Your baseline is the yardstick every delay claim will be measured against. Have it reviewed, and sealed, before it is accepted.

I review your P6 baseline at a fixed price, seal it as month zero, then seal each update so every facility’s driving path can be re-checked from the file. Done by the senior practitioner named below. Turnaround agreed in writing at booking.

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Ben Daniels, principal
20+ years planning oil, gas and LNG megaprojects
Past planning and controls roles with major operators and EPC contractors
MBA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln · PG Diploma, Henley Business School

Why the baseline matters

What is accepted at baseline is what a delay claim is later built on, or fought over.

The accepted baseline’s logic, durations, constraints, calendars and facility driving paths become the reference for windows analysis, as-planned versus as-built comparisons and impacted analyses. A defect accepted on day one carries through every one of them.

Missing or open-ended logic
Dates set by constraints, not logic
Padded or compressed durations
Wrong calendars
A driving path through the wrong work
No record of which file was accepted

What the standards say

Who it is for

Both sides of the same baseline.

Owners and operators
Know which work drives each facility’s finish before you accept the baseline.
EPC contractors
Submit a baseline whose logic carries your entitlement later.

Your planners cannot mark their own homework in front of a board, lender or client. I do that work, from outside the project team.

The flagship

The Baseline Review. One file, one fixed fee, sealed as month zero.

A review of the baseline before it is accepted or submitted, read for what a later delay analysis would rest on.

Each facility’s finish and driving path, ranked, with excluded records listed, calculated by my engine
My quality review of logic, constraints, float and calendars
My claim-structure read of each facility’s path
Bonus: Seal 00. I seal the baseline as month zero

Fee: Fixed fee, agreed after a short scoping call
Turnaround: A turnaround agreed in writing at booking, counted from a readable .xer

On time and complete, or I complete it at no charge and credit part of the fee. It covers the work, not the finish date or any claim.

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Factual; not an expert-witness opinion unless separately agreed.

Not ready? The Baseline Red-Flag Scan, under NDA, gives up to ten red flags, ranked. Its fee is credited to a Review booked within the agreed window.

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The record, in brief

Then each update is sealed, and each path recomputed from the file.

Illustrative example — not a real project. Names, dates and hashes are made up. Hashes are shown truncated.

One record entry, Update 09
Entry	Data date	SHA-256 of .xer	Facility B finish	Driving path note
Update 09	31 Oct 2027	5a08…d7e2	21 Dec 2028	Facility B path changedPATH CHANGE from gas turbine generator work to substation 2 cabling.

What a seal proves, and what it does not

After the baseline

The record, the range, and the claim.

Every month

Sealed Schedule Record

I seal each update on receipt, and my engine recomputes each facility’s path from the sealed file.

At decision gates

Reproducible Risk Analysis

I run the analysis: P50 and P90 per facility, with inputs recorded so the run can be repeated.

If a dispute comes

Delay Support from the Record

I hand over the sealed record as a factual base. Not an expert-witness opinion unless separately agreed.

Have the baseline reviewed before it becomes the yardstick.

Tell me about the project, the baseline and when it is due to be submitted or accepted.

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