The focus
Do Better Foundation is about execution.
A lot of public systems fail in predictable ways, but the evidence is scattered across reports, timelines, procurement documents, and fragmented accountability. The signal is there, but it is hard to see.
The goal is to build research and tooling that turns “everyone knows this is broken” into something measurable and explainable.
Why construction delays
Construction delays are one of the clearest examples of repeated failure patterns:
- timelines slip in similar ways across projects
- bottlenecks repeat, but the explanations are inconsistent
- the cost of delay is real and compounding
It is a space with enough public data to analyze, and enough operational complexity that you cannot solve it with a single spreadsheet.
What we are building
The core idea is simple: pull the evidence together, then surface patterns.
- collect documents and structured sources
- normalize what “delay” actually means across contexts
- extract recurring root causes
- generate outputs that are actionable and explainable
LLMs help, but only as part of a real system. The goal is not text generation. The goal is clarity: what is failing, where, and why.
Where it is now
We are building the foundations and validating what is actually useful to the people closest to the problem.
The bar is high. If this is going to matter, it needs to produce answers that are practical and defensible, not just “interesting analysis.”