About
A plumb line is the oldest instrument there is for checking whether something is true
It is a weight on a string. It has no opinion, no interest in the answer, and it cannot be argued with. That is the standard we built the practice around.
What the practice brings
- Platform experience
- Eleven years of IBM TRIRIGA® and IBM Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities software. Implementation and configuration across the real estate and lease modules. We know what the target system expects, what it silently accepts, and where a bad value stops being visible to the people relying on it.
- Certified on the platform
- IBM Certified Application Developer and IBM Certified Deployment Professional for Maximo® Asset Management, with MuleSoft and REST integration, BIRT reporting and Java extension work behind them. The lease data has to land in a system and be reportable out of it; knowing both ends is what makes that routine rather than a project of its own.
- Accounting foundation
- Lease data is an accounting deliverable, not an IT one. The output feeds an ASC 842, GASB 87 or SFFAS 54 ledger, and the people who defend it are accountants and auditors. Our deliverable is built to be read by them.
- Verification discipline
- From clinical practice: read-back verification. You repeat the instruction back, against the record, before you act on it — and an unexplained entry is a defect whether or not it turns out to be correct. That principle is why a reason is mandatory on every judgement call we record.
- Scope discipline
- We read documents and prove what they say. Classification and discount rate determinations stay with the client. We would rather return a field marked open with a named question than a field filled in with a quiet assumption.
How we are set up
An independent specialist practice, deliberately narrow. We abstract leases, assure lease data, and support migrations. We do not implement software, we do not advise on accounting policy, and we do not take work that would require us to do either.
Engagements are priced per lease, scoped in writing, and delivered with the evidence attached. Work can be taken directly or as a subcontract under a consultancy's or integrator's engagement.
Working with public sector clients
We are able to take unclassified federal, state, local and higher-education work. Documents can be processed without being transmitted to a third-party service, and the evidence standard is built for a procurement file rather than a sales deck.