Intelligent Automation
for Planning and Cost Management
From inception, onward, owners and their advisors need a system to effectively plan and manage cost. Building CATALYST provides the first real-world, data-driven system to reliably plan, budget, and steer projects to more certain and successful outcomes.
Building Catalyst cost modeling interface on laptop
CATALYST unifies human experience, computational speed, and AI-driven analysis into a single, transparent system for reliable real-time planning, budgeting, and cost optimization.
replace the days to weeks cycles

real time

From the first model through the dozens that follow, CATALYST creates fast, accurate predictions with feedback loops and comparative analysis that transforms the decision-making and preconstruction processes.
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Owner / Developer
Take Control of the Project Scope and Cost
Owners can now access the only data-driven solution to control the planning, design decision making, budgeting and cost management, first to make outcomes more stable, then to optimize them.
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Advisor
Lead project teams in the systems approach and process improvement
The industry is moving toward automated, data-driven planning and cost management. Put intelligent automation to work for you—or risk being outpaced by those who do.
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Architect
Design with Greater Certainty and Less Rework
Use real-time, data-driven feedback to align program, scope, and budget early— so design decisions remain grounded as complexity increases.
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Builder
Differentiate with Intelligence, Speed and Cost Effectiveness
Owners are gravitating toward builders who can answer faster and explain more clearly. Let intelligent automation separate you from competitors and improve the service to the clients you serve.
Features

The Power Of Good Data

From the earliest planning stages through the major design-decision making cycles, CATALYST produces a powerful array of outputs to drive design efficiency and cost effectiveness.

OUTPUTS
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PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Program Development

CATALYST provides the first automatic space program generator from the owner’s business case—based on market averages and real-world project history.

Program Development
Smart Attributes
Pareto Variation Analysis
Detailed Cost Modeling
Over / Under Analysis
Comparative Analysis
Range of Variation
Testimonial

real results

“The most robust knowledge base on the market resides at the core of Building Catalyst. I’ve used it for eight years to predict outcomes with an exceptional level of certainty. The power to drive decisions and inform design is literally at your fingertips.”

Jaymee Couchene

Director of Estimating & Construction

Our reach

built on real market intelligence

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Catalyst integrates data from hundreds of verified projects across 41 states and 60+ building types. These verified projects form the learning foundation for both automation and applied AI.

Your plan, program, and cost models are based on broad market data and/or your own project data.

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Knowledge that POWERS Planning, Programming, and Management— with
Intelligent Automation built in.

It all starts with CATALYST.

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