ContractorCounter Review support
What the Contract Review Checks
The reviewer reads the contract the way a senior construction contracts consultant would when engaged by the party being asked to sign: clause by clause, looking for terms to query, negotiate, or have reworded before signing. It focuses on the areas where contractors most often get hurt.
Money clauses
Payment terms and pay-when-paid conditions, retention amounts and when retention is actually released, set-off rights, security-of-payment waivers, and anything that puts your cash flow at the other side's discretion.
Risk and liability clauses
Liquidated damages and whether they are capped, one-sided indemnities (including indemnifying the other side for their own negligence), limitation-of-liability asymmetries, insurance obligations, and defects liability periods and their scope.
Time and process clauses
Extension-of-time entitlements and their time bars, notice requirements and deadlines, variation and direction procedures, suspension and termination rights, and dispute resolution steps.
One-sided and ambiguous terms
Anything unusually one-sided against the signing party, missing terms that should be there, and wording ambiguous enough to be argued against you later. Each finding quotes the exact clause text and is highlighted at that spot on the page.
How severity works
High risk means serious financial or legal exposure — the sink-the-business clauses. Review (medium) marks one-sided terms worth negotiating. Clarify (low) marks ambiguities to question. The review returns at most 20 findings ordered by severity, quality over quantity, plus an overall assessment.