Cyriac Abraham45 years in the field. One system to show for it.
"I have spent my entire career on projects where the gap between what is actually happening and what leadership believes is happening gets people hurt, gets budgets blown, and gets careers ended. The Daily Margin Protection System exists because I got tired of watching it happen."
45 years. Four continents. One consistent observation.
Cyriac Abraham has spent his career on the front lines of some of the world's most complex construction projects — from oil refineries and gas processing plants to renewable energy infrastructure and heavy civil works.
Over four decades, he held leadership roles at Bechtel, CH2M Hill, SNC-Lavalin, and URS. He has managed cost engineering teams, project control functions, and integrated delivery systems on projects spanning North America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He went on to consult for Shell, BP, Accenture, and Siemens.
Everywhere he went, he observed the same pattern: projects that looked healthy on paper were silently bleeding margin. By the time leadership saw the real numbers, it was too late to recover.
- 22Years on siteIndia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait — site engineer, construction manager, project manager, managing partner (own company, India)
- 23Years in project controls leadershipEmployed: Bechtel, CH2M Hill, URS — discipline lead to Project Controls Director · Consultant: Shell, BP, Accenture, Siemens
- 13GW of power generationPower plants, combined cycle, and energy infrastructure across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America
- 32MTPA of oil and LNGUpstream and downstream oil and gas facilities across the Middle East, Asia, and North America
- 560MW of renewable energyWind energy infrastructure across North America
"Project Controls is to project management what instrumentation and controls is to a process plant. It should monitor, guide, and optimise every critical function in real time — not just dollars and dates."
In construction, that means health and safety, quality, productivity, schedule, cost, risk, and resources — all of it, simultaneously, at the activity level, every day. Not reconciled at month-end. Not assembled manually from four disconnected systems. Daily. Automatically. With enough time to act on what it tells you.
No tool existed that did this. So Cyriac built one.
The problems he had observed were universal.
Approaching the later years of his career, Cyriac enrolled in a Ph.D. programme to investigate something he had observed repeatedly across four decades: construction projects were failing at a rate that defied explanation given how much the industry had invested in software, process, and talent.
His research confirmed what he had suspected. The industry loses over a trillion dollars annually to cost overruns and schedule failures. Not because people lack skill — because the systems designed to give them real-time clarity were too manual, too fragmented, and too slow. The problems he had observed across four decades were not isolated. They were universal.
Midway through his thesis, he made a decision. A dissertation left on a shelf would help no one on a live project. A working solution might. He stopped writing and started building.
"I dropped out of the Ph.D. programme during my thesis. I thought developing a solution is more helpful to the practitioners than another thesis left on a shelf."
One question. One answer.
The decision to stop writing and start building brought with it a question he had been circling for years — the question that every person approaching the end of a long career eventually faces:
"Do I want to take everything I have learned across all my years — and let it go to the grave? Or do I find a way to make it useful for others?"
The Daily Margin Protection System is his answer.
Field wisdom, rebuilt in technology.
No angel investors. No venture funding. Bootstrapped from the ground up, with a team of engineers who shared the same conviction: that construction projects fail not for lack of data, but for lack of timely data.
- Cost, schedule, safety, and quality on one activity record — updated daily
- Earned value methodology applied at the activity level, every day
- The gap between site events and leadership visibility — reduced from 23 days to one
- Built by someone who has stood on those sites and felt the cost of not knowing
- The core architecture is protected by nine pending patents.
"To a construction project, the Daily Margin Protection System is what instrumentation and controls is to a process plant — a precise, real-time system that helps every person do their part, safely and successfully."
It is not software for software's sake. It is the answer to a question Cyriac first asked on a construction site in Libya forty years ago — and could not find a satisfactory answer to until he built one himself.
If the problem is familiar, the conversation is worth having.
If you are running fixed-price projects and the gap between what is happening on site and what your leadership team sees is measured in weeks — a 20-minute discussion is enough to determine whether the Daily Margin Protection System is the right fit.
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