With a good tendon layout provided, the optimization process in RAM Concept generally results in more economical designs than an engineer would arrive at if designing manually in only a small fraction of the engineering time. It does so by exploring a much wider array of alternatives and comparing them side by side, where the manual design process is limited to only comparing a handful of alternatives due to the time it takes to investigate each one.

For example, the optimizer does a good job of adjusting profile elevations to balance the moments at each of the column joints, thereby limiting or eliminating punching shear reinforcement as well as the demand on the columns. It is impractical for an engineer to do this manually due to the time it would take. The optimizer produces best results that are not always intuitive, which is why it is difficult for engineers to arrive at these solutions manually by looking at only a few alternatives.