Steelray Delay Analyzer vs Foresight

• Direction: Steelray says Delay Analyzer identifies and quantifies the delays that impacted the finish date, including concurrent and but-for delays, by comparing successive updates. Foresight says it predicts best-case, worst-case and most likely finish dates for every activity and milestone and runs simulations of scope, sequencing or resource changes. One is retrospective analysis of what happened; the other forecasts what may happen next.
• Method: Steelray names its method: a fully automated half-step analysis using the Daily Progress Method, following AACE RP 29R-03 (MIP 3.4), run on any number of P6 XER update exports, applying progress-related changes at the start of each period and schedule revisions at the end. Foresight says its forecasts use machine learning models trained on over 1 million real-world construction activities; its risk page lists Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA), a Criticality Score, risk density and run-rate analysis. Neither vendor says the other's method is built in.
• Outputs: Steelray lists an Overview Report splitting delays and accelerations into progress-related changes and schedule revisions per period, Period Detail Reports, schedule revision summaries, a contemporaneous critical path for each window, a progress-only schedule export, an Excel export and a Gantt chart where you drag the data date. Foresight lists a schedule quality score for logic and structure, version change analysis including critical path shifts, trend analysis across versions, Completion Plans (Blocking, Delaying, On Schedule, Completed), an always-updated risk register, custom reports and portfolio views.
• Users: Steelray says Delay Analyzer is the choice of professionals who conduct delay analyses and serve as expert witnesses in claims disputes (vendor statement). Foresight's menus are organized for project directors, project controls, planners, investors, owners and contractors and EPCs, with data center and government sector pages.
• AI: Foresight is tagged AI-first. Steelray Delay Analyzer is tagged Not AI-first; its page describes optimized analysis engines, not AI.
• Pricing (checked Oct 27, 2026): Steelray lists an annual subscription at $3,990 per user per year or a monthly subscription at $390 per user per month, both with unlimited projects, tech support and updates. Foresight publishes no prices; its calls to action are Talk to our team. See each tool page for detail.
• Not like-for-like: a claims or forensic schedule team and a forward-looking project controls team may each want one of these; this page sets out what each vendor says, and no vendor page we read says a forecast replaces a forensic delay analysis.
• Not used here: Foresight's forecast-accuracy, overrun, hours-saved and case study figures and customer quotes, and Steelray's days-saved line (vendor material). Neither tool has been tested by Means & Methods Lab.

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