Construction-founded
We're not just data consultants — we're construction professionals. Built from first-hand experience inside tier-one contractor environments, we understand the built environment because we've lived it.
Build Intelligence™
Trusted portfolio intelligence for construction and the built environment
Acumine® helps construction and built environment organisations turn fragmented project performance data into trusted portfolio-level intelligence — giving leaders a clearer view of risk, performance and opportunity across every project.
Microsoft-aligned
Designed around Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Azure, so clients build on a trusted enterprise platform — not another disconnected reporting tool.
Proven methods, pre-built solutions
Accelerate the journey from fragmented reporting to portfolio intelligence — with pre-built components and a proven methodology that mean you're not starting from scratch.
What changes
Less time on reports. Earlier sight of risk. One version of performance.
Reduce monthly reporting effort
Compare projects consistently
Spot risk early enough to act
One version of performance for leadership
Acumine connects performance data across programme, commercial and wider domains — and helps organisations build the governed foundations that make it reliable over time.
Programme performance
Identify slippage, milestone risk and schedule-quality issues early enough to intervene.
Commercial performance
Connect cost, forecast, change and project status to improve confidence in expected outcomes across the portfolio.
Wider performance signals
Bring quality, safety, compliance and operational indicators into the same portfolio view, so leaders can understand performance in context.
Trusted by leading organisations
Built on experience with organisations that deliver at scale.
Helping project, commercial, planning and data leaders create trusted portfolio insight from fragmented project data.
Client testimonials
Trusted by the people responsible for project performance.
Direct feedback from organisations using Acumine to improve planning, reporting, portfolio visibility and data confidence.
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Acumine has been critical to McLaren's adoption of a modern and future ready data and business intelligence architecture. From the onset of our partnership, the people at Acumine have repeatedly demonstrated their technical excellence and deep knowledge of our industry whilst delivering a first-class customer engagement experience throughout.
Daniel Blackman
Group IT and Security Director, McLaren Group
The challenge
Construction data is everywhere. Reliable insight is not.
Most contractors already capture the signals they need. The problem is that those signals are split across tools, spreadsheets, teams and reporting cycles.
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Manual reporting hides risk
Monthly packs take too long to build and often describe issues after decisions should already have been made.
02
Systems do not speak
Planning, cost, quality, H&S and compliance information is rarely joined into a single portfolio-level picture.
03
Definitions vary by project
RAG status, variance, progress and risk can mean different things depending on the project, region or reporting team.
04
Leaders lose confidence
When the data is inconsistent, leadership teams spend more time challenging the numbers than acting on the insight.
The result is slower decisions, weaker predictability and risk that becomes visible too late.
What Acumine does
We combine construction knowledge with modern data, analytics and AI capability.
Acumine sits between project delivery, data platforms, analytics and executive reporting. We understand the operational detail behind construction data and the technical foundations needed to make it reliable, scalable and ready for AI-enabled ways of working.
Data strategy and roadmap
Define the foundations, operating model and delivery roadmap needed to move from fragmented reporting to trusted decision-making.
Data engineering and integration
Connect project systems, spreadsheets and source data into governed, reusable data foundations using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and modern engineering patterns.
Portfolio analytics and reporting
Create leadership reporting and portfolio intelligence that turns project performance data into clear, timely insight.
AI readiness and enablement
Prepare construction data, processes and teams for practical AI use cases — from reporting automation to predictive insight and decision support.
Productised intelligence components
Use repeatable Acumine components and Build Intelligence™ patterns to accelerate delivery and reduce the cost of starting from scratch.
Delivery, adoption and support
Work alongside project, commercial, planning, data and IT teams to embed better reporting, transfer knowledge and support solutions through Acumine's dedicated support desk.
Partner to internal teams
Built to complement your internal capability.
Acumine works as an extension of your project controls, commercial, data and technology teams — not as a replacement. We bring construction-specific experience, proven delivery patterns and insight from working with peer organisations, helping internal teams move faster with more confidence.
Integration capability
Built around the systems construction teams already use.
Acumine connects the systems teams already rely on, helps standardise and govern the data, and turns it into trusted portfolio insight through Microsoft-based data foundations and analytics products.
01Connect
02Standardise
03Govern
04Surface
Some of the systems we have integrated with and built solutions on top of
Build Intelligence™ platform
Start with proven components. Scale into a strategic data platform.
Acumine's Build Intelligence™ platform combines pre-engineered connectors, data models, reporting patterns and advisory support to help clients move faster without starting from scratch.
Featured solution
Programme Intelligence
A focused solution for contractors and built environment organisations that need clearer visibility of programme performance across projects and portfolios.
Programme Intelligence connects planning data from systems such as Asta PowerProject, Asta Vision and Primavera P6, then standardises it into trusted Microsoft Fabric and Power BI reporting patterns.
Inside the product
PortfolioProject OverviewGantt ChartsLookaheadsS-CurvesActivity StatusSchedule HealthResource
Tier 01 — Start
Base
Pre-engineered connectors, data models, reports and dashboards for focused use cases such as Programme Intelligence.
Best for · a focused first use case
Tier 02 — Tailor
Edge
Customised products and extensions shaped around your reporting requirements, operating model and project controls processes.
Best for · tailored reporting needs
Tier 03 — Scale
Fusion
A strategic data platform approach that connects multiple performance domains into a governed, scalable foundation for portfolio intelligence and AI enablement.
Best for · a scalable data platform
Commercial Solutions
Commercial solutions for better outturn predictability
Acumine works with tier-one contractors to improve the way commercial data is captured, governed, reported and used across projects and portfolios.
Our commercial capability spans process improvement, CVR solution development, commercial data integration and portfolio-level insight — helping teams move from fragile reporting processes to more consistent, auditable and decision-ready commercial information.
Dedicated product
Outtrn
Acumine-powered
commercial product
commercial product
Governed commercial workbooks for better outturn predictability.
Outtrn is Acumine's dedicated commercial product, designed from our work with construction commercial teams. It keeps the familiar workbook-style experience while adding structure, permissions, audit history and portfolio-level visibility behind the scenes.
FamiliarGovernedConnected
Case studies
Proven with construction and built environment organisations.
Acumine has helped contractors and project-led organisations improve visibility, reduce reporting effort and build stronger data foundations across programme, commercial and portfolio performance.
McLaren Construction: future-ready data architecture
Modern BI architecture and integrated critical business systems to improve operational visibility.
Read story →SES Engineering Services: portfolio planning visibility
Planning reporting that reduced repetitive effort and improved consistency across project and portfolio views.
Read story →Willmott Dixon: beyond the Gantt chart
Planning intelligence that reveals patterns, risks and trends difficult to identify from traditional programme views alone.
Read story →Tier-one contractor: integrated portfolio insight
Bringing project performance data together into a more reliable portfolio-level reporting environment.
Read story →Useful starting points
Talk to us if one of these sounds familiar.
Manual reporting is slowing you down
We can identify which steps can be automated and what data foundation is needed.
Portfolio risk is hard to see clearly
We can help define the common measures and evidence chain required for leadership confidence.
You are planning a Microsoft Fabric roadmap
We can align the technical architecture with construction-specific reporting, analytics and AI use cases.
You need specialist support alongside your team
We work with internal teams to accelerate delivery, share proven patterns and provide ongoing support.
Accreditations & certifications
Certified to standards our clients can trust.
Acumine works inside enterprise construction and built environment estates, so security and quality are built into how we deliver — independently certified and maintained.
ISO9001
ISO 9001
Quality management certified — consistent, repeatable delivery and continual improvement across every engagement.
CertifiedISO27001
ISO 27001
Information security management certified — your project, programme and commercial data is handled to a recognised global standard.
CertifiedUKCE+
Cyber Essentials Plus
UK government-backed certification, independently audited at the Plus level to verify the technical controls that protect against common cyber threats.
CertifiedMake the next report easier
Let's turn your reporting challenge into a reusable data product.
Bring a reporting pack, system challenge or portfolio question and Acumine will help you define the fastest route to useful insight.
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