You know the moment. You are building a development pro forma and hit the escalation line. You have a few headlines in mind, maybe a recent bid, and a sense that none of it quite lines up. So you toggle between sources, try to separate construction costs from general inflation, and end up with a number that feels defensible but thin. The same thing happens with the construction loan rate path. You need a view that ties to the macro picture, not a guess. Development ~5 min to run Build Cost Escalation Outlook Vic prompt Use Vic to build a cost escalation outlook for a development. Purpose Better escalation and rate assumptions reduce pro-forma risk. The output replaces roughly 30 minutes of manual research with a 5-minute result. Inputs Project Required Loan Tenor Optional Output Format Optional Outputs A cost-escalation outlook in chat or Word that shows construction-cost inflation versus headline inflation, an escalation call with macro line, an interest-rate path for carry, and the contingency and pro-forma assumptions it feeds. Time saved Turns roughly 30 minutes of manual work into about five minutes. How it works Run the task with a simple command: "Use Vic to build a cost escalation outlook for a development." Attach the project you are underwriting. You can include a loan tenor and your preferred output format, but you do not have to. Vic returns a structured outlook you can drop into your pro forma or share with a partner. It separates construction cost inflation from headline inflation. Most quick takes blur that line and fall apart. You get a direction and a band for escalation to your construction midpoint, plus a short macro note that explains the call in plain terms. The output also includes a construction loan interest rate path for carry. It is not a single point estimate. It is a path you can map to your draw schedule and hold period, which is how the debt hits your deal. From there, Vic lays out the contingency and pro forma assumptions that follow from the escalation and rate views. The result is usable. Take the escalation band and pick a point that fits your risk tolerance, then set your contingency to match. Plug the rate path into your carry model without having to reshape it. If you want a Word version for an investment memo, ask for it up front. One detail matters more than it sounds. Construction cost inflation and headline inflation do not move together. Treating them as the same gives you a clean model that misses reality. The task keeps that split clear and the macro context tight, so you are not pasting in a generic economic paragraph. The payoff is time. Less time assembling a view, more time deciding what to do with it. Instead of half an hour pulling threads together, you get a five minute result organized around the decisions that matter: where to set escalation, how much contingency to carry, and what your debt will cost over time. This is not about squeezing false precision out of an uncertain forecast. It is about putting bounds around the uncertainty and tying those bounds to assumptions your model can use. In a development pro forma, that is the difference between a number you can defend and one you hope holds up.