01Live guide
Site & program
What can this site plausibly support?
- Parcel and acreage confidence
- Conceptual unit yield and parking
- What Site Fit cannot verify
Four learning tracks
Learn in the same order the deal is screened.
02Live guide
Conceptual budget
What is the right level of precision today?
- Early estimate class and uncertainty
- Hard cost, soft cost, and contingency
- When to engage preconstruction
03Live guide
Cost basis
Where did this number come from?
- Source class and effective date
- Baseline, override, and current basis
- Escalation versus installed cost
04Live guide
Decision control
What changed, who reviewed it, and what happens next?
- Proceed, Revise, Reprice, Pause, Stop
- Confidence and blocking assumptions
- Versioned Decision Memo and BOE
Cost reference hierarchy
A number is only as useful as its basis.
DealVeto separates project evidence, licensed references, public signals, screening benchmarks, and assumptions. They are not interchangeable.
- 01Customer-verified actualsPreferred calibration basis when the customer has authorized the project history for use.
- 02Licensed referencesUsed only when separately contracted and identified; never implied to be DealVeto-owned data.
- 03Official public signalsUsed for context and escalation. BLS PPI indicates trend; it is not a local installed-cost source.
- 04DealVeto screening benchmarkA directional multifamily screening band with geography, effective date, and confidence disclosed.
- 05Modeled assumptionA visible placeholder requiring professional or customer validation before reliance.
Pilot governance cadence
Cost Basis Quarterly
A versioned release note for benchmark, escalation, geography, and methodology changes.
- 01
Collect permitted customer actuals, licensed references, and official public signals
- 02
Normalize source date, geography, product type, units, and escalation basis
- 03
Review outliers, confidence, and construction-market relevance
- 04
Publish an effective date, version, change log, and validation notes
No silent rebasing. Existing deal versions keep their original cost basis until a user explicitly adopts a newer release.
Organization knowledge & AI safety
Ground answers in approved sources before considering training.
Retrieve from approved organization sources at answer time instead of training a shared model on raw customer files. This preserves citations, makes a source removable, and keeps the deterministic screen—not the language model—as the calculation authority.
Customer deal data is not used to train a shared cross-customer DealVeto model by default. Any exception follows an explicit, customer-specific governance path.
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