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Capital Projects · Owner’s Side

Invest in the right capital projects.
Deliver them with confidence.

Independent capital portfolio and project assurance for refining, chemicals, industrial gas, LNG, and power owner teams: challenge the portfolio so the right projects get funded and sequenced, then carry each one through every gate on a defensible read of definition, estimate maturity, schedule integrity, and execution readiness.

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Where the data is as tough as the work.

Assurance Review · AR3 · Sanction gate

CAP·AR

CAP·AR readiness score

66/100
Developing
Independent, consultant-ledGate expectation 70

Contributing lenses

Scope definition completeness61
Estimate basis and class74
Execution readiness58
Sponsor and steering alignment77
Schedule assessment64

Flagged before sanction

  • Long-lead exchanger not on order; delivery lands after the tie-in window
  • Tie-in list not reconciled with the turnaround scope freeze

Illustrative, not actual client data

Scope definitionEstimate classGate readinessSchedule logicTie-in windowsRIK screeningFunding complianceMechanical completionStartup readinessPost-investment reviewPortfolio challengeScope definitionEstimate classGate readinessSchedule logicTie-in windowsRIK screeningFunding complianceMechanical completionStartup readinessPost-investment reviewPortfolio challenge

Why CAP Intelligence

Projects get sanctioned on the picture painted by the team that owns the outcome, and the gaps surface once the field is mobilized.

The Capital Project Assurance Review (CAP·AR) gives everyone who answers for the project, from the sponsor and the steering team to the project manager and the operations owner, a clear, defensible read on where the definition actually stands against best practice, early enough to change the outcome.

See it coming

CAP·AR surfaces definition gaps, estimate immaturity, and execution risks at the gates that matter, while the money is still uncommitted rather than after the field is mobilized. AI-led interviews reach every discipline, so nothing hides in the seat nobody got to.

Align the team

We assess sponsor, steering, and delivery-team alignment, so the people who fund the project and the people who build it are reading it the same way before sanction.

Learn fast

Baseline-versus-as-built performance analysis and closeout assurance capture what actually happened, and file it as a benchmark record the next project starts from.

What CAP·AR is

Assurance at every gate, not a single verdict at sanction.

CAP·AR runs from feasibility on the front end, through the definition and sanction gates, to closeout and the post-investment review on the back end, measuring where the project is against where best practice says it should be at that gate.

Front end

Definition

  • Gate-relative readiness at G1, G2, and G3
  • AI-led one-on-one interviews across every discipline
  • Scope definition completeness, scored
  • Estimate class and basis of estimate against the gate
  • Schedule integrity before baseline lock

Through execution

Assurance

  • Construction and startup readiness checks
  • Early risk identification and owned mitigations
  • Cost and schedule control effectiveness

Back end

Closeout

  • Schedule performance, baseline vs. as-built
  • Cost outcome against sanction
  • Post-investment review and a benchmark record

Who CAP·AR is for

Built for the sustaining and small-capital portfolios nobody else shows up for.

The megaproject world has its evaluators. The site with forty projects under twenty million and a reliability manager keeping the list in a spreadsheet does not. That is where the discipline is thinnest and where a gated process, right-sized by tier, pays back fastest.

Refining

Sustaining capital, unit revamps, and the tie-ins that ride a turnaround window.

Chemicals & Petrochemicals

Ammonia and fertilizer, crackers and derivatives, debottlenecks and reliability capital.

Industrial Gas

Air separation, hydrogen and syngas, on-site supply expansions and replacements.

LNG

Train and terminal projects, cryogenic and rotating replacements, brownfield tie-ins.

Power & Utility

Boiler, turbine, and balance-of-plant projects, grid and compliance capital.

Independent

Owner-side experience

Full lifecycle

Public-framework methodology (AACE / CII / PMI / DCMA / GAO)

Services

All services→
00CAP·CORE
Foundation · The standard the reviews measure against
00CAP·PATH
Foundation · The software that runs the standard
01CAP·AR
Tier 1 · Feasibility through closeout
02CAP·SAR
Tier 1 · Structure and logic before baseline
03CAP·SPR
Tier 1 · Baseline vs. as-built ground truth
04Capital Portfolio Development & Challenge
Tier 2 · The right projects, tiered and phased

CAP Intelligence is the independent, expert-guided option: a standard you own, a platform your team runs, and an honest read at the gate, without a megaproject-scale engagement or a black-box subscription.

One record for the project and the window it rides

Most capital at a running plant either rides a turnaround window or has to stay out of one. CAP Intelligence is the capital-projects practice of STO Intelligence LLC, so the project and the window it depends on live on one record, with one sign-in, and are read by the same standard.

About the practice→
  • The tie-in list reconciled against the scope freeze, in both plans
  • The project's execution start pinned to the window, so a moved window re-lays the project
  • Turnaround cost and project cost on one year-by-year portfolio view

What you receive

Documented findings, not just an opinion.

Every review ends with a live readout and a documented record you keep. The exact deliverables depend on the service and the gate.

01

Gate readiness scorecard

02

Definition and estimate findings

03

Schedule quality findings

04

Action-priority matrix

05

Executive readout

06

Closeout and post-investment report

How it works

Three steps to a defensible gate.

01

Assess the gate

An independent read on definition, estimate, schedule, execution readiness, and team alignment against what this gate demands.

02

Prioritize the gaps

Ranked findings and an action-priority view the sponsor and steering team can act on before the decision.

03

Sanction with confidence

A defensible record carried into the gate, and a plan the delivery team owns coming out of it.

Sharper gates. Fewer surprises after sanction.

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