# Plan a PIP without lying to the P&L

Harbor by Signalry · hotel job `pip-planning`
https://harbor.signalry.ai/jobs/pip-planning

How and who for the hotel job—verified when attested. Advice unless labeled verified. This brief is a worksheet, not an appraisal and not a quote.

## The job

When a sale, a flag, or a tired product forces renovation, I want a scope, a calendar, and a displacement number — not a mood board.

**Outcome the catalog names:** A PIP with rooms of scope, a phasing calendar, a displacement NOI, and a reserve that is not a wish.

**Desk:** owner
**Urgency on the catalog:** This year
**Typical budget band (catalog, not a quote):** Scope first $15–40k; construction is the real number
**Typical timeline (catalog, not a promise):** Scope 4–8 weeks; the work is a season

## Scoped brief

A PIP is operations wearing a hard hat. Close rooms on purpose. Model the lost nights. Do not bury displacement in “one-time capex.”

1. **Get the brand letter or write your own scope.** If a franchise will require a PIP, obtain it. If you are independent, walk rooms with a camera and a par sheet. Harbor’s per-key reserve is a default, not a bid.
2. **Phase like a GM.** Which floors, which season, which group on the books. A 40-room close in August is an NOI event.
3. **Put displacement in the model.** Lost room nights, labor during construction, and the FF&E that will slip. If the deal only works with zero displacement, the deal does not work.
4. **Score a mood board without a room count, not 'the brand will like it'.** Adjectives are not scope. A PIP that only works with zero displacement is the fail.

## When not to buy

Do not buy a mood board if displacement is not numbered. Rooms of scope and a calendar first. Fashion is not a PIP.

## Provider shortlist

- [Oakridge Distribution](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/oakridge) — people · OTA mix & brand.com. Catalog score 8.4 (post-job shape, not a verification).
- [Brandt & Vale Labor](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/brandt-vale) — people · Hotel labor design. Catalog score 8.2 (post-job shape, not a verification).
- [Copperline Energy](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/copperline) — people · Hotel energy without comfort hits. Catalog score 8.6 (post-job shape, not a verification).
- [Hearth & Key](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/hearth-key) — people · Housekeeping quality & guest comfort. Catalog score 8.9 (post-job shape, not a verification).

## Success the brief names

- Scope in rooms, not adjectives.
- Phasing calendar the GM signed.
- Displacement in the underwriting, not a footnote.

## Pitfalls

- A mood board without a room count.
- Ignoring displacement.
- Capitalizing a PIP you have not been quoted.

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Stable id: `pip-planning`
Source: Harbor by Signalry · https://harbor.signalry.ai
Verified Outcome is not insurance. Do not treat a catalog score as attested proof.