I’m a home owner / occupier, can you help me?

Absolutely! We have plenty of experience undertaking our process with single sites both with families who have no intention of selling and want a long term plan, but also those who want assistance with marketing their home to potential buyers. Get in touch and we can show you some project examples to illustrate how we might help.

Couldn’t I get this service from my architect?

Possibly — and if you have a trusted architect, that's worth exploring. What Sharpe Strategy offers is independent specialist advisory: we're not selling you a design service, we're helping you define and test the problem before design begins. That distinction matters. We bring focused expertise in planning viability, GIS-informed yield analysis, and design review across hundreds of comparable projects — and because we're not the delivery architect, our advice is free of any downstream commercial interest.

What happens after the five step process?

After our five step process Sharpe Strategy can help you put together the right team for your project. We can assess and help select from our wide network consultants such as other architects, planners, engineers and construction contractors who are aligned in values and a good fit. We can utilise our documents to become briefing and scoping documents to help you engage the team with a clear scope which will not only bring certainty but allow the incoming consultants to provide a sharper fee.

What are your turn around times?

Our process is tailored for fast feedback. We are aware that time is money during development. Often we are engaged during a due diligence process and so we understand strict timeframes. A standard options and report process takes about 2-3 weeks but can be done urgently by arrangement.

We don’t have budget to put to design yet. We think we know what we want anyway. What’s the point?

The greater cost is fully designing a project only to discover it’s unbuildable or lacks market demand — a common occurrence. Long project timeframes make this risk even higher. A thorough pre-design, visioning, and feasibility stage can save money, uncover hidden value, and reduce risk. In tough economic times, knowledge is your best asset. Invest upfront to avoid larger losses and disappointment later.

Do you do the full design and consent process?

Sharpe Strategy is a strategic advisory practice, not a full-service delivery firm. Our focus is the early and critical stages — due diligence, feasibility, briefing, and design strategy — where the right thinking has the most leverage. Once the pathway is clear, we help you identify, brief, and engage the right consultants to carry the project through to consent and delivery.