Reference Class Forecasting gives you averages. nPlan gives you answers.

Traditionally, major projects turn to benchmarking and RCF at the pre-FID or concept stage to get a sense of likely cost and schedule ranges. These benchmarks draw on past project databases to provide “outside view” comparisons.

Despite widespread use of RCF, most megaprojects still blow through cost and schedule targets. Why? Because RCF only provides a top-down, average view. That leaves project teams with little actionable insight beyond setting wider contingencies. It cannot see the unforeseen risks, execution-phase variability, or the unique complexities in a project’s schedule logic.

As soon as you have a Level 2 schedule, nPlan can ingest it and compare it against a dataset of 750,000+ schedules from real projects - over 2 million years of construction time. Our AI gives you data-driven, highly accurate forecasts for every activity in your schedule as well as your overall project, and identifies the activities most likely to cause painful delays.