Construction and Architectural Services
A mid-sized construction company with 800 employees, specializing in commercial buildings, residential homes, and industrial facilities. Their services include mechanical and electrical systems, civil engineering, HVAC, fire safety, architectural services, and more.
Problem
The company faced inefficiencies in resource allocation and lacked visibility into project finances. Frequent underestimation of costs and overcommitted resources resulted in project delays and budget overruns.
Solution
By implementing Mach-AI's finance-oriented project management and organization/headcount management features, the company was able to streamline operations, improve cost forecasting, and manage resources more effectively.
+5% ROI
From Updated Project Roadmap
$10.3MM
Redeployed Investment Budget
Why Mach-AI was the best choice:
Mach-AI provided the ability to consolidate project and HR data, automate project prioritization, and forecast both costs and staffing needs. These features offered a more comprehensive solution than competing tools that lacked deep financial forecasting capabilities.
Mach-AI | Other Tools |
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Finance forecasting for better project budgeting | Lacks deep finance management integration |
Advanced resource allocation visualization | Limited visibility into resource distribution |
Automated project ranking using custom criteria | Basic project tracking without automation |
Implementation
The company used Mach-AI to
Consolidate project data and HR information into a unified platform
Automate project prioritization using custom scoring criteria
Visualize resource allocation across all active projects
Visualize resource allocation across all active projects
Projects Roadmap ROI Optimization
Increased the ROI of the roadmap by prioritizing and promoting initiatives with the highest value
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Identified mission-critical projects based on assessments of RICE, WSJF, NPV, payback period, and other frameworks
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Identified and eliminated projects that were non-mission critical and low-probability of success
Productivity Optimization
Increased utilization rate of talent, ensuring the highest productivity
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Estimated utilization rates of employees at the individual level to identify capacity for new assignments
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Kept headcount costs in check by dynamically assigning available talent based on capacity and skills
Cost Efficiency Improvement
Reduced waste, improved projects launch lead time, and enabled new investments
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Automatically re-forecasted headcount and budget needs of new roadmap
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Re-deployed FTEs and budget to fund reinvestment into new opportunities
Results
We helped the customer to build a new project roadmap, budget, and headcount plan. Customer realized +5% in ROI of projects roadmap by realigning $10MM in investment budget towards higher confidence projects.
+5% ROI
From Updated Project Roadmap
$10.3MM
Redeployed Investment Budget
6.1%
Reduction to Roadmap Cost