Purpose
Are scope, outcomes, success criteria, and the required leadership decision unambiguous?
The PrimeGrid Five-Gate method
A readiness review leaders can use—not another report that sits on a shelf.
The method examines the project as a delivery system, identifies the conditions that can stop execution, and turns each material finding into an owned decision or action.
Five gates
Every critical project must pass all five.
Plan
Do schedule, design maturity, procurement, permitting, outage, and commissioning logic form one credible baseline?
Field
Can the work be accessed, staffed, supervised, constructed, tested, and restored under actual operating conditions?
Interfaces
Are every owner, utility, engineer, vendor, constructor, agency, and stakeholder handoff understood and assigned?
Control
Can leaders detect drift, force decisions, close actions, and recover the work before exposure compounds?
The review sequence
Fast enough to influence the decision. Deep enough to matter.
- Define the decision, review boundary, and evidence request
- Review plans, milestones, risk registers, interface documents, and operating assumptions
- Interview accountable leaders and field-facing personnel
- Conduct field or virtual validation where it changes the answer
- Rate each gate and isolate decision-critical findings
- Deliver an executive readout and action closeout structure
Illustrative readiness view
PurposeReady
PlanConditional
FieldAt risk
InterfacesConditional
ControlReady
Illustration only. Ratings are evidence-based and tailored to the project decision.
Typical deliverables
Short, direct, and built for action.
Executive brief
The decision, bottom line, material exposures, and immediate leadership actions.
Gate scorecard
A consistent view of ready, conditional, and at-risk execution conditions.
Risk register
Prioritized findings with consequence, evidence, owner, and required decision date.
Action path
Near-term closeout actions and the proof required to advance the project.
What this is not
Independent assurance without duplicating the team.
Not engineering-of-record
PrimeGrid does not replace stamped design authority or direct the engineer’s technical scope.
Not generic project management
The focus is execution credibility, field conditions, interfaces, and decision exposure—not routine administration.
Not a compliance performance
The review is built to uncover hard truths early and create accountable action, not validate a preferred narrative.
Put the project through the gates
Get a clear view before the next commitment.
A focused review can be shaped around a board decision, federal milestone, NTP, mobilization, outage, energization, or recovery baseline.