Why independent oversight matters more than ever
The Growing Case for Independent Oversight in Today’s Infrastructure Boom The Surge in Spending Across the country, public and private investment in infrastructure is at
Costs are rising, policies haven’t kept pace, and projects are stalling. We unite independent oversight, workforce training, and modern tools to deliver clarity, accountability, resilience, and risk mitigation
For agencies, sureties, general contractors, and subcontractors — we help ensure controls are consistently applied, surface risks early, and save millions across programs
We help public and private owners, sureties, and lenders protect taxpayers’ and clients’ capital through transparent oversight and data-driven accountability.
Independent by design. Objective oversight that protects public and private capital, free from internal pressures or contractual bias.
Controls applied consistently, with measurable outcomes that withstand audit.
We turn information into assurance, transforming data, reports, and records into verifiable truth.
Strengthening programs, people, and systems to withstand project disruptions.
Projects don’t fail overnight. They drift when basics aren’t verified.
Plans start too aggressive, so “overruns” appear inevitable.
• Missed assumptions → late milestones
• Small slips compound into big delays
Key documents aren’t logged, linked, or preserved correctly.
• Hard to verify pay apps and change orders
• Audits stall because evidence is scattered
Many parties, no single source of truth.
• Different facts across teams
• Issues surface late
Software without enforced process creates false confidence.
• Dashboards with unverified inputs mislead
• “Checked the box” ≠ proof
Retirements and gaps break continuity.
• Lessons learned vanish
• New teams inherit old risks
Delays push service dates and erode trust; errors multiply costs and disputes.
Taxpayers, workforce, sureties, owners, contractors, and communities.
Bringing next-generation tools under a single framework of accountability, verification, and integrated program controls.
Focus on how Verisight uses technology to improve real-time accuracy and efficiency. Includes:
Centers on how Verisight protects the record, linking documentation, design, and control systems. Includes:
Highlights Verisight’s role in maintaining trust, transparency, and protection of information. Includes:
Shifts risk to owners; over 50% of megaprojects still overrun. Impact: 5% on $10M = $500k lost; 10% on $500M = $50M lost, but potential savings are significant — even 1% = $100k on $10M, while 5–15% = $25M–$75M on $500M.
Adoption is uneven in agencies and small-to-mid-size contractors. This slows delivery and increases rework costs, but even a modest gain matters 1% productivity improvement can save $1M on a $100M spend, while 5–15% translates to $5M- $15M in savings.
Retirements create QA, inspection, and documentation gaps, with billions lost annually. Lost expertise drives overruns and compliance failures, yet potential savings remain high — 1% can mean tens of millions annually, while 5–15% safeguards hundreds of millions.
Natural disasters, emergency procurements, and reactive delivery increase error and fraud risk — typically 5 percent or more of total spending. Without independent verification, urgency overrides documentation integrity.
Loss of skilled labor, retirements, and limited QA/QC strain delivery. Inspections and recordkeeping are often delayed or inconsistent, creating downstream gaps.
Global and local disruptions affect material availability and timing. These ripple through budgets and schedules, requiring documentation to verify cost and scope impacts.
Shifting regulations, outdated procurement policies, and periodic budget pauses stall progress and blur accountability. Projects face mid-stream changes that demand consistent, evidence-grade oversight.
Practical oversight solutions that protect capital, ensure transparency, and deliver measurable results.
Objective verification of cost, schedule, and scope for owners, sureties, and lenders. Provides neutral visibility across teams and documentation streams.
Early identification of delivery gaps, documentation errors, and exposure points before they escalate. Helps prevent disputes and overruns.
Verification of closeout documentation according to contract requirements.
Developing AI analytics that detect irregularities in cost, schedule, or documentation early. Evaluates political, market, and workforce factors that lead to cost exposures or staffing shortages.
Expanding secure, long-term custody for digital project records. Ensures every document remains retrievable and tamper-evident for audits or closeout.
Building protected environments for data exchange among owners, sureties, and delivery teams. Focus on encryption, access control, and verified transparency.
Integrating independent controls and delivery method evaluations to strengthen owner decisions advising on optimal delivery approaches such as design-build, CM/GC, or traditional methods based on risk and readiness.
Assisting owners, sureties, and delivery teams in evaluating and integrating emerging technologies. focused on adoption planning and verified implementation without disrupting existing controls.
Developing owner-level visibility that consolidates cost, schedule, and documentation signals. Transforms risk identification from reactive reporting to proactive insight.
Partnering across the ecosystem to strengthen accountability, transparency, and delivery confidence in capital programs.
Verisight Advisors supports the full spectrum of stakeholders involved in delivering, financing, and governing complex infrastructure programs.
Our independence connects owners, lenders, contractors, and communities through evidence-based verification and shared accountability.
Construction doesn’t happen in isolation. It relies on skilled people, informed leadership, and resilient communities that preserve opportunity long after a ribbon-cutting. The verisight ecosystem connects those pieces—projects, education, employers, and community—so insights flow both ways.
Today’s overruns, escalation, and labor shortages often share one root cause: a disconnect between those who design, those who build, and those who train and support the people doing the work.
verisight Advisors and its nonprofit counterpart, Verdan Roots Community, were created as two parts of one solution—pairing accountability in infrastructure oversight with workforce and community development that strengthens the broader economy.
As public and private investments expand, projects are becoming larger, more technical, and more exposed to skill gaps and knowledge loss. By integrating universities, employers, and local communities into a shared feedback loop, the verisight ecosystem helps preserve institutional knowledge, develop next-generation talent, and ensure that public investment translates into lasting community resilience.
Learn more about our community development initiative at verdanroots.org.
Owners & Agencies Fewer disputes • Faster closeout • Audit-ready records
Sureties & Lenders Early risk signals • Reduced claim severity
Contractors & Subs Predictable inspections • Healthier cash flow
Audit-ready turnover • Funding confidence
Our approach is to partner with public and private owners, universities, and technology innovators who want verified, efficient, trackable projects—with risk made visible early and performance metrics that reflect true status.
With committed investment, Verisight will design, develop, and test NIODCS—a standards-based framework that gives owners more control over how projects are monitored, documented, and verified across federally funded, state/local, and private capital programs. NIODCS pairs traditional oversight (field inspections, schedule/budget validation, document review) with phased advanced capabilities (analytics, secure digital custody) and owner-controlled data/exports.
By combining independent oversight with workforce and technology integration through our companion nonprofit, Verdan Roots Community, we create an ecosystem where public investment delivers measurable impact — stronger systems, skilled workers, and more resilient communities.
Partnerships & investor materials: info@verisightadvisors.com • 916-839-4497
Together, the verisight ecosystem and the markets it serves form a continuous cycle of accountability, efficiency, and shared growth. Each project strengthens the next—helping owners and agencies reduce cost overruns, improve delivery efficiency, and rebuild trust in how public dollars are spent.
At the same time, verisight’s partnership with Verdan Roots Community helps address workforce shortages by preparing skilled, local talent for documentation and QA roles that keep projects—and communities—moving forward.
When oversight and opportunity align, construction doesn’t just finish stronger—it leaves behind a foundation of skill, stability, and stewardship that benefits everyone involved.
The construction landscape is changing faster than ever — shaped by new technologies, workforce shifts, and evolving oversight expectations. At Verisight Advisors, we share perspectives, lessons, and emerging ideas that help owners, contractors, and oversight professionals navigate this complexity with greater transparency and confidence.
The Growing Case for Independent Oversight in Today’s Infrastructure Boom The Surge in Spending Across the country, public and private investment in infrastructure is at
Why Projects Fail Despite Reports, Dashboards, and Compliance Updates, And How Independent Oversight Changes the Outcome The Paradox Projects produce mountains of information: progress reports,
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Compliance and technology integration are core areas of collaboration at Verisight Advisors. If you are interested in future consulting or partnership opportunities, please email a brief note or résumé to info@verisightadvisors.com.
No long form is required — this simply helps us follow up directly when new projects or pilots are positioned to open.
compliance, and technology integration. If you’re interested in future consulting or partnership opportunities, please email a brief note or résumé to info@verisightadvisors.com — no long form required. This helps us follow up directly when new projects or pilot positions open.
As Verisight Advisors grows, we anticipate adding roles in project oversight, documentation management, and technology integration. You can express interest now and be notified as opportunities develop.
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No. Design-Build does not eliminate the need for independent oversight. While Design-Build shifts some risk to contractors, significant cost and schedule impacts still occur if projects are not properly managed and documented. Independent oversight ensures accountability.
No. The construction software market is booming — valued at $9.9 billion in 2024, projected to hit $24.1 billion by 2032 (SNS Insider).But industry audits show that despite billings invested, cost and schedule performance has not significantly improved. Software capures data, oversight helps verify it. Verisight complements digital systems with independent review, reducing risk exposure when digital records or approvals are incomplete, inconsistent, or not fully aligned with field conditions or external factors.
Fraud isn’t always obvious. It can show up as duplicate billings, ghosts’ subcontractors, or inflated change orders. Oversight adds a layer of review, comparing contracts, schedules, and payments to ensure accuracy and accountability.
In the past, asbuilts were often stored as paper blueprints, while some companies and agencies archived them on Mylar for durability. Paper drawings should be kept in a controlled environment, flat filed when possible, or rolled with care. Today, many drawings are scanned or stored in the cloud, but often without standardized cataloging or verification. Even when companies or agencies have a “formal” process, records are inconsistent , making drawings difficult to locate or retreive. Years later, when maintenance or future updates are needed, missing as-builts lead to delays, added costs, and for bond funded projects, compliance risks that can hold up surety release or trigger audit findings. Independent oversight ensuresdrawings are either properly stored in a controlled environment or digitized, verified, and retrievable when they’re needed.
Through Verisight Advisors—and through the development of Verdan Roots Community, an initiative I am also establishing to advance workforce readiness and community resilience—I am committed to helping owners, sureties, and lenders deliver projects with measurable accountability, documented integrity, and audit-ready transparency.
Verisight Advisors operates with a lean, evidence-based leadership structure led by Anthony Brown, whose 35+ years in the construction industry, which included public and private sectors. Built for transparency and scalability, the team expands through strategic partnerships and verified specialists in construction professionals, QA/QC, records management (including Common Data Environments, CDEs), and technology integration, ensuring every project is supported by independent oversight, verifiable results, and audit-ready documentation.
