Capital Planning & Project Delivery

Govern every operational change – without slowing down operations.

Clarisync embeds Change Management directly into operational execution, automatically applying governance, approvals and scheduling wherever work introduces operational risk – so every change is controlled, auditable and fully integrated with the wider System of Work.

Tablet showing an urgent change request in an operational change management task list

Change management as part of the work – not a separate admin step.

Change management fails when it's a separate admin step someone has to remember on a busy shift. Clarisync embeds governance in the operational workflow itself – so wherever work introduces operational risk, the right approvals, CAB and scheduling appear automatically, and nothing proceeds until governance is complete.

01Standard / Normal / Emergency changes
02Multi-level approvals
03CABs (emergency, site-specific)
04Tier-based hierarchies
05Parallel approval paths
06Maintenance-window awareness
07Freeze / blackout periods
08Complete audit trail
Three colleagues reviewing a document on a plant floor

Two ways to see it – the lifecycle, and the moment it matters.

First the standalone change lifecycle; then the demo that shows the real difference – the governance appearing automatically inside operational work.

Demo 1 · Create & approve a change

Three connected stages – raise and classify, approve and schedule, then execute and close. Pick a stage to see its objective and what it covers.

Raise & classify

Objective. Raise the change. Create a Standard, Normal or Emergency change with supporting documentation; classify the risk and route to the right CAB and approvers by type and impact.

Raise & classify
  • Create a Standard, Normal or Emergency change with supporting documentation
  • Classify the risk and route to the right CAB and approvers by type and impact

Governance that can't be skipped.

This is the one thing no ticket-based change tool can do: a preventive maintenance work order, and the change no one had to remember to raise – governance appearing automatically inside the operational work, with the work held until it's approved.

Work → Change → Lock → Unlock

Governance appearing in the work

The work is held until it is approved – automatically.

A preventive maintenance work order is created
  • An engineer schedules routine PM: business as usual
Clarisync detects that governance is required
  • The platform recognises that the routine work needs approval – no one had to remember
A Change Request is generated automatically
  • Pre-populated with operational context – assets, equipment, engineers, maintenance window, SOPs, checklists, documentation and approvers – nothing re-keyed
The work order is locked
  • It cannot progress until the change is approved. Operational work can't bypass governance
The CAB / approvers review and approve
  • Notified automatically; parallel or tiered approval where configured; full audit history
The work order is unlocked and linked
  • Complete traceability from approval through execution and completion – the right approval happened before the work could proceed, automatically

Not another application – the governance layer that connects the work.

Change Management isn't a module you visit; it's woven through the platform, appearing wherever operational work needs it. The approved change becomes the wrapper around all the associated work – one shared set of approvals, context and audit.

One message. Clarisync doesn't simply provide Change Management – it embeds operational governance into every workflow, ensuring the right approvals happen automatically before work can proceed.

  • How it connectsPreventive maintenance automatically generates change requests; approved changes unlock the associated work orders.

  • How it connectsMajor incidents spawn controlled recovery changes; incident recovery stays governed through the change process.

  • How it connectsRemote Hands and engineering services that need operational approval automatically trigger change workflows.

  • How it connectsPlanned engineering works are governed through integrated change management – the same controls as live operations.

  • How it connectsCustomers see planned activities, approved windows and change status – without the internal approval detail.

See the Service Management System of Work →

Systems of Work
Preventive maintenanceAdded
Incident & recoveryAdded
Service DeliveryAdded
ProjectsAdded
Customer CommandAdded
Command

Full technical governance for you. A clear picture for them.

Every change exists as a mirrored record. Operators run the internal approvals; customers follow the same change through Customer Command – kept informed without exposing internal information.

Customer Command

One record, two curated experiences

Customers get transparency and planning visibility; operators keep the technical approvals and internal discussion in their own workspace.

Operator workspace · internal governance, full detail
  • Internal approval workflows and CAB decisions
  • Technical risk assessment and discussion
  • Linked operational records and execution detail
  • Tiered, parallel and emergency approval paths
  • The complete audit trail
Customer Command view · curated, business-appropriate
  • Planned activities
  • Approved maintenance windows
  • Change status and progress updates
  • Completion notifications
  • No exposure to internal approval detail

The principles behind it.

A bolt-on change module sits apart from the work, waiting for someone to start it. These are the principles that make embedded governance different in kind, not just in features.

  1. Governance lives in the operational workflow itself – not a separate step someone has to remember to start.

  2. If a task requires change approval, the associated workflow cannot proceed until it is complete – consistently applied, not manually policed.

  3. The correct CAB, maintenance window and freeze checks are applied by the platform – not chosen from memory on a busy shift.

  4. Assets, engineers, windows, SOPs and approvers flow from the originating work into the change automatically.

  5. Change, CMMS, incident and service management share the same approvals, context and audit – not separate systems to reconcile.

  6. AI raises, routes and checks the change in the workflow – controlled, and human-in-the-loop.

Two engineers in hard hats checking a tablet beside an electrical cabinet

AI that raises the change so no one has to remember.

AI works alongside the operational workflow – raising, routing and checking changes – and, where you allow it, acts on your behalf. Every level is controlled, human-in-the-loop and documented in AI Transparency.

On the work

Auto-detect & generate the change

Recognises when operational work needs governance and creates a pre-populated change request from the operational context – nothing re-keyed.

Automated · flags for review
In the workflow

Suggest CAB & approvers

Routes to the right approvers by type, impact and site.

Assisted
In the workflow

Window & freeze checks

Checks maintenance windows and freeze / blackout periods before scheduling.

Assisted
Agentic

Change-status assistant

Ask "which changes are pending approval and blocking work?" and get an answer drawn from live records, with the workings shown.

Assisted
Human-in-control. AI raises, routes and checks; approvals and change decisions stay with your team. Scope, data use and controls are published in AI Transparency.Read AI Transparency →

A bolt-on module or governance embedded in execution.

Most ITSM and CMMS platforms include change management – but as a separate process someone has to remember to start. Here's the difference between a generic ITSM / change tool and governance embedded in execution.

How it compares
A generic ITSM / change tool
Clarisync
01Starting a change
A person decides one is needed and opens it manually.
Raised automatically when operational work requires it.
02Enforcement
Relies on people following procedure.
Work can't proceed until the approvals are complete.
03Context & data
Re-keyed from the work into the change.
Assets, engineers, windows, SOPs and approvers inherited automatically.
04What it governs
Mostly IT change tickets.
Operational change across maintenance, incident, service and projects.
05Scheduling
Separate from operational calendars.
Aware of maintenance windows, freeze and blackout periods.
06Execution
Approve, then hand off to another system.
The approved change is the governance wrapper around the linked work.
07Customer visibility
The same ticket, or nothing.
A curated Customer Command view of planned activities and status.
08Audit
Spread across separate systems.
One end-to-end record for compliance and assurance.
What a change tool leaves out

The capabilities a bolt-on change tool does not reach.

They need the operational work, the calendar and the wider platform around them.

Capability
Generic ITSM / change tool
Clarisync
Governance embedded in the work
✕
✓
Change auto-generated from context
✕
✓
Work locked until approved
✕
✓
Maintenance-window & freeze awareness
✕
✓
One governance layer across systems
✕
✓
Aware of live operations
✕
✓
Or replace several tools with one

One connected platform – governed as the work happens.

Often the real comparison isn't against one product – it's against a stack where change, maintenance, incidents and service each live in their own system and have to be reconciled by hand.

Today

Fragmented operations

4 separate tools
01Change tool
02Maintenance system
03Incident tool
04Service desk
With Clarisync

One connected platform, governed as work happens

1 platform
  • Governance raised automatically
  • Nothing proceeds unapproved
  • Context inherited, not re-keyed
  • One end-to-end audit trail
  • Maintenance windows respected
  • Lower total cost of ownership

Category-level comparison. This contrasts Clarisync with a category archetype (the change module in an ITSM or CMMS suite), never a named product. The point is not that rivals lack change management (most have it); it is that Clarisync embeds it in execution rather than running it as a separate step.

See the Service Management System of Work

Powerful on its own – unmatched as part of a system. See what you unlock when embedded governance runs across the whole platform.

Next in the story

Built to pay for itself.

Embedded governance pays off by preventing the change that shouldn't happen and speeding up the ones that should. Figures below are illustrative for a representative operator (5–10 sites, 10–30 MW each) and are validated per estate.

~25%

Fewer change-related incidents

Nothing proceeds until governance is complete, so the misfires that cause downtime are designed out.

~30%

Faster approvals

The right CAB and approvers are notified automatically, with parallel and tiered paths.

Less admin

Operational context is inherited, not re-keyed, and every change is audit-ready end to end.

Hands with a pen over printed charts beside a laptop

The change that never gets skipped

Because governance is embedded in the work, the unapproved change that causes an outage simply can't happen. In a mission-critical estate, a single avoided change-related incident can pay for the platform.

Evidence for the outcome.

100%

governed work approved before execution

~40%

faster approvals

100%

audit-ready evidence

Multi-site operator

Governance that can't be skipped

Work orders now raise and wait on change approval automatically; nothing proceeds unapproved, and the audit trail is one record. 100% governed before execution

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Approvals just happen now – an engineer can't start governed work without them. Audit prep went from a scramble to a single record.

Head of Operational Governance · Operator