RDI

Stewardship

How RDI is stewarded

RDI was initiated by Evercam and is maintained in public as a working reference for construction teams, technologists, insurers, consultants, and owners.

Origin

A framework for the field

RDI was initiated by Evercam and is maintained in public because construction needs shared language for evidence, workflows, and outcome measurement.

The framework was written down so owners, contractors, insurers, technologists, consultants, and researchers can discuss construction intelligence without reducing the topic to a single product category.

Evercam remains the initiator and current maintainer. The public material is intended to be useful beyond Evercam, including to teams that reach the same problems through different tools.

Boundary

What is public and what is protected

Category credibility depends on separating public reference material from customer data, private benchmarks, and implementation details.

Open

Public reference

  • Definitions and principles
  • RDI stack and decision loop
  • Workflow categories and workflow library
  • Maturity model and assessment
  • Value methodology and directional calculator
  • Learning material, glossary, and field notes

Protected

Protected implementation

  • Customer and project data
  • Project-specific benchmarks
  • Production ROI reports for named engagements
  • Quote logic, pricing, and commercial workflow
  • Sales intelligence and pipeline
  • Product roadmap decisions

Contribution

How to contribute

The framework should improve as it is challenged by real project work.

Path 1

Critique a definition

Point out where a definition, stack layer, or workflow is imprecise, overfit, or wrong.

Path 2

Propose a workflow

Suggest a construction workflow with trigger, evidence, decision, action, and outcome.

Path 3

Use it in practice

Apply the vocabulary in a team, course, project review, procurement document, or paper.

Contributions and corrections can be sent to rdi@evercam.io. Accepted public material will be credited here.

Use

Use and adaptation

The framework is published for practitioners to read, teach, and reference. A formal license for derivative publication is being prepared.

Free to do now

  • Read the material.
  • Teach from it inside teams, courses, and training programs.
  • Quote short passages with attribution in articles and presentations.
  • Reference the definitions in professional documents.

Coordinate first

  • Republishing the framework under another name or domain.
  • Commercial derivative material, including training and certification products.
  • Translations or adaptations of the manifesto and stack.
  • Embedding the material as source of truth inside another platform.

See also the manifesto and the RDI definition.