Dependency and Critical Path Control System

Outcome: Critical dependencies are defined as owned commitments, monitored through evidence and escalated early enough for management action.

Who this is for: Project or programme leader whose plans contain dates and tasks but fail to expose external commitments, decision dependencies and a small number of constraints that govern the whole outcome.

Project, programme and portfolio execution

Buy as much help as the problem deserves.

Each depth is complete in itself: you can stop after any of them and still have your money's worth.

Depth 1

The answer

OctaFlow reconstructs milestones, logical and resource dependencies, decision lead times, external commitments, evidence and past delay. The customer receives a dependency diagnosis, verified critical route, uncertainty map, priority constraints, recovery options, ownership and near-term control plan.

Finished when your team can carry out the plan without us.

$3,000
Depth 2

The working method

OctaFlow installs a control product with dependency contracts, predecessor and successor criteria, evidence and confidence fields, commitment dates, owner acceptance, criticality and float rules, watchlist, change impact method, escalation clocks, review agenda and scenario tests.

Finished when your team runs it on real cases and it holds.

$9,000
Depth 3

The full system

OctaFlow connects approved project, work, resource and decision sources. It maintains dependency state, identifies changes to the critical route, alerts affected owners, models downstream consequences and preserves decisions, re-plans and realised effects.

Finished when it works under real conditions we agreed in advance.

$40,000A 25% deposit commences the work. The remaining 75% is payable on completion.

A person reads every order before work starts. If it is the wrong fit, we say so and refund it. Prices are in USD and Octaflow adds no VAT or sales tax.

Proof and ownership

The answer passes when teams agree the few constraints that govern delivery and the evidence supporting them. The working method passes when a live dependency change is detected, accepted and managed before milestone failure. The full system passes when connected evidence recalculates the affected route, reaches the correct owners and records a timely intervention.

Commercial terms: Prices are in USD. OctaFlow adds no VAT, sales tax or other transaction tax. For any selected depth priced above $10,000, a 25% deposit is payable to commence and the remaining 75% is payable when the work is completed.

Standard exclusions: Travel, software licences, hosting, third-party data, external regulated opinions, major migration, custom applications and 24/7 support unless separately agreed.

Your business should get smarter every time it solves a problem. Even when we helped.

Five terms sit in every engagement, agreed before work starts. None of them can be traded out, at any depth, at any price.

training on your data never

Nothing you share with us teaches anyone else's system.

what we build for you yours

Files, rules, test cases and the record of what changed, in formats you can read.

model and provider swappable

Switch models, switch suppliers or step away from AI altogether. What we built still works.

decisions that matter your people

Automation does the carrying, never the choosing.

exit and handover day one

Handover, documentation and deletion of our access are agreed before we start.

For larger organisations
Work inside your perimeter or your cloud GDPR-aligned handling, agreed in writing Evidence an auditor can open Procurement-ready documentation Reference conversations on request

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