Kill Bad Development Deals Before They Kill Your Capital
SiteKillSwitch helps small developers screen sites early, identify fatal flaws, and produce disciplined underwriting before serious money is committed.
Run a Preliminary Deal Screen™ in minutes and upgrade to an Underwriting Memo™ when the deal deserves deeper analysis.
Most Development Deals Fail Long Before Construction
The most expensive mistakes in real estate development happen during the earliest stage of the deal.
Before consultants are hired.
Before drawings are prepared.
Before permits are submitted.
Small developers often commit to land based on incomplete assumptions:
• Overestimating achievable density
• Underestimating construction cost
• Ignoring servicing constraints
• Misjudging municipal approval risk
• Underestimating land carry
By the time these issues surface, the developer has already committed:
• deposit capital
• consultant fees
• legal costs
• months of opportunity cost
SiteKillSwitch exists to identify fatal flaws early — before the deal consumes real money.
A Structured Deal-Screening Workflow
SiteKillSwitch brings a disciplined underwriting process to early-stage development deals.
Instead of relying on instinct or scattered spreadsheets, the platform walks developers through a structured evaluation of the opportunity.
Each deal is evaluated against key assumptions including:
• land price
• achievable density
• construction cost ranges
• development margin
• land carry impact
• IRR and profit sensitivity
• key fatal risks
Every evaluation ends with a clear decision:
Proceed
Caution
Kill the Deal
How Developers Use SiteKillSwitch
Underwriting Memo™
A deeper structured evaluation of the deal.
Generate an institutional-style development underwriting summary with assumptions, financial analysis, and risk commentary.
Useful for:
• internal investment decisions
• discussions with partners
• capital raising conversations
• disciplined deal review
Corporate License™
Designed for development firms screening multiple deals.
Provides firm-wide access to SiteKillSwitch for internal deal evaluation and acquisition workflows.
Ideal for:
• development companies
• acquisition teams
• firms evaluating multiple sites per year
Preliminary Deal Screen™
A fast early-stage screening tool.
Evaluate a development opportunity in minutes and identify fatal flaws before spending serious money.
Best used for:
• early land evaluation
• comparing multiple opportunities
• initial deal filtering
• determining whether deeper work is justified
See What a Screened Deal Looks Like
Before committing to land, developers should be able to answer key questions:
• What margin does this deal actually produce?
• How sensitive is profit to build cost changes?
• What assumptions could break the deal?
• What risks require further investigation?
SiteKillSwitch generates a structured Underwriting Memo™ summarizing:
• deal assumptions
• development scenario analysis
• financial outputs
• key risks and fatal flaws
• a clear investment verdict
Bring Discipline to Early-Stage Deal Evaluation
SiteKillSwitch helps developers avoid the most common mistakes in early-stage development analysis.
Avoid expensive consultant spend on bad sites
Screen opportunities before commissioning engineering, architectural, or planning work.
Reduce emotional decision-making
Force a structured evaluation of assumptions before committing capital.
Compare multiple opportunities quickly
Run multiple Preliminary Deal Screens™ to determine which sites deserve deeper investigation.
Create a defendable investment record
Maintain a documented rationale for deal decisions and underwriting assumptions.
Built by a Practicing Development Engineer
SiteKillSwitch was created by Edward Kyle, P.Eng, founder of Kyle Engineering.
For over a decade, Kyle Engineering has worked with developers evaluating:
• subdivision feasibility
• municipal servicing constraints
• stormwater and infrastructure requirements
• density assumptions
• development risk
SiteKillSwitch translates the early-stage deal evaluation process used in real development projects into a structured digital workflow.
The goal is simple:
Help developers kill bad deals early.
Screen Your Next Deal Before You Commit
Every development opportunity looks good at first glance.
SiteKillSwitch helps determine whether the deal actually works.
Run a Preliminary Deal Screen™ and identify fatal flaws before serious money is committed.