compares every issue against the last - yours and the other disciplines' - and flags exactly what moved, dated and cited to the drawing. The record builds itself as the project runs.
Additional services get raised from evidence, at the time, while the client still remembers asking. Your fee stops absorbing other people's changes by default.
Before CIM
- Scope creep in the design absorbed without a record.
- Additional services raised late, from memory, and argued.
- Another discipline's change lands as your redraw.
With CIM
- Every change between issues flagged, dated and cited.
- Additional services raised at the time, from evidence.
- The record builds itself while the project runs.