Aurigo Essentials Plan
AI-native platform to prioritize, fund, and create your capital plans
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What is Aurigo Essentials Plan?
Essentials Plan empowers local agencies to capture funding needs, prioritize projects, and build multiyear capital improvement plans with confidence. With 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 Plan makes a difference
Build multiyear CIP programs that move quickly into action
Compare planning scenarios by risk, scoring, financials, and timelines
Select the right projects with frameworks aligned to strategic goals
Sync planning and execution to keep budgets and forecasts accurate
Explore the key features of Aurigo Essentials Plan
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 the project's finances 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 scenario planning
Intelligently allocate available funds to the most impactful projects using smart scoring, data-driven prioritization, and what-if analysis to build a 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.
Integrate seamlessly across multiple platforms
You don’t have to change your legacy systems. Our products seamlessly integrate with over 100+ tools
Integrate seamlessly across multiple platforms
You don’t have to change your legacy systems. Our products seamlessly integrate with over 100+ tools
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, prioritize high-impact projects, and leverage AI for better decisions. Plan and manage capital programs over multiple years, track portfolios, and maintain 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 to project delivery through centralized reporting in a single platform.
Frequently asked questions
How can small, regional, and mid-sized cities benefit from CIP management software?
Smaller agencies, even those with lighter programs or fewer projects, benefit from moving beyond spreadsheets. Essentials Plan provides structure, visibility, automated scoring, and clear funding allocation without heavy IT overhead, giving lean teams enterprise-grade control.
How can over- or under-budgeting across portfolios be avoided?
While many solutions fail to connect project data with financial planning, leading to errors and outdated forecasts, Essentials Plan provides real-time fund balances, constraint checks, and alerts, ensuring you always budget with accurate, up-to-date financial visibility.
How can projects be prioritized without bias?
Generic tools rely on subjective ranking and don’t support public-agency scoring models. Essentials Plan provides built-in government scoring frameworks, weighted criteria, and transparent evaluation so projects are prioritized fairly and without bias.
How can executives and decision-makers ensure smarter fund allocation and choose the right high-impact projects?
Essentials Plan offers a standardized scoring template, built-in AI to prioritize, plan, and compare projects across a multiyear horizon, and complete portfolio visibility—helping leaders confidently pick the right projects and allocate funds for maximum community impact
How can capital planning and project teams reduce the time spent on scenario planning and cashflow forecasting?
Essentials Plan uses automation and AI to cut cashflow forecasting and scenario planning from hours to minutes. Teams can compare scenarios on the go, weigh constraints, and quickly select the best path forward.
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