AI-powered scenario planning
Agencies can confidently prioritize projects, simulate trade‑offs and align each investment with their long-term vision
What is Essentials Plan?
Essentials Plan empowers local agencies to capture funding needs, prioritize projects, and build multiyear capital improvement plans with confidence. With AI-powered scenario planning, agencies can confidently prioritize projects, simulate trade‑offs and align each investment with their long-term vision—ensuring fiscal responsibility while building trust and delivering lasting community value.
- Optimize CIP planning with smart fund allocation
- Stay on top of project financials with a single view
- Accelerate planning cycles with intelligent automation
How Aurigo Essentials makes a difference
Build multiyear CIP programs that can transition quickly into action
Intelligently compare capital planning scenarios based on risk, scoring, financials, and timelines
Confidently select the right projects using purpose-built frameworks aligned with strategic goals
Sync planning and execution to ensure budgets and forecasts stay accurate
Explore the key features of Aurigo Essentials Plan
Essentials Plan equips local agencies to plan and manage capital programs with greater accuracy and control. From identifying business needs and scoping project financials to multiyear capital planning and cashflow oversight, it connects teams, data, and decisions across the planning life cycle. With built-in collaboration, integrations, and reporting tools, agencies gain full visibility into funding, progress, and performance.
Capture agency and public needs
Use a standardized framework to capture and evaluate investment ideas, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, available funds, benefits, and risk.
Get a comprehensive view of project financial and funding
Evaluate financial health with powerful cashflow tools. Get real-time view on portfolio costs, forecasts, and funding needs.
Optimize your capital program with AI-powered scenario planning
Intelligently allocate available funds to the most impactful projects using smart scoring, data-driven prioritization, and AI-powered what-if analysis, to build multiyear CIP efficiently.
Connect with project execution to sync data in real time
Align execution with approved budgets and keep capital plans updated with actuals and commitments through integration with Essentials Build or leading PMIS tools.
Stay ahead of issues with real-time program insights
Monitor the health of your entire capital program with a centralized, real-time dashboard. Smart alerts and notifications keep stakeholders updated on critical changes, enabling timely action, early issue resolution, and consistent delivery.
Unify capital planning and project execution
Essentials Plan and Build work together to create a seamless flow of data from long-term planning through project execution. Funding decisions carry forward into delivery, while actuals and commitments sync back—keeping plans accurate, actionable, and giving teams real-time visibility into progress.
Is Aurigo Essentials Plan right for you?
Essentials Plan is purpose-built for capital planners, public works directors, CFOs, and city managers. It addresses the needs of local agencies with lean teams that deal with spreadsheets, SharePoint, and other manual processes that are cumbersome and prone to error. Essentials Plan removes the hassle with a modern, solution to plan, prioritize, and fund projects with confidence.
Executives/decision makers
Essentials Plan empowers you and your team to make smarter fund allocations and prioritize high-impact projects and leverage AI for better decisions. Plan and manage capital programs across multiple years while tracking portfolios and maintaining control from start to finish.
Capital planning and project teams
Cut scenario planning and cashflow forecasting time from hours to minutes with AI and automation. Monitor budgets against actuals, manage risks effectively, and connect capital planning with project delivery through centralized reporting in one platform.
How to buy?
With the Essentials Suite, you choose the path that fits your agency best: bundle Plan and Build together for seamless, end-to-end capital project management, or start with either solution individually. Move past the long RFP cycles. Start in days, not months. Connect with us to learn more.