Last updated: 2026-11-07
ALICE Technologies, founded in 2015 from Stanford research, says its construction scheduling software has been deployed on more than $410 billion of projects. It imports Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 or Primavera Cloud schedules, simulates scenarios into time and cost options, and scores schedule quality from 0 to 100 against DCMA-14 checks.
About ALICE Technologies
ALICE Technologies sells construction scheduling software that simulates many ways to build a project and shows the time and cost of each. It was founded in 2015 on Stanford research by René Morkos, who holds a Ph.D. in AI for construction, and it has offices in Menlo Park, Prague and Pune. The about page names Bouygues, Implenia and SCS JV among its customers.
The core product, ALICE Optimize, takes the schedule a team already has in Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6 or Primavera Cloud. The user sets goals and picks a mode, then ALICE simulates alternatives for the planner to compare. ALICE Analyze checks the quality of each schedule it receives or generates and tracks progress updates against plan. A built-in agent answers questions about a schedule in plain language. A separate module builds a baseline from a BIM model, and the field-level module is still marked beta on the site.
The buyers are general contractors and project owners, plus consultants who run planning for them. ALICE's pages single out industrial work such as data centers, energy and battery plants, civil and transit projects, and large buildings. A user logs in to one of four regional apps for the US, UK and EU, Australia or Canada. There is no desktop or mobile app.
Pricing is not published. The pricing page is a quote form that asks for company type, project size, and priorities, then promises a consultation call. The site lists no free tier or self-serve trial. A team that only needs a Gantt chart or a review of schedules sent by a general contractor should look at GanttAI instead, because ALICE is built to explore build sequences, not to read someone else's schedule.
Pricing
No public prices and no listed free tier. The vendor pricing page is a quote form (company type, project size from under $10M to $250M+, priorities) that leads to a consultation call; a Book a Demo page is the other entry point. Products named on the site: ALICE Optimize, Analyze, Model and FieldPlan (beta).
Key Features
- ALICE Optimize: Takes a Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 or Primavera Cloud file and returns alternative plans on a time versus cost chart.
- Targeted Optimization: A quicker mode for finding where a schedule can be accelerated and by how much; Resource Optimization is the mode that uses loaded resource data.
- Schedule Quality Score: Scores any imported or generated schedule from 0 to 100 against DCMA-14 checks, weighted 50 percent logic, 35 percent critical path and float, 15 percent duration and progress.
- Schedule Insights Agent: Answers freeform questions with sources shown, replies in the user's language and writes a report comparing two schedule versions.
- ALICE Model: Generates and refines a baseline schedule from a 3D BIM model before work starts.
Pros
- Works from the schedule file a team already has, so planners keep their existing scheduling tool.
- Shows scenarios as a time versus cost graph instead of a single plan, which the vendor says lets a team look at options a manual process would skip.
- Gives every imported schedule a quality score at import, with a fix list ranked Critical, Warning or Improvement.
- Names Bouygues, Implenia and SCS JV as customers on its about page.
Cons
- No public prices and no listed free tier or trial; every buyer goes through a quote form or a demo.
- No independent review score was found: the G2 profile showed no reviews when checked on 2026-11-07, so the evidence is mostly vendor material.
- Aimed at large industrial, infrastructure and building projects; the pricing form is built around project size bands and nothing says a small contractor is served.
- The FieldPlan module for drawing-linked lookaheads is still labelled beta on the vendor site.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does ALICE Technologies cost in 2026?
ALICE does not publish prices. The vendor routes buyers to a form and a call for tailored pricing. Expect a custom contract sized to project value and number of projects; no per-seat or per-project figure is shown anywhere on the vendor site.
Does ALICE have a free plan or a trial?
The vendor site lists no free plan and no self-serve trial. The routes in are the quote form and a Book a Demo page. Ask the sales team in that call whether a pilot on one real schedule is possible, since the site does not say.
What are the alternatives to ALICE Technologies for construction scheduling?
The closest comparison Hokai lists is GanttAI, which reviews schedules a general contractor sends to a subcontractor rather than optimizing a build sequence. Many teams also stay in Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project and test scenarios by hand, which costs planner time but no extra licence. ALICE reads files from those tools, so it adds to them instead of replacing them.
ALICE Technologies or GanttAI: which one fits a contractor?
ALICE is aimed at general contractors and owners who want to explore many sequences for a large build and see time and cost trade-offs. GanttAI is aimed at trade subcontractors who need to see what a GC revision changed and plan crew. A GC planning a master schedule fits ALICE; a trade contractor reacting to revisions fits GanttAI.
How do you get started with ALICE?
Request a quote or book a demo, then upload an existing schedule built in Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 or Primavera Cloud. Choose goals and an optimization mode, and ALICE returns scenarios on a time versus cost graph. Log in through the regional app that matches where the data should live: US, UK and EU, Australia or Canada.
Top Alternatives
- GanttAI: Pick ALICE if you are a GC or owner exploring build sequences; pick GanttAI if you are a subcontractor reacting to GC schedule revisions.