ALICE Technologies

ALICE works on a question most schedulers answer by instinct and a few rounds of P6 edits: what happens to the finish date if we add a second tower crane, split a pour, or swap the order of two zones? Instead of hand-editing logic and re-running the CPM, the team builds a parametric model of the job. Activities carry crews, equipment, quantities, and spatial constraints, and ALICE generates many feasible schedules from those rules. The output is a set of options with their cost and duration consequences, so the conversation with the owner or the project executive moves from "we think" to a comparison of real alternatives.

The practical catch has always been setup. A fully resource-loaded model takes effort, and many teams only have a logic-driven P6 file. That is why the May 2026 Targeted Optimization release matters: it works from the schedule you already have and points the search at one objective, such as a milestone or a cluster of late activities, and returns an adoptable schedule with the reasoning behind it. The Schedule Insights Agent covers the other everyday need, which is simply understanding a large schedule without building filters and layouts.

ALICE is a planning and scheduling tool, so it sits next to the systems that hold drawings, specifications, and RFIs rather than replacing them. The buyers are usually large general contractors, owners, and program managers on data centers, transportation, energy, and industrial work, where a few weeks of schedule has a clear dollar value. Firms evaluating it should budget time for model building on the first project and involve the scheduler who owns the P6 file from day one.