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The work, in detail.

Before your name goes on our output, see how it's made. The method, the standards, the finished shape of the work.

The Discipline
Every number, traceable to its source.
The Discipline

Every deliverable: inputs, method, output.

No black boxes. Stated inputs. A defined method. A clear output — work your team can defend to a client. The rigour is the product.

Defined scope

What's in, what's out, and the window - agreed up front.

Stated assumptions

Every driver visible, owned and auditable.

Senior-reviewed

A thirty-year set of eyes before anything ships.

The Deliverables, Broken Down

How the core work is actually built.

A representative set. Each follows the same inputs → method → output discipline, in your house format.

Feasibility & Financial Modelling

Inputs
  • Brief, site and programme data
  • Market & comp-set evidence
  • Development cost estimates
  • Brand / operator assumptions
Method
  • Demand & penetration build-up
  • RevPAR and revenue projections
  • USALI-format P&L, 10-year
  • DCF, IRR, NPV & sensitivities
Output
  • Investment case with recommendation
  • Working model in your template
  • Scenario & sensitivity tables

Market & Demand Benchmarking

Inputs
  • Location & catchment data
  • Demand generators
  • Competitive supply & pipeline
  • STR / HotStats where available
Method
  • Comp-set definition
  • Segmentation & demand mapping
  • Penetration indices (MPI / RGI)
  • Supply-pipeline assessment
Output
  • Market & positioning study
  • Benchmarking pack
  • Penetration & share view

P&L & MIS Review

Inputs
  • Management accounts
  • Budgets & prior-year actuals
  • Operator MIS
Method
  • USALI re-cast
  • Variance & trend analysis
  • KPI build: GOP, GOPPAR, flow-through
  • Cost & labour ratios
Output
  • Owner-grade performance review
  • Variance commentary
  • Reporting dashboard

HMA & Franchise Review

Inputs
  • Draft or executed agreements
  • Brand standards
  • Market-standard term references
Method
  • Clause-by-clause analysis
  • Fees, term, performance test, territory
  • FF&E reserve & termination review
  • Comparison to market norms
Output
  • Issues & redline memo
  • Negotiation points
  • Term comparison matrix
Standards & Frameworks

We work in the language your clients already read.

Fluency in the industry's standards is what keeps our output from reading as outsourced.

01

USALI

The Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry - we report in the format owners and operators expect.

02

STR / HotStats

Comp-set performance, penetration and cost benchmarking against recognised data.

03

DCF, IRR & NPV

Institutional returns analysis with transparent sensitivities and scenarios.

04

HMA & franchise frameworks

Fees, performance tests, territory, FF&E reserve and termination, against market norms.

05

Demand modelling

Segmentation, demand generators, absorption and penetration build-up.

06

Valuation support

Income-approach and cap-rate analysis in support of formal third-party valuations.

A Sample Deliverable

The shape of a feasibility study.

An illustrative structure — every study is built to your scope and house format.

01

Executive summary & recommendation

The conclusion first - go / no-go and why.

02

Site & location analysis

Access, visibility, catchment and constraints.

03

Market & demand analysis

Generators, segmentation and seasonality.

04

Competitive supply & positioning

Comp set, pipeline and recommended position.

05

Penetration & RevPAR build-up

Occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, year by year.

06

Financial projections

USALI P&L across a ten-year horizon.

07

Investment returns

DCF, IRR, NPV and sensitivity analysis.

08

Risks, assumptions & conclusions

Every driver stated, with the case for the call.

Quality Assurance

How we make sure it's right.

Source verification

Every external figure traced back to its source before it's used.

Assumption log

Every assumption stated, owned and open to challenge.

Senior review

Final sign-off by a thirty-year practitioner before release.

Version control

A clean audit trail, in your file standards and naming.

The Invitation

See a sample. Then test us on one.

Ask for a redacted deliverable to judge the rigour, then put a single live mandate through the pilot.

On your side of the table.