Owner's Representation

Umbra serves as your dedicated representative throughout the entire project. Your team makes the decisions. We coordinate the architect, manage the contractor, and protect your interests at every step.

  • Single point of contact for all stakeholders
  • Contract administration and compliance monitoring
  • Budget oversight and financial reporting
  • Risk identification and mitigation

Preconstruction Advisory

Before you sign a contract or break ground, we make sure your project is set up to succeed. You get a realistic budget, a clear scope, and an honest assessment of what it will take.

  • Conceptual budgeting and cost benchmarking
  • Scope development and specification review
  • Contractor qualification and bid evaluation
  • Value engineering and cost reduction
  • Schedule development and milestone planning

Construction Phase Services

Once your project is in motion, we keep it on track. You get regular updates, proactive problem-solving, and someone holding every trade accountable to your standards.

  • Progress monitoring and site observations
  • Change order review and negotiation
  • Schedule tracking and delay analysis
  • Quality assurance and punch list management
  • Payment application review

Entitlements & Permitting

Navigating zoning, permitting, and municipal approvals in DFW can stall a project before it starts. We guide you through the process so you know what to file, where to file it, and how long it will take.

  • Zoning verification and land use analysis
  • Site plan and plat review coordination
  • SUP, variance, and PD applications
  • Building permit strategy and timeline management

Closeout & Warranty

The last 10% of a project creates 90% of the frustration. We drive it to the finish line: final inspections, punch lists, documentation, and warranty coordination, so you can move in and move on.

  • Substantial completion and final inspection coordination
  • Punch list development and tracking
  • O&M manual and warranty documentation
  • Contractor warranty enforcement

Expert Witness & Dispute Support

Owner's-side commercial project management, available to litigation. Day-to-day work inside change-order and payment disputes means we know who spots the issue, where the documentation breaks, and what the contract actually says when the parties disagree.

  • Construction defect matters
  • Delay and schedule disputes
  • Contract-interpretation analysis
  • Consulting and testifying rates on request

We read the entire spec book. Every section. Every page.

Umbra runs a proprietary AI-assisted specification review system built in-house. It ingests your full project specification book and surfaces scope gaps, conflicts, hidden obligations, and cross-reference risks. Every finding is cited to its section and part, and a senior practitioner verifies each one before it reaches you.

The Spec Analysis Package: an annotated risk and conflict register, scope-gap analysis, submittal and warranty obligation registers, and a cross-reference audit. Fixed fee, five business days. Document review at a speed and depth no hand-built consultancy can match.

Fixed fees. Defined deliverables. No surprises.

Common starting points, priced up front. Anything on our services list can also be scoped as a fixed-fee engagement, and full owner's representation is always available.

Free Spec Check

Three cited findings from your spec book at no charge. See the depth before you commit. Get in touch.

Spec Analysis Package

Full specification book review with cited findings. From $6,500 · 5 business days.

Bid Evaluation & Leveling

Apples-to-apples comparison across your bidders, plus a recommendation memo. From $3,500.

Budget & Schedule Review

Independent reality check on the numbers and the timeline before you commit. From $2,500.

Monthly Advisory Retainer

Your construction advisor on call: bids, pay apps, change orders, contracts. From $2,500/month.

Owner's Representation

Full-lifecycle representation from preconstruction through closeout. Scaled to your project.

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Tell us where your project stands and we'll tell you honestly which engagement fits, or whether you need one at all.

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