Verification
Sage Co. does not grade its own homework
Independent verification is offered on every build. It is an optional paid add-on, and the client elects it. Where it is elected, requirements move through three states: specified, then installed, then independently verified. Sage Co. can set the first two. Only an independent verifier — a qualified third party outside the company — can set the third. That restriction is enforced in the platform itself, not by policy alone.
Last reviewed August 29, 2026.
The three states
- Step 01
Specified
Set by Sage Co.
The requirement is written into the project from the Approved Materials Catalog, at a specific catalog version, with an acceptance criterion and the test or inspection that will settle it. A specification with no way to check it is not a specification.
- Step 02
Installed
Set by Sage Co.
The work is in place and the field record exists — photo set, installer, date, location, and the deviations if there were any. Installed means the crew is done. It does not mean the requirement is met.
- Step 03
Independently verified
Set only by the Independent Verifier
A qualified third party who is not Sage Co. checks the installed work against the specification and signs the result. Only that role can move a verification into this state. Nobody inside the company can, at any permission level, by any path.
Your election
We offer independent verification on every build and price it as its own line item. You decide whether to take it, and your decision is recorded on the project.
Elected. A qualified third party outside Sage Co. tests and signs the results. Where the Tier A results pass, the file closes with an occupancy clearance letter from that verifier.
Declined. The work is still built to the written standard and still documented, but no outside party tests it and no clearance letter issues. You sign a release recording that choice before construction is dispatched, and that release stays on the project record.
Choosing a material outside our approved catalog works the same way: a signed release first, then dispatch.
What you see while it is open
Until an independent verifier signs it, a requirement carries a Pending Verification marker everywhere it appears — your project view, the field record, and the handover document. Nothing is quietly upgraded, and nothing is reported as done because the schedule wanted it to be.
Failures are preserved. A failed test stays in the record next to the corrective work and the retest, permanently. You get the whole sequence, not a clean summary written after the fact.
The judgment limit
Clearing every gate does not mean the house is right. The gates are the floor, not the ceiling. If something looks wrong, stop and escalate regardless of what the checklist says. That line is printed on every stage sign-off our crews complete.
Rendering — representative of Sage Co. design intent, not a completed project.