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DEVELOPMENT ASSURANCE & PROJECT RECOVERY

Know the position. Protect the outcome.

Independent development assurance for lenders and capital providers exposed to residential development risk, from assessment and monitoring through intervention and recovery.

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Core service pillars: Assess, Monitor, Intervene, Deliver
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Lenses in the MakeSure risk framework

Development risk rarely appears all at once.

The programme says October.Site reality says November.
The builder says costs are contained.The contingency says otherwise.
The project is still reporting green.Information confidence is falling.
Peridot Place, VIC — completed townhouse detail

Built for the people inside lenders who must make, monitor and defend decisions on development exposure.

Material, not exhaustive. Evidenced, not anecdotal. Commercial, not merely technical. Forward-looking, not retrospective. Actionable, and defensible inside the institution.

01 / ORIGINATION

Should we lend?

Feasibility · Builder · Programme

A clear view of approvals, delivery readiness and mitigants before capital is committed.

02 / ASSET MANAGEMENT

Are we getting our money back?

Movement · Escalation · Consistency

Early visibility of movement, reliable information and clear escalation across the portfolio.

03 / CREDIT COMMITTEE

Is this decision properly informed?

Exposure · Downside · Mitigants

Material risk distilled into exposure, downside, mitigants and a defensible recommendation.

04 / SPECIAL SITUATIONS

What are our options?

Cost-to-complete · Scenarios

Facts, leverage, scenarios, recovery pathways and the capability to execute them.

WHY MAKESURE

Specialist assurance for development projects that may not have institutional-scale project teams, but still carry institutional-scale risk.

MakeSure doesn't replace the QS, PM, valuer, lawyer or your internal asset and credit team. Each of them reports through their own lens: cost, value, contract, programme, position. MakeSure provides the independent development judgement between that reporting: connecting cost, programme, delivery, quality, approvals, sales and exit into one view of the project's position, what it means for the capital, and what should happen next.

The question isn't whether each report is correct. It's whether, taken together, they tell you the truth about the development.

Pembroke Place, VIC — completed interior
PEMBROKE PLACE, VIC / COMPLETED

Assess. Assure. Intervene. Deliver.

One methodology across the full lifecycle of exposure, from new transaction, through performing and watch-list, to recovery.

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Assess

Know the position before capital is committed.

Independent assessment before capital is committed, refinanced or increased.

  • Feasibility & funding challenge
  • Builder & programme review
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Assure

Know whether the project remains where it says it is.

Ongoing assurance focused on trajectory, not simply status.

  • Programme & cost-to-complete challenge
  • Monthly assurance reporting
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Intervene

Know what needs to change when risk starts moving.

Enhanced assessment and intervention when a project moves off course.

  • Root-cause assessment
  • 30-day stabilisation plan
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Deliver

Take control of the pathway to completion and capital recovery when required.

Hands-on development capability when oversight needs to become execution.

  • Completion leadership
  • Settlement readiness

Your advisers report on their discipline. MakeSure forms a view on the development.

One independent view across cost, programme, builder, approvals, quality, sales and exit.

Development experience behind MakeSure

The projects below are selected founder development experience, not MakeSure Projects institutional mandates.

Pembroke Place, VIC — completed interior
01 / PEMBROKE PLACE, VIC
2 townhouses · Non-bank finance

Pembroke Place, VIC

Value Management & Realisation
~$7.0m
Development Value
~$3.0m
Construction
2
Scale — Townhouses
Situation
Post-COVID cost escalation was threatening commercial viability, and the sales market had softened.
Risk / Challenge
Holding the original design intent while costs moved and exit assumptions weakened.
Founder Role
Led value management directly, working across design, cost and sales strategy as the responsible development lead.
Action / Judgement
Ran extensive value management to restore viability without compromising core design intent, and changed agency and sales strategy to match the market rather than wait it out.
Outcome
Completed, industry recognised, and both residences sold.
Peridot Place, VIC — completed townhouses, street elevation
02 / PERIDOT PLACE, VIC
10 townhouses · Non-bank finance

Peridot Place, VIC

Builder Governance & Delivery
~$14.0m
Development Value
~$6.0m
Construction
10
Scale — Townhouses
Situation
Builder communication, variation management, site access and design-intent issues were creating uncertainty across a 10-townhouse programme.
Risk / Challenge
Site behaviour and reported progress were starting to diverge, with variation costs at risk of moving without proper control.
Founder Role
Held builder governance directly through construction and completion, rather than relying solely on reported updates.
Action / Judgement
Maintained active management and escalated wherever site behaviour didn't match what was being reported.
Outcome
Completed; settlements occurred; remaining stock continues to be sold in current market conditions.
Irvine Place, VIC — completed townhouses, dusk exterior
03 / IRVINE PLACE, VIC
6 townhouses · Non-bank finance

Irvine Place, VIC

Programme & Builder Capability
~$7.0m
Development Value
~$2.0m
Construction
6
Scale — Townhouses
Situation
Multiple supervisor changes and builder inexperience were creating programme slippage and design-delivery gaps.
Risk / Challenge
Continuity of supervision and builder capability were both in question on a build already showing signs of falling behind.
Founder Role
Took direct programme and design-delivery oversight to keep the build credible through ongoing builder-side instability.
Action / Judgement
Managed programme and design delivery closely rather than accepting the builder's self-reported position at face value.
Outcome
Successfully completed. Five sold off the plan, all six ultimately sold.
ABOUT MAKESURE

Development experience.
Risk discipline.

MakeSure Projects brings together hands-on residential development experience with institutional finance and risk capability. Built from experience on both sides of the equation, delivering developments and understanding risk, MakeSure provides lenders and capital providers with an independent view of a project's position, trajectory and what should happen next.

$85M+
Combined property development experience across the founders of MakeSure
Prash Ravindran, Co-Founder, Development and Delivery
Prash Ravindran
Co-Founder, Development & Delivery

Prash brings hands-on residential development experience, leading projects across acquisition, feasibility, finance, design, procurement, construction, sales and completion. His experience comes from being directly accountable for development outcomes: managing builders, budgets, programmes, consultants, sales and the practical decisions required to get projects delivered.

Anu Ravindran, Co-Founder, Finance and Risk
Anu Ravindran
Co-Founder, Finance & Risk

Anu brings extensive experience across finance, risk and governance, including roles with PwC, Ambulance Victoria and the Victorian Building Authority. Her experience brings an institutional risk lens to MakeSure, strengthening how project information is assessed, challenged and translated into clear, disciplined reporting for lenders and capital providers.

Network

MakeSure also works alongside an associated building and delivery team, brought in project by project as the work requires.

The MakeSure 9 instrument

Nine lenses create one development view. The value isn't scoring each category: it's understanding how the risks interact. Select a lens.

Overall Position
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Trajectory: Deteriorating ↓  ·  Reporting confidence: Medium
Illustrative example
REPORTING CONFIDENCE

A project can report green while MakeSure reports low information confidence.

The reliability of the information is itself a risk signal, and it's reported separately from the position, not folded into it.

From one project to a portfolio relationship

MakeSure Partner: development assurance, on call, across origination, performing loans, watch-list assets and recovery, using one methodology and one reporting language.

Origination
Assess
Performing
Assure
Watch
Intervene
Recovery
Deliver

The earlier a shift shows up, the more options remain.

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