Project Controls Advisory · Calgary, Canada

Capital projects run on numbers. Ours hold up.

Vertikol Solutions brings senior-level estimating, project controls, and advisory expertise to owners, engineers, and contractors delivering complex capital projects.

30+ YearsSenior expertise on every engagement
Megaproject TierMulti-billion-dollar capital programs
Boutique ModelPrincipals do the work — not juniors
Cost Performance · S-Curve Forecast at Completion
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Planned Value Earned Value Forecast

Precision. Momentum. Results.

The discipline of a global consultancy. The focus and accountability of a boutique. Every engagement led by senior professionals.

Fixed-Price Engagements

Defined scope. Defined price. Defensible results.

Three productized reviews built for capital project decision gates — priced up front so you know exactly what you're buying and exactly what you'll receive.

Gateway

Estimate Integrity Review

An independent, senior-led decomposition of your capital cost estimate — before it goes to the board or out to bid.

  • Cross-iteration estimate comparison
  • Basis-of-estimate challenge register
  • Benchmarking against comparable projects
  • Executive-ready findings report

Fixed fee · Scoped to estimate class & project size

Cost Risk & Contingency Assessment

Probabilistic cost risk analysis that gives your contingency a defensible, quantitative basis — with schedule risk available as an add-on module.

  • Monte Carlo cost risk modelling
  • Risk-driver identification workshops
  • Recommended contingency at confidence levels
  • Optional integrated schedule risk add-on

Fixed fee · Add-on modules quoted separately

Recurring

Performance Reporting Retainer

Independent monthly analysis of project performance — earned value, variance drivers, and an executive narrative your leadership can act on.

  • Independent EVM analysis
  • Cost & schedule variance waterfall
  • Trend and forecast commentary
  • Executive narrative, delivered monthly

Monthly retainer · Cancel with notice

What We Do

Project controls, end to end.

From first estimate to final close-out, we give owners, engineers, and contractors the cost and schedule clarity that complex projects demand.

Estimating

Capital cost estimates you can take to a decision gate — built, validated, or independently challenged by senior estimators who've priced projects at every scale.

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Project Controls

Cost management, planning & scheduling, change management, and earned value systems that keep your project's story honest — and your forecasts credible.

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Advisory Services

Independent reviews, claims support, project recovery, and controls maturity assessments — senior judgment when the stakes justify a second opinion.

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Industries

Built for complex capital projects.

Oil & Gas

Upstream, midstream, and facilities projects across Western Canada and beyond.

Mining

Multi-billion-dollar mining developments, from study phase through execution.

Construction & Infrastructure

Commercial, industrial, and civil infrastructure programs of every scale.

Technology & Data Centres

Capital-intensive technology builds, including hyperscale data centre programs.

Modern Toolkit

Selectively integrating AI where it sharpens the work.

We're in the early days of applying AI to project controls — and we're honest about that. Where the tools genuinely improve speed and insight, we use them. Where senior judgment matters, nothing replaces it.

  • Faster analysis cyclesAI-enhanced workflows accelerate estimate reviews, variance analysis, and reporting turnaround.
  • Deeper pattern recognitionSurfacing cost drivers and anomalies across large datasets that manual review can miss.
  • Human judgment, alwaysEvery finding is validated and owned by a senior professional. AI assists — it never decides.
Our Position on AI

Plenty of firms are overselling AI. We'd rather under-promise: we are actively exploring and adopting these tools in our own workflows first, proving what works on real project data, and bringing clients only what stands up to scrutiny.

If you're curious what AI-enhanced project controls could look like on your project, we're glad to share what we're learning.

"Projects don't fail at the end. They fail quietly, early, in the numbers no one is watching. We watch the numbers."
Vertikol Solutions · Founding Principle

Let's talk about your project.

Whether you're an owner heading into a decision gate, an engineer building a controls framework, or a contractor managing delivery risk — a conversation costs nothing.

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