Portfolio
Every programme side by side: schedule variance, forecast completion variance and other key performance signals
Programme Intelligence
Your programme, consistently understood — by everyone who needs it
Programme Intelligence turns construction schedules into a ranked, plain-English account of what's on track, what's slipping, and what needs a decision this period — before the next progress meeting, not after it.
The platform
Programme Intelligence runs in Outtrn™.
Acumine's hosted platform for construction teams.
Outtrn™
/ ˈaʊt.tɜːn / noun
The industry term
In construction, the outturn is where a project actually lands at completion — the date it finishes and the cost it finishes at — measured against what was originally forecast.
That gap opens quietly, and it is never smaller than the moment it opens.
The idea
Consistent analysis of how every project is performing.
Most tools render the programme and leave the analysis to you, so the quality of the review depends on who's doing it and how much time they have that period. Programme Intelligence runs it for you, to the same standard on every project — whether that's one planner on one job, or one planner covering five.
It doesn't replace your planners. It takes the repetitive review work off their plate and frees them to get ahead of the works and make the judgement calls only they can make.
And it puts the answers straight into the delivery team's hands. The S-curve for their package, the lookahead for their area, the milestones slipping in their block — there the moment the schedule lands, with nobody queuing at the planner's desk.
How you run it
Hosted and ready to use, or solutions built into your own environment.
Acumine®-hosted
Outtrn™
Acumine's
hosted platform
hosted platform
Programme Intelligence, ready to use in Outtrn™.
The fastest way in: nothing to set up or run yourself. When you want it, Commercial Intelligence is available in the same platform.
Built into your environment
Prefer to run things inside your own estate?
Acumine® builds solutions into your environment, drawing on the connectors, data models and delivery patterns our experience has proven — so you are not starting from a blank page, and you are live in weeks rather than quarters.
The dashboard
Ten views, and nobody has to build any of them.
What each one is for:
Insights
Ranked, plain-English findings for each project: what needs attention, why, and links straight into the supporting detail
Overview
The one-page executive summary for each project — visual, and readable at a glance
Gantt Charts
Familiar views for stakeholders to explore — plus movement against baseline, the programme by criticality, and key milestone and sectional completion variance
Lookaheads
Starts, finishes and WIP for the weeks ahead — the view that runs subcontractor coordination meetings
S-Curves
Earned vs planned S-curves with float-erosion tracking, plus the quality of progress: starts, finishes and WIP against baseline
Activity Status
Where every activity sits today: late starts, behind, on time — and the stagnant WIP that % complete hides
Schedule Health
Quality checks against industry-standard or your own thresholds, measured consistently across every project, with compliance visualised across the WBS
Resource
Weekly and cumulative resource histograms and S-curves
Print Report
The stakeholder PDF, for when you need it
Platform features
Shaped around how your business already works.
What it means for you:
Every programme type you run
Tender, Pre-Construction, PCSA, Contract, Target and Delivery — each tracked as its own series, named the way your business names them, and reported to the same standard
Asta and P6, one portfolio
Mixed supply chain, mixed tools, one set of numbers. Nobody re-keys a schedule to get it into the report
Slice it your way
Filter by your own code libraries and WBS, and combine them freely: M&E in Block C, groundworks on the north plot, one subcontractor across every level. Your structure, not ours
A place for work in progress
Load a draft update or a what-if and review it privately. It won't appear on the portfolio until someone says so
Review before you share — if you want it
Turn a review step on for the programmes that need one, off for the ones that don't. Contractual submissions get checked; routine updates flow straight through
Who sees what
Access by role and by project. Delivery teams get their own projects, commercial leads get the portfolio, external parties get only what you choose to show them
Your definition of complete
Completion and key milestones are identified from your own coded activities, per programme type — so the dates we report are the dates in your contract, not the last bar in the schedule
Every update kept
Nothing is overwritten. Last month's version stays exactly as it was reported, and the trend across report dates becomes the story you take to the board
The baseline of record
Choose what you're measured against, and see it named on every view — so nobody argues about which baseline the variance came from
Readable by everyone
Status carries a shape and a label as well as a colour, so it survives a colour-blind reader, a greyscale printer and a projector at the back of the room
The business case
One week is usually the whole argument.
The review time saved is easy to count and the smaller number. What matters more is what the programme team does with sight of a problem weeks earlier.
A week off the end dateExtended prelims and liquidated damages are both charged by the week — tens of thousands on a typical project, and six figures on a major scheme — before any acceleration cost to claw the time back.
Weeks of warning, not daysSlippage that surfaces in a monthly report is already a month old. Seen in the week it happens, it is still a re-sequencing decision rather than an acceleration bill — and float worth exploiting is still there to use.
Better conversations with subcontractorsOne evidenced view of what is late and why, so the meeting is about the recovery plan rather than about whose version of the programme is right.
A position you can defendRecords that support a claim upstream or resist one from downstream — and that show a weak position early, before it is submitted.
What customers say
Programme analytics delivery, proven at tier one.
Feedback from planning directors, regional heads of planning and project controls teams on Acumine's service delivery and programme analytics work.
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Acumine has been transformative in how we interact with our planning software. From our junior site managers through to our directors Acumine has given Willmott Dixon a new depth of insight that was never immediately visible when looking at a gantt chart.
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Working with Acumine has been a game-changer for McLaren Construction. They have completely transformed the way we report and analyse our construction programmes across all projects in our organisation.
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The impact on our efficiency has been remarkable. By removing layers of manual input and eliminating repetitive reporting tasks, the planning dashboard has freed up valuable time and ensured far greater accuracy and consistency in our data. What was once a labour-intensive process is now streamlined and effortless.
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Acumine's approach was incisive and delivered tangible results very promptly. Their team has hands on experience of managing complex construction works and they translate this readily into business analytics that give management real-time data across all aspects of the business.
Programme Intelligence in Outtrn
See what your programme is actually telling you.
See Outtrn™ against your own programme, or talk to us about building programme intelligence into your own environment.