Fogg, the AI scheduling assistant for Primavera P6, now answers in ploteer.

Since 28 October 2026, Fogg answers in ploteer. A planner, a project manager or a contract manager opens Fogg’s pane beside the schedule and asks the way they would ask a colleague. Fogg reads the schedule, answers in a few lines, puts the activities on the screen and offers the next step. It is prompt scheduling: asking the schedule in plain words, on the XER exports of the Primavera P6 schedules the team already has. Fogg reads; it never changes the schedule.

Where project hours go

In a 2018 survey of nearly 600 construction leaders by FMI and PlanGrid, respondents said they spend 35 percent of their working hours on non-optimal activities, including five and a half hours a week looking for project data. In KPMG’s 2015 survey of capital project owners, only one in four of their projects had come within 10 percent of the original deadline over the previous three years.

Project teams know the pattern. The schedule holds the answer; reaching it takes filters, exports, two updates side by side and an evening of slides. By the time the answer is ready, the meeting has moved on. Fogg is built to take that legwork, so the team’s effort goes into the decision instead of the data.

Questions Fogg answers on a P6 schedule today

Shown on the demo project, Holland 200K Green NH3:

• What changed since the last update? The activities that moved, on the screen, and the finish with its move in working days.
• What drives the finish? The driving path to the finish, and where the delay started.
• Which activities keep slipping? The ones that slipped update after update, picked from the hundreds that moved once.
• Who is responsible for the delay? The delay on the driving path split by the party that owns each activity, the Client, the Contractor or another party, as the schedule shows it. Who is entitled to time or money stays with the contract team, and Fogg says so.

The Fogg page shows more: the weak points of a schedule on its scorecard and where the finish is heading; and, role by role, the construction manager’s three-week look-ahead and steel manpower by criticality, the planner’s float lost since the last update, the project manager’s driving path and the contract manager’s delay by party.

Answers from the review of every update

ploteer reviews every update the moment it is imported: what moved, where the delay starts, how the critical path and the float changed. Fogg answers from that review, so an answer about hundreds of activities across every update does not wait for anyone to build it. Fogg acts on the view the way the app’s own buttons do: it filters the schedule, opens the review, the scorecard or an activity’s card, and takes the planner to the pane where the result lives. It never changes the schedule, and one click on Undo puts the view back as it was. From there, ploteer’s export sends the result out as a picture, a PDF, a PowerPoint slide or an Excel sheet.

In the language of the team

Project teams are international. The owner sits in one country, the contractor in a second, the vendors in a third, and the schedule has to make sense to all of them. According to the European Commission’s 2024 survey of Europeans and their languages, 59 percent of Europeans can hold a conversation in at least one foreign language, and 28 percent in at least two. Four in ten cannot hold one at all, and English, the language most international schedules are written in, is spoken by almost half.

In a live demo, a question asked in Dutch was understood and answered. Next, Fogg answers in the language of the question, so the owner, the contractor and the vendors will be able to ask the same schedule in their own words and read the same numbers. The Fogg page shows where this is heading: one conversation moving between English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and French over one schedule.

Switched on per client

Fogg is part of ploteer, the AI schedule companion for Primavera P6, and it is switched on per client. Book a demo to see it answer on the demo project, in the room.