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Chapter 2. Redline reads it · Step 5 of 15

Every check it runs

Redline isn't one big prompt. It is a sequence of layers, each with one job, run in a fixed order. Two of them are AI. The rest are rules and checks that behave the same way every time, so the things that must never be missed are never left to a model's mood.

In order

Thirteen layers, every contract

how a review runsSimplified view
  1. 1

    Read the document

    Check

    Pulls the text of every page, so each finding can point back to the exact page and words.

  2. 2

    Clause-by-clause AI review

    AI

    Reads the whole contract from your side of the table, with your role, standards, interview answers and confirmed facts in front of it. If the AI pass is ever unavailable, the standards engine below still runs and the report says so.

  3. 3

    Your standing rules

    RulesNeeds: Rules in Settings

    Applies the redlines you taught it, word for word, every time.

    1 finding

  4. 4

    Prime contract flow-down

    RulesNeeds: The prime, if you have it

    Reads the owner's contract for what flows down to you. If the subcontract incorporates a prime you weren't given, it says so and drafts the request.

    1 finding

  5. 5

    The protection floor

    Rules

    A fixed set of checks that always run and can't be talked down: pay-if-paid, no damages for delay, broad indemnity, uncapped liquidated damages, termination for convenience, notice traps, retainage, payment terms, warranty.

    13 findings

  6. 6

    Your fact sheet

    Check

    The facts from step 3, with your confirmations and corrections on top. Every layer after this one uses them.

  7. 7

    Proposal against contract

    RulesNeeds: Your proposal

    Compares what you priced and excluded with what the contract requires: scope added back, mobilizations, labor hours, price and payment terms.

    5 findings

  8. 8

    The law where the project sits

    RulesNeeds: A state with a rule pack

    Applies the rule pack for the project's state, with the authority, effective date and verification date on every rule.

    6 findings

  9. 9

    Documents you were never given

    Rules

    Finds documents the contract binds you to by reference (prime, general conditions, schedules, manuals) and drafts the request for each.

    1 finding

  10. 10

    Insurance required vs carried

    RulesNeeds: Your carried limits

    Compares each required limit with the coverage in your workspace and states the dollar gap. With no coverage on file, it asks you to confirm with your broker instead of guessing.

    2 findings

  11. 11

    Anchor check

    Check

    Confirms every quoted passage really appears in the contract. Anything it can't find is marked "Verify: not located" instead of being trusted.

  12. 12

    Second AI pass

    AI

    A skeptical reviewer re-reads the findings and lowers confidence where they look shaky. It can mark a finding for a closer look; it never deletes one.

  13. 13

    Where it came from, and will the GC take it

    Check

    Tags each finding with its source (construction law, the jurisdiction, your standard, this contract, the prime) and how likely a GC is to accept the change.

Counts are findings each layer produced on the 4-page sample. The AI layers were switched off for this sample so it is fully repeatable; in production they run too.

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What the whole sequence does on a real-length contract

101

pages in the showcase subcontract

3 min

to run every layer, AI included

42

findings, 25 of them high

8

places the contract didn't match the proposal

The showcase is a real, precomputed run on a fictional 101-page subcontract. Open it.

What it does not cover

It tells you what it didn't check

Every review ends with a scope statement, so nobody mistakes an automated pass for a complete legal read. This is the one on the sample:

Scope of this automated pass: payment terms and contingent payment, retainage and its release, setoff/backcharges, delay and liquidated damages, claims-notice traps, indemnity, insurance limits and procurement clauses, termination, warranty, lien waivers, incorporated documents, prime flow-down, your own standards and proposal, and curated state rules where a pack exists. NOT systematically examined: bonds and joint checks, OCIP/CCIP wrap-up mechanics, differing site conditions and hazmat allocation, unit-price and cumulative-impact mechanics, schedule float ownership, and dispute-cost clauses (jury waiver, fee-shifting). Have counsel read those.
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