Nialli

What Nialli does

Nialli Inc. is a Calgary-based private software company that builds visual, hands-on construction planning software purpose-built around the Last Planner System (LPS), a Lean construction framework. Its primary product, Nialli Visual Planner, is a web-based, touch-enabled collaborative planning application deployed on Microsoft Azure that allows construction teams to run Big Room pull-planning sessions, track constraints, and measure Percent Plan Complete (PPC). The product is supplemented by Nialli Design Planner, a Windows desktop application for design-phase planning with phase pull functionality and Power BI integration, and Nialli Workspace, a secure enterprise visual collaboration tool.

The company's go-to-market is enterprise SaaS with flat, plan-based subscription pricing sold via direct sales (quote-based), supported by a 30-day free trial, a self-serve web onboarding flow, and a free educator program for post-secondary construction management courses. Revenue streams consist of subscription fees for Visual Planner and enterprise licensing for Workspace, plus non-monetized educational access. The platform integrates with Microsoft Power BI for analytics and imports master schedule data from Primavera P6 and similar systems, anchoring it within the Microsoft and incumbent construction PM ecosystems.

Nialli serves general contractors, specialty trades, owners, engineers, and schedulers involved in active construction projects, with named customers including Mace, PCL Construction, PC Construction, and Austin Commercial. Founded in 2020, the company operates with 11-50 employees, is incorporated in Alberta, Canada, and makes its products available across Australia, Canada, the EU, the UK, and the US with regional data residency. The company is founder-led (President and CEO Nancy Knowlton, CTO David Martin) and bootstrapped, with no disclosed external funding or institutional investment.

Name

Nialli

Legal name

Nialli Inc.

Website

https://nialli.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Nialli is a Calgary-based SaaS company that provides web-based visual planning software for construction teams, built around the Last Planner System to support collaborative pull planning, constraint management, and PPC analytics for general contractors and trades.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Planning Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Smart Building Software Platforms (IWMS/CAFM Integration, Digital Twin, Command Center) (BPABAGAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Construction Engineering & Constructability Consulting (BPAHAIAN)

Keywords

• Construction planning software
• Visual collaboration tools
• Last planner system
• Pull planning software
• Lean construction scheduling

Headquarters

HQ city

Calgary

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Fees: Subscription-based SaaS model with flat, plan-based pricing for Visual Planner. Supports multiple users per subscription with tiered plans based on team size. Subscription fees are nonrefundable per terms of service.
2. Enterprise Licensing: Enterprise license options for larger organizations including Workspace product with Business to Business Authentication through Azure Active Directory.
3. Educational Access: Free subscription access for educators and post-secondary institutions with construction management courses. Students access through instructor-provisioned accounts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Nialli develops and sells web-based visual planning software for the construction industry. Its flagship Nialli Visual Planner digitally enhances the Last Planner System with collaborative pull planning, Big Room planning session support, master schedule import, and PPC analytics. The company also offers Nialli Design Planner (a Windows desktop tool for design-phase planning with Power BI integration) and Nialli Workspace (an enterprise-grade secure visual collaboration tool built on Microsoft Azure).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Nialli Visual Planner: Visual planning and scheduling software for construction project teams, designed for Big Room planning sessions and the Last Planner System.
• Nialli Design Planner
• Nialli Workspace

Products and services

• Nialli Visual Planner Web-based collaborative visual planning tool modeled after the Last Planner System for construction project teams. Supports drag-and-drop cards, real-time collaboration, touch-based Big Room planning sessions, master schedule import, and PPC analytics with visual constraint cues. Built for general contractors, specialty trades, owners, engineers, and schedulers.
• Nialli Design Planner Windows desktop application for design-phase construction planning. Features phase pull functionality, longest path calculation, and native integration with Microsoft Power BI for advanced analytics on work progression.
• Nialli Workspace Enterprise visual collaboration tool focused on highly secure environments. Integrates with existing enterprise tools via Azure Active Directory and runs on Azure-based infrastructure for deployment.

Quantifiable outcome

• PCL Construction used digital pull planning with Nialli to complete the first ground-up Din Tai Fung restaurant in the US at Downtown Disney, earning industry recognition for the project's high standards of craftsmanship, complex sequencing, and tight tolerances.

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• PCL ConstructioncoreTechnology or IntegrationPCL Construction is a customer using Nialli's Visual Planner for digital pull planning. They successfully used the software to construct the first ground-up Din Tai Fung restaurant at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, demonstrating Nialli's capabilities in complex construction sequencing and coordination.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Fieldwire: Fieldwire is a field execution and task management platform for construction trades, including scheduling and punch list workflows. It targets similar contractor personas (superintendents, foremen, trades) with a mobile-first collaborative approach, overlapping directly with Nialli's trade-coordination use cases.
• Buildertrend: Buildertrend is a SaaS project management solution for residential and light-commercial construction. While it skews to smaller builders, it overlaps with Nialli in collaborative scheduling, customer communication, and project planning for construction teams.
• LeanKit: LeanKit provides Kanban-style Lean project management software that has historically been used by construction teams implementing Lean methods. It targets the same Lean-practitioner audience as Nialli, though with a more general Kanban orientation rather than LPS-specific workflows.
• VisiLean: VisiLean is a Lean construction planning platform built around the Last Planner System with location-based pull planning and takt time features. It is the closest direct competitor to Nialli Visual Planner, targeting the same Lean-methodology practitioners and Big Room planning workflows.

Broad incumbents

• Bluebeam: Bluebeam (owned by Nemetschek) provides markup, collaboration, and document control tools widely used in construction review and design coordination. It overlaps with Nialli Workspace's visual collaboration use cases and is a familiar incumbent in Nialli's target buyer workflow.
• Procore: Procore is the dominant cloud-based construction project management platform serving general contractors and owners. It overlaps with Nialli in collaborative project planning and is the principal incumbent Nialli's enterprise customers (e.g., PCL, Austin) also evaluate, though Procore's scope is much broader than pull planning.
• Autodesk Construction Cloud: Autodesk Construction Cloud (including BIM 360 and PlanGrid) provides a broad suite of construction management, field collaboration, and document control tools. It competes with Nialli for planning/coordination budget at enterprise GCs and has substantially deeper resources and integration with BIM/CAD workflows.
• Oracle Primavera P6: Oracle Primavera P6 is the enterprise standard for large-scale construction scheduling and master project planning. Nialli explicitly integrates with P6 for master-schedule import, and P6 represents both a complementary data source and a competitive scheduling incumbent for complex capital projects.
• Trimble Connect: Trimble provides a connected construction platform spanning estimating, scheduling, project management, and field solutions. It competes for enterprise planning workflow budgets at large GCs and overlaps with Nialli's scheduling/coordination functionality, backed by Trimble's significant hardware-software ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Smartsheet: Smartsheet is a work management and collaboration platform used by many construction project teams for scheduling, RFIs, and program tracking. While general-purpose, it is often deployed as a low-cost planning alternative at construction firms, partially overlapping Nialli's collaborative planning use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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