Trimble introduced Trimble Connect Scheduling on November 9, 2026, at its Dimensions user conference in Las Vegas. The product keeps a contractor’s master CPM schedule and the field’s weekly look-ahead in one plan. An AI agent inside it watches open RFIs, pending submittals and local weather forecasts, and it flags tasks that are at risk before a crew is committed. The workflows it changes are the master schedule update and the weekly look-ahead.
What it does
On most jobs today, the scheduler keeps the master schedule in Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project. The superintendent runs the look-ahead on a whiteboard or a spreadsheet, and the project engineer tracks RFIs and submittals in a third system. Someone has to notice that an open RFI sits under next Tuesday’s slab pour. Trimble built this product to make that check automatically.
Trimble describes the work in this order:
- The scheduler builds a schedule in the product or imports one from P6, Microsoft Project or Excel. Trimble says imports keep multi-path logic and calendars.
- RFIs and submittals are tied to the tasks they hold up. The office works in a Gantt view, and the field works on a drag-and-drop look-ahead board. A change in one shows up in the other.
- A planning agent reads RFIs, submittals, daily reports, weather forecasts and BCF topics. BCF, the BIM Collaboration Format, is the file standard for model coordination issues, such as a clash logged during MEP coordination. An agent here is software that runs a multi-step task on its own, in this case checking each task’s open constraints every day.
- The agent marks tasks at risk and suggests a fix, such as using float or resequencing activities. The team reviews and approves the suggestion before it changes the schedule.
Control of the logic stays with the office. Field users update actual dates and look-ahead tasks, while the project manager or scheduler keeps the master logic. Trade partners can get view-only access, and a setting hides float and the critical path from trade role members so they see only committed dates and durations. Every change goes into an audit log. Schedules export as .xer for P6, .xml for Microsoft Project, and JSON.
The RFI and submittal sync runs through Trimble ProjectSight, Trimble’s project management product. When ProjectSight is linked to Viewpoint Vista or Trimble Spectrum, vendor IDs and job cost codes carry over to the project team records. Trimble says the planning engine uses a domain-specific model trained on Trimble construction project data, and that it compares current data with historical patterns to predict schedule threats.
Evidence so far
The evidence is Trimble’s two November 9 releases, its product page and comments from two pilot customers. These claims come from Trimble:
- The product was built with contractors who used it over the past several months to organize schedules and communication.
- The agent catches small delays early enough to stop them from turning into project-wide overruns.
- Every AI agent and model now available in the Trimble Connect AI layer carries a safety label documenting safety, security design and data provenance.
The two customers spoke about ease of use. Brendan Myers, vice president of DILFO Mechanical, said the product meets the planning needs of his operations team and is simple enough for field teams to learn quickly. Shelly Klarner, software specialist at Consolidated Construction, said the scheduling covers everything from milestones down to small task details.
The share of flags that turned out to be real delays, and schedule days saved on pilot jobs, are not yet public.
How to measure it on your projects
Percent Plan Complete, or PPC, is the share of look-ahead tasks a crew committed to for the week that were finished that week. It is the most direct test of a tool that claims to catch constraints before work is committed. If the flags work, fewer committed tasks should slip because of an open RFI, a late submittal or a rain day.
Capture eight weeks of PPC before the pilot. From the daily reports, count the tasks that slipped because of one of those three constraints. During the pilot, log each flag with the date it appeared and whether the team acted on it.
| Metric | Definition | Baseline to capture before the pilot |
|---|---|---|
| Percent Plan Complete (PPC) | Look-ahead tasks finished in the week they were committed divided by tasks committed that week | Weekly PPC for the last 8 weeks from your look-ahead sheets |
| Constraint slips | Count of look-ahead tasks that moved because of an open RFI or a pending submittal or weather | Last 8 weeks from daily reports and look-ahead notes |
| Flag lead time | Calendar days from the first at-risk flag on a task to its planned start | None before the pilot. Record from week one |
| Flags acted on | Share of at-risk flags that led to a resequence or an RFI escalation or a crew move | None before the pilot. Record from week one |
Our post on Buildots and NCC shows how one contractor reported a PPC change from an AI progress tool. Track float on the same job using the method in tracking total float across schedule updates. That way an accepted suggestion to use float shows up as float consumed. For weather flags, compare the agent’s forecast-driven warnings with the planned weather days you set from NOAA climate normals.
Start with one job whose RFIs and submittals already live in ProjectSight. Pull its last eight weekly look-aheads and compute PPC for each week.
Availability and cost
Trimble says the product is available now in North America to general contractors and subcontractors of all sizes in all construction sectors. The product page lists it at $588 per user per year in US dollars, excluding tax. It runs on the Trimble Connect platform, which Trimble says has more than 55 million cumulative users and more than 400 integrations.