The plan moves the moment the site does.
Most schedules are accurate the day they are drawn and drift from there. Buildflic keeps the timeline live, tracking real progress against the plan and flagging the slips that will actually cost you the finish date.
Finishing trade slipped behind on Floor 3
->Cascades to handover milestone: +4 days if unaddressed
From a static Gantt to a living timeline.
The difference is the dependency map - it turns a single late task into a clear, traceable impact on everything downstream.
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Build the timeline with real dependencies
Lay out tasks, trades and milestones with the links between them - which task cannot start until another finishes. That dependency map is what makes a slip traceable later.
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Log real progress against the plan
As work is reported and site photos come in, each task moves against its planned position. The plan reflects what is actually built, not what was scheduled.
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Read the variance the moment it appears
When a task falls behind its planned line, Buildflic does not just mark it late - it walks the dependency chain to see what it holds up.
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Flag only the slips that matter
A delay with float absorbs quietly. A delay on the critical path is surfaced with its calculated downstream impact, so attention goes where it changes the finish date.
One delay, followed end to end.
Here is a single slip on Floor 3, traced through the dependency chain to the handover milestone - exactly what the engine calculates.
What the engine did
The Floor 3 finishing slip had no float left, so it pushed snagging and, in turn, the client handover. Buildflic flagged the handover milestone the same day the finishing task fell behind - not at the monthly review, four weeks later.
Where a delay still needs your call
Buildflic calculates the downstream impact from the dependency map you set. If two trades can genuinely overlap to recover time, that is a site decision - the engine shows the impact clearly, then re-times the plan around the call you make.
Catch the slip that moves the finish date.
See your own timeline tracked live, with cascading delays flagged the day they happen instead of weeks later.