Intelligent Megaproject Governance

Megaprojects don't fail
suddenly. They fail quietly —
one overlooked signal
at a time.

Stellae reads your project documents and tells you exactly where governance is breaking down — before it becomes a cost overrun.

We see in seconds what others miss in months.

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STELLAE — Your North Star for megaproject governance.

The Problem

Industries of capital intensity are bleeding value through structural blindness.

Governance failures are invisible until they aren't — and by then, the damage is irreversible. The data has shown this for decades.

$9.9T
Spent annually on megaprojects globally — the largest allocation of capital in human civilization.
McKinsey Global Institute · 2024
85%
Of megaprojects exceed budget or schedule. The exception is the project that finishes on time.
Flyvbjerg · Oxford · 2023
25–50%
Of overruns traced directly to governance failures — undocumented decisions, unauthorized changes, unassigned ownership.
PMI / KPMG Capital Projects Study

The Research Foundation

The Problem Is Documented.
The Solution Is Built.

Stellae is not built on intuition. It is built on a body of peer-reviewed research spanning 70 years of megaproject data — 258 infrastructure projects across 20 nations, 85 international megaprojects studied with structural equation modeling, and an industry-wide productivity analysis of over 2,500 construction projects across 5 continents. From ADNOC, Aramco, Tsinghua University, the McKinsey Global Institute, and the University of Oxford.

9/10
Megaprojects with cost overrun
Flyvbjerg · Oxford
44.7%
Average rail cost overrun (constant prices)
Flyvbjerg · Oxford
70yr
Period studied — accuracy has not improved
Oxford Reference Class
89%
Of IM performance variance explained by formal governance
Shen et al. · SPE
57%
Of construction projects over budget
McKinsey · 2016
77%
Of construction projects delayed
McKinsey · 2016
2nd
Lowest labor productivity of all global economic sectors — ahead of only agriculture
McKinsey Global Institute

How It Works

From document to decision intelligence — in three steps.

No integrations required. No structured data needed. Drop your documents in and Stellae goes to work.

①
Upload Your Documents
Minutes, RFIs, change orders, contracts, progress reports — any unstructured document enters the secure analysis pipeline. No templates. No reformatting. No integrations required.
Any Format
②
Detect Governance Violations
Stellae automatically flags undocumented decisions, financial commitments exceeding Delegation of Authority matrices, and unassigned ownership — before they leave the meeting room.
Dynamic DoA Cross-Check
③
Quantify the Risk
Every finding is injected into a Beta-PERT probabilistic simulation delivering a dynamic cost-of-inaction estimate. Each finding also carries a Scope 3 carbon estimate — the embodied emissions of the rework it may generate, calculated per GHG Protocol.
Beta-PERT · GHG Protocol

Proof of Methodology

We tested the engine against a documented failure scenario.

Stellae's detection engine was run against a synthetic LNG construction scenario built from real project archetypes — without prior knowledge of the intended outcome. The engine found what it was looking for.

Synthetic dataset derived from documented EPC project archetypes. Not a live client deployment.

Project Type LNG Construction
Project Scale $480M
Violations Detected 18 critical
Predicted Risk (PERT) $3.8M – $16.4M
Outcome vs. Range Within range ✓
ROI of Early Detection 340×
Beta-PERT simulation using academically validated cost-overrun priors (Flyvbjerg/Oxford reference class forecasting). Detection engine trained on 25 governance failure micro-triggers derived from EPC project research (Akhtar · ADNOC · SPE).

Enterprise Architecture

The Data Room Guarantee.

Your contractual data is your most sensitive asset. Stellae is built from the ground up to protect it.

🔐
Strict Data Isolation
Your project data is compartmentalized at the database row level — cryptographically enforced, never mixed across tenants, never used to train public LLM models.
📋
Immutable Audit Trail
Every flagged risk and probability curve is hard-linked back to the exact paragraph and document of origin. No hallucinations — just audit-ready engineering.
📊
Probabilistic Risk Engine
Beta-PERT simulation calibrated against Flyvbjerg's reference class forecasting database — the largest empirical study of megaproject outcomes ever compiled.
🌱
Scope 3 Carbon Reporting
Every governance finding includes an embodied carbon estimate of the rework it may generate — GHG Protocol Scope 3, Ecoinvent 3.9 methodology. CSRD-ready disclosure support.

Product Vision

The MVP is the foundation.
Stellae will be the governance standard for global capital.

Every project that runs through Stellae makes the system smarter. This is the architecture of a governance intelligence platform that compounds in value with every dataset it touches.

Bayesian Calibration Engine
Risk estimation accuracy automatically improves with every project Stellae analyzes — turning historical outcomes into proprietary predictive priors no competitor can replicate. Academic coefficients replaced by real project data.
Multi-Project Portfolio Intelligence
Aggregate governance risk across your entire capital program. Benchmark projects against each other. See which contractor teams generate the most violations. Executive visibility across a $5B portfolio in one dashboard.
Stage 2 — Roadmap
Decision Tracker & Commitment Engine
Every decision extracted from documents generates a trackable commitment with owner, deadline, and escalation path. From detection to accountability — closing the governance loop end to end.
Stage 2 — Roadmap
Handwriting OCR & Field Document Ingestion
Governance intelligence reaches the construction face, not just the boardroom. Field diaries written on-site, handwritten site reports, and photographed meeting minutes — every document your team produces in the field enters the same analysis pipeline as a formal Word document.
Stage 3 — Vision
Real-Time Platform Integrations
Seamless pipeline connectivity with Procore, Oracle Aconex, and SharePoint — meeting your team where your documents already live. Zero-friction adoption for projects already running on enterprise stacks.
Stage 3 — Vision
Industry Governance Benchmark
As Stellae accumulates real project outcomes, it becomes the largest empirical database of governance patterns in megaproject history — a proprietary dataset that no one else will ever be able to build from scratch.

The Founder

"The governance failures Stellae detects aren't theoretical — they're patterns I watched cost capital projects millions of dollars, up close. I didn't build this from an office desk. I built it because I lived the problem on the field."

— Dennis Malave, Founder · 12 years O&G field operations · Latin America, Asia & Europe

Private Beta — 2026

Early Access

A restricted cohort.
One governance standard.

We're onboarding a small group of reference projects in 2026 — teams that want to benchmark their governance health before a cost overrun makes it visible to everyone else.

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