75 checks. Four frameworks. One source of truth.
Different clients ask for different frameworks. Risk Studio runs all four against the same schedule, every time. Every failed check explains why, and points to the row, column, or activity that caused it.
Proprietary. Built from real schemes and real client conversations.
Blind spot — heavy on risk‑loadability; light on industry‑standard schedule mechanics. Pair with DCMA for that.US DoD industry standard. The default ask from most clients.
Blind spot — doesn't cover schedule narrative quality. That's where CIOB PP21 picks up.Chartered Institute of Building's planning protocol.
Blind spot — strong on protocol and documentation; quieter on objective numeric thresholds. DCMA and Acumen give you those.Acumen Fuse Schedule Quality Index.
Blind spot — score‑based summary is great for portfolio comparison; less so for explaining a single bad check to a planner. Use SOMA's drill‑down for that.Which framework fits which conversation?
| Framework | Best for | Origin | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMA QSRA Readiness V2.9 | Risk-loadability assessment before Monte Carlo. The most opinionated checks in the toolkit. | SOMA Project Controls — built from delivery experience. | 39 checks across 6 domains |
| DCMA 14-Point | Default client ask on UK government and US DoD-influenced contracts. | US Defense Contract Management Agency. | 14 checks, thresholds configurable |
| CIOB PP21 | Major UK construction frameworks. Chartered Institute of Building standard. | Chartered Institute of Building. | 12 metrics of planning protocol |
| Acumen Fuse SQI | Comparable scoring across schemes. Schedule Quality Index for portfolio reporting. | Deltek Acumen Fuse. | 10 metric Schedule Quality Index |
Every failure has a story you can tell.
No framework is useful if "the check failed" is all you can say. Risk Studio's drill-down panel explains every check — what it tests, why it matters to a planner, the threshold or rule used, and the exact source row that triggered the failure.
Worked example · DCMA #4 High Float
DCMA #4 High Float fired with 8.4% of activities over 44 days of float — comfortably above the 5% threshold. Tracing the finding through Risk Studio's drill-down found 14 activities sitting in WBS 3.1.4 Pavement missing predecessors entirely. Two-hour fix in the planner's tool, one period gain on the next run. That's what "every failure has a story you can tell" looks like in practice.
- Why-this-fails panel — slide-in from right, planner-meaningful explanations.
- Per-check copy + email + open-in-Lens actions — paste a finding straight into a planner email or jump to the activity in Schedule Lens.
- Add-to-agenda — pin findings into a list to work through with the planner.
- Source-row trace — every failure links back to the input that caused it.
Send us an XER. Get all 75 checks back in 24 hours.
Drop a schedule into the conversation. We'll run SOMA QSRA Readiness, DCMA 14‑Point, CIOB PP21 and Acumen Fuse SQI against it — same period, same source, four framework views ready to share by the next working day.