The assurance & productivity partner for capital programme delivery
Our construction productivity platform brings design, planning and construction into one view and shows delay six weeks before it reaches site. We then work with you and your supply chain to clear it.
On major programmes supported by this way of working.
"I think it's great. The platform is leading in many respects."
Major Infrastructure Programme DirectorWhat Devout does
A good factory measures every stage the same way, sees a problem coming before it stops the line, and fixes the cause rather than the symptom. We bring that discipline to design and construction together. Our platform shows where the programme stands, and we work it with you.
Six weeks ahead, so drawings, materials and access are ready before the work arrives and gangs are never stood down waiting.
Across every shift and every drawing, to find the causes that keep costing time. We work those out with you and lift productivity as we go.
Drawings are a production run. Each one is tied to the work it releases, checked at the gate, and signed off before site needs it.
The six week look-ahead is the line schedule. Every constraint has an owner and is cleared before the work arrives.
Every shift is a unit of output. Measured against plan, with every miss coded, priced and acted on.
Why it matters
A drawing a week late, an approval still waiting, a constraint nobody has cleared. None of them look urgent on the day. Six weeks later they are gangs stood down and a completion date moving, and every month of overrun runs at the full time-related cost of the site.
drawings late today
activities held up over the next six weeks
on the completion date, at the full cost of the site
From a demonstration programme. The chain is the same on every job; only the numbers change.
How is this going to make us money, gang by gang and drawing by drawing?
Is the design assured and signed off before it reaches site, so the teams can just build?
Does everyone own the right risks, the client included, and can we see who is holding what up?
Where are the interfaces on the work still to come, so one trade never holds up the next?
Every programme looks back at the end and asks why it did not act at the beginning. We put these answers in front of you every week, while there is still time to act on them.
How it works
Very little new is asked of anyone. Each stage is measured the same way in our platform, and every page tells each person what to do next.
Every drawing is tied to the work it releases. A short weekly return gives the reason for any drawing running late, and maturity is checked at release: sequence, temporary works, access, interfaces and tolerances.
You see which drawings are in time for site, and what late design is costing.
A rolling six week look-ahead shows what has to be cleared tomorrow, next week and in weeks 2 to 6, whether the client or the contractor owns it, and the value of work it holds up.
You see how reliably plans are kept, week by week, in the platform.
Site teams record output and any reason work did not complete on a phone, in about a minute, checked by a supervisor before it counts. Lost time is priced against the work still to build.
You see where the programme finishes if nothing changes, and what would move it.
We set agreed productivity uplift targets with your supply chain. Every non-completion code carries an owned action, and we take the few causes costing most into root cause sessions, using lean thinking, and track them to closure.
You see progress against the agreed targets, week by week.
The platform that comes with us
Our platform draws together what your teams already record and adds what no single system gives you: design tied to the work it releases, delay priced six weeks before it lands, and every lost hour coded, priced and given an owner. Every week it puts one picture in front of the client, the Project Manager and the contractor, with AI narrated weekly and monthly reports. Your IT team has nothing to run, and the AI looks only inward, at your own programme's data.
Inside the platform
Straight from the platform, on demonstration data: design and construction on one programme view, what the client and the contractor each owe, and how every gang delivered against its plan.
NEC4 and PAS 4010
Two standards now shape how capital programmes are run and reported. Our platform is set up to help you meet both, without adding to the reporting load on your teams.
Under NEC4 the Project Manager sits between the client and the contractor and has to manage both fairly. The platform gives that role one honest picture of the programme, early enough to act on.
PAS 4010 sets out new specifications for how productivity is planned, measured and reported across a programme. It asks for data most programmes have not gathered before. Our platform gathers it, from design through to site, and produces the reporting the specification asks for.
Every page of the platform shows which PAS 4010 requirements it helps you evidence.
Who it helps
Clients, contractors, designers and subcontractors all see the same programme, each at their own level, with the same rules for all.
See the whole programme as one, and what you owe it. Your decisions, approvals and answers sit beside the contractor's, each with a date and the work it holds up. Reporting that stands up to your board and your regulator.
Proof of where delays really start, and a clear view of what is owed to you, such as drawings and approvals. Design signed off before you build, so everyone can just go, and margin protected on every gang and every drawing.
A minute a shift on a phone, and a clear list of what is ready to build next week. It helps the gang deliver, helps you manage your subcontractors, and records the reasons fairly.
"When each contractor reports its own way, the client sees fifteen versions and none of the interfaces between them. One system, one set of codes, one picture, and the interfaces are visible to everyone."
Commercial Director, infrastructure programmes
Why Devout
Most tools track the site or plan the work. Ours tracks design too, so a late drawing is seen and priced before it stops a gang.
Decisions, approvals and answers owed by the client sit beside the contractor's, with the same rules and the same dates.
Six weeks ahead so gangs can go, and back across every shift to fix the causes that keep costing time.
We work the findings with your supply chain every week until the gain shows in your own data. Nothing is left with your team to run.
Where we work
Anywhere design, planning and construction run across many assets and supply chain partners at once.
Reservoirs, networks and treatment, with delivery efficiency under regulatory scrutiny.
An established track record on the national road network, where the productivity gains were delivered.
Long programmes where small rate improvements move the finish date.
Prior delivery experience on a major nuclear new build civils programme.
Large earthworks, materials handling and civils, where plant utilisation sets the cost of delivery.
Proof of where delays really start, design signed off before you build, and margin protected on every gang and every drawing.
How we engage
Ideally we join at the start, when one shared view costs least to set up and protects the most. We also join programmes already in delivery and help bring them back on track. The first step is the same either way.
Thirty minutes, on a call or in person. We walk design, planning and construction on one view using a demonstration programme, and talk about where yours stands. Nothing to prepare.
Book a meeting →Your programme and contract loaded, drawings tied to the work they release, and codes agreed with every contractor.
Tomorrow's list at the morning meeting, the look-ahead at the weekly planning meeting, and a monthly productivity forum with your supply chain.
Productivity targets agreed with your supply chain, the few causes costing most worked to closure, and the gain shown in your own data.
What you get
Everyone on the programme gains something different. Here is what changes for each of you, and what it is worth.
"Sport taught me that teamwork is the best way to win. I believe the same in business. Teamwork, collaboration and alignment are how you achieve your goals. It is why our strapline is driving the plan, together."
Connect on LinkedIn →Who you'll be working with
Managing Director
I have spent more than twenty years in strategy, operations and productivity across capital project and programme delivery, working in the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. After a professional sporting career I built on my graduate studies with an MBA, and later a sustainability qualification from Cambridge, then went on to work on major programmes with organisations including Heathrow, National Highways, BP, the Sizewell C nuclear build, BHP Billiton, Anglo American and De Beers, along with the majority of the UK's tier one contractors and many tier two specialist contractors.
Across those programmes I kept seeing the same thing: schedule and cost running over, often by tens of millions of pounds. Everyone could point at the problems. What I could never find was a way of seeing them coming, pricing them against the work still to build, and a team that stayed on to drive the value out.
That is why I started Devout Consulting four years ago. I wanted a consultancy armed with both: a platform that runs a programme the way a good factory runs a production line, design and construction measured the same way and managed six weeks ahead, and the people to take that value and drive it out with the supply chain.
That is what we built. The platform brings design, planning and construction together on one view, finds and prices the opportunity, and our people go in and work with you and your supply chain to turn it into a real outcome.
One more thing I have learned along the way. Governance on capital project delivery is tightening, and oversight bodies expect reporting that stands up at every level, from the site to the board. It is why clients increasingly bring us in from the start, as the assurance and productivity partner across the life of the programme. Seen early, the risks never become losses, and the saving can run to millions of pounds.
Start here
We help major capital programmes finish on schedule and on budget. Our construction productivity platform brings design, planning and construction into one view and shows delay six weeks before it reaches site. We then work with you and your supply chain to clear it.
