I started it because I kept seeing the same disaster happen to good people. A family saves for years. An OFW sends money home for their dream house. A business owner invests their profits into a new property. And then it all goes wrong—not because of bad construction, but because nobody asked the right questions before breaking ground.
Budgets that were never realistic. Scopes that were never clearly defined. Timelines built on assumptions instead of data. By the time these problems surface on the jobsite, the money is already gone.
Most construction disasters don’t start on the jobsite. They start in the planning phase—when nobody asks the hard questions about cost reality.
That’s why I created the Build Cost Readiness Check—a free assessment that exposes planning gaps before they become million-peso problems. It’s the question I wish someone had asked every client who came to me too late.
After 17 years of practice, I’ve worked on residential, commercial, and hospitality projects across the Philippines and internationally. I’ve collaborated with on-site architects, engineers, interior designers, and construction firms. But the work I’m most proud of is the projects I’ve saved—the ones where we caught the problem in the planning phase, before a single hollow block was laid.