Alternative
CxAlloy is built around issues and equipment. Completions is built around certificates.
CxAlloy is a commissioning and quality platform used widely by commissioning providers, contractors and owners for issue tracking, equipment records, checklists and closeout. If your work is delivered as resolved issues and completed tests, it fits. If it is delivered as signed certificates per subsystem, this comparison is for you.
The short answer
CxAlloy alternative: the verdict
- Best for
- Teams needing certificate-driven handover rather than issue tracking
- Last reviewed
CxAlloy is strong at commissioning issue tracking and checklist management for building projects, with a mature workflow around issues and their resolution. Deskely treats the certificate as the primary artefact: ITRs, punch and preservation exist to make a subsystem certifiable, and the dossier is generated continuously from that evidence. Choose on whether your endpoint is a closed issue list or a signed, indexed handover package.
Choose CxAlloy if
- Issue tracking against building systems is the core need
- The project follows a building commissioning process end to end
- There is no subsystem certification hierarchy to enforce
Choose Deskely if
- Handover is judged on the completeness of the evidence dossier
- Certificates must refuse to issue on unmet prerequisites
- Field execution happens offline in a plant environment
The problem
Issue tracking and certification are not the same deliverable.
A strong issue log tells you what is outstanding. A completions system tells you what you are contractually allowed to hand over today, and refuses the ones you are not.
The unit of record differs
Building commissioning is organised around equipment and functional tests. Industrial completions is organised around tags rolled into subsystems, with certificates issued per subsystem.
Gating is contractual, not procedural
On an EPC scope, mechanical completion, ready-for-commissioning and ready-for-start-up are contractual milestones with defined evidence. The system has to refuse a certificate whose prerequisites are unmet.
Punch is categorised, not just tracked
A punch item that is category A blocks a certificate; category B does not. That distinction has to be enforced by the workflow, not by a label someone reads.
The deliverable is a dossier
The handover artefact is a structured, indexed evidence package per subsystem — not a report export. It has to be generated continuously, not assembled in the final months.
What you get
What Deskely is built to do.
A completions system for industrial and energy scopes, where the tag register is the spine and every certificate is derived from signed evidence beneath it.
Tag and subsystem master data
One register, imported from the EPC data, with every record hanging off a tag that belongs to a subsystem.
Learn moreTemplated ITRs executed offline
Inspection and test records completed on tablet in the plant with no signal, synced on reconnect.
Learn moreGated certificates
MCC, RFC and RFSU issued only when the underlying records are signed and blocking punch is closed.
Learn moreCategory-driven punch
A and B categorisation that actually gates the certificate rather than sitting in a status column.
Learn morePreservation on live equipment
Scheduled preservation routines against tags, with overdue exposure visible before it becomes a warranty argument.
Learn moreDrawing and data ingestion
P&IDs and vendor registers parsed into tags so the register is populated from source documents, not typed.
Learn moreHow it runs
Moving without losing history.
- 01
Export from the incumbent
Equipment or tag register, checklist status, issue list and document links.
- 02
Map to tags and subsystems
Records are attached to tags; tags are assigned to the subsystems the certificates will be issued against.
- 03
Attach completed evidence
Signed records from the previous system are carried across as evidence so the audit trail is continuous.
- 04
Cut over by subsystem
New execution moves subsystem by subsystem; the old platform becomes read-only history.
Side by side
Where each one fits.
Both are credible platforms. They optimise for different final artefacts.
| Aspect | CxAlloy | Deskely |
|---|---|---|
| Core strength | Issue tracking, equipment records and checklists. | Certified completion of subsystems from signed evidence. |
| Typical users | Cx providers, GCs and owners on building projects. | EPC, owner and commissioning teams on industrial assets. |
| Hierarchy | Project, equipment, test. | Project, system, subsystem, tag, record. |
| Gate enforcement | Status and reporting driven. | Prerequisites enforced before a certificate can be issued. |
| Field working | Mobile field access. | Full offline execution with sync on reconnect. |
| Handover artefact | Closeout documentation and reports. | Indexed dossier per subsystem, generated continuously. |
| Pricing | Quote-based; not published. | Published plans including a free tier. |
What changes
Certificates
as the deliverable, not just closed issues
Per subsystem
dossier generated on demand
Enforced
prerequisites instead of reported status
Offline
field execution without coverage
Before you shortlist
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