Construction contract review without the $400/hour lawyer.
Kontractually's AI reviews your subcontractor agreements, head contracts, and supply deals against your own rules - and flags unlimited liability clauses, insurance shortfalls, and payment term deviations before you sign.
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What changes when you stop eyeballing contracts.
A new head contract comes in from a principal. You send it to your lawyer. $1,800 later, the answer is: two liability clauses need capping and the DLP doesn't match your subcontracts.
Kontractually flags the unlimited liability clause and DLP mismatch in 3 minutes. You fix them yourself or send a targeted question to your lawyer. Cost: $0 or one 15-minute call.
You sign a subcontractor agreement without noticing the insurance requirement is $10M PL - but your sub only carries $5M. Six months later, an incident on site exposes a $5M gap you're liable for.
Kontractually checks every subcontractor agreement against your insurance playbook before execution. The $5M shortfall is flagged before anyone picks up a tool.
Your head contract requires payment to subcontractors within 30 days. But three of your subcontracts have 45-day terms that don't pass through. Nobody caught the mismatch until a payment dispute.
Kontractually checks payment terms across your subcontracts against head contract obligations. Back-to-back misalignment flagged in one run.
Every contract type your construction business touches.
Pre-built construction playbook templates cover the clauses that matter most. Customise the rules to match your own standard terms.
Subcontractor agreements at volume
A mid-sized builder processing 10 projects a year generates 100-200 subcontractor agreements. Kontractually checks every one against your standard terms - liability caps, payment schedules, insurance requirements, defect liability periods - and flags anything that deviates.
Head contract clause review
Before you sign a $2M head contract, you need to know: does it shift unlimited liability to you? Are the payment terms back-to-back with your subcontractors? Is there a unilateral variation right that lets the principal change scope without compensation? Kontractually flags these in 3 minutes.
Supply agreement consistency
Your supply contracts need to pass liability and payment terms back to your suppliers when they pass them to you. When they don't, you absorb the gap. Kontractually maps supply agreements against your head contract obligations and flags misalignment before it becomes a dispute.
Employment contract compliance
Construction businesses employ tradespeople, site managers, and project coordinators under applicable employment law obligations. Kontractually checks employment contracts for minimum notice periods, non-compliant restraints, and missing probation terms - against local standards (Fair Work AU, UK Employment Rights Act, or US FLSA).
Yes. You can upload your own head contract clauses as playbook rules - including obligations that flow from AS 4000, AS 4902 (AU), NEC3/NEC4 (UK), JCT (UK), or AIA forms (US). Kontractually applies those rules to every subcontractor agreement you process. We also provide a pre-built Construction Head Contract playbook with 20+ rules covering liability, insurance, variations, and defect liability terms.
Yes. Upload variation orders as separate documents and Kontractually checks them against the original contract terms - flagging changes to scope, price, timeline, or liability that weren't in the original agreement. This is particularly useful when variations are slipped in that change cost or liability terms.
You can add a back-to-back alignment rule to your playbook - for example, 'payment terms in subcontract must not exceed payment terms in head contract.' Kontractually flags any subcontract where the payment window exceeds your head contract window, so you know exactly where you're absorbing the gap.
Yes. Kontractually processes PDF and DOCX documents. For scanned PDFs (e.g., wet-signed agreements that were scanned), we use Azure Document Intelligence OCR to extract the text before reviewing. Upload quality affects accuracy - clear, machine-generated PDFs work best.
No - and we're honest about that. Kontractually reduces how often you need to send a contract to a lawyer by catching obvious issues in advance. Complex disputes, unfamiliar contract forms, or high-risk contracts should still involve legal counsel. What we eliminate is the $400-$800 per contract cost of a lawyer reading standard agreements to confirm they're fine.
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