Use cases

Use Beacon when a project number is about to move forward.

These examples match the product workflows and fixed sample reviews: Range Check, Scenario Review, Budget, Bid Review, Economics, Credit Opportunity Check, Closeout, and Library.

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Sample-backed use cases

The public sample reviews show these situations with fixed data.

Range Check / Feasibility Check

Check an early cost assumption

The first hard-cost assumption is starting to shape underwriting, a memo, or a budget conversation.

Sample project
Ridge Yard Adaptive Reuse

Early feasibility

Beacon helps answer

Is this underwriting assumption defensible enough to keep moving?

Output

Support signal, evidence gap, and next review action before the assumption becomes the working story.

Scenario Review

Compare scenarios before carrying a budget

The team is choosing between scope, timing, funding, margin, or return tradeoffs.

Sample project
Harbor Lane Civic Infill

Pre-commitment scenario review

Beacon helps answer

Which scenario should we carry into the working budget?

Output

Scenario candidate, tradeoff basis, and caveats that stay attached to the number.

Bid Review

Level bids before award

A raw low bid looks attractive, but exclusions, allowances, alternates, or trade pricing may not be comparable.

Sample project
Riverside Health Centre Expansion

Budget carried before award

Beacon helps answer

Which bid can we safely take to approval?

Output

Clarification list, comparable bid basis, and a decision brief before award pressure builds.

Credit Opportunity Check

Review capital or credit opportunity

A scope or location fact may create project value, but the support is not ready to reduce the carried budget.

Sample project
Greenline Community Clinic

Budget and scope review

Beacon helps answer

Is there project value we are leaving out of the capital stack?

Output

Opportunity range, missing proof, advisor-review caveat, and bid-scope follow-up.

Operational use cases

Some uses are workflow moments rather than standalone samples.

Budget

Carry a budget basis into approval or bid review

A selected estimate, scenario, or working budget is about to become the basis for a meeting, approval, funding conversation, or bid comparison.

Carried budget basis with source notes, caveats, and the review path it came from.

Feasibility Hub / Economics

Check economics impact

Cost movement, timing, funding, revenue, or bid exposure is changing ROI, margin, debt, or approval pressure.

Economics impact note and readiness posture before the team treats the deal picture as settled.

Closeout / Library

Turn closeout actuals into future support

A project is closing and the team needs to separate approved scope growth from baseline cost drift.

Reviewed actuals and reusable historical support for the next estimate or feasibility check.

Where projects drift

The risk is rarely one bad file. It is a stale number that keeps moving.

Feasibility drift
Range Check / Feasibility Hub

The early assumption changes, but the working budget does not.

1A cost assumption is updated in one file.
2The old number survives into budget review.
3The bid review starts from the wrong basis.
Bid drift
Bid Review

The raw low bid looks like savings before scope is leveled.

1A low bid excludes scope or carries thin allowances.
2The team treats the gap as savings too early.
3Contingency gets compressed before clarifications close.
Closeout drift
Closeout / Library

Actual cost movement never reaches the next estimate.

1Closeout separates approved scope from base-cost drift.
2The lesson stays in a project folder.
3The next feasibility model starts without useful history.

Bring one live project finance question.

Start from the assumption, estimate, budget, bid package, economics concern, or closeout record already in front of the team.