Our first 30 days, in the open.
We publish the method rather than invented success stories. You should be able to see exactly how we work before you spend anything — and judge whether it fits your airport.
- Days 1–5
Records intake — we look before we scope
You send whatever exists: the paper ALP, a CAD file, old survey notes, the grant agreements. We pull what FAA has on file and compare. Nothing is scoped until we know what is already there, because half of what small airports think is missing turns out to exist in someone's drawer.
You get: a plain list of what exists, what is current, and what is genuinely missing. - Days 6–12
Obligation check against your actual grant assurances
We read your grant agreements and map them to what you are obligated to maintain — Grant Assurance 29 on the ALP, Assurance 21 on compatible land use, and whichever of the Part 139 or GA-guidance paths applies to you.
You get: your obligations in plain English, with the citation next to each one. - Days 13–20
Calendar reconstruction — working backwards from your deadlines
We lay your entitlement window, your capital plan and FAA's survey lead times on one timeline. Design data is expected in Airports GIS roughly two to three years before a project completes, so the schedule is built backwards from commissioning, not forwards from today.
You get: a dated sequence showing what has to start when — and what is already late. - Days 21–30
Scope, fee range, and an honest recommendation
Only now do we propose work, scoped to what the records review actually found. If the answer is that your ALP is fine and worth revisiting in three years, we will tell you that. It is a smaller invoice now and a client later.
You get: a scope, a fee range, an estimated local share, and a written recommendation you can take to your board.
What we need from you
Roughly two hours of one person's time in the first month, whatever documents you can lay hands on, and permission to pull your public FAA records. That is the whole ask for the first 30 days.
What makes this different from a typical proposal
Most consultants scope before they look, because scoping is free and looking is not. That produces padded proposals and change orders. We would rather spend the first month establishing facts and give you a number we can stand behind — including, sometimes, a much smaller number than you expected.