AI for Projects

We are Building the Future of Project Automation

What if you could use AI to drive better project outcomes?

  • Identify risks sooner
  • Detect budget overruns before they develop
  • Forecast delays you can’t see

What we’re building:

Deep Project Insight

AI that reads and analyzes structured project data across financials, schedules, resources, risks, and more. It doesn’t just summarize—it understands.

Real-Time Prioritization

Your AI assistant highlights the most critical issues and tells you what needs attention right now—so nothing slips through the cracks.

Predictive Intelligence

Based on historical trends and current activity, the AI forecasts likely problems—delays, overruns, risks—before they happen. You gain time to act.

Your Personal Project Advisor

Eventually, every project leader will have an AI-powered partner watching over their projects and portfolios—analyzing, predicting, and helping ensure success.

Foundation of Project AI: Structured Project Data

AI doesn’t work in a vacuum. Unlike generic AI tools that generate responses based on unstructured inputs, AI for projects requires a solid foundation of structured project data. Without accurate, reliable, and integrated data, AI-driven analysis is meaningless.

PlanAutomate Provides the Data Foundation for AI to Work

PlanAutomate is built on structured project business data, ensuring that AI has the right inputs to deliver real, actionable insights.

All Your Projects, All Your Metrics

A unified platform for cost, schedule, resources, risk, and performance data.

Governed & Reliable

AI works only with validated, structured data—eliminating misinformation.

Real-Time & Actionable

AI can analyze and detect delays, cost overruns, and inefficiencies with precise, data-driven insights.

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Quick insights into project performance

What are my best and worst performing projects?

Based on the latest KPI data, Helix Systems (DEMO-005) is performing best across the portfolio, while Phoenix Labs (DEMO-003) is the weakest. This assessment weighs recent KPI values most heavily. Helix’s performance is strong in variance and schedule, despite a weak margin. In contrast, Phoenix Labs underperforms across all key KPIs.

We now have the option to drill deeper—either into the WBS/CBS sources behind these KPIs or explore root causes for the performance gaps.

Identify root causes of schedule delays

Why is DEMO-001 behind schedule?

DEMO-001 is experiencing schedule delays driven by specific breakdowns at the task level within the WBS. Three main root causes have been identified:

  1. Delayed Task Execution
    • Workflow warnings in the design and costing phases point to tasks not starting or finishing on time.
    • Early delays reduce project slack, even if some recovery happens later.
  2. Resource Allocation Gaps
    • Critical tasks lacked timely resource assignment.
    • Delays in assigning necessary personnel prevented task initiation or completion.
  3. Hour Variance Overruns
    • Some tasks exceeded planned hours, triggering a cascading delay across milestones.
    • This led to further slack reduction and schedule strain.

Analyze budget overruns

Why is DEMO-005 over budget?

DEMO-005 is significantly over budget due to persistent cost estimate inaccuracies, as highlighted by the project’s unfavorable variance KPI. Specific CBS (Cost Breakdown Structure) segments are driving this trend:

  1. Estimation (SID 1.2) and Testing (SID 1.3)
    • Consistently flagged as BAD due to underestimated initial budgets or cost escalations during execution.
  2. Control System (SID 3)
    • Also marked BAD, indicating hidden complexities or underaccounted issues that are inflating costs.
  3. Additional Cost Drivers
    • Labor hour overruns (i.e., consuming more hours than planned) further amplify the budget overrun.

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  • Discover why PlanAutomate’s AI will have a better foundation than most other AIs for project management.

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AI in project management

Prepare for the AI revolution in projects with PlanAutomate

AI is only as powerful as the data it learns from. To take full advantage of AI, you need to ensure your project data is structured, governed, and unified in a single source of truth.

Structure Your Data

Make sure your project cost, schedule, resource, and risk data are standardized and organized.

Govern Your Data

Establish controls to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability.

Centralize Your Data

AI can’t predict outcomes if your data is scattered. A single, always-available source of truth is critical.

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