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AMC Athena
Gen-AI powered project delivery

Contract to cash.
Project to profit.

Athena Project Management is a project and contract management software for construction and engineering. Work breakdown structures, budgets, project purchase orders, milestone invoicing and time booking — with agentic AI predicting cost and schedule drift before it reaches the margin line.

Construction & EngineeringEarned Value ManagementSovereign & on-premise

6 integrated modules · Contract-to-cash · One system of record

athena.pm / delivery-controlLive

0.92

Schedule index

▼ 0.08 vs plan

0.94

Cost index

▼ 0.06 vs plan

62%

Physical progress

▲ on plan at P6

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CompleteOn planBehind schedule — agent flagged

Agent activity stream

  1. AGENT

    Schedule Guardian detected MEP on the critical path slipping 6 days; recovery plan drafted.

  2. AGENT

    Procurement raised PO-4471 from task 1.4.2.3 against long-lead riser lead time.

  3. AGENT

    Margin Watch flagged MS-04 invoiced below earned value — 1.2% margin leak.

  4. READY

    Cost Analyst re-forecast EAC to +1.2M over contract value; brief ready for sign-off.

Integrated modules from contract to cash collection
6Integrated modules from contract to cash collection
Manual re-keying between the project office and finance
~0%Manual re-keying between the project office and finance
System of record for contract, cost, time and delivery
1System of record for contract, cost, time and delivery
Schedule and cost drift detection, always on
24/7Schedule and cost drift detection, always on

Overview

The project, the contract and the cost were never the same conversation

Athena links the contract, the plan and work breakdown structure, the estimate, the purchase orders raised against tasks, the time and materials consumed, the milestones invoiced and the budget position — so contract revenue and profit are always visible rather than reconstructed at month end.

  • One integrated flow, contract to cash

    Contract, plan, procurement, time, milestone and ledger on the same record.

  • Improve accuracy

    Cost lands on the work package that planned it, not on a cost code chosen afterwards.

  • Assess risks

    Float, dependency and resource conflicts are calculated rather than guessed.

  • Complete estimates

    Repeatable templates ensure cost is not overlooked at any stage.

The contract-to-cash flow

How the six Athena modules chain together on a single project record

1ContractScope, value, terms, milestones, rate scheduleMODULE 01Contract Mgmt2Estimate & planWBS, materials, resources, duration, budgetMODULE 02Project Mgmt3ProcurePO raised from project tasks, expenses recordedMODULE 04Project Purchase4ExecuteMobile time booking & part movement, barcode / QR / GPSMOBILE APPSTime & parts5InvoiceCustomer invoices from milestones, manual & automatedMODULE 03Customer Invoicing6Report & analyseContract revenue and profit, budget vs cost, EVMMODULES 05·06Budgets & ReportsACTUALS FEED BACK TO THE PLAN
Because the modules share one project record, an invoice raised from a milestone also updates contract revenue; a purchase order raised from a task also updates budget versus cost. There is no reconciliation step between them.

The problem

Four ways projects lose money quietly

None of these show up as a line item until the contract is closed and the margin is fixed. By then every recovery option has been spent.

01

Disconnection

The plan and the cost are separate systems

Progress is reported from the site and cost is reported from the ledger, in different vocabularies, weeks apart. Nobody reconciles them until the month is closed.

~10 days to close the month

02

Scope creep

Variations are verbal until it is too late

Additional work is instructed on site and recorded later, if at all. The cost is real; the entitlement is not documented.

Unbilled variations

03

Late signals

Slippage is discovered at the milestone

By the time a milestone moves, the float that would have absorbed the delay is already consumed and the recovery options are priced out.

Recovery options exhausted

04

Admin load

The project office is a data-entry department

The people who should be managing risk are transcribing timesheets and re-keying progress reports.

Hours lost to administration

Modules

6 integrated modules. One connected workflow.

Every module below posts to the same data model, and each carries agents that act on it.

01Margin Watch

Contract Management

  • Define contracts
  • Contract revenue and profits
  • Scope, terms & rate schedule
02Schedule Guardian

Project Management

  • Projects with WBS
  • Estimated materials & resources
  • Dependencies, float & duration
03Billing & Milestone

Customer Invoicing

  • Customer invoices from milestones
  • Manual & automated
  • Unbilled value visibility
04Procurement

Project Purchase

  • Create PO from project tasks
  • Record expenses on tasks
  • Cost lands on the WBS it belongs to
05Cost Analyst

Budgets & Costs

  • Track milestones & deliverables
  • Budgets and cost
  • Cost variance by work package
06Analytics Analyst

Reports

  • Customizable reports
  • Contract revenue and profits
  • Configurable to your own KPIs
“AMC Athena ERP Suite has comprehensive functionalities to execute the contracted projects efficiently and effectively.”
The Athena Project Management principleThe project office and the finance department stop being separate organisations that exchange spreadsheets. They read the same record.

Key features

Capabilities that make the operation actually work

01

Time Booking (mobile app)

Book time by scanning a barcode, on any Android phone, and distribute the hours across the work orders you are logged into.

02

Part Movement (mobile app)

Pick, drop and issue to work orders using bar or QR codes. Works in forklifts and trucks, and movements are GPS-tracked.

Agentic AI

From a system of record to a delivery autopilot

Sovereign by design — the agentic layer runs inside your own deployment (on-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud), against your own operational data, under your own permission model. Your records never leave your jurisdiction.

The project delivery agent loop

Every Athena delivery agent runs this cycle continuously against live project data — never once, always on

ATHENA PROJECTDELIVERYAGENT FABRIC6 goal-driven agentsalways-on · auditableSENSEwatch the projectREASONfind the causePLANrecover & re-planACTrun the workflowLIVE PROJECT INPUTSProject WBS & planPurchase ordersTime bookingsPart movements & issuesMilestone & progress statusCost & budget postingsChange requestsContract & variationsResource capacitySupplier & lead timesEXECUTED OUTCOMESSchedule re-baselinedRecovery plan draftedPO raised from taskBudget revisedChange request pricedResource re-allocatedEAC re-forecastMilestone invoice raisedLeakage flagged earlyLeadership brief writtenWHY IT IS DIFFERENTMost PM tools add a dashboard. Athena adds agentsthat write back into the plan, cost and procurement flows.HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOPEvery action is permissioned, logged and reversible.No agent commits spend or re-baselines a contract alone.CLOSE THE LOOP
01 SenseWatch the critical path, the budget and the contract for slippage, erosion and unbilled value.
02 ReasonTrace the variance to its real driver — float, lead time, rework, scope growth or resource conflict.
03 PlanModel the recovery options, price the impact, and choose the cheapest path that protects the date.
04 ActRe-baseline tasks, raise POs, price change requests, re-allocate crew, invoice milestones — then learn.
Sovereign by design — the agentic layer runs inside your own deployment (on-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud), against your own project data, with your own permission model. Contract values and cost build-ups never leave your jurisdiction.

The agent roster

Six agents, six modules, one project office that never sleeps

Schedule Guardian

Critical Path Watch

Reads WBS, dependencies, float, actual progress, look-ahead

Reasons Which task drives completion and how much float is left

Acts Re-sequences, re-baselines, raises a recovery plan for approval

Autonomy75%

Cost Analyst

Earned Value & Forecast

Reads Cost postings, time bookings, commitments, progress claims

Reasons CPI, SPI, EAC, burn rate and where the variance concentrates

Acts Re-forecasts EAC, flags budget breaches, drafts the cost brief

Autonomy80%

Scope & Change

Variation & Entitlement

Reads Task budget vs actual, contract scope, change history

Reasons Systemic vs one-off overrun; contractual entitlement; time impact

Acts Drafts and prices a change request, routes it for approval

Autonomy70%

Procurement

Buy & Expedite

Reads Task requirements, MRP position, supplier lead times, PO status

Reasons What must be ordered now; what will arrive late and what it blocks

Acts Raises POs from tasks, expedites, flags or substitutes alternatives

Autonomy60%

Resources

Capacity & Conflict

Reads Resource bookings, skills, availability, planned look-ahead

Reasons Over-allocations, missing skills, idle plant, cross-project trade-offs

Acts Levels resources, re-sequences tasks, flags overtime and hire needs

Autonomy55%

Margin Watch

Revenue & Billing

Reads Milestone status, variations, claims, contract value

Reasons Billing lag, margin leakage, unclaimed entitlement, EAC

Acts Prepares milestone invoices, raises claims, briefs revenue and profit

Autonomy65%

The same project, reviewed the same way — before and after

Manual process

  1. Site team emails a progress narrative; the project manager re-keys it into a spreadsheet
  2. Schedule slippage discovered at the monthly meeting — float already consumed
  3. Variation works get absorbed into the task; no priced change, no entitlement record
  4. Purchase orders written manually, three weeks after the need was identified on the plan
  5. Cost reconciliation with finance takes days, and only after period close
  6. Unbilled milestones surface at final account, when recovery is not possible
  7. Cycle: 4–6 weeks between a problem occurring and anyone being able to act on it

Athena + delivery agents

  1. Progress captured on site by barcode; the WBS, cost and revenue position update themselves
  2. Schedule Guardian flags the driving task and drafts a recovery while float still exists
  3. Scope & Change agent detects the overrun and raises a priced change request the same day
  4. Procurement agent raises the PO from the task requirement, sized against real lead times
  5. Budget versus cost is live by WBS package — no reconciliation step with finance
  6. Margin Watch chases unbilled milestones continuously, not at final account
  7. Cycle: minutes from signal to an approved, logged, executed action

Agentic delivery analytics

Ask your project data a question. Get a governed, cited answer.

Athena pairs the project record with an agentic analytics layer that reasons across every WBS package, commitment, timesheet, delivery note, milestone and invoice. Ask it in natural language and it writes the query, runs it, charts it, explains it, and cites the exact records behind the answer — so a number in a board pack is always traceable to its source.

Paired with LucidA — Agentic Analytics, the same capability extends across finance, supply chain and workforce, so project performance is read in the context of the whole enterprise.

  • Natural-language querying

    No report builder — ask in the language the project office already uses.

  • Predictive forecasting

    Projects EAC, slippage and variation volume before they land in the actuals.

  • Automated progress briefs

    Agents write the weekly report: what moved, why, what is at risk, what needs a decision.

  • Portfolio-wide view

    Every project, contract and commitment ranked by exposure in one list.

Which package is losing us money, and is the overrun on the critical path?

Agent answered · 1.1s · 5 sources cited

  • MEP installation is the single worst package: CPI 0.81, having consumed 112% of its budget at 64% physical progress.
  • It is on the critical path — the riser long-lead order was raised 19 days after the task required it.
  • Of the overrun, 71% traces to rework on riser penetrations logged against task 3.4.1.2 across 6 bookings.
  • 4 milestones now at risk (MS-05 to MS-08) and MS-04 invoiced below earned value by 1.2%.
  • Recommended: expedite the remaining riser batch, raise a variation for the rework, and re-sequence commissioning to recover 11 of the 14 lost days.

Agent-scored delivery risk

Probability against impact, re-scored continuously from cost, schedule and change history

123456712345PROBABILITYIMPACTMEPFIT-OUTFACADEAGENT ACTIONMEP re-scored to CRITICAL · long-lead order escalated · recovery plan drafted for approval
LowModerateHighCritical — escalation required
The risk register is a live output, not a static matrix. Every cost overrun, every late PO, every variation and every milestone slip re-scores the exposure and tells you where to intervene this week.

Full action audit trail

Every agent decision records its inputs, reasoning and the action taken.

Commercial approval gates

Variations, re-baselines and milestone invoices pass a named human gate.

Sovereign data residency

Contract values and cost build-ups never leave your jurisdiction.

Adjustable autonomy

Advise-only, then draft, then autonomous — change it without redeploying.

Analytics

Know the true position, not the last one

Earned value analysis, schedule performance and cost performance, available by task, work package, project and contract.

Earned value analysis

Cumulative value through the project to date

$14M$10.5M$7M$3.5M0P1P2P3P4P5P6P7P8PROJECT PERIODAC exceeding EV
Planned value (PV)Earned value (EV)Actual cost (AC)
The gap between earned and actual value is the whole story. Because both post from the same transactions the site is already recording, this is a live position rather than a month-end reconstruction.

Schedule performance

EV / PV

0.01.01.2+0.92SPI
Behind plan — 14 days of float consumed on the critical path.

Cost performance

EV / AC

0.01.01.2+0.94CPI
Over budget — forecast at completion now $1.2M above contract value.

Milestone billing status

Billed vs earned, by milestone

MS-01MS-02MS-03MS-04MS-05MS-06MS-07MS-08
BilledUnbilled earned

Contract revenue & profit

Live position

$24.6MCONTRACT
Revenue 62%Profit 9%Cost to complete 21%Unbilled 8%

Portfolio delivery scorecard

Configurable across the project portfolio — management review, client reporting or bid/no-bid analysis

  • Milestones completed on programme78%
  • Tasks booked to the correct WBS package97%
  • Purchase orders raised from task requirement88%
  • Progress claims submitted within 30 days94%
  • Variations priced before execution61%
  • Material issued by barcode, not paperwork99%
  • Projects with CPI at or above 1.072%
  • Contract margin within approved tolerance86%
Indicative data shown for illustration. Every indicator is configurable, and an agent flags any KPI that drifts beyond the threshold you define.

ERP suite

Project Management sits inside the ERP, not beside it

A project task can raise a purchase order that flows to purchasing and accounts payable; approved time feeds payroll and costing; contract revenue and profit post to the general ledger. No parallel reporting, no re-keying.

SCM

Supply Chain — requisitions, POs, receipting and supplier management.

FIN

Finance — GL, AR, AP, cash and configurable tax.

HR

HRMS — payroll, leave, time and attendance.

EAM

Asset Management — plant and equipment, maintenance, calibration.

MFG

Manufacturing — fabrication and assembly against the project.

PM

Project Management — the WBS, the plan, the budget and the estimate.

QA

Quality Assurance — audits, non-conformities and corrective action.

P&S

Planning & Scheduling — demand, MPS and material requirements.

PLT

Plant Management — production, despatch and site logistics.

Where it applies

Anywhere work is delivered against a contract

Construction and engineering are the primary fit, but the requirement is simpler: a contract, a budget and a completion date.

Construction & EngineeringProject ManufacturingAviation & DefenceAircraft MROOil & GasField ServiceInfrastructure & WaterTrading & Distribution

Implementation

Live in weeks, not quarters

A pilot in eight to twelve weeks, then scale by site, function and route.

1Week 1–2

Discovery

Contract structures, estimating method, WBS standards and billing rules.

2Week 3–5

Configure

Templates, cost codes, milestone rules, approval paths and KPIs.

3Week 6–7

Integrate

Finance, payroll, procurement and any legacy project data.

4Week 8–10

Pilot

One project, live from estimate to first milestone invoice.

5Week 11+

Go live

Extend project by project, then portfolio by portfolio.

Any device, anywhere

Site time booking and part movement on the handset in your pocket.

Live cost, not month-end

Variance by work package while the work is still open.

Sovereign & secure

On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud in your region.

Outcomes

What changes in the first project year

↓ 70%

Month-end reconciliation

↑ 3×

Earlier risk detection

100%

Variations priced before execution

Indicative outcomes from typical deployments. Actual results depend on scope, data quality and process maturity.

FAQ

Project & Contract Management — frequently asked questions

The questions procurement, security and engineering ask before the first call.

What is project and contract management software?

It is one integrated system that manages the commercial and delivery life of a project, from contract signature to cash collection. It links the contract, the project plan and work breakdown structure, the estimate of materials and resources, the purchase orders raised against project tasks, the time and materials actually consumed, the milestones used to invoice the customer, and the budget and cost position — so that contract revenue and profit are always visible rather than reconstructed at month end.

Which modules does Athena Project Management include?

Six integrated modules. Contract Management defines contracts and tracks contract revenue and profit. Project Management builds projects with a work breakdown structure and estimated materials and resources. Customer Invoicing raises invoices from milestones, manually or automatically. Project Purchase creates purchase orders from project tasks and records expenses against those tasks. Budgets and Costs track milestones, deliverables, budgets and cost. Reports delivers customisable reports on contract revenue and profit. Field execution is supported by mobile time booking and part movement applications.

Can Athena build a project with a work breakdown structure?

Yes. Projects are created with a work breakdown structure so that deliverables, activities, materials and resources are decomposed to the level of detail your estimating and reporting require. Dependencies, durations and resources are held against the structure, which is what allows schedule performance, float and resource conflicts to be calculated rather than guessed. Standard and repeatable templates ensure costs are not overlooked at any stage.

How do you raise a purchase order from a project task?

Purchase orders are created directly from project tasks, so a requirement identified on the plan becomes a committed order without re-keying. Expenses are then recorded against the same tasks, which means the cost of the project accumulates at the level of the work breakdown structure that planned it — and budget versus actual is always available by task, work package, project and contract.

How does milestone billing work in Athena?

Customer invoices are raised from milestones on the project, either manually or automatically. Milestones, deliverables and their progress are tracked in the same module that tracks budget and cost, so the billed amount, the earned value and the recognised contract revenue stay consistent. Unbilled milestone value is visible on the dashboard, which matters because unbilled value and unpriced variations are two of the most common causes of margin leakage on construction projects.

Does Athena support earned value management?

Yes. Because time booking, part movement, purchasing and invoicing all post into the same project structure, Athena can calculate planned value, earned value and actual cost, and from them the schedule performance index, the cost performance index and the estimate at completion. Variance is available by task, work package, project and contract, and the cost analyst agent re-forecasts the estimate at completion continuously as new cost and progress data arrives.

How do the mobile time booking and part movement apps work?

The time booking mobile app lets operatives book time by scanning a barcode, works on any Android phone, and distributes the hours worked across the work orders they are logged into. The part movement app supports picking, dropping and issuing items to work orders, moving items between locations and picking for shipments, using barcodes or QR codes. Devices can be used in forklifts and trucks and movements tracked through GPS — so a material discrepancy becomes a traceable movement record rather than an unexplained variance.

How does agentic AI automate project delivery?

Athena deploys goal-driven agents that run a continuous sense, reason, plan, act and learn cycle over live project data. They sense slippage, erosion and unbilled value on the critical path, budget and contract; reason about the real driver — float, lead time, rework, scope growth or a resource conflict; plan recovery options and choose the cheapest path that protects the date; and act inside the workflow your project office already uses, by re-baselining tasks, raising POs from task requirements, revising budgets, routing priced change requests, re-allocating resources and preparing milestone invoices. Every action is permissioned, logged and reversible.

Does Athena Project Management integrate with ERP and finance?

Yes. Project Management sits inside the AMC Athena ERP suite alongside Supply Chain, Finance Management, HRMS, Asset Management, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Planning and Scheduling. A project task can create a purchase order that flows to purchasing and accounts payable, approved time feeds payroll and costing, and contract revenue and profit post to the general ledger. That means no parallel reporting and no re-keying between the project office and the finance department.

Which industries is Athena Project Management built for?

Construction and engineering are the primary fit, and project manufacturing is a core use case. The same modules are used across aviation and defence programmes, aircraft MRO, oil and gas capital projects, field service, manufacturing plants, water and utilities, and trading and distribution operations — anywhere work is delivered against a contract, a budget and a completion date.

Can Athena Project Management be deployed on-premise?

Yes. Athena is architected as a sovereign platform and can be deployed on-premise, in a private cloud, or in a sovereign cloud region. This matters for construction and engineering groups where contract values, cost build-ups and commercial terms are commercially sensitive, and for defence and national oil and gas projects where data residency is a contractual requirement. The agentic layer runs inside the same deployment, against your own data, under your own permission model.

Live demo

See project & contract management run on Athena

We will configure a working scenario around an operation like yours, switch the agentic layer on live, and let you judge it against real work rather than a slide.

A working demo, not a slideshow

Configured around a scenario like yours.

Sovereign deployment options

On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud.

Phased rollout

Pilot first, then scale by site and function.

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