The Steward
One accountable person, on your side of the table.
Your Steward represents you and the home as one thing. Your professionals remain responsible for their work. Every decision remains yours.
Before contractors price the work
We find the questions sitting between the drawings, specifications and scopes.
Each question goes to the professional whose job it is to answer it. Their answers become part of what every contractor prices. When the bids return, you can see what each one includes, what remains open and why the numbers differ.
What arrives for your approval
Every decision, packaged the same way.
“A number on its own is not a decision.”
Oren Dagan, founder
What happened, and who owns the gap.
What happened, why a decision is needed and who owns the gap.
What can be done, and what it costs.
What can be done, what each choice costs and what supports the price.
What it does to the schedule.
What each choice does to the schedule and what we believe should happen.
The standard
Protect the schedule. Protect your money. Take the daily burden off your shoulders.
The goal is simple enough to repeat: a project that stays on time and on budget, without becoming your second job. Construction always carries uncertainty. Stewardship makes the uncertainty visible, documented and managed.
Clear scope
Every line item spelled out and agreed in writing. Nothing assumed.
Comparable bids
Aligned scopes and matched allowances, so bids sit side by side on the same basis.
Documented decisions
Every change logged and dated. Nothing verbal.
Checked work
Walked, checked and verified on site. Defects listed and followed through.
Fewer surprises
Risks named and flagged early, so budget and schedule are held.
One accountable person
One point of contact who owns the outcome and is there at the end.
Questions worth asking
What a Steward is, and is not.
What does a Steward actually do?
Your Steward represents you and the home as one thing. Between the drawings, specifications and scopes we find the questions nobody has asked yet, send each one to the professional whose job it is to answer it, and package every decision for you the same way: what happened, what the options are, what each one costs, what it does to the schedule, and what we believe should happen. Your professionals stay responsible for their work. Every decision stays yours.
When should we bring Crewzz in?
Before the next commitment. Plans, bids or construction already underway: we begin with what is already happening. It is easiest to close the gap before contractors price the work, but a project that has already started still benefits from someone on your side of the table.
Do you replace our architect, builder or designer?
No. Your architect, builder, designer and trades remain responsible for their own work, and their agreements stay exactly as they are. Crewzz adds one accountable person on your side: someone who follows the whole project rather than one discipline within it.
How is this different from a project manager?
A project manager keeps the work moving. A Steward signs for the whole. That means watching the gaps between trades, keeping scope, bids and decisions comparable, and staying with the home from the first conversation through the work itself and long after the last trade has packed up.