Start with the update
Status activities in Pathizer, then review the schedule changes and milestone movement together. The conversation starts from the current project record.
Ask Pathizer
Why did Phase C lose float?Ask it against your own schedule updates.
Ask why a milestone moved or whether a recovery is real, in plain language, inside your project workspace. The answer comes from Pathizer's calculated analysis of your schedule updates and cites the evidence behind each figure it states.
Open your latest schedule update. Add last month's to see what changed. The free tools need no account or card.
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Illustrative example · UD03 → UD04Why did Phase C lose float?
Phase C float fell from +6 to −18 calendar days. Electrical Rough-In Area B is a flagged driver with a 14-day impact on the Phase C path. Steel Sequence L12 shows 6 days of recovery. These are contributors to review, rather than a complete reconciliation of the 24-day float change.
UD03 → UD04A1043 total floatPhase C path
What to verify
Review the full path and other changes before attributing the entire movement to one activity or party.
Select a question to explore the example. This is a product illustration; your workspace answers use your selected project evidence.
Built for the review
From status entry to a report your team can review.
Keep the evidence close
Read the answer alongside its activity references and selected update context. Follow the supporting records before relying on a conclusion.
Take a report to the meeting
Use the Executive Brief for a prepared view of the update. Ask follow-up questions when the report needs a closer look.
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The question each role brings to the update.
General contractors
Prepare for the owner meeting: explain date movement, review trade drivers, and identify the questions your team needs to resolve.
Explore this workflowConstruction owners
Question the contractor’s explanation and examine the evidence behind a revised milestone or recovery plan.
Explore this workflowDevelopers
Understand what is pressuring a phase, handoff, or turnover date before making the next delivery commitment.
Explore this workflowGovernment & public owners
Give capital-project reviewers a clear explanation to examine alongside the contractor’s update and supporting records.
Explore this workflowForensic consultants
Investigate the update history, inspect the supporting references, and keep schedule impact separate from responsibility.
Explore this workflowScheduling consultants
Focus client reviews on the changes that matter and use the explanation as a starting point for your professional narrative.
Explore this workflowHow it works
Ask in the context of the work.
Choose the schedule context
Open the relevant project review, phase, or activity. The selected context gives your question a specific schedule record to work from.
Ask the question that matters
Ask about a milestone, a driver, an update change, or a recovery signal in plain language.
Inspect, then use the answer
Review the explanation, references, and limitations. Confirm the conclusion before using it in an owner update, client report, or claims analysis.
Where you ask, and what the question carries
Ask Pathizer opens as a drawer on the analysis pages rather than as a separate chat window: the Executive Summary, Continuous Float Attribution, Schedule Trend Review, the Network Diagram, Window Analysis, the AACE MIP pages, the 6WLA plan, the Health Score, the Schedule Narrative and Portfolio Intelligence.
The question goes out with the page it was asked on and whatever is selected there, such as a phase, a driver row or a diagram node. The answer is built from an evidence packet for that selection, so a question about why one phase lost float in one window starts from that phase and that window instead of from a general description of the project.
Numbers stay the engine's
Days, float and driving activities come from the deterministic analysis, and the drawer holds answers to that. When an AI answer quotes schedule figures, such as days, calendar days, weeks, dates or a float value, and carries no reference to the engine's evidence, the figures are withheld and the reader is pointed to the computed view instead.
Answers that do carry references show them as links beside the text, together with the limitations the answer depends on. A question never reruns or changes the analysis; it asks for an explanation of results the engine already produced.
What it does not do
Ask Pathizer answers from schedule evidence: the parsed XER updates and the analysis built on them. It does not read the contract, and it does not decide responsibility, entitlement or concurrency. When the evidence it needs is missing, for example because no analysis has run for the selected phase, it says what is missing rather than filling the gap with plausible prose.
Confidence comes from the record
Follow the evidence before making the call.
Pathizer analyzes the schedule record. Ask Pathizer helps explain the selected results and their context. Review the references and limitations, and bring in project records when the schedule alone cannot answer the question.
Questions, answered
Know what to expect.
- What is Ask Pathizer?
- Ask Pathizer is the schedule-question experience inside your project workspace. It uses the selected review context and available analysis evidence to help explain changes, drivers, and recovery signals.
- Does it use AI?
- Yes. AI helps explain the selected schedule analysis. Pathizer’s analysis engine supplies the computed results; the explanation should be checked against its references and limitations.
- Can it replace my scheduler or forensic consultant?
- No. Your professionals select the analysis context, evaluate the evidence, and approve the conclusions. A schedule change alone does not establish contractual responsibility or legal entitlement.
- What do I need to bring?
- Bring XER files and the relevant update history. Comparing movement requires more than one update. The answer depends on the selected context, available analysis, and completeness of the underlying record.
- What happens when an answer quotes a number without a source?
- The figures are withheld. If an AI answer contains days, dates or float values and carries no engine evidence reference, the drawer replaces it with a notice and points to the deterministic view that holds the computed numbers.
- Can Ask Pathizer change my schedule or the analysis?
- No. It explains results the engine has already computed. The uploaded XER files and the analysis results stay as they were.
- Is the example a live analysis of my project?
- No. The example on this page is illustrative. Project-specific questions belong in your project workspace. The website chat provides product guidance; it is not a demonstration using your private project evidence.
- How do I try it?
- The free tools need no account or card. Open your latest schedule update. Add last month's to see what changed. To use Pathizer on your own projects, create an account and start the 60-Day Pilot, which gives your organization Enterprise workflows for 60 days with no card to start. Review the paid price and recurring terms before you subscribe.
Bring the question you need answered.
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