Design keeps changing after entitlement, and that's exactly where budgets quietly go sideways. Projects tracked on Buildwiser stay within 5% of their original pro forma, on average, all the way through closeout.
Pro Forma Assurance
Illustrative data, not a real project. Swap for a real product capture once available.
One live pro forma, updated continuously, not a spreadsheet reconciled once a month.
Buildwiser checks your pro forma against every design update as it happens, instead of waiting for a scheduled reconciliation to surface a problem that's already been built into the drawings.
Illustrative comparison, not a measured benchmark.
Project Intake
Your original budget, contingency, and the cost assumptions behind it are captured up front, so every later check has something real to measure against.
Every cost category gets checked against the original pro forma as design inputs change, flagged the moment it drifts, not discovered three weeks later at the next owner's meeting.
Live Budget Check
Alert History
See exactly which category drifted, when it was flagged, and when it was resolved: a running history your investors can review, not a verbal assurance that it's handled.
Compare your as-designed budget against a value-engineered version and a worst-case scenario side by side, so a design decision never gets made blind to its downside.
Scenario Comparison
Change Order Summary
Every pro forma update and change-order summary your lender or investors ask for is generated straight from the model, not rebuilt by hand every time something changes.
Every time a design input changes (a spec, a scope, a materials substitution), not on a fixed monthly or quarterly schedule. If something moves the number, you see it the same day.
Any cost category that drifts past its expected range as the design evolves (a mechanical spec upgrade, a structural change, a materials price swing), flagged against your original budget and contingency, not just totaled up at the next milestone.
No. It runs alongside them, catching drift in the gaps between the formal updates a cost estimator or GC delivers on their own schedule. Think of it as the guardrail between check-ins, not a replacement for either one.
Yes. Set the percentage or dollar variance that should trigger a flag for each cost category, so you're alerted at the sensitivity that actually matters for your project, not a generic default.
Your categories and thresholds are set up from your intake numbers immediately. From there, your pro forma stays live and gets checked automatically.
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