At Nodes & Links, we talk a lot about what it means to bring genuine intelligence to project delivery. Not dashboards for the sake of dashboards, or AI that surfaces noise and calls it insight, but schedule intelligence that reaches people in time to change outcomes.
On April 13th, at Oracle Customer Edge Summit, we got to show what that looks like in practice.
Together with Oracle, Cupix, and McCarthy Building Companies, we presented a live case study built around one question the industry has been circling for years: what does it actually look like to deploy real AI onto real projects, end to end?
The answer is Field-to-Board AI. And the results are already changing how projects run.
The Problem We Were All Solving
Construction schedulers are highly skilled. But today, roughly 50% of their time is consumed by collecting and validating progress data and manually updating the schedule to reflect it. The time left for analysis, risk assessment, and generating insights, the work that actually drives decisions, is squeezed into whatever bandwidth remains.
McCarthy’s James Culkin laid it out plainly. Schedulers are the hub through which every data point, from superintendents, trade partners, engineers, RFIs, and field observations, must flow before anything useful comes out the other side. Reports take up to nine days to produce. Risk is identified after delays have already landed. Decisions are made on incomplete signals, too late to change the outcome.
“When schedule intelligence is delayed, the project loses valuable time to influence outcomes.” – James Culkin, McCarthy Building Companies
A New Stack. A New Loop.
Field-to-Board AI is a connected schedule intelligence loop, from the physical site to the schedule to the analysis layer, and back again.
Here’s how it works:
Cupix captures what’s actually happening on site. Using off-the-shelf 360° cameras and AI-powered spatial intelligence, it tracks progress by trade, area, and BIM category, then feeds validated, objective data directly into Oracle Primavera Cloud. No more subjective self-reporting. No more site walks just to verify progress.
Oracle Primavera Cloud acts as the live system of record, continuously updated with field reality rather than waiting on manual inputs.
Nodes & Links runs autonomous schedule analysis, integrity checks, risk assessments, and forward-looking forecasts across every activity, logic tie, and constraint the moment the schedule updates. Decision-ready insights flow back to the project controls team in seconds.
The loop closes. The team acts. The cycle begins again.
What Changes When the Loop Closes
What happens to a project when progress measurement is objective and continuous? When reporting goes from nine days to near-real time? When schedule risk is identified early enough to do something about it?
The shift is significant:
- Progress visibility moves from periodic to continuous, with no more waiting for the monthly update to understand where you actually are
- Schedule updates become faster and more trusted, underpinned by visual, spatial evidence rather than contractor self-reporting
- Risk is identified before delays land, not reconstructed after the fact for claims purposes
- Schedulers and project controls teams focus on analysis and mitigation, the work that requires human judgement, rather than data collection
- Every stakeholder, from trade partners to the executive suite, gets intelligence they can actually act on
As one of our customers put it: “Getting that level of insight used to take our senior schedulers two days of work. Now anyone can get it in seconds.”
Why This Matters Beyond One Project
The construction industry doesn’t have a talent problem. It has a timing problem. Intelligence arrives too late, to too few people, to change what’s coming.
That’s what this integration solves. And McCarthy’s experience proves it works.
“Every day intelligence is delayed is a day you can’t get back.” – Greg Lawton, Nodes & Links
Welcome to intelligence everyone can act on, when it still counts.
See Field-to-Board AI in Action
Your projects. Your schedule. Real-time intelligence.
Presented at Oracle Customer Edge Summit, April 2026. Joint session with Oracle Construction and Engineering, Cupix, and McCarthy Building Companies.