Outbuild vs Foresight
Two AI-first schedule tools that sit at different points in the job. Outbuild is where a team builds and runs the schedule: master schedule, lookaheads, weekly work plans and field updates, with AI agents for building and checking schedules. Foresight sits on top of schedules a team already keeps and turns them into quality checks, risk analysis, completion forecasts and executive reporting. Vendor pages read Nov 1, 2026; desk research from vendor sites, no winner.
In short: Outbuild (Collaborative scheduling & lookahead; vendor publishes prices) vs Foresight (Predictive schedule analytics & delay risk; no public prices (quote / sales)). Facts last checked Nov 1, 2026. No winner declared; desk research from vendor sites.
Side by side
| Sheet row | Outbuild | Foresight |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Collaborative scheduling & lookahead | Predictive schedule analytics & delay risk |
| AI role (our label) | AI-first | AI-first |
| What it does | AI-powered, collaborative scheduling and field coordination platform (vendor description), which the homepage calls a scheduling intelligence platform for construction, for master schedules, lookaheads and weekly work plans. Users can build master schedules (or import from MS Project or P6), create lookaheads from the master schedule with progress pushing back automatically, run weekly work plans with trade commitments, track field progress, raise Schedule Impact Requests, tie submittals to schedule activities and turn RFIs into trackable roadblocks, with reporting such as Percent Planned Complete, Percent Roadblocks Removed, Reason for Variance and S-curves. Outbuild AI and scheduling agents are listed. Integrations: two-way Procore schedule sync (submittals tied to activities, RFIs pulled into the Roadblock Log, drawings attached to lookahead tasks), Autodesk Construction Cloud and Trimble ProjectSight, with export to PDF, XML or XER; the pricing FAQ says it can replace P6 and MS Project. A homepage banner announces a Q3 launch called Field Forward. Customer counts, project-value figures, testimonials and the ROI calculator are not used. | London-based "predictive project delivery" platform that turns existing schedules into risk assessment, completion forecasts and executive reporting; the homepage says it is designed to work with your existing schedules. The risk page lists Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA), a Criticality Score and risk density, run-rate and resource analysis, and an always-updated risk register. The forecasting page says its models are trained on real-world construction activities, predicts best-case, worst-case and most-likely finish dates, generates Completion Plans (Blocking, Delaying, On Schedule, Completed), and supports what-if simulation of scope, sequencing or resource changes. The Schedule Quality & Changes page lists a schedule quality score for logic and structure (surfacing issues such as broken relationships or unrealistic durations), version change analysis including critical path shifts, and trend analysis across schedule versions; Schedule Builds & Optimization and portfolio assurance are also in the menu. Sector pages include Data Centers, Government and Defense. A banner announces a $25M Series A led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital (company statement), and its news lists 2026 awards for predictive AI. Forecast-accuracy, overrun and hours-saved figures, case-study results (Crossrail, a data-center portfolio, RailCo) and quotes are vendor claims and are not used. |
| Who it's for | General contractors, owners, trade partners, and architects; superintendents and schedulers. | Project directors, project controls teams, planners, owners, investors and contractors/EPCs on large projects; sectors highlighted include data centers and government (vendor menu). |
| Pricing (as publicly stated) | Outbuild Core starts at $999/month, billed annually, scaled by the company's annual construction volume rather than by user or project; every plan includes unlimited users and projects, onboarding, live support, integrations and iPad access. The page's example works out to $100 per project or $50 per user a month at 10 projects and 20 users. Outbuild Pro (portfolio dashboards, risk and variance analysis) is custom-priced through Speak to an expert. Free trial offered. | Not publicly listed. The vendor site has no pricing or plans link, and /pricing and /plans return a not-found page. The call to action is Talk to our team. Confirm current pricing with the vendor. |
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Facts last checked: Nov 1, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor page before relying on them.
Where the vendor descriptions differ
- What each does: Outbuild's pages describe a collaborative scheduling platform. Teams build master schedules or import them from MS Project or P6, create lookaheads that push progress back to the master schedule, and run weekly work plans with trade commitments and a roadblock log. Foresight's pages describe a predictive project delivery platform that is designed to work with your existing schedules, with pages for schedule quality and changes, risk assessment, completion forecasting, portfolio assurance and custom reports.
- AI described: Outbuild's plan table lists an Executive Dashboard Assistant, Schedule Assistant, Schedule Health Agent, Schedule Co-Builder Agent and Schedule Generator Agent. Foresight's forecasting page says its models are trained on over 1 million real-world construction activities and predict best-case, worst-case and most-likely finish dates, generate Completion Plans (Blocking, Delaying, On Schedule, Completed) and simulate scope, sequencing or resource changes. Its risk page lists a Criticality Score, risk density, run-rate and resource analysis, an always-updated risk register and Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA).
- Schedule quality: both check schedules. Outbuild lists a Schedule Health Agent. 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-to-version change analysis including critical path shifts, and trend analysis across versions.
- Who it is for: Outbuild is aimed at general contractors' project and field teams, and its pricing FAQ says superintendents, foremen and field crews can update schedules and flag roadblocks from iPads, even offline. Foresight's menus are organised by role (project directors, project controls, planners, investors, owners, contractors and EPCs) and by sector (data centers, government).
- Fit with other software: Outbuild says it is built to replace P6, MS Project, Asta and Excel, lists Procore, Autodesk and Trimble ProjectSight integrations, and exports to PDF, XML or XER. Foresight's pages say it works with the schedules you already have; the pages we read do not list specific scheduling file formats.
- Pricing (checked Nov 1, 2026): Outbuild publishes a starting price: Core from $999/month billed annually, based on annual construction volume, with unlimited users and projects; Pro is through sales. Foresight publishes no prices (Talk to our team; /pricing not found).
- Not used here: Outbuild's customer and project-value counts, Foresight's forecast-accuracy, overrun and hours-saved figures, its case-study results, customer quotes and its funding announcement (vendor material). Facts for both tools come from vendor websites (desk research).
Paraphrased from the sources listed above. Vendor claims are reported as claims.
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- Whether a team would run both, with Outbuild as the working schedule and Foresight reading its exports
- Which schedule file formats Foresight imports
- What Foresight costs for a single project versus a portfolio
- How Outbuild's Schedule Health Agent checks compare with Foresight's quality score
- What did you use it for, on what kind of work and project size?
- How long did setup and training take, and who on your team did it?
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