A general contractor's executives were reviewing every new contract line by line, by hand, hunting for the clauses that could hurt them. We built a workflow that compares each new contract against the executed baseline and returns a sourced, risk-rated report. It saves 5 to 6 hours per contract, and every finding links to the exact page.
The problem
Before signing, a senior leader read each new contract end to end against the last one the company had executed, watching the terms that carry the most risk: indemnification, insurance, claims deadlines, caps and fees, missing provisions. It ran 5 to 6 hours per contract, it competed with everything else on an executive's plate, and a single altered clause buried deep in a 40-page general-conditions document was easy to miss.
What we built
A workflow that compares the new contract against the fully executed baseline, section by section, across the standard AIA forms (the A133 agreement and A201 general conditions). It reads both documents in full, maps every article, and for each real change it:
- pulls the exact language, verbatim, from both contracts and links to the precise page in each PDF, so every flag is verifiable in seconds;
- rates the risk, RED to resolve before signing, YELLOW to negotiate, GREEN as favorable to you, from your side of the deal;
- separates substance from noise. A changed indemnity or a shortened claims-notice deadline gets flagged. A renamed project or a reformatted paragraph does not.
The output is a rated workbook plus a plain-English summary. It is a risk screen, not legal advice: the tool surfaces and sources, the executive and counsel decide.
The result
What took 5 to 6 hours of careful reading comes back as a sourced report the reviewer can verify in minutes. Every flagged clause shows the actual contract text and a link to the page it came from, so nothing is taken on faith, and the changes that matter are separated from the noise. Faster, and far harder to miss something.
