For general contractors · Per job
Clear it up with your subs before the job goes live.
A per-job tool for buyout. Send every sub on the bid list a link to review your subcontract — free to them. Their questions come back as one clean page of asks, and you work through them before anyone signs.
Priced per job · Never a charge to your subs · Their workspaces stay theirs
Tower B — interiors package
5 subs on the bid list · 1 ready to sign
- Signature-ready
Apex Drywall
Drywall
- Reviewing
Summit Mechanical
HVAC · 2 open high-risk
- Reviewing
Ridgeline Electric
Electrical · 1 open high-risk
- Accepted
Keystone Concrete
Concrete
- Invited
Harbor Glazing
Glazing
You know how buyout goes
The problem isn't the sub. It's what nobody said before signing.
Silence, then a claim.
A sub signs without reading closely, finds the problem in month four, and it comes back to you as a change order — or a lien.
Thirty different markups.
Every sub marks up your paper its own way, if at all. Buyout stalls in inboxes while your team decodes them one by one.
A job that starts sideways.
Crews mobilize still arguing about scope, pay and notice. The fight moves from the table, where it's cheap, to the field.
How it works, per job
Issue it. Get it back. Clear it up.
Just a tool you pick up for the job in front of you — no platform to roll out, nothing for your subs to buy.
- 1Issue it
Set up the job, invite the bid list.
Add each sub — company, trade, email. Every one gets an invitation to review your subcontract in Redline, free to them, in its own private workspace. You still send your contract the way you do today.
- 2Get it back
One clean page of asks from each sub.
Each sub reads every page against its bid, the law where the job sits, and market-standard terms — then sends you its asks on one page: priority tiers, proposed language, and what it didn't touch.
- 3Clear it up
Settle it at the table, then sign.
Work through the asks before anyone mobilizes. Your board shows every sub from invited to signature-ready — and no sub reaches ready with a high-risk item still undecided.
What comes back to you
Their questions, on one page you can actually answer.
Every sub's asks arrive in the same format, sent to you by the sub. Built to leave their building: it never carries their internal analysis, pricing, or walk-away position.
- Priority tiers. The two things that matter, first — not fourteen items relitigated in sequence.
- Proposed language. Every ask comes with wording you can say yes to.
- The reason, grounded. Reads as a fact to verify, not a position to fight.
- What they didn't touch. Insurance, flow-down and bonding, stated up front.
- Long shots, set apart. Asks you likely can't grant are separated, so they can drop them without a round trip.
Requested changes
Ridgeline Electric · Tower B
…within 10 days of Contractor’s receipt of payment, and no later than 45 days after approval…
…written notice within seven (7) days of the event giving rise to the claim…
Not touched: insurance limits, prime-contract flow-down, bonding.
Why your subs will actually use it
You can't see their side. That's why it works.
A review tool the GC can read is one subs won't be honest in. Redline stays on the sub's side of the table, so the questions you get back are the real ones.
What you see
- Where every sub stands, from invited to ready
- How many high-risk items are still open, per sub
- The asks each sub chooses to send you
What you never see
- A sub's margins, pricing or financial position
- Their internal analysis or what they chose to absorb
- Anything in their workspace they didn't send you
Use it upstream too
Your contract with the owner deserves the same read.
Run the prime through Redline before you sign it — every clause that moves risk onto you, quoted and page-cited. Your first contract is free.
Priced per job
One price for the whole bid list.
Banded by job value, never per seat or per review — so every sub on the job goes through it, not just the ones you had budget for. Your subs never pay a dollar.
Founding job
- Every subcontract on one bid list — up to 30
- One conversation tells you whether the job qualifies
- We deliver the status reporting ourselves while the dashboard is finished
- No commitment beyond the job
Per job, after that
Every subcontract on the job's bid list included. Budget it in general conditions, next to bonds and insurance.
| Job value | Per job | Eff. rate |
|---|---|---|
| Under $10M | $7,500 | ≤ 0.08% |
| $10M – $50M | $15,000 | 0.03 – 0.15% |
| $50M – $150M | $30,000 | 0.02 – 0.06% |
| $150M + | Custom | — |
Owner or developer paying for it instead? The owner's side is here.
What GCs ask first
Do my subs have to pay for anything?
No — never, on your job. Each sub on the bid list gets its review free, in its own workspace, and keeps its account afterward.
Does this replace how we issue subcontracts?
No. You issue your subcontract the way you do today. Redline is where each sub reads it properly and turns its questions into one clean page of asks it sends back to you.
How do the asks reach us?
Each sub sends you its negotiation packet — one page, priority-tiered, with proposed language and what it didn't touch. Your board shows where every sub stands in the meantime.
Can we see what our subs' reviews found?
No, and that's the point. You see status, open high-risk counts, and the asks each sub chooses to send. Their analysis, pricing and decisions stay theirs — which is why the asks you get are honest.
Won't this just create more pushback?
It surfaces the pushback that already exists — early and organized, instead of in month four as a change order. Most asks are cheap to grant or cheap to explain.
Is this legal advice?
No. Redline is not a law firm and gives no legal advice to anyone on either side of the table. Your counsel stays in the loop; the packet is built so your team can triage it fast.
The owner wants to pay for it. How does that work?
Same program, owner-sponsored: the developer pays, you run the bid list, and nobody sees a sub's side. The owner's page explains who sees what.
Run one job this way. Then compare it to the last one.
Pick a job heading into buyout. Every sub reviews your subcontract free, sends back one clean page of asks, and you settle it at the table before anyone mobilizes.
- Free for a qualifying founding job — no commitment beyond it
- Every sub on the bid list included, free to them
- One board for where every sub stands
Not a law firm. Not legal advice. Preparation for the people on both sides of your table.
