ProjectVIEW AI Assistant

The DANAOS ProjectVIEW AI Assistant is an AI assistant for ERP in construction, shipbuilding and capital projects that answers questions in plain language on live ProjectVIEW ERP data. Directors, project managers and cost controllers ask a question such as “Why is Project Alpha over budget?” and get an answer that draws on their own budgets, commitments and approvals. It is part of ProjectVIEW AI, the AI add-on to ProjectVIEW ERP.

The assistant does not replace ERP screens or reports. It shortens the path to them. Instead of building a report, filtering it and reading it, you ask the question and get the answer with the figures behind it. It aims at the questions that today take a phone call, an email and a spreadsheet to answer.

You can ask about anything your role can see in ProjectVIEW ERP. Answers come from the BoQ ↔ WBS ↔ Cost Codes structure, so cost, progress and commercial data line up.

The assistant also supports semantic search across project records, document ingestion and contract clause extraction, so you can ask about a contract term as well as a cost figure.

Yes. Executives can ask for a briefing across a portfolio, a region or a single project. A typical briefing covers projects at risk of overrun, margin erosion, cash flow position, open variations and pending approvals. Each point refers back to the ERP records, so a director can drill into any figure or forward it to the responsible manager.

This is the practical use of the principle that ERP records what happened and AI explains why it happened and what will happen next. See how this supports C-level executives and cost controllers, and how it builds on ProjectVIEW ERP cost control.

Voice capture is part of the ProjectVIEW AI voice and headless approach; we confirm its availability for your deployment during scoping. It also serves data entry, not only questions. A site engineer dictates the daily site log, and speech-to-text produces a draft that the user reviews before saving. Then the system links what the user said to the right BoQ items, WBS packages and cost codes. It fills ERP fields only after validation and authorisation.

Voice recordings alone do not establish contractual entitlement or certified progress. People speak. AI interprets. ProjectVIEW ERP structures, validates and controls. For the full voice pipeline, see how ProjectVIEW AI works.

The assistant works in natural language, not in query syntax. The public Ask bar on danaos-projects.com, which runs on ProjectVIEW AI, already answers visitors in several languages. During scoping, we confirm language coverage inside your own ERP environment, together with your deployment option.

Each role asks different questions. The assistant answers within the scope of that role.

The same question asked by two people can return different answers, because each sees only the projects and records their role allows.

The limits are deliberate. They are what make the answers usable in a project business.

1. All answers draw on ERP data. The assistant retrieves the relevant records at the time of the question. However, if the data is not in the ERP, or nobody has mapped it to BoQ, WBS and cost codes, the assistant says so rather than guessing.
2. Role permissions apply. Every question follows Identity → Role → Permission → Data → AI → Action. A user sees only the projects, figures and documents their role allows.
3. No consequential action without approval. The assistant can prepare an entry or a recommendation. A person approves it.
4. Data quality still matters. AI will not fix broken processes. It will amplify them. Clean commitments and timely cost allocation give better answers.

For processes that need continuous monitoring rather than a question, see ProjectVIEW AI Agents.