Construction

Contract AI for contractors and trades

Q: Can AI review a subcontract from the general contractor?

Yes, and it is how most contractors use goHeather. Upload the subcontract you were sent, with its schedules and appendices, and goHeather reads it from your side of the deal. Every finding comes back with the clause quoted from the document and a plain-English summary of how it is drafted.

Q: Does goHeather read the schedules and appendices of a construction contract?

Yes, it reads the whole bundle. A construction contract often arrives with the project schedule, specifications and schedule of rates as separate documents, and the clause that sets payment timing may sit in one of them. goHeather reads them together so a term in an appendix is read in context with the main form.

Q: Which construction contracts can goHeather draft and review?

Subcontracts and prime contracts, on standard forms or heavily amended ones, plus supply and supply-and-install agreements, change orders, lien waivers, equipment rental, letters of intent, NDAs and the revised drafts that come back during a bid. You can draft your own from a template, or upload the one the other side sent and have goHeather review it. goHeather is a general contract AI that construction companies use, so it also drafts and reviews the other agreements a contractor signs, such as equipment purchases, employment agreements and independent contractor agreements.

Q: Can goHeather draft a subcontract or change order from our template?

Yes. Add your own subcontract or change order form as a template, answer a few questions about the job, such as the subcontractor, scope of work, contract sum and dates, and goHeather fills it in to give you a complete first draft. If you don't have a form of your own, you can start from one of 10,500+ lawyer-made templates. Ask for a clause that is missing and goHeather adds it to the draft, then export to Word or send it for e-signature.

Q: Can we check every subcontract against our own terms, like pay-when-paid or retainage?

Yes, that is what playbooks are for. Write down the terms your business works to, such as the payment period you need, the retainage you accept or the insurance you carry, and goHeather checks each incoming subcontract against them. Every rule comes back compliant or non-compliant, with the clause it was checked against. That way an estimator in one region marks up a clause the same way as the office in another.

Q: Is our bid pricing used to train the AI?

No. Your documents are not used to train our models and they are never sold. Unit rates, schedules and client names are encrypted, our database provider meets bank-grade security standards, and goHeather runs more than 25 enterprise-grade security controls. Our security page has the full breakdown.

Q: Does legal AI for construction replace our lawyer?

No. goHeather is a contracts AI, not a law firm. It was built by practicing lawyers to handle the first pass on routine agreements, which leaves your lawyer's time for the contracts and clauses that need it. It tells you what the document says and what to look at, and the decision about what to accept stays with you and your lawyer.

Draft subcontracts and change orders from your own templates, review the general contractor's form, then negotiate and sign in one place. goHeather pulls out the payment, delay, change order and insurance terms that decide whether a job makes money, so you see them before the first pour.

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Subcontract Agreement47 pages · reviewed 4 minutes ago12.1Payment to the Subcontractor shall become due only upon the Contractor having received payment from the Owner in respect of the relevant Work.15.4The Subcontractor shall not be entitled to any extension of time for delays caused by other trades on site.18.2Retainage of ten percent (10%) shall be held until twelve (12) months after substantial completion of the whole of the Work.22.6No change order shall be valid unless issued in writing by the Contractor before the work is carried out.

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23 findings·6 high risk

#01Payment conditional on the contractor being paid

Payment to the Subcontractor shall become due only upon the Contractor having received payment from the Ownerwithin thirty (30) days of the Subcontractor's payment application, whether or not the Contractor has been paidAs drafted, your payment depends on the Owner paying the Contractor first, which is often called a pay-when-paid clause. Shown next to a version with a fixed payment period for comparison.

#02No time extension for other trades' delaysEdited

#03Retainage held 12 months past completionAdded

#04Change orders invalid unless issued in advanceEdited

#05Insurance limits exceed the contract valueAdded

#06Notice provisions have no address for serviceAdded

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The bottleneck

Work starts Monday and the subcontract is still in your inbox

Mobilization is booked and the crew is committed. Your own subcontract is being copied from the last job, the general contractor’s forty-page form arrived on Friday, and the markups are going back and forth by email.

Without goHeather

Subcontracts copied from the last job, old project name included
Subcontracts signed unread because the job starts Monday
Pay-when-paid and retainage terms discovered in month three
Markups traded by email with no record of what changed
Change order and notice provisions missed until a claim starts

With goHeather

Subcontracts and change orders drafted from your own templates
The whole subcontract read the day it arrives
Payment, retainage and delay terms quoted back to you
Redlines exported to Word, and two versions compared line by line
Signed by e-signature and stored with the rest of the job file

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Drafting

Subcontracts and change orders drafted from your own template

Start from your own subcontract or change order form, or from a lawyer-made template. Answer a few questions about the job and goHeather fills in the scope, contract sum and dates to give you a complete first draft. If a clause is missing, such as a lien waiver requirement, ask for it and add it to the draft.

Grounded by 10,500+ lawyer-made legal templates
Your own subcontract, change order and supply-and-install forms as templates
Export to Word with track changes

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Subcontract template4 of 6 filled

SubcontractorWho is doing the work?Ridgeline Electric LLC

ProjectWhich job is this for?Harbor Street Medical Office

Scope of workWhich trade package?Electrical rough-in and trim

Contract sumWhat is the agreed price?$412,500

Start dateWhen does work begin?

RetainageWhat percentage is held back?

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Contract review

Construction contract review before mobilization

Upload the general contractor's form, a supply-and-install agreement or a letter of intent. goHeather reads every appendix, ranks what it finds, and quotes the clause behind each finding so you can go straight to it in a forty-page document.

Payment timing, retainage and set-off
Delay, time extensions and liquidated damages
Insurance limits, indemnities and warranties

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HighRetainage releaseclause 18.2Retainage of ten percent (10%) shall be held until twelve (12) months after substantial completion of the whole of the Worksubstantial completion of the Subcontract Work, with the balance released within sixty (60) daysAs drafted, your retainage is released only once the whole project is complete. Shown next to a version tied to your own scope, for comparison.Apply to documentDismiss

Playbooks

Pay-when-paid and retainage rules, checked on every bid

Write down the terms your business works to: the payment period you need, the retainage you accept, the insurance you carry. goHeather checks each incoming subcontract against them, so an estimator in one region and the office in another mark up the same clause the same way.

Positions written in plain English
A compliant or non-compliant verdict on every rule
The clause it was checked against, quoted in full

#02No pay-when-paid termsNon-Compliant

This subcontract makes payment to the subcontractor conditional on the contractor being paid by the owner.Payment to the Subcontractor shall become due only upon the Contractor having received payment from the Owner in respect of the relevant Work.

Speed

Construction contracts read in full while you finish the estimate

A construction contract usually arrives with schedules, specifications and appendices attached. goHeather reads the full bundle alongside the main form and returns its findings while the bid is still open.

Appendices and schedules read with the main form
Findings ranked so high-risk items come first
Export the marked-up version to Word with track changes

Reviewing your subcontract47 pages, including schedules and appendices.

Reading the subcontract formClauses 1 to 34Done

Reading the attached schedulesProject schedule, specifications, ratesDone

Checking against your playbook14 positionsIn progress

Preparing the marked-up versionTrack changes for WordPending

Contract types

Legal AI for the construction paperwork behind every job

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How it works

From first draft to a signed subcontract

There is nothing to install and no data to migrate. Start a draft or upload a contract, and your first review is back the same day.

Draft or upload
Start from your template, or theirs
Draft a subcontract or change order from your own template, or upload the general contractor’s form with its schedules and appendices, as PDF or Word.
Review
Findings back in minutes
Each one ranked and quoted from the document, with a plain-English summary of what the clause says.
Negotiate
Send back your redlines
Accept the suggested wording or write your own, export to Word with track changes, and compare the version that comes back with the one you sent.
Sign and store
Signed and filed
Send the final subcontract for e-signature and keep the signed copy stored securely with the rest of the job’s paperwork.

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Enterprise-grade security controls

Contractor rates and bid pricing, kept confidential

Your subcontracts carry bid pricing, unit rates and owner names. goHeather protects every upload with enterprise-grade controls, end-to-end encryption and trusted AI providers.

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Contracts encrypted with gold-standard protection
Database provider meets bank-grade security
Your documents and data will never be sold
We do not use your data to train our models

What it covers

What goHeather drafts and checks in construction subcontracts

The clauses it covers in subcontractor agreements, prime contracts and supply-and-install contracts

A construction contract is rarely one document. There is a form, a set of amendments to it, a project schedule, specifications and a schedule of rates, and the clause that governs when you get paid is often in the part nobody reads. goHeather covers the clauses below when it drafts from your own templates and when it reviews the general contractor’s paper. In a review it reads the whole bundle, and each clause comes back quoted with a plain-English summary of how it is drafted. What to do about any of them is a decision for you and your lawyer.

Payment, pay-when-paid and retainage

Payment timing. The payment application and payment periods, and whether payment is written as conditional on the owner paying the general contractor (often called a pay-when-paid or pay-if-paid clause).
Retainage. The percentage held (some contracts call it retention), what triggers each release, and whether release is tied to your own scope or to the whole project.
Set-off and backcharges. How broadly the right is drafted, and what notice the contract requires before it is used.
Payment applications. Who approves them, on what basis, and what the contract says happens if an amount is disputed.
Suspension. Whether the agreement says anything about your position if payment does not arrive.

Schedule, delay and time extensions

Extension of time. Which events qualify and which are expressly excluded. goHeather flags exclusions for delays caused by other trades or by the contractor’s own sequencing.
Liquidated damages. The rate, whether it is capped, and how the clause relates to the other remedies in the contract.
Schedule obligations. Whether the project schedule is part of the contract, and what the contract says happens when it is reissued.
Acceleration. Whether the contractor can direct it, and what the agreement says about who pays.

Change orders, notices and claims

Change order procedure. Who can issue one, whether it must be in writing, and whether the contract provides for payment of work done outside that procedure.
Notice periods. How long you have to give notice of a claim, and what the agreement says happens if a notice is late.
Records. What you are required to keep, and in what form.
Dispute resolution. The steps the agreement sets out, in what order, and where.

Insurance, indemnity and defects

Insurance limits. The coverage levels required, and how they compare with the value of the work.
Indemnity scope. How broadly it is drafted, and whether it covers claims beyond your own acts.
Warranty and correction period. How long it runs, what starts it, and what the contract requires of you during it.
Bonds and warranties. Which ones are required, in whose favor, and on what form.

How goHeather fits your contract process

Most contractors sign more agreements than their legal budget covers, and a subcontract that arrives two days before mobilization rarely reaches a lawyer at all. With goHeather, you draft your own subcontracts and change orders from your templates, every bundle the general contractor sends gets a first read, redlines go back in Word with track changes, and the final version is signed and stored in the same place. The contracts that need a lawyer are the ones that go to one.

goHeather is a contracts AI, not a law firm. It tells you what your agreement says and what to look at, and it leaves the decision about what to accept with you. Read more about review on our AI contract review page and about drafting on the AI contract generator page, or book a demo and bring one of your own subcontracts.

Can AI review a subcontract from the general contractor?

Does goHeather read the schedules and appendices of a construction contract?

Which construction contracts can goHeather draft and review?

Can goHeather draft a subcontract or change order from our template?

Can we check every subcontract against our own terms, like pay-when-paid or retainage?

Is our bid pricing used to train the AI?

Does legal AI for construction replace our lawyer?

Trusted by 20,000+ SMBs and small law firms

Draft yours, check the GC’s, and sign before the job starts

Start a draft from your own template, or upload a live subcontract and see what goHeather finds. Or book a demo and we will go through it with you.