ALICE Technologies

Generative construction scheduling that produces and compares millions of build sequences

As of 1 September 2026, ALICE Technologies's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Schedule optioneering software that generates alternative construction sequences from stated crew, equipment and logic constraints. Softwr lists it under Construction. ALICE Technologies is available on Web, Windows.

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Overview

What ALICE Technologies does

ALICE takes a construction schedule, a set of recipes describing how each activity is built (crew composition, equipment, durations, precedence rules) and a resource pool, then generates large numbers of feasible execution sequences and scores them on duration, cost and resource profile. Instead of one critical path produced by a planner, the output is a set of alternatives showing what a different crew mix or a different pour sequence would do to the completion date. The commercially interesting use is not the original plan but recovery. When a project is late, ALICE is used to test whether adding a second crane, running a second shift or resequencing floors actually recovers the date, and by how much, before anyone commits the money. That is a question a scheduler with Primavera P6 can answer for two or three scenarios by hand and cannot answer for two hundred. Reported schedule acceleration figures around twenty per cent should be read as vendor and partner claims on selected projects, not as a general expectation. Buyers are large general contractors and owners on data centres, energy, infrastructure and industrial work, projects big enough that a week of float is worth six figures. The trade-off is input quality. ALICE only produces useful options if someone models the recipes accurately, and that modelling is skilled work that most contractors do not have staffed. In April 2026 McKinsey announced an alliance to take ALICE-based scheduling to its own clients, which tells you where the go-to-market now sits: consulting-led engagements on very large programmes rather than self-service software.

What people use it for

A data centre programme where six months of earlier energisation is worth more than the entire construction management budget, and the owner wants evidence that a proposed sequence change actually delivers it
A contractor facing liquidated damages that must decide between a second shift, a second crane and resequencing, and needs the cost and duration consequence of each before committing
A bid team wanting to submit a shorter programme than competitors while proving to the client that the resource profile is achievable rather than optimistic
A delay claim where the contractor must demonstrate to a client or adjudicator what the schedule would have looked like without a specific disruption

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about ALICE Technologies.

The output is only as good as the recipes, and building accurate recipes is specialist modelling work most contractors cannot staff, so engagements depend on ALICE or a consultant doing it, which turns software into a services contract.
Pricing is quoted per project or programme with no published rates, so the tool is effectively unavailable to anyone who cannot justify a bespoke enterprise negotiation.
It only pays back on projects where float has a high monetary value; on a mid-size commercial building the modelling effort exceeds the schedule saving, which is why the customer list skews to data centres, energy and heavy civils.
A generated schedule still has to be accepted by superintendents and subcontractors who did not build it, and adoption failures are usually social rather than technical: the field runs the plan it believes in.
The 2026 McKinsey alliance pushes distribution towards consulting-led engagements, which raises the effective cost of entry and makes the direct-purchase path less certain for a contractor that just wants a licence.

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of ALICE Technologies

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Primavera P6
Primavera P6: The contractual scheduling standard; ALICE supplements it rather than replacing it
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Procore
Procore: If the real problem is field coordination and daily progress rather than sequence optimisation
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Smartsheet Construction
Smartsheet Construction: A far cheaper way to run schedules collaboratively when optioneering is not the requirement

Pricing

What ALICE Technologies costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

ALICE

On request

Quoted per project or per programme
Generative scheduling and optioneering
Recipe modelling support
Onboarding and modelling services typically bundled

Capabilities

Features

Generative scheduling
Produce large numbers of feasible sequences from constraints rather than one hand-built critical path
Recipe modelling
Define how each activity is built, including crew, equipment and precedence, as a reusable template
Optioneering
Compare generated schedules on duration, cost and resource histogram side by side
Schedule recovery
Test acceleration measures such as extra crews or shifts against a delayed baseline before committing spend
Resource levelling
Respect crane, crew and equipment availability as hard constraints across the whole sequence
4D visualisation
Play a generated sequence against the model to see what the site looks like week by week
P6 and MS Project import
Bring an existing schedule in and export a chosen option back out
Scenario comparison reports
Produce the evidence pack a client or lender needs to approve an acceleration decision

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

What does ALICE actually produce?

A set of alternative construction sequences generated from your constraints, scored on duration, cost and resource use, so you can choose rather than accept one plan.

Does it replace Primavera P6?

No. It imports from and exports to P6. P6 remains the contractual schedule of record on most projects.

Is the company still operating?

Yes. ALICE is active as of 2026 and announced an alliance with McKinsey in April 2026 to deliver AI scheduling to McKinsey clients.

How much does it cost?

Not published. It is quoted per project or programme and typically includes modelling and onboarding services.

What size project justifies it?

Projects where a week of schedule has a large monetary value: data centres, energy, industrial and major infrastructure. It is hard to justify on standard commercial building work.

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