Construction Contract Review Agent
The Construction Contract Review Agent reads the contract, its contract data, special conditions and amendments, and compares every change against the unamended JBCC, NEC, GCC 2015 or FIDIC standard form. It flags onerous clauses on penalties, guarantees, retention, time bars and risk transfer, and explains what each one means for your price and programme before you commit.
Ideal forContracts managers
The difference
From 8-12 hours per contract to 1-2 hours
Your commercial and legal team spends its time negotiating the high-risk clauses instead of reading the whole document line by line.
Done by hand
8-12 hours per contract
With the Vanine agent
1-2 hours
Time returned to your team
85%
Indicative figures. We measure your own baseline in the first fortnight so the numbers you see are yours.
See what was changed, not just what was written
Employers often amend standard forms through special conditions and Z clauses. The agent shows every departure from the standard form side by side, so nothing hides in the fine print.
Price the risk you are taking on
Uncapped penalties, on-demand guarantees and shifted ground risk all carry cost. You see them early enough to price them, qualify your tender or negotiate.
Faster turnaround at tender stage
Tender periods are short and contract documents are long. Your team gets a structured risk summary in hours, leaving time for the conversations that matter.
Capabilities
Know every onerous clause before you sign the building contract.
Built for contractors' commercial managers, quantity surveyors, principal agents, in-house legal teams and developers working under JBCC, NEC, GCC 2015 and FIDIC contracts in South Africa.
Standard form comparison
Compares the contract against the unamended JBCC Principal Building Agreement, NEC3 or NEC4 ECC, GCC 2015 or FIDIC Red, Yellow or Silver Book and lists every deviation.
Contract data extraction
Pulls key contract data into one schedule: parties, principal agent or project manager, dates, retention, penalty rates, guarantee form and value, and defects liability period.
Onerous clause flagging
Highlights penalties without caps, time bars on notices and claims, back-to-back conditions, pay-when-paid terms and transfers of design or ground risk to the contractor.
Guarantee and security review
Checks performance guarantee, retention and advance payment guarantee wording, including on-demand versus conditional forms and expiry at practical or final completion.
Dispute resolution mapping
Summarises the route to resolving disputes under the contract, including adjudication, dispute boards and arbitration, with the notice steps required at each stage.
Risk register and negotiation notes
Produces a ranked risk register with plain-language explanations and suggested points to raise in clarifications, tender qualifications or negotiation.
How it works
From your systems to a result you sign off
Your commercial manager or legal adviser reviews the findings and decides on qualifications. Signing the contract stays with your authorised signatories.
Connect the places your contracts already live.
Tender and contract documents, contract data and special conditions from Aconex, Procore, SharePoint or your document management system. Already use something else? We connect that too.
- OpenAI Frontier
- Your own AI platform or models
- Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel)
- Copilot Studio
- Aconex
- Procore
- iManage or NetDocuments document stores
- Word redlines and Excel risk registers
Runs on request in Teams or OpenAI Frontier, or on your own AI platform, using the models your organisation approves.
A clause comparison in Word, a ranked risk register in Excel and a summary for the bid or contract review meeting.
Step by step
- 01
A new tender or contract document set is uploaded or shared with the agent.
- 02
It identifies the standard form and edition and extracts the contract data.
- 03
It compares every clause and special condition against the standard form and flags onerous terms.
- 04
It builds the risk register and suggested negotiation points.
- 05
Your commercial manager or legal adviser reviews and finalises the position.
- 06
Your authorised signatory signs once terms are agreed.
Deployment
Runs inside the tools your team already uses
The same agent and the same cited output, delivered three ways: through the AI assistant you have rolled out, on a model you host yourself, or inside your own software.
In the frontier assistant you already pay for
We publish the agent as an MCP server. Add it as a connector and your team calls it from the chat they use every day, with no new tool to learn.
"Compare the amendments to the standard form"
- form
- NEC4 ECC Option B
- amendments
- 23 Z clauses
On a model you host yourself
Run the agent on open-weight models in your data centre or private cloud. Your contracts never leave your network, which keeps POPIA and data residency straightforward.
- Llama
- Mistral
- Ollama
- or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Inside your own software
Trigger a run from your own workflows, and push the finished output into your ERP, GRC or reporting systems. We build the integration with your team.
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Batch jobs
- Embeddable review panel
Governed the same way, every route
Whichever way your team reaches the agent, identity, permissions and audit stay with your existing controls.
- Single sign-on through Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace
- Reads only the documents each user is already allowed to open
- Every tool call written to an audit log you can export
How we deliver it
One agent, three ways to hold it
Start where your team already works, then take it as far into your systems as the value justifies.
DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY
Your contracts stay yours.
The agent runs inside your tenancy, reads only what each task needs, and never trains on your contracts. Every step is logged so your auditors can see exactly what it touched.
Built for regulated work.
+YOUR CONTRACTS NEVER LEAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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