Certainty before design dollars — owner-side pre-design for ASC and medical office development, from Spartan Legacy Group LLC and the IronClad HC platform.
"True peace of mind doesn't come from hoping nothing goes wrong. It comes from partnering with a team that has the tech to predict errors, the expertise to guide your decisions, and the mindset to never give up on your vision."
— Spartan Legacy Group LLC
The software platforms on this list are project management, estimating, and construction execution tools. They are well-suited for what they were designed to do — managing projects after design and contracting begin. They are not designed for the physician group, healthcare developer, or hospital system that hasn't yet defined what to build, how large it needs to be, or whether it will generate a return.
The advisory firms on this list publish service lines focused on portfolio management, asset transactions, and facility maintenance — not owner-side clinical space programming for new or expanding healthcare facilities.
Our platform delivers a clinical room program, hard/soft cost model, revenue feasibility analysis, and FGI/NFPA/CMS/CON compliance map before design begins — owner-side, with no transaction or design-side conflicts. As of June 2026, among publicly marketed platforms we reviewed, we are not aware of another that combines this scope on an owner-side basis.
How the platform works: Spartan Legacy Group LLC / IRONCLAD HC — our proprietary platform applies a rules-based algorithmic method to facility pre-design. Clinical space requirements are calculated by applying the governing code for the state entered — the FGI edition that state actually adopts, or the state's own administrative standard where it does not adopt FGI — together with ASHRAE 170 and CMS standards, to owner-provided operational inputs. Hard construction costs are derived from RSMeans 2025–2026 regional benchmarks. Revenue projections reference CMS ASC Payment System rates and payer mix parameters. Every output follows defined rules applied to defined inputs. The method is proprietary, structured, and patent-pending — not generative, not opinion-based. (Patent Pending · U.S. Provisional Application 64/054,998)
| Capability | IRONCLAD HC SPARTAN LEGACY GROUP LLC |
Join | ConCntric | Procore / Autodesk / ALICE | Ediphi | Gordian | JLL | CBRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Design Programming | ||||||||
| Owner-Side Pre-Design Program | ✓ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Facility Room Program (room-by-room) | ✓ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hard & Soft Cost Model | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Equipment & FFE Planning | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Revenue & Feasibility Modeling | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Owner-Ready Architect Brief | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Healthcare Compliance & Regulatory | ||||||||
| Governing-Code Mapping (FGI or state code) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| NFPA 101 Occupancy Classification | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CMS Conditions of Participation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CON State Mapping & Pathway | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Local Code Compliance | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Delivery Model & Alignment | ||||||||
| Owner-Side Only (no dual representation) | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Owner Representation (design + construction) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Patent-Pending Proprietary Platform | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Zero Conflicts of Interest | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Asset Management Services | ||||||||
| Executive Facility Advisory (ongoing) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Facility Condition Assessment | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lease Advisory & Negotiation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vendor Contract Audit | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Capital Planning & Budgeting | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
These platforms come closest to our lane. TestFit, Autodesk Forma, Archistar, Ark Design AI, and Buildora IQ all operate pre-design — before the architect picks up a pencil. They are the right category. They are the wrong industry.
Their public materials do not describe what an OR needs to be, what FGI mandates per room type, what CMS requires for ASC certification, or how CON laws affect project scope.
As of June 2026, we are not aware of any of them delivering a clinical space program, mapping FGI room requirements, or modeling surgical revenue.
| Capability | IRONCLAD HC SPARTAN LEGACY GROUP LLC |
TestFit | Autodesk Forma | Archistar | Ark Design AI | Buildora IQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Design Core Capability | ||||||
| Operates pre-design (before architect) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Room-by-room clinical space program | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ |
| Hard & soft cost model | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ~ |
| Equipment & FFE planning | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Revenue & clinical feasibility modeling | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Owner-ready architect brief | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | ✗ |
| Healthcare Domain Knowledge | ||||||
| OR count / case capacity modeling | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| PACU bay ratios (Phase I / Phase II) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Sterile corridor & infection control zoning | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Medical gas, HVAC, electrical requirements | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Clinical adjacency & patient flow mapping | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Regulatory Compliance | ||||||
| Governing code by state (FGI or state standard) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CMS Conditions of Participation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| NFPA 101 occupancy & life safety | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CON state mapping & approval pathway | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Local code compliance | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
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All competitive assessments reflect publicly documented product capabilities as of June 2026. Capability designations based on each company's own published documentation. Capabilities reflect publicly documented market data as of June 2026.