Canada's built environment digitalization firm
Improving your buildings and infrastructure, with evidence — not assumptions.
Using our Grounded Diagnostic, the gold standard for assessment, we place your built environment organization on a digital maturity scale, use the evidence to show what it’s costing you, and then build an airtight plan to advance you.
Then we can stay and move you forward. For good.
Three minutes. No cost. No obligation.
Two minutes on why this matters now — and what we do about it.
One pattern runs through every failure in the public record: information that did not travel from the place it was generated to the place it would have changed a decision.
Across engineering and construction, 95.5% of all data captured goes unused. FMI, Big Data = Big Questions for the Engineering and Construction Industry, 2018.
The Clarity Builders approach, on one page
Four levels. Five business dimensions. One yardstick that does not change between measurements — which is what makes movement provable rather than asserted.
Snapshot Audit
A free three-minute self-assessment finds your organization and gives you a preliminary read across all five business dimensions.
Grounded Diagnostic
We score you against all five business dimensions, grounded in a project you have actually completed, and price what the gaps are costing. You keep the scorecard and the plan.
The plan
A detailed scorecard plus a sequenced Digitalization Plan, broken out segment by segment, focusing you on what specifically needs to change and the benefits.
Clarity Compass
A custom 12 month retained service that implements and sustains your plan. A trusted advisor where the advancements are clear and measured as is the productivity gain.
The reset
When a newly completed project can measure your advancement honestly, the diagnostic re-runs on a new baseline and the cycle starts again.
The Snapshot Audit finds the organization. The Grounded Diagnostic scores it. Clarity Compass holds it. The next diagnostic proves whether holding worked, and resets what happens next.
What we diagnose and measure
Five business dimensions, forty-three segments
Pick a business dimension, then click any segment of the wheel to see what the Grounded Diagnostic measures — and keeps measuring as your organization advances.
The offer
Simple and straight forward.
The gold standard in knowing where you are at. Customized, measured, sustained follow through.
The Grounded Diagnostic is a unique and detailed solution that confidently lets you know strengths and weaknesses. Clarity Compass rides customized shotgun to advance you.
The Grounded Diagnostic
Your organization scored across five business dimensions — People, Process, Technology, Governance and Contracts — grounded in a project you have recently completed, because that is where the evidence actually lives. Every finding cites a document, a dated observation or a scored interview. Nothing is asserted.
You leave with a detailed scorecard, with deep understanding of where you need to focus with the Digitalization Plan. Both are highly valuable, providing insight well beyond your investment with us.
How the diagnostic works →Clarity Compass
Available only after the diagnostic, because there is nothing to hold until there is a baseline. Ongoing, sustained support to drive you forward because without our change management model the vast majority of implementations don't stick. Regular guidance, checks on your segments, advisory days that move the key fixes you decided to fix this year from start to finish...formally checked on quarterly. An alert the quarter anything falls, not the month before renewal.
In month eleven, an Annual Movement Report on the same yardstick your baseline was set on — including the segments that did not move.
What a Compass year looks like →Organizations do not fail to start. They FAIL TO HOLD.
Placement
You are probably not the same organization in all five places
Placement is measured separately for People, Process, Technology, Governance and Contracts. Most organizations are strong in one or two and exposed in another — and that shape is the point. It is what makes the plan yours rather than a template.
| Business dimension | Analogish | Pre-BIM | BIM Ready | BIM Engaged |
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This client is BIM Ready on Contracts and still crossing from analog on Process. Two different problems, two different sequences, one custom plan built on evidence.
Return
What this is worth
We will not carelessly tell you that a maturity score saves you money. A measurement service cannot honestly claim to cause a saving. What the Grounded Diagnostic does provide is iron clad evidence of what to do. Then Clarity Compass works directly with you to embed productivity gains, decreased risk, information and asset clarity, fewer CO's...which increases value and saves you money.
A number you can put in a budget submission
The Grounded Diagnostic prices your current state across four headings — capital efficiency, operating performance, risk exposure and schedule certainty — anchored to specific recent events at your own organization and your own rates. Conservatively expressed to withstand scrutiny.
A movement record on a yardstick that did not change
No internal report can produce this, because an internal report is written by the people whose progress it describes. The Compass Brief is one page, written for your leadership team in language that is clear to all — not just for a practitioner.
Evidence already in the shape an auditor or funder wants
For a municipality reporting under Ontario Regulation 588/17, or an organization reporting against federal funding conditions, the citations behind your score are close to the evidence the annual questionnaire already requires. The work is done once, with great accuracy.
The public record
Evidence, not assertion
Every figure below comes from a judicial inquiry, an auditor general, an independent review or a court record — the same standard we apply to your scorecard and examples of projects that we could have helped.
Hamilton · Red Hill Valley Parkway
A safety report sat for six years
A friction test report reached senior staff in Public Works, and then stopped. The inquiry convened to explain why cost the City approximately $26 million.
Source: Red Hill Valley Parkway Inquiry, Final Report, Justice Herman J. Wilton-Siegel, November 2023
Waterloo · RIM Park
Council saw 4.73%. The signed contract said 9.2%.
A 30-year payout that would have reached $227.7 million, later settled at $145.7 million. The inquiry made 31 recommendations. The entire Council lost their seats.
Source: Sills Judicial Inquiry into RIM Park financing, 2003
Halifax · Harbour Solutions wastewater plant
Commissioning tested the components, not the failure
One incident, approximately $54 million in damage, 14 months offline, and untreated sewage back into the harbour.
Source: Halifax Water and Nova Scotia Environment regulatory filings; Supreme Court of Nova Scotia pleadings
Scoped to who you are
Scoped to who you are
Municipalities
Cities, regions and towns, from large to very small. Council cycles, grant timelines, and a defensible evidenced position on the scale — not a vanity digital twin.
For municipalities →Institutional owners
Hospitals, universities, colleges, school boards and utilities. Long lifecycles, and an information handover problem that compounds every year it is not fixed.
For institutional owners →Private owners
Mid-market and enterprise asset owners and portfolio holders, where the case is capital efficiency and total cost of ownership.
For private owners →Contractors and operators
Delivery organizations carrying digital requirements, and the facility and portfolio managers who receive what they hand over.
For contractors and operators →Clarity Builders has 6 practice areas. The Grounded Diagnostic decides which ones you need the most.
BIM under ISO 19650 — exchange information requirements, BIM execution plans and common data environment design.
Digital procurement strategy — carrying digital requirements through the supply chain in procurement language.
Digital twin design — operating twins that inform energy, condition and renewal decisions.
AI integration and governance — governed, practical use cases tied to measurable outcomes.
Asset data architecture — structured asset data that survives every handover and transition.
Change and capability — we build capability, not dependence.
Insights
Evidence-based perspectives
The cost of not going digital
Canadian case studies on what standing still costs owners of the built environment.
Download the white paper →Welcome to Clarity Builders
The explainer: what gets scored, and what makes a score defensible.
How the diagnostic works →Find out where your organization stands.
Three minutes and the Snapshot Audit gives you a preliminary read across all five business dimensions. The Grounded Diagnostic turns it into a unique, detailed evidence-based plan that you have confidence in.
The Grounded Diagnostic tells you where you stand. Clarity Compass is how you implement but more importantly how you sustain your advances.