Essentials
See what your schedule isn’t telling you
SmartPM Essentials makes risk, quality, and performance clear across every project – before small problems snowball into big delays.

Trusted by Contractors and Owners Across the Globe
What is Essentials?
Simplified Schedule Intelligence
Gain complete visibility into all your projects with a standardized way to review and analyze schedules.
- Every project covered: From proposals to closeout, all schedules live in one repository.
- Everyone included: PMs, Supers, Execs, and Schedulers see the same signals with no seat math.
- Every update consistent: Automated checks and trends keep reviews objective and repeatable.
Simple to roll out, easy to use, and built to scale across your company.
Integrations
Works with the schedules you already have
One view of every project. Zero blind spots.
One place for all of your active projects. Filter by risk, region, or status – and know which projects need focus.
- Prioritize the jobs that need attention
- Standardize oversight across the portfolio
- Trust your end date throughout construction
Catch problems before they cause delays
Every schedule upload is automatically scanned against 40+ industry checks. Essentials applies the same analysis to every upload with custom quality profiles you control.
- One standard across every job or scheduler
- Objective grading with activity-level to do's
- No more surprises buried in updates
Know what changed & why it matters
Forget manual markups. Essentials logs every change to the critical path, logic, durations, and more in seconds.
- Spot risky changes before you commit
- Build accountability into every update cycle
- Get instant answers on exactly how every activity changed
Track risk over time
See if projects are slipping, compressing, or trending toward delay. Essentials surfaces leading indicators across all jobs.
- SPI, compression, delay signals, and more
- Quality grades and health scores over time
- One language for risk across teams and projects
Integrations
Works with the schedules you already have
Schedule Quality Checks
Flags logic gaps, excessive float, long durations, and risky sequencing.
Schedule Quality Report
Spot exactly which activities are driving your grade down and need correction.
Schedule Comparison Tool
Compare any schedule updates to see what changed between them.
Performance Trends
Track how key metrics evolve over time to spot patterns and emerging risks early.
Core Analytics
Birds-eye view of overall project health and progress trends.
Change Log
Monitor and understand what changes affected critical activities, logic, and durations.
“If your company wants to leverage data-driven, decision-making processes, and needs true insights into what’s really happening with the schedules on their projects, SmartPM is the product I would recommend.”
“Incredible Schedule Analytics Tool. SmartPM is super easy to learn and very effective when trying to communicate what is going on in the schedule. It is so quick and easy to upload your schedules into the software and within minutes have all of the metrics at your fingertips.”
“Some metrics we looked at in the past were lagging indicators. SmartPM provides leading indicators that give us time to adjust early and with more confidence.”
“SmartPM did everything we needed it to do and more. It allows us to identify potential roadblocks in our schedule – and do it early enough to remediate the issues.”
“Information to our owners is now 10X greater than before we had SmartPM. We uncovered a lot of risks that we did not know we had.
“The dashboard is easy at a glance. You can see health, compression, and the real end date in a single view.”
“The Windows Analysis is a game changer. What used to take me weeks or months on some projects now takes minutes or hours. I don't want to analyze any project without SmartPM anymore.”
“SmartPM’s interface was superior versus the competition, with essential metrics and reports clearly displayed and easy to find.”
“SmartPM is really helping us find and deal with the flaws in our baseline schedules and weekly updated schedules. It is saving us a lot of time by providing a cheat sheet on any issues with the schedule and points us right to the issue at hand instead of having to go dig for it.”
“The integration between SmartPM and Procore is huge for us because we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. We just add SmartPM into our current process to supplement it rather than change it.”