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Working notes from the practice: audit findings, valuation ratio studies, planning law and the data engineering beneath all of it.

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What makes an asset register audit-defensible — and why most are not

A register is only as strong as its weakest component. We unpack the six failure modes we see in AGSA findings and how to design them out.

12 Aug 20269 min read

Valuations
Spatial indexing is the missing variable in South African mass appraisal
Why location-aware models outperform comparable-sales heuristics on every ratio study we have run since 2019.
03 Jul 20267 min
Spatial Planning
The SDF should be a database, not a PDF
A spatial development framework that cannot be queried cannot be enforced. A case for planning documents as living data.
21 May 20266 min
Data & Analytics
Closing the loop between mSCOA budgets and lifecycle plans
How MERIDIAN™ reconciles capital budgets against renewal demand — automatically, every month.
14 Mar 20268 min
Asset Management
ISO 55000 for municipalities: a pragmatic adoption path
You do not need certification to benefit from the standard. A staged model we have applied across eleven municipalities.
30 Jan 202611 min
Valuations
Climate exposure belongs in the lender valuation
Flood, fire and drought overlays are now cheap to compute. Ignoring them is a pricing error.
08 Nov 20255 min

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