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Maturity with Confidence

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What is the Cost Controls Maturity Model?

4 Levels, Clear Outcomes

Contruent’s Cost Controls Maturity Model is a practical guide to help organizations benchmark their current state and create a path toward integrated, predictive and optimized cost management. Designed with decades of industry insight, this model addresses the core drivers of success — people, process, tools and insight — and maps them to measurable impact across cost, schedule and risk.

Level	Characteristics	Outcomes
Level 1: Emerging	Siloed, manual, conflicting data	High overruns & risk exposure
Level 2: Fundamental	Defined roles, siloed tools, reactive	Basic visibility, partial control
Level 3: Advanced	Collaborative, integrated, proactive	On-time/on-budget, root cause analysis
Level 4: Optimized	AI-driven, predictive, automated	Continuous improvement, data-backed decisions

Why This Matters for Capital Project Success

As projects grow in complexity, organizations must move beyond spreadsheets and disconnected workflows. This model links maturity to real business outcomes

Improve Planning for Project Success

Optimize Project Spend & Performance

Improve Visibility for Informed Decisions

Account for Change & Maximize Efficiency

Manage Contracts & Contractor Activity

For Customers

Align internal teams on project controls strategy
Prioritize upgrades to workflows and reporting
Justify improvement plans and tech investments with clear benchmarks.

For Prospects

Understand how proven industry leaders approach cost controls
Compare your current tools with modern solutions
Learn how Contruent supports scalable digital transformation

Download the Model

See Where You Are — and What’s Possible

This downloadable PDF gives you access to the full maturity framework, including:

A Drivers & Impacts matrix across 4 maturity levels
Business Outcome accelerators at each stage
Practical benchmarks for evaluating cost, schedule and risk maturity

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About Contruent

Purpose-Built for the World’s Most Ambitious Projects

Contruent (formerly Ares Prism) empowers capital project owners, EPCs, and contractors to streamline controls across the entire project lifecycle. With an integrated platform that brings together cost, schedule, contracts, changes, and reporting, we help teams reduce risk, increase visibility, and deliver on time and on budget.