They have software. Meetings. Reports. What they rarely have is a structured intelligence layer — a clear picture of where their people, their operations, and their margins have exposure before those exposures become problems. OIG was built to close that gap.
See What OIG RevealsOIG works across four domains. Most engagements start with People Intelligence — not because people are the problem, but because that's where the most expensive gaps hide in a growing construction firm. The same diagnostic discipline extends across operations, financial performance, and strategic positioning.
Where most engagements start. Growth outpaces development. Promotions happen faster than preparation. Key knowledge lives inside a few people until one day it doesn't.
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Where work breaks down between people, phases, tools, and handoffs. Where margin leaks before it shows up on a job cost report. Where the firm runs on gut instead of structured visibility.
Available now · Full diagnostic suite
Where margin is disappearing across the project lifecycle. WIP visibility, cost-to-complete accuracy, billing lag, and the financial signals that deserve attention before they compound.
Available now · Entry from Operational diagnostic
Growth readiness, succession positioning, and ownership transition preparation for firms planning an ESOP conversion, generational handoff, or multi-location scale move.
Available now · Entry from People or Operational diagnostic
Who's ready. Who's at risk. What do we do about it. How do we build something that holds. That's the conversation OIG was built for.
Maps your leadership bench against the actual demands of the role — not gut feel, not tenure. A structured diagnostic that scores every leader across the competencies their position requires.
Built for GCs and specialty trade firms navigating growth, ownership transition, or a promote-from-within culture that's outpaced its training infrastructure.
Built for HR Directors and People leaders. A full organizational system diagnostic across six dimensions — revealing whether your people infrastructure is working as a system or held together by a few key relationships.
Covers the full people lifecycle: how you attract and retain talent, how you develop and promote it, and how the firm will look in five years without intervention.
The development system that runs on LRI and LWIA findings. Built for construction environments, not adapted from corporate programs. Your people learn in the context of real project work and real contractor business performance.
Three engagement models based on what you need and what you already have in place.
"The diagnostic reveals the gap. The development closes it. That is the full motion."
Start with a Free CallOIG's operational diagnostic maps six dimensions of how a construction firm actually runs — not how leadership thinks it runs. The gap between those two pictures is where margin disappears.
Where cost is leaking between estimate, execution, and close — and why it keeps happening the same way on every job.
Where work breaks down between people, departments, phases, and tools — and what gets lost in every transition.
Where critical information lives only in someone's head — and what it costs when people leave or miss something.
Where leaders lack the right signal at the right time — and where the business runs on instinct instead of visible data.
Where AI can practically eliminate friction, speed up decisions, or reduce cost — and where readiness needs honest assessment first.
Where projects finish without improving the next one — and what it takes to turn project experience into enterprise advantage.
Most contractors aren't losing margin in one place. They're losing it across people, operations, and financial performance — in the same places — on every job.
Great supers became PMs. Great PMs became VPs. Nobody ever checked whether the leadership capability grew at the same speed as the title.
The bid and the field execution are never fully connected. Scope assumptions erode quietly before the first mobilization.
Key decisions can only be made by one person. Every bottleneck routes through leadership because the system was never built to distribute it.
The best project knowledge lives in a person, not a system. When they leave or miss something, the company pays for it twice.
Work gets done before it gets billed. Change orders sit unsigned. Cost-to-complete visibility is always a week behind reality.
Projects close and the lessons disappear. The next job starts with the same assumptions. The same margins leak the same way.
Every OIG engagement follows the same progression — from not knowing where the gaps are, to having the clarity and systems to make improvement compound over time.
Every OIG engagement starts with a free 20-minute intelligence call. The path depends on your firm type, size, and where the highest-leverage gaps are right now.
For GCs and specialty trade firms navigating growth, ownership transition, or a promote-from-within culture that has outpaced its training infrastructure. Starts with LRI or LWIA. Closes with CLA development where findings warrant it.
LRI™ · LWIA™ · CLA™ · Free discovery call entry point
For owner-led and growing specialty contractors who want clarity on profit leaks, process gaps, owner dependency, and practical AI opportunities — without overcomplicating anything.
Profit Leakage Self-Assessment · Trade Contractor Scorecard
For larger contractors who want to know whether project experience is becoming company learning — or staying trapped in jobs, teams, meetings, and disconnected systems.
Project-to-Enterprise Intelligence Review™ · Preconstruction Intelligence Review™
Every OIG engagement follows the same motion — diagnose before fix, reveal before recommend, intelligence before offer.
20 minutes. No pitch. Six questions about your firm. You will know by the end whether OIG is the right fit and which domain has the most exposure right now.
We align on the right instrument for your situation — LRI, LWIA, Profit Leakage, or a combined diagnostic — scoped to your specific growth stage and gaps.
Interviews, structured assessments, and analysis across the relevant intelligence domain. Typically 2 to 4 weeks depending on firm size and scope.
A complete picture of where you stand — who is ready, where the leakage is, what the gaps are — with a sequenced action plan your team can execute immediately.
OIG works across four buyer types. The diagnostic discipline is the same. The entry point, instrument, and language are different.
"OIG exists because we've lived inside growing construction companies and watched good people make difficult decisions with incomplete information. The problem was rarely effort. It was visibility. That's what OIG was built to close."
OIG Advisory Team"The best advisory firms in construction serve the largest firms. The contractor running a $15M trade operation or a $40M GC has the same complexity — proportionally more of it — and almost nowhere to turn for serious, structured help at a price point that fits. That is the market OIG was built for."
OIG's diagnostic methodology was developed across 15+ years of direct construction industry experience — including work with ENR Top 10 general contractors and national specialty contractors operating at scale. We don't consult from the outside in. We've sat in the seats, run the numbers, and managed the dysfunction firsthand.
OIG is deliberately small. Every engagement is led directly by our senior advisor — no handoffs, no junior staff. You're not buying a firm's capacity. You're buying direct access to someone who has been in these seats and built diagnostic tools specifically for this environment.
We work across four intelligence domains — People, Operational, Financial, and Strategic — because the firm that can see clearly in all four is the firm that compounds improvement year over year. Most engagements start with People Intelligence. None end there.
Across every engagement — trade, GC, preconstruction — the same categories of gap appear. OIG's job is to name them, map them, and close them before they compound.
No pitch. No obligation. A clear read on where your firm actually stands — and which intelligence domain has the most exposure right now.
Book the Intelligence CallPrefer email? Reach Stephen directly at stephen@oigops.com