Outcome
Protect your feasibility
The design keeps developing after the number is set.
You underwrote the project on a brief and a concept set. Everything after that is design development, and design development adds. A slab thickens, a facade system changes, the services reservation grows. Each one is defensible on its own and none of them arrive as a variation, because you engage the consultants and you carry the build. The drift lands on the return.
CIM reads every revision against the brief and the set the feasibility was built on, and flags what the design has picked up - scope nobody priced, requirements it has stopped meeting - each finding cited to the clause and the drawing it came from.
You see the movement while it is still a line on a drawing. The design decisions that change the number get made deliberately, with the cost visible at the time somebody signs them off.
Before CIM
- Design development adds scope that nobody prices.
- The feasibility brief and the current set quietly diverge.
- The overrun shows up in the cost report, months later.
With CIM
- Scope the design picks up is flagged as it arrives, cited to the page.
- The brief checked against the drawings on every revision.
- The cost of a design decision is visible when it is made.