Planera Announces Support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Unlock Seamless AI-Driven Construction Scheduling and Cross-Platform Workflows

Planera, a leading provider of modern, AI-native CPM scheduling software for the construction industry, today announced upcoming for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard designed to seamlessly and securely connect AI assistants and frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) with enterprise applications and databases.

With this new integration, Planera becomes one of the first construction technology platforms to provide native MCP connectivity. The capability allows project teams, schedulers, and project executives to query live Planera schedules directly from leading AI environments—including Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT—eliminating manual data extraction and enabling real-time, cross-platform intelligence across the entire project lifecycle.

Historically, connecting critical path scheduling data with enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, and field management software has required custom APIs, brittle point-to-point integrations, or labor-intensive manual exports. By adopting MCP, Planera provides a standardized, secure bridge that allows AI models to dynamically retrieve and synthesize scheduling data alongside information from other connected business systems.

Through natural language prompts within their AI interface of choice, teams can now:

• Perform Instant Schedule & Risk Analysis: Ask plain-language questions—such as identifying projects at risk or analyzing critical path drivers—and receive immediate, context-grounded insights directly from Planera.
• Execute Multi-Platform Workflow Automation: Combine live Planera schedule data with external financial and operational systems to generate dynamic deliverables, such as interactive cash-flow and cost-burn curves, without human context-switching.
• Eliminate Integration Friction: Access enterprise-grade schedule data directly within standard AI workflows without the need for bespoke software development or complex engineering overhead.

“For decades, the construction industry has grappled with fragmented tools and disconnected workflows,” said Nitin Bhandari, CEO of Planera. “MCP fundamentally shifts how teams interact with their data. By exposing Planera’s live scheduling engine to frontier AI models like Claude and ChatGPT, we are empowering builders to ask complex questions across their software ecosystem and receive instant, actionable answers and interactive artifacts.”