Better value,
by design.
ValueM runs the whole value-management study — from the first workshop to the savings you actually bank. Set out what a project must do, cost what it does, and find the alternatives that deliver the same function for less over its whole life.
Expert judgement, all the way through.
Framing the brief, costing the work, ranking the ideas, banking the savings — each stage of the study has a specialist perspective checking your work: are the objectives measurable, is the function over-priced, was every idea scored fairly, will the accepted proposals actually get delivered?
Eleven agents — Scout, Analyst, Cartographer, Provocateur, Referee, Engineer, Storyteller, Steward, Sentinel, Auditor and the Navigator — continuously assess every phase of the SAVE Job Plan and report findings like ranking instability, unmitigated risks and unrealized savings.
Every read above is worked out on your own study, right in the browser — no API key required.
Trace every saving back to the function it improves.
Value management only counts when the money lands. ValueM follows the line from a costed function, to the idea that reimagined it, to the proposal, to the action that realised the saving — so nothing you approve quietly falls through the cracks.
The golden thread traces every dollar through seven stages: baseline modelled (14 cost elements, $25.3M), cost allocated to functions (96%), functions covered by ideas (11 of 12), ideas evaluated (38 of 42), ideas developed into costed proposals (8), value approved (5 accepted, $2.4 million) and value realized ($1.62 million banked).
Your whole study, connected.
Cost pays for functions, functions invite ideas, ideas become proposals, proposals become results. ValueM keeps those links live, so you can always answer 'why is this here, and what does it change?' — without digging back through spreadsheets.
Follow any decision back
Pick any proposal and walk its whole story — the idea it came from, the function it improves, the cost it targets — right down to the action that banked the saving. The audit trail writes itself.
Catch the gaps
It spots what a flat list hides: an expensive function nobody's had an idea for, an idea that went nowhere, an accepted proposal with no one assigned to deliver it. Each gap is where value quietly leaks away.
Know where you stand
A single, honest read of how joined-up the study really is — brief to savings. Leave a link broken and it shows, until someone on the team closes the loop.
Every value-engineering technique, in one place.
Function analysis and FAST, cost-worth and Mudge, weighted evaluation and Pugh, life-cycle costing, probabilistic Monte-Carlo, decision trees, earned-value and carbon — the established methods of value engineering, all working off one shared model of your project.
70+ tools, zero silos — every one feeds the same intelligence core.
No tool is standalone anymore: a cost item added here re-scores the value thread, re-ranks your next best actions, and briefs the agents — everywhere, instantly.
Map what a project must do.
Click two functions to link them — the same How-and-Why logic a workshop draws on the wall. Function analysis is where value engineering finds the cost that isn't earning its keep.
See the range, not just the number.
Real costs are ranges, not single points. Drag the estimate and watch the spread of outcomes shift — the same probabilistic costing ValueM runs across your cost model and every proposal.
Eight phases — every tool exactly where you'd reach for it.
Every phase in order — with the tools that live inside it.
Frame the study, the team and the stakeholders before the workshop opens.
Baseline the cost from drivers up and surface waste in the process flow.
Express the project as verb-noun functions, score them, and link them in a FAST diagram.
Defer judgement; generate, cluster, amplify and visualise alternatives.
Six MCDA methods to score, rank and short-list ideas — including consistency-checked AHP.
Full cost, risk, life-cycle, decision-tree and sustainability analysis.
Submit with full sign-off chain — narrative, slide deck, VECP and report.
Track every accepted proposal with industry-standard PMI metrics.
Eight phases — every tool exactly where you'd reach for it.
Keep scrolling — the workshop unfolds horizontally as you do.
Pre-Study
Frame the study, the team and the stakeholders before the workshop opens.
Information
Baseline the cost from drivers up and surface waste in the process flow.
Function Analysis
Express the project as verb-noun functions, score them, and link them in a FAST diagram.
Creative
Defer judgement; generate, cluster, amplify and visualise alternatives.
Evaluation
Six MCDA methods to score, rank and short-list ideas — including consistency-checked AHP.
Development
Full cost, risk, life-cycle, decision-tree and sustainability analysis.
Presentation
Submit with full sign-off chain — narrative, slide deck, VECP and report.
Post-Study
Track every accepted proposal with industry-standard PMI metrics.
Student, professional, educator, or policy maker — set the right expectations.
Tag your study with an audience and the platform tunes its defaults — every tool stays available to everyone.
Learning the SAVE Job Plan
- Fully-populated coastal-bridge sample to learn from
- Glossary with formulas — Mudge, AHP CR, TOPSIS, EVM
- Showcase tour walks all 8 phases end-to-end
- AI drafts functions, ideas, risks, SWOT, TRIZ adoption
Running a real workshop
- FAST + Mudge + FCW + AHP/TOPSIS/VIKOR + Pugh
- LCC NPV/IRR/MIRR/PI/EAC/WACC + correlated Monte-Carlo
- Decision tree EMV/VOI + risk-adjusted savings
- EVM + Earned Schedule + CPM + S-curve + sign-off chain
Teaching VM
- Open the showcase tour on a shared screen — no signup
- Multi-language UI (EN / ES / FR / 中文) with live AI translation
- Sample sector templates for infrastructure, pharma, software
- Glossary doubles as course reference (export / link out)
Policy & public-sector review
- Approval workflow with full sign-off chain in the audit log
- Carbon budget · embodied + operational + horizon roll-up
- Should-cost build-up flags items where baseline is suspect
- Stakeholder matrix surfaces regulators, funders, communities
Run a value study that pays for itself.
Start from a blank study, a sector template, or the worked coastal-bridge example — and see where the value is hiding.