You know the budget. You know the timeline. You don’t know where either of them is today.
Twelve active projects. Forty subcontractors. A cash flow that depends on milestone billing you haven’t invoiced yet. Your project directors each have a status report. None of them use the same format. Your CEO is about to ask for a portfolio view.
We speak earned value and BOQ. Not just BI.
In construction, every project is its own accounting entity, its own risk profile, and its own definition of “on track.” A project director running a THB 2 billion EPC contract and a project manager overseeing a residential development tower use different KPIs, different billing cycles, and different early warning signals. Rolling them into one portfolio view is not a technology problem. It is a definition problem.
Your cost data lives in your accounting system. Your schedule lives in Primavera or MS Project. Your subcontractor progress lives in site meeting minutes and WhatsApp threads. Your cash flow lives in a spreadsheet someone updates on Fridays. None of these systems talk to each other. The CEO’s portfolio dashboard is whatever the PMO assembled last Tuesday from seven different sources — each with a different cut-off date.
Safety data is collected on site. Near-miss reports are filed. Incident counts are tracked. But the leading indicators — unsafe act observations, permit compliance rates, toolbox talk attendance — are never connected to the project variables that predict where the next incident will happen.
WizEmp understands project-based businesses where every number is temporary and every deadline is someone’s livelihood.
No unified portfolio view across active projects
Each project director has their own status report in their own format. The CEO’s portfolio update is built manually every month by the PMO. It is already out of date when it is presented.
Cost overruns surface at month-end, not week three
Your accounting system closes monthly. By the time a variance is visible in the system, the subcontractor has already moved on and the change order window has closed.
Subcontractor performance is visible only after disputes
You know a subcontractor is underperforming when they miss a milestone. The early signals — partial completions, manpower below plan, material delays — are in the site diary. Nobody analyses them.
Cash flow is managed by instinct, not data
Milestone billing, retention releases, back-charges and variation orders interact in ways no spreadsheet captures accurately. Your treasury position is a best estimate, not a model.
HSE data is collected but never predictive
Incidents are reported. Investigations are completed. Root causes are documented. The same root causes appear in the next incident report eighteen months later.
Discovery built for project-based organisations.
Wit, WizEmp’s AI-powered discovery process, runs structured anonymous interviews across project directors, site managers, finance and the PMO before any report is built. In construction, the most important knowledge holders are the people closest to the ground — and the least likely to speak freely in a stakeholder workshop.
Vocabulary Wit uses in your environment:
Adaptation 01
Project-as-unit-of-analysis established at discovery
Wit asks: what is the atomic unit of performance in your business — the project, the lot, the subcontract package? The answer determines whether a portfolio view is meaningful or misleading.
Adaptation 02
Earned value adoption assessed honestly
Wit asks whether CPI and SPI are actually used in your project reviews or whether they exist on paper. The answer shapes whether the cockpit leads with earned value or with simpler progress metrics your teams will trust.
Adaptation 03
Cash flow timing mapped to billing milestones
Wit traces the path from physical completion to invoice to payment receipt for each contract type. The cash flow model reflects your actual billing terms, not a generic schedule.
Adaptation 04
Subcontractor data sources identified at discovery
Wit maps where subcontractor progress data actually lives — site diaries, meeting minutes, accounting entries, WhatsApp. The architecture is built around the real sources, not the theoretical ones.
Adaptation 05
HSE leading indicators surfaced from site practice
Wit interviews site safety officers on what they actually track versus what the system records. The leading indicator architecture starts from what exists on the ground, not what the manual says should be collected.
A Necessary and Sufficient Architecture for construction reporting.
WizEmp delivers in Microsoft® Power BI®. Once the Shield of Truth™ is signed, our team builds a Power BI Cockpit connecting every report in your workspace. For a construction operator, the Cockpit links reports that serve three master requirements: portfolio oversight, financial control, and safety intelligence — all drawing from a single governed data layer.
Every report follows the Overview–Exploration–Detailed structure. A CEO sees portfolio health in 10 seconds. A project director drills to a specific subcontract’s variance in 2 minutes. Same architecture. Two entry points.
Power BI Cockpit · Construction Configuration
Your navigation hub: connecting every report in your workspace
Project Portfolio HUD
Budget vs. Actual
Cash Flow & Billing
Subcontractor Performance
HSE Dashboard
Procurement & Materials
“In construction, the data that matters most is the data nobody typed into a system. Wit surfaces what lives in site diaries, meeting minutes and project managers’ heads before any architecture is decided. The Data Dictionary is the first deliverable. Every report draws from it.”
Every function on your project. One coherent data architecture.
Project Management & PMO
Portfolio visibility that updates in real time, not on the day the PMO finishes consolidating seven spreadsheets. One view. Every project.
Finance & Commercial
Budget vs. actual, variation exposure, retention position and cash flow — connected to the contract, not disconnected from it in a separate model.
Site & Operations
Subcontractor progress, manpower deployment, material flow. The operational data your site managers track daily — made visible to the people who need it.
HSE
Incident trends, near-miss patterns, permit compliance. Safety data that moves from reporting to prediction — before the next investigation begins.
Let’s talk about your portfolio visibility problem.
Most construction BI projects fail because they try to consolidate reports that were never designed to be consolidated. Wit maps what data actually exists — on site, in the system, in people’s heads — before any architecture is committed.
Schedule a Discovery CallJust a conversation. Specific to construction and EPC.