Scope Structuring & Effort Planning

Break Project Scope Down Before It Breaks Your Fee

Structure a project hierarchically — site, building, floor, system — and see live allocation against your target budget as you go. Start from a brief and let AI draft the first pass.

Built by a senior AEC operator · Shipping from the field

pre-alpha · v0.1.0 · built 2026-07-18
Warehouse Retrofit — Budget Breakdown
NodeLevelAllocated
North CampusSite€2,800,000
Building ABuilding€1,650,000
Ground FloorFloor€640,000
MEPSystem€210,000
Allocated vs Target (€4.2M)66%
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The Problem

Most firms still estimate project complexity with fragmented logic.

Scope Gaps

Critical deliverables missed during early scoping, discovered too late in execution.

Fee Erosion

Underpriced proposals caused by gut-feel complexity assessment.

Procurement Mismatch

Resource allocation disconnected from actual project requirements.

No Validation Layer

No structured system to verify scope coverage before commitment.

Available Now

AI-Assisted Project Setup

Drop in a project brief and the estimator drafts a starter breakdown for you to review — facility type, sector, and scope items included. No brief on hand? Build from scratch or start from a template instead.

Open the Estimator

How It Works

Upload up to three documents (PDF, DOCX, TXT, or Markdown) — the estimator drafts a starter breakdown
Facility type, sector, and scope items are all editable before anything is saved to the project
No documents to hand? Import a prepared *.semantic.json file instead — no network call, works fully offline
Roadmap — Not Yet Built

What's Coming Next

This is a working pre-alpha. Here's what's actively in progress, honestly labelled by status — nothing below is live today.

Risk & Assumptions Register (RAR)

In development

Structured risk and assumption tracking per project, linked to scope and deliverables. Design is finalized and the extraction pipeline has been validated against a test brief corpus.

RAR → fee & scope impact

Designed, not started

Feeding risk and assumption impact back into fee and scope numbers.

Reusable risk library

Planned

A shared library of risk/assumption entries to reuse across projects.

Multi-currency (USD, GBP, …)

Known gap

Every project today is EUR-only, including AI-extracted figures — there's no currency field yet. Scheduled, not built.

Accounts, multi-user, multi-device

Not started

Everything currently lives in your browser's local storage on one device. No login, no cloud sync, no sharing.

FAQ

Common Questions

ScopeRunway helps AEC teams break a project down hierarchically — site, building, floor, system — and see live allocation against a target budget as they go. You can start from a brief and let AI draft the first pass, or build the breakdown by hand.

Senior architects, engineers, EPC leads, commercial managers, and project management consultants who need structured scope breakdown and effort estimation.

In your browser's local storage — nothing is sent to a server. There's no account and no server-side copy, so clearing site data or switching browsers/devices loses your work. Export before you do either.

Not yet. Every project is EUR-only today, including AI-extracted figures — there's no currency field. Multi-currency is a known gap on the roadmap, not built yet.

That's the direction, but this pre-alpha is local-only with no accounts or backend. See the roadmap above for what's actually in progress versus just planned.

Try It on a Real Project

Pre-alpha, running entirely in your browser — no account needed. Open it, break down a project, and tell me what's broken or missing.

New here? Read the walkthrough first — it covers what to expect before you start.