The things in your contract that keep you up at night, made easy to find.
Missed notice windows. Blown change orders. Slipping schedules. Uninsured exposure. The rules are in the contract — we make them findable.
Upload a construction contract and BuildPlaybook returns a role-specific operating guide for the project team: payment rules, notice deadlines, schedule risk, insurance and indemnity, change-order procedure, and closeout. Every finding tells the team what to do, by when, and who owns it.
For the PMs in the field, it's the cheat sheet that puts the contract within arm's reach. For the company owners answering for the job, it's confirmation that the team knows the rules of the road. Customizable for the specific concerns of your job — add focus areas at upload, and the playbook tracks them through every section. Direct links to cited contract language. PDF and Word download.
Notice windows that quietly waive rights if missed.
1. Claim notice within 7 days of the triggering event.
Written notice required within 7 calendar days. Late notice waives the claim — no equitable adjustment, no recovery, regardless of merit.
TriggerDiffering site condition, change directive, owner-caused delay
OwnerPM · Superintendent
2. Change-order pricing detail due 21 days after directive.
Contractor must submit a fully-priced change order with backup within 21 days of receiving a CCD. Late submittal deemed acceptance of Contractor's interim pricing.
OwnerPM · Estimating
Three outputs, one playbook.
Every playbook delivers the same three things: a role-specific Project Snapshot, a prioritized seven-section action list with deadlines and consequences, and direct links from every citation to the actual contract language.
Project Snapshot
The financial and procedural anchor for the job: contract sum, retainage rate and step-down, completion deadlines, notice periods, liquidated damages, and governing law. Plus an Incorporated Documents audit flagging every referenced document you haven't been given.
Prioritized Action List
Seven sections of findings tiered by urgency: Urgent for hard-waiver and money-losing provisions, Important for compliance items, and Note for calendar context. Each finding tells you what to do, who owns it, by when, and the consequence if it's missed.
Direct Links to Contract Text
Every cited section is clickable. The actual contract language opens in a side panel with surrounding context, so the team can verify each finding without flipping between the playbook and the agreement. Download the full playbook as PDF or Word.
For the field, and the front office.
PMs and superintendents get the rules at their fingertips. Project executives and owners get confirmation that the team is operating against the actual contract — not memory, not assumption. Every playbook is tuned to the party you represent.
General Contractors
The prime contract obligations your PM team has to deliver against, and the downstream flow-through that protects margin. Pre-bid risk reviews, notice mechanics, change-order discipline, and the operating handles for running a profitable job from NTP to closeout.
Subcontractors & Suppliers
Where the contract pushes risk onto you, and where it doesn't. Pay-app timing, lien indemnity, liability caps, deemed-approval mechanics, and the items worth flagging before you sign — so you don't price a job you can't afford to perform.
Owners & Developers
Schedule protections, completion mechanics, change-order discipline, warranty triggers, and the closeout language that determines what claims survive final payment. The contract obligations you're paying others to deliver against.
The seven areas every playbook covers.
The framework was developed with input from senior contract administrators, project executives, GCs, design professionals, and trade subs — people who actually negotiate, perform, and administer these contracts every day.
Cash Flow Protection
Pay-application timing and procedure, retainage rate and step-down, conditional payment language, lien-waiver mechanics, late-payment interest, and the financial off-ramps that protect your cash flow.
Claim Preservation
Claim windows, differing-site-condition notices, daily delay reports, the form notice must take, and every day-count provision that quietly waives a right if missed.
Schedule Survival & LD Exposure
Substantial and final completion, milestone dates, liquidated damages exposure in dollars per day, no-damages-for-delay, weather day standards, float ownership, and rules for time-extension requests.
Submittal Recovery & Schedule Protection
How fast submittals must go out, how long the design professional has to respond, what happens to your schedule if they're late, how many resubmittal cycles are budgeted, and timing rules for long-lead items.
Risk Transfer & Insurance
Required coverages and limits, additional-insured status, waiver of subrogation, pollution coverage gaps, indemnification scope, mutual versus one-way indemnity, and bond requirements.
Change Order Recovery
Change-order procedure, construction change directives, overhead and profit caps on time-and-material, written-change requirements, and the rules that decide whether extra work gets paid for.
Closing Out Without Waiving Claims
Termination for convenience and for cause, suspension rights, warranty period and scope, final-payment waiver, dispute resolution venue, and what NOT to sign at closeout if you want to preserve open claims.
Upload. Build. Deploy.
Three steps from contract to playbook. Analysis typically takes three to five minutes depending on document length.
Tell us who you are
Enter your party name as it appears in the contract — or pick your role on the project if the contract is a template or draft. Every finding is tuned to your perspective on the deal.
Upload the contract
PDF or Word, single document or a stack (operative agreement, exhibits, prime contract, amendments). Add specific concerns you want addressed, or skip and let the framework do the work.
Deploy the playbook
The full role-specific playbook returns with citations, side-panel links to contract text, and PDF and Word downloads. Bring it to the job kick-off, share it with the team.
The contract has all the answers. BuildPlaybook finds them, ranks them, and tells the team who owns each one — so the field can build, and the front office can sleep.
Questions we hear often.
Answers to the questions construction professionals ask before running their first playbook.
- What does BuildPlaybook do?
- BuildPlaybook reads a signed construction contract and produces a role-specific playbook for the project team. The playbook covers seven operational areas (Payment & Money, Notice Requirements, Time & Schedule, Submittals & Approvals, Insurance & Indemnity, Changes & Extras, Termination & Closeout) and tells the team what to do, by when, who owns it, and what happens if it's missed. Every finding cites the exact contract section and links to the underlying contract language.
- Who is BuildPlaybook for?
- Project managers, superintendents, project executives, and office administrators on the contractor, subcontractor, or owner side. The analysis is tuned to the party you represent. A finding directed at the contractor reads differently than the same finding directed at the owner. BuildPlaybook is built for the people running the job, not the lawyers.
- Does BuildPlaybook give legal advice?
- No. BuildPlaybook produces operational guidance for the project team, not legal advice. It does not opine on whether clauses are enforceable, interpret statutes, or substitute for a licensed attorney. Provisions that involve legal questions are flagged separately in an Items for Legal Review section, with the recommendation to consult a licensed attorney in the governing jurisdiction.
- What contract types can I analyze?
- BuildPlaybook handles AIA contracts (A201 General Conditions, A101, A102, A132, A133, A141, and related family), ConsensusDocs forms (200, 500, 750, etc.), EPC contracts, design-build agreements, CM-at-risk contracts, subcontracts of any form, supply agreements, and custom contracts. Both signed contracts and unsigned templates or drafts are accepted.
- How long does the analysis take?
- Three to five minutes for a typical contract. Longer documents or stacks of related documents (operative agreement plus exhibits plus amendments) may take slightly longer. The result is delivered as an on-screen playbook with PDF and Word downloads available immediately.
- What does the playbook include?
- Every playbook includes a Project Snapshot (contract sum, retainage rate and step-down, completion deadlines, notice periods, liquidated damages, and governing law), an Incorporated Documents audit, a Compliance Risk Summary ranked high/medium/low, seven sections of operational findings, and an Items for Legal Review section flagging provisions for attorney follow-up. Each finding includes the action, the consequence if missed, the team owner, and a section citation that links to the actual contract language.
- Is my contract data confidential?
- Documents are transmitted over an encrypted connection to a commercial AI service solely to generate the analysis, then are not retained, indexed, or used to train any model under the API terms in effect with the provider. Do not upload documents subject to a protective order, attorney-client privilege, or a confidentiality agreement that restricts disclosure to third-party services without first confirming that this use is permitted.
- What does BuildPlaybook cost?
- Pricing is per playbook, with no subscription. A single contract analysis includes the full seven-section playbook, Project Snapshot, Compliance Risk Summary, Items for Legal Review, and both PDF and Word document downloads.
- Can BuildPlaybook compare two contracts?
- Yes. The Compare mode takes a proposed contract and a standard or reference contract and produces a difference analysis tuned to your party. Use this when reviewing a new contract against your company's standard terms, or comparing two versions of a negotiated contract.
Your documents are not stored.
BuildPlaybook sends your contract to a third-party AI service solely to generate your analysis. Documents are transmitted over an encrypted connection, used to produce your report in real time, and — under the commercial API terms in effect with the AI provider — are not retained, indexed, or used to train any model. This tool is not a substitute for a secure data room. Do not upload documents subject to a protective order, attorney-client privilege, or a confidentiality agreement that restricts disclosure to third-party services without first confirming that this use is permitted.
One contract. One playbook. Five minutes.
The rules of the road for your next job — in the hands of the people running it, and on the desk of the people answering for it.