Controls Workbench

Built by project controls people, for the owner's side of the table

Owners carry the risk on major programmes, but their controls teams often work from contractor reports and spreadsheets stitched together at month end. We build the tool we wanted on those programmes.

Programmes rarely fail for lack of controls. They fail because the controls are not integrated.

Most programmes have a good scheduler, a good cost engineer and a good risk manager. What they lack is one record that ties their work together, so each function reports its own truth and the programme slips in the gaps between them. Those gaps appear wherever things meet, and the workbench is designed to close each one.

OrganisationalBetween owner, contractors, operators and funders
PhaseFrom design to construction, and construction to operation
PhysicalWhere one package's work meets another's on site
DataBetween the schedule, the cost ledger, the risk register and the change log
JurisdictionalAcross authorities, permits and regulatory boundaries

What we believe

The principles behind the decisions in the product.

Integrate, don't reconcile

If the schedule, the cost ledger, the risk register and the change log code to the same control accounts, nobody has to reconcile them at month end.

The owner needs their own view

Contractor reports answer the contractor's questions. Owners need to see across packages, and across the seams between them.

Evidence before opinion

Every finding shows the numbers from both sides. Every figure on a report traces back to the workbench it came from.

People decide

AI drafts actions and narratives. The controller reviews them, owns them and signs the report.

Closed means closed

Reported periods are locked. Corrections post as adjustments in the current period, so last month's report stays true.

Show the method

We publish our methodology and changelog, so you can see how each number is calculated and what changed.

Talk to us

Whether you're setting up a new programme or recovering one, we'd like to hear what you're working on.