Chapter 1. The problem · Step 2 of 10
What one contract can cost you
On paper those clauses look routine. In dollars they are not. This is Redline's own cost screen for the Harbor Point job: a $1,860,000 flooring subcontract, using the 10% margin the sub entered.
Harbor Point, in dollars
93 days of delay and the profit is gone
This is the first screen of every finished review, before you read a single finding. It turns the clauses into the numbers you run a business on.
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Nothing is estimated
Every figure comes from the contract's own terms and the answers you gave: the price, your margin, the LD rate, the retainage, the payment days. - 2
It starts where you're worried
Tell Redline what keeps you up about a job and the review opens there. Here, the sub said the schedule is tight and the LDs have no cap. - 3
Then the fix
From this screen it walks you through every finding, worst first, with the replacement language ready.
The arithmetic
Redline on this contract: $399. The profit riding on it: about $186,000.
It doesn't have to save every contract. It has to catch one clause like these before you sign it. And it doesn't replace your attorney: it makes their hour count, because they start from the issues that matter instead of page one.
Across the industry
The best construction dispute is the one you never have.
$60.1M
Average value of surveyed North American construction disputes, 2024
12.5 months
Average time to resolve
#1
Contract and specification reviews, ranked the most effective claims-avoidance technique
Source: Arcadis Global Construction Disputes Report. Averages of surveyed disputes; yours doesn't need to be that size to wipe out a job's profit.
See what Redline would find in a contract on your desk. Your first one is free.