Financial plausibilityNeeds evidence

Calibrate the DADU construction-cost screen

All 186,364 included parcels carry the published uncalibrated-cost caution, so the financial result remains a planning sensitivity rather than an empirical Seattle cost finding.

Scale
186,364
100% of 186,364
Geography
Seattle
citywide
Constraint codes
financial_cost_basis_uncalibrated

Missing capability

A licensed, reviewable Seattle-area DADU cost basis segmented by size, site complexity, soft costs, and observation date.

Current routes

  • Versioned planning assumptions and financial sensitivity screen
  • Parcel-specific contractor pricing and financing review

Next required artifact

A cost-calibration memo with source provenance, sample coverage, normalization method, uncertainty bands, and a decision on whether to revise gap-dadu-financial@v1.

Success: A reviewer can reproduce the calibrated range and quantify how the revised basis changes the financial stage without hiding uncertainty.

Source artifact: gap-atlas:backyard-cottage:v1

The parcel count measures exposure to an uncalibrated assumption, not financial failure. The current screen is not a bid, quote, appraisal, forecast, or observed project-outcome model. Calibration may change both blocked counts and range-straddle counts and therefore requires a new artifact version.

Published 7/26/2026

How to use this

The counts here are pinned to artifact gap-dadu-v1.2+assumptions-2026-Q2+financial-v1+programs-2026-06-23. They do not change as the warehouse changes; when the underlying evaluation moves, this brief is republished with new numbers rather than edited in place, so a citation of this page stays meaningful.

You are welcome to use this without asking us, and to disagree with it. The full artifact contains the method versions, source snapshots, exclusion counts, and per-constraint totals behind every figure above.

This is a description of an evidence gap. It is not a solicitation, a procurement, a grant, or an offer of work, and nobody needs our permission or involvement to act on it.