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How an engagement runs

Portfolio due diligence

The question it answersAcross the portfolio we are bidding on, what capital will we need, and how should it shape our bid?

Diligence inside a deal window, from the seller's data room: a full decarbonization engagement for every building in the deal, rolled into one bid-decision report. Required spend is split from discretionary spend. Missing data lowers a building's confidence; it never removes the building, because you are pricing the whole deal.

Your expert decides once per building type, not once per building: a baseline decision and a roadmap decision on one representative building per group, then again on any building that does not fit its group.

A portfolio under offer Led by the Diligence lead

What goes in and what comes out

What you provide

  • The data room and the deal sheet
  • The date the report is needed by
  • Whether the capex feeds a price adjustment, a reserve, or both
  • Hurdle, discount rate, hold and exit assumptions, utility rates
  • Any caveats about how far to trust the seller's documents

What you get

  • Portfolio due diligence report for the bid decision, printable from your workspace
  • Headline figures written back to each building in your workspace
  • Saved deal record, reused for the post-close capital plan

From start to finish

1Kickoff and roster
2Set up buildings
3Grouping
4First wave
5Expert decisions
6Second wave
7Economics and review
8Bid report
Expert
Share the report date, the data room and your underwriting basis.
Resolve any folder we cannot match to a building.
One baseline and one roadmap decision per building type.
Settle any building that does not fit its group.
Receive the bid-decision report.
Lead agent
Reconciles the data room against the deal sheet; merges duplicate folders.
Sets up each building in your workspace.
Groups the portfolio and picks one building to stand for each type.
Runs the representative buildings first.
Applies your decisions across each group.
Runs the rest on those decisions.
Splits required spend from discretionary.
Issues the report and writes headline figures back to each building.
Knowledge check
Checks every jurisdiction in the deal, once.
Per-building engagements
A full decarbonization engagement per representative building.
Fits the approved group, or comes back to you.
Portfolio economist
Required spend against discretionary, across the deal.
Quality reviewer
Recalculation, plus an audit that every decision traces to you.
Report writer
Bid-decision report; names the source of any inherited decision.
Expert decision
Automatic check
Lead agent
Specialist
Repeats per building
On site
Read the diagram as text
Portfolio due diligence: who does what at each step
StepExpertLead agentKnowledge checkPer-building engagementsPortfolio economistQuality reviewerReport writer
1. Kickoff and rosterShare the report date, the data room and your underwriting basis.Reconciles the data room against the deal sheet; merges duplicate folders.Checks every jurisdiction in the deal, once.
2. Set up buildingsResolve any folder we cannot match to a building.Sets up each building in your workspace.
3. GroupingGroups the portfolio and picks one building to stand for each type.
4. First waveRuns the representative buildings first.A full decarbonization engagement per representative building.
5. Expert decisionsOne baseline and one roadmap decision per building type.Applies your decisions across each group.
6. Second waveSettle any building that does not fit its group.Runs the rest on those decisions.Fits the approved group, or comes back to you.
7. Economics and reviewSplits required spend from discretionary.Required spend against discretionary, across the deal.Recalculation, plus an audit that every decision traces to you.
8. Bid reportReceive the bid-decision report.Issues the report and writes headline figures back to each building.Bid-decision report; names the source of any inherited decision.

The specialists

Each one has a single job, and all of their work reaches you through the lead agent. See every specialist.

Knowledge check

Runs once for the whole deal, before any building starts: confirms our reference data covers every jurisdiction and building type, and researches the gaps with citations.

Works from: Our shared reference library, filed tariffs, published regulations and cost data

Portfolio economist

One calculation across the deal, splitting spend you are already obliged to make from spend that is a choice.

Works from: The cashflow engine and your underwriting assumptions

Report writer

The bid-decision report, framed for a price adjustment, a reserve or both. Where a decision was inherited, it says so and names the building it came from.

Works from: The report template and every building's saved plan

Quality reviewer

Recalculates the figures and reports any issue building by building, and confirms every recorded decision traces back to a real message from a real person.

Works from: The same engines and data as the specialists, and the decision record

Behind these, the full decarbonization plan team (surveyor, modeller, carbon, measures, economics, report writer and reviewer) runs for every building in the deal.

When it is not clear-cut

Each of these is decided the same way every time.

Data is missing on a building

If Something cannot be assessed: Lower the confidence and say what is unknown

If not Never drop the building

Chase the data room or assume?

If Time remains before the report date: Chase the data room

If not Carry it as a stated assumption

Two folders are the same building

If They share a condition report reference: Merge them before anything is created

If not Never priced twice

A building does not fit its group

If It differs from the representative you approved: It comes back to you

If not Never quietly reshaped to fit

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