SUBCONTRACT SUMMARY
Every commercial review produces a one-page summary of the subcontract in front of you: who the parties are, what you're being paid, the dates that bind you, and the clauses worth arguing about. It's the page you read before you sign, and the page you keep beside you for the rest of the job.
A commercial subcontract runs to sixty pages or more, and most of it doesn't change from job to job. The summary pulls out the parts that do — the details a project manager would otherwise spend an evening hunting for.
The legal entities on each side — not the trading names on the letterhead — plus the project, the site, the scope as the contract describes it, and the head contract it flows down from. Getting the entity wrong is how subcontractors end up serving a notice on a company that isn't their counterparty.
The subcontract sum, whether it's lump sum or schedule of rates, GST treatment, the claim date each month, the payment period, retention percentages and the cap. If there's a pay-when-paid clause in there — void under every Australian Security of Payment Act — it's flagged here.
Site possession, practical completion, the defects liability period, and — the ones that actually cost money — the notice windows. How many days you get to notify a delay, a variation or a dispute, and whether the clause makes that notice a condition precedent to the claim.
Every clause the review flags, rated high, medium or low, with the clause reference it came from and the position the industry would usually push back to. Liquidated damages rates and caps, indemnities, set-off rights, security and termination-for-convenience all surface here.
The summary tells you what you're signing. The departure schedule is what you do about it: the clause-by-clause list of amendments you're asking the builder for, built from the flags you decide to pursue. Adopt a risk item in the review and it drops into the schedule with the clause reference, what the clause says now, the change you want and a one-line commercial reason.
That schedule goes to the builder as a spreadsheet they can respond to line by line. When the revised contract comes back, upload it and the AI Commercial Reviewer tells you which of your departures actually made it in — the check most subcontractors skip.
Upload a contract and get the summary and risk report emailed to you — no account needed.
