Tested. Then tested again.
Calculations are checked against known answers and real schedule files. Repeatable tests help catch discrepancies as the analysis evolves.
A closer lookOne dashboard.
One dashboard.
Every angle of your schedule.
See the result. Follow the evidence. Explore the calculations, source activities and reporting tools behind a thorough schedule review. Each screenshot shows part of a section; the descriptions explain its full capabilities.
24 analysis sections.Quality checks, change forensics, performance, reporting and XER repairs — every flag traced to the activities behind it.
25 dashboard viewsClick any screen to take a closer look
Explore the schedule
Overview
Every number is worked out again from the activities and links underneath — nothing is copied from what the file claims about itself. Each result is shown with the sums behind it, checked against the DCMA, GAO, AACE and PMI standards. The P6 XER or MS Project XML is read inside your own browser and is never uploaded.
Quality & critical path
Critical Path
Recomputed from raw activities and relationships by the Longest Path method, with P6's Float Path 1 as the critical path — one consistent number on every page, chart and export. Continuity tested, near-critical bands exposed.
Changes & delays
Month-over-Month
Load last month's update alongside this one and every edit surfaces: dates pulled without cause, logic added and removed, durations cut, calendars altered, float eroded — with the story of why completion moved.
Performance
Resource Performance (P6 only)
Planned against actual units for any assigned resource — time-phased on the schedule's own calendars and P6 resource curves, and read at the exact data date rather than at the end of the month. Validated against a P6 Resource Usage Spreadsheet across 125 months. Pick several resources at once, summed or side by side. P6 XER · Baseline At Completion
Drawings & reports
Linear Schedule
A CPM schedule knows when, never where. Drawn from your own location coding, this shows what occupies which stretch of the alignment, when, and at what rate — with clashes and production rates visible. Editable on the page · Out as PowerPoint
Drawings & reports
Report Composer
Build the report this review needs: drag blocks onto a real page, resize and reorder them, and see the page breaks fall where they will actually fall. Thirty-eight blocks and four starting layouts — monthly review report, executive one-pager, claims pack, DCMA submission. PDF · Word · PowerPoint
Quality & critical path
DCMA 14-Point Assessment
All fourteen checks with adjustable thresholds, the arithmetic exposed beside each result, and a drill-down to the exact activities behind every number — plus the GAO four-characteristic scorecard.
Explore the schedule
Schedule Reader
The whole schedule as P6 shows it: WBS bands with rolled-up values, a row-aligned Gantt with baseline and float bars, drag-and-drop columns, filters and full screen.
Changes & delays
Delay Analysis & Validation
Test a delay fragnet against 52R-06 — how it is wired, and what it demonstrably costs when the network is re-scheduled without it. Or work back through a series of updates against 29R-03: what each period cost, and whether progress or re-planning caused it. AACE 52R-06 · AACE 29R-03
Performance
Earned Value Management (P6 only)
SPI drifts back to 1.00 as a job finishes, so it stops discriminating exactly when you need it. Nominate the resource your project governs as progress weight and the position is answered twice: SPI by volume, and Earned Schedule as a date and a number of calendar days — which does not drift. Nothing is inferred; the page will not choose the weight for you, and every input, formula and curve inversion is shown. P6 only · SPI · SPI(t) · SV(t)
Quality & critical path
Weather Risk Matrix
Activities classified against a heavy-civil work-type library and plotted against regional climate normals, so work planned into the wrong season shows up before the season does.
Logic repairs
Dangling Logic Repair
Activities whose start or finish no relationship controls — a start with only FF/SF arriving, a finish with only SS/SF leaving. Each one is closed by writing the half of the pair the schedule already half-declares, with a lag that makes the new link exactly non-binding, so no activity date moves — and you download the repaired XER. Sold with the cleanser as one module.
Explore the schedule
Activity Explorer
Progress, criticality and risk sliced by area of work with prior-period comparison, plus a searchable activity explorer with float-path and critical filters.
Quality & critical path
Calendars
Long and zero-duration work, estimate heaping on round numbers, actual-versus-planned accuracy from finished work, and calendars checked shift by shift against their own hours-per-day setting.
Changes & delays
Delay Absorption Stress Test
Inject a what-if delay into any activity and watch the float network absorb it. An hour-true CPM re-schedule on the schedule's own calendars shows exactly how many days a milestone can soak up before its date moves.
Changes & delays
Interactive Logic Tracer
Trace the driving chain behind any milestone hop by hop, see which relationships were rewired this period, and challenge a date with the exact link that produced it.
Changes & delays
Relationships Forensic
Trace the driving chain behind any milestone hop by hop, see which relationships were rewired this period, and challenge a date with the exact link that produced it.
Explore the schedule
WBS Breakdown
Progress, criticality and risk sliced by area of work with prior-period comparison, plus a searchable activity explorer with float-path and critical filters.
Logic repairs
Redundant Logic Cleanser
Find and strip "leapfrog" links the network already enforces elsewhere — the ones inflating logic density and sequestering float. Every removal is verified non-driving, and you download a cleansed XER with a report of what went.
Drawings & reports
Quality & Forensic Report
One click produces the whole review as an Excel workbook — every finding, every register, every changed relationship, each tab stating its purpose, the standard behind it and what to look for. Ten more styled exports sit behind the individual pages.
Quality & critical path
Logic & Network Health
Open ends, dangling and isolated logic, leads and long lags, start-to-finish links, merge and burst points, duplicate relationships — the checks that decide whether the network means anything at all.
Quality & critical path
Duration Analysis
Long and zero-duration work, estimate heaping on round numbers, actual-versus-planned accuracy from finished work, and calendars checked shift by shift against their own hours-per-day setting.
Changes & delays
Delayed Activities
The whole overdue backlog measured against the prior update, split into what fell due this period and what has been carried forward — including work quietly re-dated to "starting now" month after month.
Explore the schedule
Data Mapping
The file’s audit trail: what it contained, what was carried into this review, what was held out of it and why — and the P6 settings that shape the answers on every other page.
Explore the schedule
Load a Schedule
Twenty-four analysis sections and a sixty-tab evidence workbook, from a Primavera P6 XER or a Microsoft Project XML. No installs, no file uploads, no IT approval — the file is read in a browser tab, the calculations run on our service, and the review is back in about a minute.
Choose your baseline — including MS Project's own
An MS Project file can hold eleven frozen baselines. All of them are read, with coverage and distance from the current plan stated — and the ones quietly re-set from today's schedule are flagged, because measuring against those makes every index read 1.00 for arithmetic reasons rather than performance ones.
Works on your phone and tablet
No P6 licence needed to check a schedule. Load an XER or XML on a phone — look up an activity, read the findings, review a report — on site, in a meeting, anywhere.
Who it is for
One schedule, four different questions
The same analysis answers all of them. What changes is which side of the report you are on.
Contractors & planners
Check your own programme before you submit it, and fix what a reviewer would have found.
Owners & program managers
Read what you were sent, and know whether the date you are being given is supported.
Project managers
Find out what the finish date rests on before you report it upwards.
Consultants & delay analysts
Build the case with the sums and the activities attached to every finding.
How it works
From the file to the findings
Twenty-four analysis sections and a sixty-tab evidence workbook, from a Primavera P6 XER or a Microsoft Project XML. No installs, no file uploads, no IT approval — the file is read in a browser tab, the calculations run on our service, and the review is back in about a minute.
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Take the file
The Primavera P6 XER or Microsoft Project XML you already have — one you built, or one you were sent. No special export, no add-in, nothing extra to ask for.
2
Drop it in
Add last month’s update alongside it — every plan can, and that file becomes your baseline. Parsing, the CPM re-schedule and the mapping all happen locally, in seconds.
3
Work the findings
Start at the Overview triage, then follow whichever flag matters. Inspect the supporting activities and arithmetic, so your review comments have evidence behind them.
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Send it out
Compose the report you need and export it as a PDF, an editable Word document or a PowerPoint deck, with the evidence workbook attached when a finding needs backing.
All of it runs on a plan from $15 USD a month — see what each one includes.
Put the analysis to your own test
Fourteen days free. No commitments, no credit card, nothing to cancel.
Bring a schedule you know. Inspect the findings, trace the calculations and compare the evidence with your own review. Create an account and the whole platform opens for two weeks — every section, every export, on your own live schedules. If it is not for you, do nothing and it lapses on its own. If it is, choose the plan that matches how you work. You change it, add a module to it or cancel it yourself, from inside the dashboard, whenever you like.
Payments, sales tax and invoices are handled by Paddle as merchant of record for Trestle Path Analytics Corp. Prices in USD; tax shown at checkout. Fourteen-day refund policy — read it.
$15 USD/moReader — the schedule itself: Schedule Reader with Gantt, Critical Path & Float, WBS, Activity Explorer, Logic Tracer, Duration Analysis, Calendars and Data Mapping, with last month’s update loaded as the baseline.
$49 USD/moAnalyst — the monthly review end to end: Overview, DCMA 14-Point, Logic & Network Health, Month-over-Month, Relationships Forensic, Delayed Activities, Resource Performance, Earned Value, Weather Risk Matrix, the 60+ tab Quality & Forensic Report and the Report Composer.
$79 USD/moExpert — everything above plus Delay Analysis & Validation, Linear Schedule, Delay Absorption and the Logic Cleanser & Dangling Repair.
+$5 USD/moAdd-ons — take a single module instead of a whole tier, and drop it again when the job ends. Most attach to Reader or Analyst; Delay & Claims needs Analyst under it.
Teams & enterprise
Talk to us about seats
Buying for a group? Two ways in.
More than one reviewer is a conversation, not a form. We set the licences up against your people’s email addresses, on one invoice, whether that is two of you or fifty — and from ten seats it is an annual term with purchase orders accepted.
2–9 seats
Email us and we will set the licences up for you — one invoice, activated against your people’s addresses, no per-person signup. There is no self-serve multi-seat checkout yet, so this is a short conversation rather than a form.
10+ seats, invoiced
Annual term, purchase orders accepted, no credit card and no per-person signup. We activate each licence against your people’s email addresses and hand you the list.
Data handling
Your schedule file never leaves your machine
Schedule files are read in your browser and never uploaded. The calculations run on our service from the numbers alone, which are never stored; your exports save straight to your own disk.
Your file stays with you
XER and MS Project XML files are never uploaded. Only the numbers a review needs go to the calculation service, held in memory while it calculates, then gone.
Accounts, not project data
Sign-in stores who you are and whether your access is active — never project content.
Contact
Questions? We'd love to hear from you
Evaluating the platform for a program, stuck on an analysis, or just want to talk schedules — send a message and we'll come back to you.
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