Your Schedule Agent Keeps the Published Schedule True to the Field
The Schedule Agent keeps your project schedule matched to what is actually happening in the field, so your project manager is not rebuilding it from memory every Friday. The AgentWorks Schedule Agent collects progress from the superintendent and the subs, updates the schedule, flags any slip on the critical path and sends the lookahead to every trade, while your PM and superintendent stay with the client, the crews and the work.
What it takes off your plate
On most projects the schedule gets updated weekly at best. The PM asks the superintendent how things went, calls a few subs, moves some bars and publishes it. By Tuesday the drywall crew is a day behind, the electrical inspection moved, and the published schedule says everything is fine.
Critical path analysis takes a manual review nobody has time for mid-week. The gap between actual field progress and the published schedule creates false confidence: the owner thinks the job is on track, the next trade shows up to a space that is not ready, and a crew stands around at full rate.
The cost is idle crews, trades stacked on top of each other, and an owner who hears about a delay weeks after the field knew. The PM ends up defending a schedule they know is wrong, and the trust with the client wears thin.
What the Schedule Agent does, step by step
The Schedule Agent starts with the communication:
- Asks the field. Each afternoon before the crews leave, it texts the superintendent and the foreman of each active trade through Twilio: what got done, what is behind, what is holding them up.
- Chases the silent ones. If a sub has not answered, it follows up the next morning and tells the PM who is still missing.
- Confirms next week's crews. It sends each sub the lookahead for their scope and asks them to confirm manpower and start dates, logging each answer.
- Updates the schedule. It enters the reported progress against each activity in Procore and recalculates the dates.
- Flags the critical path. When an activity on the critical path slips, it alerts the PM with the cause the field reported and the activities that move with it. The PM decides how to resequence or recover.
- Sends the update. Once the PM approves the changes, it emails the updated schedule and lookahead to the trades and the owner's rep.
Then the data work: each day's progress, each sub's confirmation and each schedule change are saved to the project record, with the daily log attached.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot record its results is a chatbot. Every text, email and reply the Schedule Agent handles lands on the contact's record in the CRM your team already sees: which sub confirmed, who was chased, what they said about the delay. The schedule itself lives in Procore, updated daily, with a history of every change and why it happened.
The next morning, the PM opens one view: progress against plan by activity, critical path slips with their cause, subs who have not confirmed next week and the lookahead ready to send. The superintendent picks up exactly where the agent left off. Many slips start with an unanswered question, which is why this pairs with stopping RFI schedule bleed, and with daily logs that feed the schedule instead of competing with it.
What your people do instead
Your project manager spends time with the owner and the architect, working the decisions that recover a slip, instead of phoning subs for percent-complete. Your superintendent walks the job and coordinates trades face to face. Your foremen answer one text before they head home instead of sitting through a long schedule meeting.
Your client gets an honest picture of the job, early enough to act on it.
Customer service and client satisfaction are the human job. The AgentWorks Schedule Agent keeps the progress reports, the confirmations and the schedule updates moving so your people can focus on the job and the client in front of them.
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