MENLO PARK, Calif. — ALICE Technologies, the company behind the world’s first generative construction scheduling platform, has unveiled Insights Agent, a conversational AI feature designed to transform how teams understand, track, and optimize project schedules.
While digital scheduling platforms have advanced over the past decade, many construction teams still spend significant time manually extracting insights, exporting data to spreadsheets, and preparing explanations for stakeholders. These tasks slow decision-making and create room for oversight. Insights Agent was built to eliminate those bottlenecks by bringing schedule intelligence into a chat-based interface that anyone on the project team can use.
By integrating conversational AI directly into the ALICE platform, users can now ask natural-language questions, surface key schedule changes, compare alternatives, and explore optimization strategies in real time. The feature supports multilingual interaction and gives responses grounded in the underlying schedule logic — allowing teams to see the “what,” “why,” and “how” behind each insight.
Examples of supported queries include:
Critical Path & Labor
“What are the longest tasks on the critical path?” or “Which labor resource is most critical?”
Project Metrics
“Which constraints impact the project?” or “What is the total cost breakdown by crew?”
Risk Awareness
“Which activities carry the highest risk of delay?”
Dependencies
“Which tasks are linked via finish-to-start or start-to-start logic?”
Optimization
“How can I optimize the schedule for a faster duration?”
By highlighting both explanations and the internal logic behind recommendations, Insights Agent gives project stakeholders greater confidence in decision-making.
“We built Insights Agent to make schedule intelligence more accessible,” said René Morkos, Founder and CEO of ALICE Technologies. “Our goal is not just to create optimized construction plans, but to make those plans understandable and actionable for every stakeholder across the entire project lifecycle.”
Adoption in Practice: Suffolk Construction Leads the Charge
Among the early adopters is Suffolk Construction, a leader in digital project delivery and innovation. The company has already integrated Insights Agent into planning and reporting workflows across projects.
“ALICE’s Schedule Insights Agent brings a new level of planning and scheduling sophistication,” said John McKernan, Suffolk’s VP of Operations. “Its ability to generate intelligent analysis and reports goes beyond documenting changes. The agent helps identify opportunities and shape strategic conversations with stakeholders. This kind of intelligence positions us to deliver advanced services and greater value to our customers on their projects.”
With the new tool, Suffolk reports improvements in communication, transparency, and risk management. Monthly schedule updates, variance reporting, and forecasting have shifted from time-consuming tasks to automated, data-driven workflows.
“Insights Agent is a powerful enhancement to the ALICE platform. It delivers real tactical value to our teams by helping us surface optimizations, validate opportunities, and clearly communicate schedule updates and reasoning with stakeholders,” added Dawn Polley, Director of Scheduling on a major industrial project for Suffolk.
Platform Expansion with AI-Powered Features
The launch of Insights Agent follows other recent developments by ALICE, including:
- AI-driven schedule comparison reports that automatically detect shifts in metrics, milestones, critical paths, and optimizations.
- ALICE Plan, a 2D visual planning tool that overlays schedules onto project drawings for more intuitive sequencing.
Together, these enhancements advance ALICE's mission to make construction planning more intelligent, visual, and operationally efficient. By centralizing schedule interaction, comparison, and simulation in a unified interface, teams can reduce errors, improve collaboration, and accelerate delivery.
Industry Impact and Availability
As projects grow in complexity and timelines tighten, AI-enabled planning is becoming a competitive advantage. Insights Agent gives contractors, schedulers, and owners the ability to validate decisions faster, communicate with stakeholders clearly, and identify opportunities that would otherwise be buried in data.
The feature is now fully available within the ALICE platform. Firms can request a demo directly through the company’s website.
Originally reported by Alice Technologies in Construction Dive.
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