ArgusForge — P6 Schedule Analysis for Construction Project Controls

Everything in the box

Built for the way planners actually work.

No feature gating between tiers. Every license — Solo to Enterprise — gets the complete toolset.

DCMA 14-Point Assessment

All 14 checks with editable thresholds, per-check scoring weights, and Standard / Aggressive / Lenient presets — plus plain-English fix guidance on every check.

Schedule quality gatekeepers

SQ-1 through SQ-9 — missing logic, logic density, hard constraints, negative float, leads, lags, merge hotspots. All thresholds editable to match your contract.

Gantt with critical path

Critical path in red, near-critical in amber, with pan, zoom, and tooltips. A look-ahead filter scopes every tab to the next 30, 60, or 90 days.

Manpower leveling

Daily labor histograms with automatic spike, drop, gap, and overload detection — down to which specific resource is over-allocated.

Cost loading & S-curve

Daily cost histogram plus cumulative S-curve on a dual axis, with by-resource-type breakdown. Handles rate-loaded schedules automatically.

Phase heat map

A months-by-checks heat map exposes exactly when your schedule weakens. Click any cell to drill into the flagged activities for that period.

Comparison & trend

Revision-over-revision deltas, newly-flagged activity lists, and a multi-revision trend chart fed automatically by snapshot history.

Branded PDF & Excel reports

Multi-page PDF with your firm's logo and colors, plus a 9-sheet Excel workbook with native charts. Reports that stand up to owner and federal review.

Offline by design

No telemetry, no cloud upload, no account. Data never leaves the machine unless you explicitly send a report. IT review takes minutes, not months.

Product tour

From .xer to answers in under a second.

Dashboard

Your schedule's health, at a glance

One screen shows the DCMA 14-Point score, the Schedule Quality score, and every check's pass-fail status with metrics against thresholds — with project vitals right at the top. A dedicated GAO tab scores the schedule against the U.S. GAO's ten best practices too.

Editable thresholds and weights — match your contract spec, and save named profiles per client.
Plain-English fix guidance on every check — no decoder ring required.
Export PDF or Excel directly from the toolbar in one click.

ArgusForge dashboard with DCMA 14-Point and Schedule Quality scores

Drill-down

Every failure traced to the activity

Click any failed check and see exactly which activities triggered it — IDs, names, durations, float. No more hunting through P6 to find where the negative float lives.

Right-click any table — copy cells or rows, export to CSV, jump to the activity, or attach a note.
Activity notes travel with the schedule as a sidecar file and appear in your reports.
Ctrl+F activity search across ID, name, and WBS with critical-path color coding.

ArgusForge drill-down showing negative float activities

Manpower

Catch the crew problems P6 won't show you

ArgusForge builds a daily labor histogram from your resource assignments and automatically flags the patterns that wreck field productivity: sudden spikes, unexplained drops, and multi-week gaps with zero labor.

Per-resource leveling — see which specific trade or crew is over-allocated, not just a total.
Issue table with windows and peaks — every spike, drop, and gap listed with dates and severity.
Peak crew, average crew, and total hours summarized for staffing plans and claims support.

ArgusForge manpower histogram with spike, gap, and drop detection

New · Portfolio

Your whole program in one table

Managing more than one job? Point ArgusForge at a folder of .xer files — or pick several at once — and it scores every schedule and stacks them in a single sortable roll-up, so you know which jobs need attention before the next owner meeting.

One row per schedule — DCMA 14-Point and Schedule Quality scores for every project, ranked at a glance.
The at-risk jobs jump out — finish variance, near-critical counts, % complete, and stale data-date flags side by side.
Double-click to drill in — open any project's full analysis, or export the whole portfolio to Excel.

ArgusForge Portfolio roll-up scoring multiple Primavera P6 schedules with DCMA and Schedule Quality health

New · GAO

Grade it against GAO, not only DCMA

Federal, transit, and infrastructure owners often score schedules against the U.S. GAO Schedule Assessment Guide instead of DCMA. ArgusForge runs both from the same .xer, so you walk into either review ready.

Four characteristics, ten best practices — Comprehensive, Well-Constructed, Credible, and Controlled, each scored pass, fail, or review.
Click any practice to drill in — the exact activities behind a finding, by P6 Activity ID.
One reliability score for the owner — DCMA and GAO in a single pass, and both flow into your PDF and Excel exports.

ArgusForge GAO Schedule Assessment scoring a schedule against the four characteristics and ten best practices

Add-on · Monte Carlo

Forecast the finish date with confidence levels

The Monte Carlo add-on runs 10,000 probabilistic iterations on your loaded schedule — in about half a second — and reports P10 through P95 finish dates, so you can commit to a date you can actually defend.

Schedule Sensitivity Index per activity — see exactly which activities drive your uncertainty.
Per-trade productivity correlation with PERT-beta sampling — built for construction, not generic project risk.
Integrated report sections — distribution histogram, percentile table, and risk rating flow straight into your exports.

ArgusForge — Monte Carlo Schedule Risk

ArgusForge Monte Carlo finish-date distribution with P50, P80, P90 markers

How it stacks up

The honest comparison.

ArgusForge isn't trying to be a planning suite. It does one job — schedule quality and risk analysis — faster, cheaper, and with less friction than anything else in the category.

	ArgusForge	Acumen Fuse	Steelray	Excel template
Pricing model	One-time, from $499	~$10,500/yr per seat	Subscription	"Free" + your hours
Time to deploy	2 minutes, no admin rights	Months of procurement	Days–weeks	Instant, fragile
100% offline analysis	Yes — by design	Varies by deployment	Varies	Yes
DCMA 14-Point with editable weights	Yes + saved presets	Yes	Yes	Manual formulas
Manpower leveling per resource	Yes	Add-on modules	Limited	No
Cost loading + S-curve	Yes	Yes	Limited	Manual
Monte Carlo schedule risk	Yes (add-on)	Separate product (Acumen Risk)	No	No
Multi-revision trend with snapshots	Automatic	Manual setup	Limited	Manual data entry
Branded PDF + Excel reports	Yes — your logo & colors	Yes	Yes	DIY
Plain-English fix guidance	Every check	No	Partial	No

Competitor capabilities summarized from publicly available product information; verify current functionality with each vendor.

Pricing

Buy it once. Own it.

No subscription. No usage fees. No feature gating — every tier gets the complete product. Free updates for 12 months from purchase.

Founding-customer pricing — first 30 days or first 25 customers

Solo

$499

$379 one-time

launch price · then $499

1 named user — your personal laptop + desktop both allowed

Full DCMA 14-Point + SQ-1 through SQ-9
Manpower, Cost, Comparison, Trend, Phase
Branded PDF + Excel reports
Slack + email integration
Free updates for 12 months
14-day money-back guarantee

Buy Solo — $379

Monte Carlo Schedule Risk

10,000-iteration probabilistic risk analysis with P10–P95 finish dates and per-activity sensitivity. Tier-matched — requires a core license at the same tier. Prices shown are the launch-discounted add-on price.

Questions

Frequently asked.

Something else on your mind? Write to sales@argusforge.net — a real person answers.

Is there a free trial?+

Yes — a free 7-day trial with full features (PDF exports are watermarked during the trial). Download ArgusForge, run it, and start the trial from Settings → License with your email — no credit card required. When the trial ends, enter a license key to keep going. Paid licenses also carry a 14-day money-back guarantee, and you can email sales@argusforge.net for a live walkthrough anytime.

I downloaded it — why does Windows show a warning?+

On first launch, Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC." That's standard for newly released software that hasn't yet built download reputation — it is not a virus warning. Click More info → Run anyway. ArgusForge is code-signed, so you can confirm in the file's Properties → Digital Signatures that it genuinely came from us, and it runs 100% offline. If your antivirus quarantines it, restore it and add an exclusion for the ArgusForge folder.

Will this get through my IT department?+

Almost certainly — there's nothing for IT to review. ArgusForge runs 100% offline: no telemetry, no cloud upload, no account, no server component. Schedule data never leaves the machine unless a user explicitly sends a report via Slack or email. It installs in about two minutes and doesn't require admin rights.

What files does it read?+

Primavera P6 .xer exports, including multi-project files — the format every P6 installation produces natively. Drag one file to analyze it; drag two and the second auto-loads as your comparison baseline.

How do seats and licenses work?+

A seat is one named user. That user can install on both the laptop and desktop they personally use without consuming a second seat. Solo covers 1 user, Team covers 5 named users at one firm, and Enterprise covers unlimited users at a single legal entity. Every tier includes every feature — only the seat count differs.

What happens after my 12 months of free updates?+

Your license is perpetual — the version you have keeps working forever, no payment required. If you want to keep receiving new versions after year one, an optional update plan is available at $99/year (Solo), $349/year (Team), or $799/year (Enterprise). It's never required.

How does the Monte Carlo add-on work?+

It's a separately licensed module that unlocks the Monte Carlo tab — paste the add-on key alongside your core key in Settings → License. It requires a core license at the same tier. Many buyers start with the core product and add Monte Carlo later, which works seamlessly.

What are the system requirements?+

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. No admin rights needed, no other software required — Primavera P6 itself doesn't need to be installed on the machine running ArgusForge; you just need the .xer file.

Can it match my firm's or my contract's scoring standards?+

Yes. Every threshold on every check is editable, DCMA scoring weights are adjustable with built-in Standard / Aggressive / Lenient presets, and you can save complete named settings profiles — one per contract or client — and switch between them instantly. Reports carry your firm's name, logo, and accent color.

Prove your schedule before the owner asks.

Enterprise-grade analysis. Without the enterprise invoice.