Sectors We Serve
Most consultants arrive after the damage is done.
Generalist firms are built for process compliance — audits, frameworks, reports delivered after milestones have already slipped. They speak the language of governance, not field execution.
By the time a dispute reaches arbitration or a schedule is already six months behind, the recoverable value is a fraction of what early intervention would have preserved.
Capital project owners deserve better than consultants who document failure. They need partners who prevent it.
"The average cost overrun on a megaproject is 79%. That is not a planning problem — it is a control problem."
We operate at the point of maximum risk — before it becomes a crisis.
Ironclad Advisory embeds senior advisors — principals who have led billion-dollar programs — directly into the owner's project controls function from day one of FID.
We do not hire junior analysts and call them project managers. Every engagement is led by a professional with direct accountability on projects of equivalent scale and complexity.
The result: budgets that hold, schedules that are defended, and a claims posture built before the first subcontract is signed.
Structured advisory for every phase of a capital program.
Integrated Project Controls
Earned value management, schedule integrity analysis, and cost forecasting built into the owner's control framework from FID — not grafted on after problems surface.
Risk Identification & Mitigation
Systematic quantitative risk analysis covering procurement, logistics, scope definition, and contractor performance. Risk registers that drive decisions, not file cabinets.
Claims Avoidance & Defense
Contract strategy, contemporaneous records management, and dispute avoidance protocols structured before the first subcontract — so you are never reconstructing facts after the fact.
EPC Contractor Oversight
Independent monitoring of contractor performance, progress measurement verification, and change order analysis — so the owner has a true picture of project status, not the contractor's picture.
Front-End Loading & FEED Advisory
Scope definition, basis-of-design reviews, and project sanction readiness assessments during FEED — where a dollar spent saves ten in execution.
Board & Executive Reporting
Independent project health assessments and executive dashboards that give boards and lenders a credible, unvarnished view of capital program status — separate from the project team's reporting.
Outcomes measured in dollars defended, not reports delivered.
LNG Terminal, Gulf Coast
Embedded project controls from FID through commissioning. Final cost within 2.1% of sanctioned budget on a 48-month program.
Refinery Expansion, Midwest
Claims defense strategy developed during FEED. Zero arbitration reached on $140M of contested change orders.
Data Center Campus, Multiple Sites
Program-level controls across four simultaneous builds. Delivered 6 weeks ahead of contracted schedule on critical path.
Not a staffing firm. Not a global consultancy.
A senior partner for the hardest jobs.
Principals on every engagement
You will not be handed off to junior staff after the proposal is signed. Every Ironclad engagement is led by a principal with direct experience on projects of equivalent scale.
Owner-side only — never contractor-side
We represent the interests of capital project owners exclusively. We do not consult for EPC contractors, which means our advice is never compromised by the other side of the table.
Industrial-only focus
We do not work on commercial real estate, transportation, or government infrastructure. Our practice is concentrated entirely in energy, industrial, and heavy manufacturing — the sectors where the stakes and complexity are highest.
Outcome-based scope, not billable hours
Our engagements are structured around defined deliverables and decision points — not time-and-material billing that rewards inefficiency. When your project succeeds, the engagement concludes.
Confidential. Discreet. Trusted.
Capital project problems do not benefit from public disclosure. Every engagement operates under strict confidentiality — we do not publish case studies without explicit permission or reference clients without consent.
Available in 72 hours
Capital program crises do not follow a proposal timeline. Ironclad principals can mobilize and be on-site within 72 hours for critical-path interventions.
Your program has one chance to go right.
We work with a limited number of capital project owners each year. If you are preparing for FID, managing an active program in distress, or building your claims defense posture — request a confidential briefing.
Initial consultations are confidential and carry no obligation. We will tell you directly whether Ironclad is the right fit for your situation.
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