PlanGo Modes and Features

The PlanGo suite consists of several mini-apps or modes, purpose-built for the various requirements of a construction project. Scheduler, LookAhead, Journal, and Mobile App modes share schedule editing features that support planning, tracking, and operations from the office to the job site. Standardized user interfaces enable moving from one mode to another seamlessly,

PlanGo’s NarrAItor ™ data exports compile project schedule information with activity-level notes and photos in a form that can be fed to an AI engine to create a narrative report at any level from a weekly summary of a single activity to a monthly summary of the entire project.

Organization mode enables insight into the organization as a whole, from project status and budget dashboards for a CIP program to resource load forecasting for the entire organization.

PlanGo Modes

  • PlanGo’s Schedule Mode is its most versatile. The familiar CPM schedule format allows users to:

    • Assign activities

    • Add granularity with Subactivities

    • Change and actualize dates

    • Adjust percent complete

    • “Pin” dates to override a schedule update

    • Add notes and photos

  • PlanGo’s Lookahead mode is cast in the familiar LookAhead format common on construction sites. Users can:

    Adjust and actualize dates and percent complete

    Add subactivities

    Add notes and photos

    Assign activities

    Flag non-work days due to weather, holidays, or other reasons

  • PlanGo’s Daily Journal feature captures the inspector’s or project engineer’s field notes in a time-tested Daily Inspection Report format, with one big improvement over most inspection report formats: it’s all tied to CPM Schedule activities.

    • Download current weather conditions directly to the report

    • Record general site conditions

    • Record activity-specific observations with field notes and photos

  • PlanGo’s native iOS and Android field apps are a stripped-down version of the PlanGo web app, designed to optimize ease of use in the field. Users can:

    • Adjust and actualize dates and % complete

    • Add subactivities

    • Flag activities to include in LookAhead and Journal mode

    • Pin activity dates to override schedule updates

    • Capture photos and notes to document progress and issues.

    Data captured in the mobile field apps work seamlessly with Journal Mode, allowing the project engineer to use the mobile apps to document progress on-site, while the web app contains the other features required to file a competent daily report.

  • You know that there has to be a better way to do monthly reports, and PlanGo’s NarrAItor ™ is it, a brand new way to write reports and memos. NarrAItor ™uses generative AI technology to compile information entered via our Schedule, LookAhead, Journal, and Mobile App modes, and turns it into tables, graphs, and summary text narratives. Summarize problems on a single activity for a memo, or generate the first draft of your required Monthly Narrative Report — in seconds, not hours.

  • Organization Mode is designed for medium to large operations and is available to Enterprise customers only. Organization Mode includes:

    • Group projects by program or portfolio.

    • Program-level project status dashboards

    • Project and Program-Level finance tracking dashboards

    • Resource Loading tools

    • Unlimited “place-holder’ projects for forward Resource Load forecasting

    Please contact us if you are interested in discussing the benefits of an Enterprise subscription.

PlanGo Workflow Features

  • With PlanGo, keeping.your schedule up to date is easy. PlanGo project oollaborators can see their assignments and update their assigned actiivities wherever they have an internet connection or cell signal. For P6 users, export changes to a file that can be imported to P6. No more tracking down key people over the weekend!

  • With PlanGo, you can assign an activity to any member of the team, or to an external entity such as a subcontractor, and filter on assignments. Team members can easily switch between looking at the entire schedule or narrowing their focus to just their own individual assignments.

  • PlanGo allows you to add granularity to your CPM schedule without changing its underlying structure. You can add activities and even whole WBS branches, or you can break down an activity into finer detail with subactivities, creating the to-do lists that a lookahead is incomplete without. These added activities and subactivities do not get exported back to P6, thus preserving the structure of the approved CPM schedule.

  • Hit a snag halfway into the first day of work? Need to document as-built conditions? PlanGo allows you to add notes and field photos taken with your phone directly to the affected Activity. Documents such as RFI’s or drawings can be attached for field reference.

  • PlanGo provides multiple means of filtering schedule data: by date range, activity status, assignment, or changed dates. PlanGo filters allows you to stay focused on what’s important.

  • PlanGo’s project-level and program-level dashboards allow you to see at a glance whether you are on track. Schedule quality validation, schedule update to update comparison, longest path, ... got an idea for a useful report? Let us know and we’ll get it in the hopper.

    • Schedule Mode for the Scheduler

    • LookAhead Mode for the Foreman

    • Filtered Assignments for the Worker

    • Journal Mode for the Inspector

    • Program Mode for the Portfolio Manager

The PlanGo Advantage

  • PlanGo’s full featured web app runs in the Chrome web browser, and our mini field apps run on iOS and Android. You can be running PlanGo in minutes for a very low per-project monthly fee, with little to no need for IT support. Import your schedule on your desktop, do your in-field work on your phone, and generate your reports in the office, all with the same familiar, intuitive user interface.

  • Import P6 XER files, MS Project files, or build a simple schedule entirely in PlanGo. View them all with the same user interface, include them all in organization-level dashboards, and work with all of them using the same intuitive features.

  • With PlanGo, your entire team has access to the most up to date project schedule at all times. Our Assignment feature allows you to make or change assignments easily and quickly, and communicate those assignments instantly. Assignment filters allow the end user to stay focused on their assigned activities.

  • Every construction project manager knows how much time is spent copying and pasting data from one app to another to keep the wheels turning. With PlanGo, enter your information once and use it to generate whatever your project requires. Add a subactivity to make your LookAhead reflect actual work, and flag it to use in your monthly Narrative report. Update a date and let your whole team know instantly. Use our mini-apps to enter field information from your phone, and use that information in Journal mode to generate Daily Reports.

  • PlanGo isn’t just a tool for getting your current schedule out to your team; PlanGo captures every schedule update. Every note, photo, and document attached to a PlanGo activity is available for historical purposes and claims discovery.

  • PlanGo’s schedule, comment, and photo data are structured in a Reddit-like contextual thread model, a structure that has proven to mesh well with common AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT. Our Narrative data exports combine photos, notes, and schedule data in a form that can go directly into Gemini to produce various kinds of narrative reports from a single activity analysis to a monthly narrative report. Use your own insight to analyze your project however you like.