Independent of delivery interests
No design, construction or implementation agenda. Advice is shaped solely by the client’s decision and exposure.
Independent advice to boards and executive teams
Clarity and Control for Complex Projects.
Executive Project Intelligence gives boards, investment committees, executive teams and project sponsors an independent view of complex projects — supporting sound decisions, stronger control and a credible route to recovery.
Independent advice · Senior judgement · Discreet engagement
The EPI decision pathway
- 01Establish the facts
- 02Strengthen the decision
- 03Restore control
For those accountable for the decision
Boards & executive teams
Investment committees
Developers & owners
Project sponsors
What EPI enables
Establish the true position. Strengthen the decision. Restore control.
EPI brings together the evidence across strategy, governance, commercial position, risk and delivery. Fragmented project information becomes one executive view, clear options and a practical mandate for action.
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Test a major decision
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Strengthen governance & control
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Recover delivery confidence
Why EPI
A clearer view when reporting alone is not enough.
Major projects generate extensive reporting, yet a board can still lack confidence in the position presented. Information is fragmented, assumptions remain untested and delivery signals are filtered before they reach the decision table. EPI establishes what is supported by evidence, where uncertainty remains and what the decision-maker must address now.
We connect strategic intent, governance, commercial exposure and delivery reality — then translate the evidence into choices an executive team can act on.
Senior judgement, directly applied
The focus is not more reporting, but what the evidence means for capital, accountability and the next decision.
One integrated executive view
Strategy, governance, commercial position, risk and delivery are tested together rather than through separate functional lenses.
Decision-ready clarity
Findings are distilled into explicit choices, implications, conditions and priorities — concise enough to support timely action.
Where EPI creates value
Four executive questions where EPI brings clarity.
Investment decision
Is the evidence strong enough to commit capital, reputation or strategic flexibility?
True project position
What is fact, what is assumption and where does material exposure sit?
Governance & control
Are decision rights, escalation and executive oversight fit for the project’s real risk?
Recovery mandate
What must be stabilised now, and what will restore credible control?
Focused advisory portfolio
Three interventions for the moments that matter most.
Each engagement is tightly defined, founder-led and designed to strengthen a specific executive decision — without adding another layer of programme bureaucracy or diluting accountability.
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Primary entry point
Executive Project Health Check™
A rapid, independent assessment of project health, leadership confidence and material exposure. It establishes what is known, what remains uncertain and what requires executive attention now.
Outcome
A fact-based executive view and prioritised action agenda.
Assurance · Early warning · Intervention
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Board Decision Review™
A disciplined review of the evidence, assumptions and trade-offs behind a major project decision before the organisation commits capital or puts reputation and strategic flexibility at risk.
Outcome
Clear decision conditions, exposures and options for the board.
Investment gates · Strategic decisions
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Project Recovery™
Executive-level support to establish the true position, reset priorities and create a credible route back to control when delivery confidence has deteriorated.
Outcome
A stabilisation mandate, recovery priorities and renewed governance control.
Stabilisation · Recovery · Control
How EPI works
Disciplined enough for assurance. Practical enough for action.
The method is proportionate to the decision. EPI works with the evidence already available, tests the material assumptions and commissions further analysis only where it can change the executive conclusion.
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Frame the decision
Define the decision, executive concerns, exposure and standard of evidence required.
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Interrogate the position
Review documents and interviews, and test assumptions, governance and delivery signals across the project system.
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Synthesise the evidence
Separate fact from assertion, symptoms from causes and material exposure from background noise.
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Advise with clarity
Present choices, implications, conditions and a pragmatic route forward in board-ready form.
The EPI Intelligence Layer
Seven intelligence capabilities. One executive conclusion.
EPI combines structured analysis with senior judgement to examine complex project information as one connected system. Where appropriate, carefully governed AI can support document and data review; interpretation, conclusions and accountability remain fully with EPI.
Structured analysis · Senior judgement · Confidential by design
Strategic & investment intelligence
Tests strategic logic, investment assumptions, the value case and decision conditions.
Governance & decision intelligence
Examines decision rights, accountability, escalation and executive oversight.
Commercial & financial intelligence
Connects commercial position, cost signals and commitments to financial consequences.
Risk & opportunity intelligence
Separates material exposure and opportunity from background noise and clarifies ownership.
Planning & delivery intelligence
Tests schedule credibility, dependencies, delivery readiness and reported progress.
Recovery & transformation intelligence
Identifies root causes, stabilisation priorities and the conditions for restored control.
Integrated evidence analysis
Brings documents, interviews and data together into traceable findings and a board-ready conclusion.
These capabilities operate as one advisory system. They are not offered as stand-alone technology products.
Selected environments
Where complexity, capital and scrutiny converge.
EPI is most relevant in asset-intensive environments where strategic ambition must be translated into a deliverable project — and where insufficiently informed decisions create disproportionate financial, operational or reputational consequences.
International perspective · Europe · Middle East · Caribbean
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Infrastructure & mobility
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Real estate & development
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Energy & utilities
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Water & climate resilience
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Data centres & complex assets
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Public & international programmes
Capital projects in connected systems
Founder-led advisory
Senior attention from first question to final recommendation.
EPI engagements are led by founder Roel Duursma. Drawing on senior experience as a project director and project developer across Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean, he works across board-level questions, governance detail and delivery reality — with discretion, candour and a clear focus on what leadership needs to decide, control or recover.
Roel Duursma
Founder · Executive Project Intelligence
Independent
Fact-based
Board-ready
A confidential first conversation
Start with the project question that demands greater clarity or control.
A short, confidential exchange is often enough to determine whether an independent executive perspective can add value. No sales process. No obligation. Complete discretion.
Contact EPI confidentially↗
Based in the Netherlands · Working internationally