Built Exclusively for Senior Living

Senior Living Projects Blow Budget 85% of the Time. We Fix That.

The only pre-construction budgeting tool built specifically for assisted living, memory care, CCRCs, and independent living communities. Know your real costs before breaking ground—not after it's too late.

30+
Years Experience
180×
Faster
54×
Cheaper
Senior Living Pre-Construction Planning
Senior Living Specialists

The Senior Living Challenge

Why Senior Living Budgets Fail Differently

Unit Mix Uncertainty

AL vs. MC vs. IL ratios shift constantly during planning. Each change ripples through staffing models, kitchen requirements, and regulatory compliance—and your budget.

Regulatory Surprises

Certificate of need timelines, state-specific life safety codes, and healthcare licensing requirements add costs that generic estimating tools miss entirely.

Operator Handoff Gaps

Developers build. Operators run. The disconnect between construction decisions and operational realities creates costly retrofits within the first year.

Common Area Creep

Dining venues, activity spaces, therapy rooms, beauty salons—the "soft" spaces that make communities competitive are chronically underbudgeted.

Care Level Transitions

Building flexibility for residents to age in place requires infrastructure decisions made early—nurse call systems, medication rooms, lift equipment—that traditional estimates ignore.

Reimbursement Pressure

Medicaid/Medicare rate constraints mean every dollar of overrun comes directly from margin. There's no passing costs to residents.

The Solution

Pre-Construction Clarity Built for How Senior Living Actually Works

The Alignment Formula isn't generic construction software with a senior living label. It's a patented methodology developed by designers and developers who've spent 30+ years inside this industry—watching the same budget failures repeat.

Unit mix modeling that instantly reprices when you shift AL/MC/IL ratios
Care-level specific costs for nurse call, med rooms, and clinical infrastructure
Common area ratios calibrated to competitive senior living communities
Stakeholder alignment between developers, operators, and capital partners
What is The Alignment Formula?
Lisa Cini - Senior Living Design Expert

Built by Industry Insiders

We Didn't Learn Senior Living from a Market Report

Lisa Cini has spent 30+ years designing senior living communities—from ground-up CCRCs to memory care renovations. She's seen budgets blow up on hundreds of projects, and built The Alignment Formula to fix the root cause: decisions made without real data.

30+
Years in Senior Living
7
Bestselling Books
3
Patents Granted
Flying Blind Book
"Flying Blind" — #1 in Construction on Amazon The philosophy behind The Alignment Formula

Free Resource

Get the Senior Living Pre-Construction Checklist

15 budget line items that blow up senior living projects—and how to catch them before groundbreaking. Instantly download the checklist used by developers and operators.

The Senior Living Pre-Construction Checklist PDF Download • 15 Critical Budget Items

We'll also send occasional insights on senior living development. Unsubscribe anytime.

Ready to Build with Certainty?

See how The Alignment Formula can bring budget clarity to your next senior living project—before you break ground.