The programme is written once
A bar chart is built early, by one person, to satisfy a submission. Nobody who has to deliver the work was ever really asked.
About
Built from inside the problem.
Dexec started with one founder, one long-running frustration, and a question construction had already answered: what if the people doing the work made the plan?
Archer Gharani
Founder — Practicing Planning Manager, Construction
17+ years in project planning & delivery
MIAust — Professional Civil Engineer
PMI-SP — PMI Scheduling Professional
Harvard Business School — Leadership & Management
“I kept watching good design teams get held to plans they had no part in making, then stuck bending construction scheduling tools to fit a workflow they were never built for. Design teams needed a planning environment made for them — Last Planner System principles to cut waste, Rules of Credit for progress you can actually measure. That's Dexec.”
The pattern
The same story, on programme after programme.
Reality quietly diverges
Weeks in, the plan and the work are two different things. Everyone knows it. The programme keeps getting reported anyway.
Design managers absorb the gap
Chasing information, re-sequencing on the fly, defending dates they never set. Capable teams, undermined by a plan they didn't own.
How we got here
From site-proven practice to the design phase.
- 1AEC delivery
Years inside multi-discipline programmes
Archer Gharani spent his career in engineering and infrastructure delivery — across disciplines, packages and client organisations, in the rooms where design commitments are actually made and missed.
- 2The pattern
Same failure, different project
The problem was never talent or effort. It was that design delivery ran on top-down programmes nobody in the room had genuinely agreed to.
- 3The precedent
Construction already solved this
The Last Planner System changed site delivery: the people doing the work make the commitments, constraints are removed before work starts, and reliability is measured rather than assumed.
- 4The gap
Design was left out of the shift
Two decades of collaborative planning barely touched the design phase — where sequencing, information flow and rework have the most leverage on the whole programme.
- 5Dexec
Production control, built for design
So we built it: a board where the design team plans its own work, sees its constraints, and earns a delivery promise it can stand behind.
Why we exist
Construction spent two decades learning to plan collaboratively. The design phase, where the most leverage sits, largely missed out. We are closing that gap.
Who we build for
Engineering Design firms running complex, multi-package programmes — big enough to feel the coordination pain, small enough to still move quickly.
How we work
In the open, with our beta teams. Every design manager in the programme has a direct line to us, and it shows in what we ship.
Our belief
A plan is only worth what the team behind it believes.
Dexec exists to make design delivery something you can promise with a straight face — to your client, your directors and your own team.
Beta Program
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Full access is free during the beta, and founding users lock in a 50% lifetime discount when commercial pricing launches.