Real Estate Developers
Subcontractor overbilling, unapproved change orders absorbing soft dollars, and duplicate lender draws are the highest-frequency leaks in development budgets. Most developers do not diagnostic these categories line by line. Syboost does.
Interactive Tool
Enter your total project budget. The waterfall shows how typical leak percentages break down across the six most common cost categories, with total recoverable highlighted at the bottom.
Cost Waterfall
Recoverable Across These Levers
$1.3M
10.7% of budget. Net defensible spend: $10.7M
Project Inputs
Hard and soft costs combined
Multiplies the per-project estimate across your active pipeline
Total Portfolio Recovery
$3.9M
$1.3M per project across 3 projects
$3.9M in estimated project cost recovery.
Enter your details for a full project-cost diagnostic with line-by-line analysis across all six leak categories.
Each category below compounds the others. A change order that inflates the subcontractor scope also inflates the draw request and, if unchallenged, the retainage balance. Reviewing each lever in isolation recovers dollars. Reviewing all six recovers the full picture.
Subcontractors bill by schedule of values, not by verified completion. When the pay application overstates percentage complete, the overpayment becomes a balance-sheet liability, not a recoverable receivable. Syboost reviews each pay application against site documentation, verifies stored materials, and flags over-billing before payment is released.
Approved change order logs routinely contain items that were never formally approved, priced at above-market rates, or duplicated from the original scope. Developers who do not reconcile the change order register against executed contracts absorb these costs permanently. Syboost reviews the register, cross-references executed contracts, and quantifies the recoverable gap.
Construction lender draw schedules require the borrower to certify completion and cost. Misapplied line items, duplicate invoices, and cost overruns booked to incorrect draw categories create diagnostic risk and budget distortion. Syboost reconciles every draw against the cost breakdown and flags discrepancies before the next draw is submitted.
Architecture, engineering, and permitting fees are frequently invoiced at contract rates that have escalated through addenda and scope expansions the developer never formally approved. A professional services diagnostic against the original engagement letters often reveals 15 to 20 percent in fees that were billed above the authorized amount.
Retainage withheld from subcontractors must be tracked against lien-waiver receipt, conditional and unconditional. Developers who release retainage without collecting the corresponding unconditional lien waiver expose the project to double payment. Syboost installs the lien-waiver workflow and reconciles the retainage register against documented releases.
What We Find
The diagnostic processes and verification workflows installed carry forward to every future project in the pipeline.
Book Your Project DiagnosticThree steps from cost diagnostic to verified recovery. Completed within 90 days on active projects.
Every pay application, change order log, lender draw, and soft-cost invoice reviewed against contracts and authorization records. Overpayments and gaps quantified by category.
Disputed invoices challenged with supporting documentation. Corrected draw submissions prepared. Lien-waiver workflow installed. Change order register reconciled against executed contracts.
Every recovered dollar documented against pre-diagnostic baseline. Diagnostic processes handed off so future projects carry the same controls from day one.
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Tell us about your active projects. We review your budget structure and cost documentation before the call so the conversation is about your specific recovery opportunity.
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