Answers before the call.

Corepoint brings together design training in Milan and seven years delivering luxury interiors in the United States. That combination brings three things: a proper understanding of the architect’s design intent, which protects the design scope; technical fluency in how interiors are built, which makes for effective conversations with the GC and the trades; and project control — baselines, registers, cost and schedule forecasting — so a private owner or a developer sees early where cost and schedule are heading.

Most coordination trouble on an interior starts as a technical detail somebody needed to catch earlier. Catching it means knowing how the work is built, not only how a schedule is formatted.

Interior-heavy work where the specification is design-forward and often European: high-end residential renovation and new build, landmark adaptive reuse, boutique commercial and showroom fit-out, and multi-project studio or dealer rosters.

Complexity matters more than size. A project with multiple custom American and European vendor chains and a hard installation window needs this more than a larger, simpler one.

The two sections below set out the services for each kind of client: developers and private owners carrying a single project, and studios and showroom networks carrying a roster of them.

Ground-up structural work, heavy commercial construction and industrial projects belong with firms built around them. Corepoint works exclusively on interiors.

Corepoint identifies risk and records it; carrying it contractually is the general contractor’s role under a guaranteed price. Design authority stays with the architect, so an owner wanting one firm to both design and manage the project is looking for a different arrangement.

Between them, on your side. The architect protects the design. The general contractor protects the build. What usually stays open is who holds the decisions, the coordination risk and the schedule on the owner’s behalf, in writing, while there is still time to act on them.

That is the seat Corepoint takes, giving every party one place where the current position is recorded. Design authority, stamping and code compliance stay with the architect and engineer of record; means and methods and site safety stay with the contractor.

In practice this makes both their jobs easier. Less time goes into reconstructing what was decided and when, and any question about where the project stands has one document to answer it rather than three inboxes.

The earlier, the better. Leverage over cost and schedule is highest before the contract is signed and the drawings lock. That is when the baseline, exclusion schedule and long-lead register can be set up cleanly, and when the first coordination review lands while a change is still a redline rather than a change order.

Most engagements begin once a project is already moving, and the service is built to enter at any point.

Project control held on the owner’s side of a single project, from charter and baseline through final acceptance. Corepoint owns the schedule, the cost position and the coordination record.

It is delivered in two tiers: Light, focused on schedule and coordination, and Core, which adds full financial tracking, reporting and more in-depth management.

The deliverables for each tier, phase by phase, are set out on the Developers & Private Owners page.

Owner-side management of everything between a finish schedule and an installed room: scope and baseline, bidding and award, orders and expediting, delivery and closeout. Corepoint runs the process, drawing on direct experience with European production offices; contract, payment and final selection stay with you.

The deliverables, phase by phase, are set out on the Developers & Private Owners page.

When the schedule is tight and the specification carries long lead times, which on a design-forward interior is most of the time.

Running both removes the seam between project control and procurement. Order dates and construction dates sit in one place, so when a factory date moves, it shows against the install window the week it happens rather than the month it lands.

Either can be engaged alone, and both are priced independently.

• Owner’s Representation. From $1M in total construction cost, with a three-month minimum term.
• FF&E Procurement Coordination. From $200,000 in approved procurement value.

Work below those thresholds is scoped as a targeted engagement with a defined output. How each fee is calculated is set out under Engagement & fees.

One project management layer across every live project in a studio’s roster, taking on the coordination the principal is currently carrying and giving a cross-project view no single job produces on its own. It covers status, purchasing, site coordination and cash timing across the roster.

Design authority, selling, the client relationship, final vendor selection, budget approval and payment access remain with the studio. Full construction scheduling and cost forecasting are part of Owner’s Representation.

The deliverables are set out on the Studios & Showrooms page.

The coordination layer between an order confirmed in the showroom and a job installed on site, engaged per location. It takes over work a location manager typically absorbs alongside a sales number: order and PO control, production and logistics, install readiness, and reporting through closeout.

Design, selling and the client relationship remain with showroom staff.

The deliverables are set out on the Studios & Showrooms page.

Both services start at a commitment equivalent to ten hours a week, which is what it takes to hold a roster rather than report on it.

• Studio Portfolio Coordination. Design-build and architecture studios, engaged against a named roster.
• Project Operations. Showroom and dealer networks, engaged per location. A location typically carries six to ten concurrent client projects.

Both are a fixed monthly retainer, scoped to the roster or the location and independent of purchase volume. The hours set the floor of the commitment rather than the basis of the fee. Coverage scales by adding projects or locations rather than by reopening scope: projects entering within the agreed count are absorbed, and a sustained increase is addressed at the next milestone review by amendment.

With a 30-minute discovery call, followed by three stages.

• Onboarding, weeks one through four. A bounded first scope. Charter and exclusions signed, records transitioned, baseline built, first reporting cycle issued.
• Evaluation, three months. Full cadence across three monthly reporting cycles while both sides confirm fit. A milestone review closes the term.
• Standard term, year one onward. Twelve months, renewed annually or per project. Coverage scales by adding projects or locations rather than by reopening scope, with pricing reviewed at renewal.

A written scope, exclusion schedule and fee structure follow the discovery call within five business days.

Yes, and it is a common way engagements start. Records are transitioned, what exists is verified, and the baseline is rebuilt from where the project stands today.

On a project already underway, the first four weeks go to establishing the current position: what has been decided, what is still open, and what is at risk. Regular reporting starts once that picture is complete.

The basis depends on the service:

• Owner’s Representation. A percentage of total construction cost, billed in equal monthly installments across the contracted duration and unaffected by swings in construction cost.
• FF&E Procurement Coordination. A percentage of the approved procurement budget, paid on top of it and billed in equal monthly installments across the contracted duration, unaffected by swings in procurement cost.
• Studio Portfolio Coordination and Project Operations. A fixed monthly retainer, scoped to the project roster or the location and independent of purchase volume.

In every case the fee changes only when the scope of work changes, by signed amendment. Field conditions, contractor performance and cost growth leave it unchanged.

No. Corepoint takes no commission, rebate, markup or referral fee from any manufacturer, vendor, dealer or contractor. Any existing relationship is disclosed in writing before it touches a specification.

On FF&E scopes the fee is fixed before the first order is placed, so Corepoint earns the same whichever vendor wins the award.

Anywhere in the United States. Seven years of high-end interior work across residential, multifamily and landmark adaptive reuse has been delivered in Illinois, Missouri, New York, Florida, Louisiana, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, California and Pennsylvania.

Coverage comes from how the practice runs rather than where an office sits: a visit to Jackson Hole or Miami takes the same planning as one to Chicago.

The project is run remotely from Milan, organized around milestones, and reported to you weekly and monthly.

On a single project, each week Corepoint chairs the OAC meeting by video and issues minutes within twenty-four hours, with every action assigned an owner and a date. The contractor’s two- or three-week lookahead is checked against the baseline schedule, open RFIs, submittals and change orders are reviewed for anything overdue, and you receive a short control pack covering the week’s movements. Each month, Corepoint issues a status report on cost and schedule, with the forecast to completion.

Across a roster, the same rhythm runs as a weekly cross-project sync and a monthly portfolio summary.

Depending on the service, site evidence is captured through regular photographic walks or 3D scanning, coordinated with the general contractor.

Each milestone gate, before rough-in, finishes and installation, gets a written readiness check confirming the site can take the next step.

Site presence is planned and scheduled in the written scope at engagement: the baseline walk, the readiness checks before rough-in and before finishes, the installation window, and closeout. Those are the moments where being on site changes a decision.

Travel time is billed at Corepoint’s hourly rate, stated in the written scope, and expenses are reimbursed at cost.

Where a project needs extended site presence, a local field engineer or mid-level PM can be deployed under Corepoint’s direction, reporting into the same registers, with decisions staying with the managing partner. This is a separately priced option, available when the project calls for it.

A full working day of overlap with the Italian and European factories your specification depends on, and a morning overlap with US Central time for the jobsite.

A question a US buyer sends a factory overnight gets an answer the next day. Corepoint resolves it the same day and, when needed, in person.

Corepoint sees and tests materials and finishes before approval, checks customizations at the source, and reaches the person at the factory who can commit to a date.