Acumen Touchstone
Enforce Schedule Quality at Scale
Acumen Touchstone is an automated schedule submittal portal that standardizes schedule quality across prime contractors, subcontractors, and internal teams. By scoring submitted schedules instantly and delivering actionable feedback, Touchstone holds every contributor to the same standard, reduces manual review, and maintains an audit-ready trail of every submission. The result is reliable schedules, ready for analysis, risk modeling, and optimization.
Cut Review Time While Raising Schedule Quality
Acumen Touchstone customers see measurable improvements in schedule review efficiency, team productivity, and overall schedule quality across programs of all sizes.
30hours
per month of manual schedule review eliminated on a single project
Why Choose Acumen Touchstone?
Schedule Quality You Can Control
Build Consistent, High-Quality Schedules
Touchstone automates schedule collection, scoring, and feedback across primes, subcontractors, and internal teams, using industry-aligned metrics to catch quality issues the moment a submission arrives and give contributors instant feedback before any reviewer sees the plan.
Deliver Defensible, Compliant, Audit-Ready Plans
Governed acceptance criteria, complete audit trails, and version-controlled quality history give every program the documentation needed to support PMRs, EV reviews, and audits.
Gain Forecast Confidence Through Trend Analysis
Portfolio-level dashboards and trend analysis identify recurring quality issues by project, contractor, or team so program leaders can address systemic problems early and strengthen planning discipline across the organization.
Customer Story
Scaling Schedule Review Without Adding Manual Work
Learn how this project controls consulting firm eliminated 20–30 hours of manual schedule review per month and scaled its quality processes to keep pace with growing programs.
Acumen Touchstone Features
Schedule Governance — From First Submittal to Final Acceptance
Automated Schedule Submittal and Scoring
Collect, score, and manage schedule submissions from internal teams or subcontractors through a single, structured portal. Customizable quality thresholds and built-in metrics evaluate every submission automatically, standardizing schedule format, logic, and structure the moment a plan is submitted.
Instant Feedback to Contributors
Submitters receive scoring results and diagnostic feedback the moment their schedule is evaluated, giving them clear guidance to correct issues and resubmit quickly. Configurable feedback options let program teams adjust the level of detail for each contributor and program phase.
Governed Acceptance Criteria and Revision Workflows
Define and enforce consistent schedule quality thresholds for baselines and updates across programs. Approval workflows route submissions to PMO, controls, or program managers for review, with full version control maintaining a complete quality history over time.
Full Audit Trail for Every Submission
Maintain a complete, version-controlled history of all submissions, quality scores, revisions, and acceptance decisions. Compliance-ready evidence for PMRs, EV reviews, and audits is built into every workflow, so teams are prepared for oversight at any stage.
Portfolio Dashboards and Trend Analysis
Visualize schedule quality trends across projects, contractors, and teams with portfolio-level dashboards. Automated analysis identifies recurring quality issues by project or contractor, enabling program leaders to benchmark performance, address systemic problems, and improve forecast confidence.
The Acumen Suite
One Complete Workflow for Schedule & Risk Intelligence
Acumen Fuse
A schedule diagnostics and forensics solution that uncovers quality issues and reveals what changed between updates, enabling teams to build reliable schedules for more accurate forecasts and confident risk analysis.
Acumen Risk and 360
A schedule risk management and optimization solution that surfaces risks, generates mitigation strategies, and models recovery and acceleration options, so teams can choose the fastest viable path to completion.
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