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Consulting — Owner-side leadership

The Design and Construction industry hasn’t changed in years.We help evolve to what’s next.

Owner-side design and development leadership, shaped inside the world’s most influential environments. We align design ambition with development execution, before issues reach the field.

Why Nonstandard

Not a typical owner's rep. We've sat in every seat.

01 — The architect
Licensed architect.

Trained at BIG and Arquitectonica. We read the drawings the way the design team wrote them.

02 — The owner
Been the client.

Led real estate and construction at Apple and Citadel. Answerable for budget, schedule, and the result.

03 — The integrator
The one who aligns the room.

United internal stakeholders and outside consultants together as one team, with one set of decisions.

A typical owner's rep manages the process. We lead it, because we've done every job in it.
Material review at the table
One team
“Great projects are built by teams that work as one.”

It's how I led design and construction teams at Apple and Citadel. Architects, engineers, contractors, and our own people sat at one table, owned one set of decisions, and were measured by one outcome. Nonstandard brings that same operating model to every owner we work with.

Ben Schulte
Ben Schulte
Founder · formerly Apple, Citadel, BIG, Arquitectonica
The difference

Most owner's reps manage the team. We make it one.

Typical owner's rep
Nonstandard
Background
Project management
Licensed architect who has also been the owner
Role
Relays information between parties
Brings internal teams and consultants into one team
Design
Tracks the deliverables
Reviews the work, protects the ambition
Issues
Resolved in the field, as change orders
Resolved on paper, before they reach the field
How we work

Consultants come and go. The ambition has to make it all the way through.

Most teams change at every phase, and every handoff is a chance to start over. We're the one seat that stays constant from the first strategy conversation to the keys, carrying the decisions, the reasoning, and the intent with us.

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Nonstandard — owner-side, start to finish
↑ Handoff. Where intent usually gets lost.
↑ Handoff. Where budgets usually drift.
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Before the field

The earlier the alignment, the cheaper the fix.

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Strategy
Design
Documents
Field
Easier to change Harder to change
Typical owner's rep

Manages schedule and budget, then negotiates the change orders once issues surface on site.

Nonstandard

A licensed architect who has been the owner, aligning every team in strategy and design, where fixes cost the least.

How we engage

Shaped around your project, not a fixed catalog.

These are the ways owners most often bring us in. Most engagements blend two or three, tailored to your team and the decision in front of you.

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Rates & proposals

Every engagement is scoped and priced by proposal.

Tell us the project, the gap you need filled, and the timeline. We come back with a defined scope, deliverables, and a fee structure, flat, retainer, or percentage, that fits the work. No generic rate card, because no two engagements are the same.

What to send
01Which way (or ways) you are considering
02Project location, size, and stage
03The decision or timeline driving it
Request a proposal & rates →
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Let’s build something worth building together.

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