Foresight vs SmartPM

• Schedule quality: Foresight's Schedule Quality & Changes page lists a quality score for logic and structure that surfaces issues such as broken relationships or unrealistic durations, version comparison of scope, timing and logic changes including critical path shifts, and trend analysis across schedule versions. SmartPM's Essentials plan lists automated schedule health checks, instant comparison of schedule revisions, core schedule analytics, performance trends over time and exportable change and quality reports.
• Forecasting and risk: Foresight says its models are trained on over 1 million real-world construction activities and predict best-case, worst-case and most-likely finish dates for every activity and milestone, and it lists QSRA, a Criticality Score with risk density, run-rate and resource analysis and an always-updated risk register. SmartPM's Controls plan lists complete project analytics, what-if scenarios and time impact analysis and milestone and critical path tracking, and its homepage describes a web Gantt showing historical and projected progress, delays, accelerations and critical path activities.
• Acting on it: Foresight generates Completion Plans that sort activities into Blocking, Delaying, On Schedule and Completed, with actions you can assign, and runs simulations of scope, sequencing and resource changes. SmartPM pitches Automated Project Controls with company, executive and project dashboards and customizable reports with scheduled delivery, and frames the goal as delivering projects on time, on budget and out of court (vendor wording).
• Who each names: Foresight lists project directors, project controls teams, planners, investors, owners and contractors and EPCs, with data centers and government among its sectors (its footer also lists defense). SmartPM names general contractors and CM firms, owners and developers and government in commercial construction, and runs a certified consultants program.
• Integrations: SmartPM's integrations page lists Autodesk Forma (connecting RFIs and submittals to the CPM schedule), Procore and an Open API for BI tools, PMIS, data warehouses and dashboards. Foresight says it is designed to work with your existing schedules; the pages we read do not name specific integrations.
• AI: Foresight is tagged AI-first because its forecasts come from machine-learning models. SmartPM's pages do not describe the product as AI, so it stays tagged Not AI-first.
• Pricing (checked Oct 21, 2026): SmartPM lists Essentials at $12K a year for up to 50 projects and Controls at $25K a year with 5 Controls slots (expandable), both with unlimited users and a 60-day risk-free trial; projects can sit on different plans. Foresight publishes no prices (Talk to our team; foresight.works/pricing returns not found).
• Not used here: Foresight's forecast-accuracy, overrun-reduction and hours-saved figures, case-study results and customer quotes; SmartPM's review-site ratings and customer quotes (vendor claims). Neither tool has been tested by Means & Methods Lab.

Paraphrased from the sources listed above. Vendor claims are reported as claims.