Issue 01 · 1 November 2026
Agents at the door: who gets into the schedule, who builds the AI, and how to prove it works.
Chosen from a scan of news and practitioner discussion between September and 1 November 2026. The three highest-scoring trends: schedule data opening up to outside AI agents, engineering firms building agents on their own data, and pilots that never graduate.
AI Agents Are Lining Up at the Schedule's Door
In eight days in October, Oracle, Procore and Planera announced ways for outside AI agents to reach project and schedule data. For planners, the question is no longer whether AI can read the programme, but who gets to change it.
Read the feature →Engineering Firms Are Helping Build the AI Now. Here's What It Means
Aurecon, Arcadis and MAIRE spent September investing in and co-developing AI agents that work from their own project data, a sign the advantage may be shifting from software vendors to whoever owns the project history.
Read the analysis →How to Run an AI Pilot That Actually Proves Something
A field guide for planners and project controls leads asked to trial an AI scheduling or forecasting tool, and then to say whether it worked.
Read the field guide →