nPlan - automatic schedule integrity and AI-powered risk tools for Planners

nPlan builds tools that give planners superpowers, like the ability to:
 

• Take the bias out of estimating activity durations
• Automatically (and accurately) quantify activity uncertainty without holding a workshop
• Perform Critical Path Analysis (CPA) without cracking a textbook on the subject
• Uncover more schedule integrity issues than any other tool on the market with a single click
• Meet their ad-hoc/daily/weekly reporting commitments in minutes - rather than hours or days
   

Learn more about nPlan by visiting our website. If you’d like to discuss your project, feel free to book a call with a member of our team.

But let’s rewind for a moment: who, or what, is nPlan?
 

• We’re a tech company in the project controls and major project management space 
• We were founded in 2017, and have received significant funding from Google Ventures and notable VCs including Demis Hassabis, founder of Google DeepMind
• We were founded to address the problem of large-scale projects significantly overrunning their end-dates
   

Our core technology and value proposition:
 

• nPlan uses Machine Learning trained on a dataset of more than 750,000 past project schedules to forecast every activity in the programmes its customers upload - and automatically surface the activities requiring proactive risk treatment
• We also have a stable of Generative AI tools that allow Planners to interrogate their forecast data with natural language prompts (and get responses in plain English), rapidly put together detailed/complex reports, and even generate baseline schedules from RFPs/short descriptions of proposed projects - more on all of this below
• Our customers include Network Rail, Transpennine Route Upgrade, Shell, Strabag, Costain, Skanska, Kier, Laing O’Rourke, Shell, ExxonMobil, the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority, and HS2, among others
• Our promise to customers is that we will help them turn their forecasting and risk management process from a checkbox exercise into the most powerful lever they have for bringing their projects in on time and on budget.
   

Before we get into all of that, let’s talk about an nPlan tool planners can use for free, right now:
 

Don’t pay for schedule integrity!

Use nPlan’s free Schedule Integrity Checker instead
 

We use our customers’ schedules for AI-powered forecasting - we can’t afford to have that process disrupted by schedule integrity issues. We had no choice but to develop a schedule integrity tool that is incredibly thorough - and goes way beyond the standard DCMA 14-point check. The result? nPlan’s Schedule Integrity Checker, which you can use to:

• Upload your schedule and view your results in minutes
• Hunt down, quantify and report on schedule integrity errors like negative floats, incorrect logic and long durations at the push of a button
• Create accessible and actionable reports that drive change

Best of all - it’s browser-based, free for everyone to use - and it always will be. Stop paying for install-heavy expensive schedule integrity software and give it a try today: https://www.nplan.io/products/schedule-integrity-checker

Spend less time reporting, and more time doing - with nPlan AutoReport!

nPlan AutoReport uses a world-first Generative AI system that has been specifically designed for the needs of project controls reporting. In other words, it allows you to generate the regular reports that used to take you days to pull together - in a matter of minutes.

• Build reports from your project files, whatever format they’re in - our custom-built Generative AI can understand virtually any document used in traditional project controls reporting - including schedule files in XER, XML and PP format, risk registers in CSV, XLSX and XLS format, and PDFs of early warning reports, health and safety reports, meeting minutes and more
• Generate text, tables and charts with ease - nPlan AutoReport couldn’t be easier to use - add a section, choose the documents you’d like to reference in it, describe what you’d like our project controls AI assistant, Barry, to write about, generate your content, edit - and repeat.
• Build and edit reports with colleagues, with everyone’s changes reflected in real time - reporting on major projects is usually a team effort - that’s why we’ve put collaboration at the heart of nPlan AutoReport.

AutoReport is available to trial now (for 2 weeks, with no commitment needed) - head to our website to sign-up and get instant access to the tool: https://www.nplan.io/products/autoreport
 

No risk team? No problem. Introducing Insights Core
 

Insights Core is a no-frills version of our flagship Insights Pro software product which has been specifically designed for Planners. With Insights Core in your corner (Core-ner?) you’ll be able to operate like a skilled Planner who also has a PhD in Risk, pulling off continuous proactive risk management on top of your other duties without the support of a dedicated risk team member or consultant. 

The most important feature of Insights Core is Driving Paths, which performs an automatic Critical Path Analysis of your schedule, allowing you to:

• Review your planned critical path and compare it to the critical path identified by our Predictive AI
• Identify the sub-critical paths with the most delay-causing potential
• View your critical and sub-critical paths through a ‘WBS lens’ to see where you should focus risk mitigation efforts
   

Driving Paths is probably the nPlan Insights feature most beloved by our customers, who use it as part of various important workflows, including: 

• Assessing schedule quality and making schedule change assessments
• Assuring key milestones ahead of risk reviews
• Contextualising risky activities in preparation for QSRAs 

You can read and watch more about Insights Core on our website, where you can also book a demo of the product and–soon–sign up for a free trial in order to put it through its paces yourself: https://www.nplan.io/products/insights-core

Schedule Studio - go from 0 to 1 on a new schedule at the click of a button - due for release Autumn 2024!
 

At our recent AI Day event, we demo’ed something very special: a new Generative AI-powered tool which is able to turn brief text descriptions/RFPs for large capital projects into baseline schedules in minutes. This tool, which we’re calling Schedule Studio, will allow planners to go from 0 to 1 on a new schedule in minutes and save you considerable time and effort when building a new schedule from scratch. 

Watch the demo of Schedule Studio in action: [AI Day video]

Schedule Studio will allow Planners to:

• Rapidly generate high-quality baseline schedules for bid submissions
• Win more work by demonstrating a credible plan when tendering
• Simplify and shorten negotiations once a tender has been awarded

Schedule Studio is due to be released in Autumn 2024 - to be one of the first people to get access to the tool, join the waitlist on our website: https://www.nplan.io/join-the-waitlist-for-nplan-ai-schedule-generation-schedule-studio