Casino Gaming & Hospitality Consulting
From Feasibility to Full Operation.
Benchmark Solutions guides integrated resorts across their entire life cycle, from concept to construction and beyond.
Selected clients & engagements
One firm across every phase of the property.
What we do,
and when we do it:
Casino, Resort, and Arena Development
Strategy & Feasibility
- Market Analysis & Feasibility
- Lender & Financing Package Preparation
- Patron Market Research
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Strategic Business Planning
- Economic, Social & Community Impact
- Finance & Investment Banking
- Bid & RFP Response
Design & Development
- Owner's Representation: Design Phases
- Design Consultancy
- Resort Programming & Economics
- Design Review: SD, DD & CD
- Design Consultant Management
- Architect & Interior Designer Selection (RFP development)
- Construction Budgeting
- Value Engineering
- Site Analysis & Project Development
Pre-opening & Ramp-Up
- Pre-Opening Critical Pathapp
- Construction Administration, Progress Monitoring & Closeoutapp
- Pre-Opening Budget Preparation
- Owner-Side Budgets: FF&E, OS&E, Gaming Equipment, IT Systems, Pre-Opening
- Staff-Plan Modelingapp
- Year-One Departmental Operating Budgets
- Departmental SOP Development
- Governmental Licensing & Due Diligence
- Move-in / Load-in Scheduling
Operations & Advisory
- Annual Business Plan Preparation
- Annual Marketing Plan Preparation
- Marketing & Operations Analysis
- Labor Cost Control Analysisapp
- Competitor Benchmarking Studies
- Shopper Reports
- Regulatory Complianceapp
- Anti-Money-Laundering Compliance
- ERP Transformation
Policy, Funding & Regulatory Affairs
- Federal Funding & Grant Applications
- Legislative & Regulatory Services
- Public Policy Guidance
- Tribal Services & Diversification Strategies
Proprietary applications
The system stays. Our name doesn't.
Every application we build deploys under your brand — your logo, your colors, your system of record. Your board, your council, and your regulator see your name on the screen, not a consultant's.
Who we are
Senior operators, not career consultants.
Benchmark is a boutique firm by design — a small, senior team whose principals have each spent more than two decades inside integrated casino-resorts, not advising them from the outside. Between them they have opened and operated landmark properties across Las Vegas, Macao, Manila, Korea, and the Bahamas. When you hire Benchmark, the people who win the work do the work — operators who have sat in the chair.
Meet the team
- $12B+
- Project value advised
- 40+
- Properties guided
- 11
- Jurisdictions worked
- 120k
- Operating rooms opened
The Benchmark difference
We've run these properties, not just modeled them.
That single fact changes every recommendation we make. We know where the model breaks because we have been the ones explaining the variance to a board.
- 01We're Operators
- Our principals have run integrated resorts as GMs, CFOs, and floor directors. Advice is grounded in payroll, P&L, and regulators — not theory.
- 02Pre- and Post-Opening
- The feasibility study and the operating reality are the same document for us. We are accountable for whether the numbers actually land.
- 03Data-Driven
- You get a clear recommendation and the reasoning behind it. No 80-slide hedge, no findings that conveniently require more findings.
- 04We Read the Drawings
- Beyond the feasibility number, we review the schematic design, room-program economics, and value engineering — catching the decisions that quietly set operating margin while they can still be changed.