# Legal AI for construction

> GenieAI helps construction teams draft, review, and negotiate JCT, FIDIC, NEC, and subcontracts with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions.

**Industry:** Construction

JCT, NEC, FIDIC and the construction contracts that build the world

Construction teams at Cladtek, Molonglo Group, GCM Ltd, Statom Group and Igne use Genie to draft and review subcontracts, collateral warranties and framework agreements.

## Construction contracts, on schedule

GenieAI is the AI legal assistant trusted by 200,000+ business teams. We draft, review, and negotiate construction agreements end-to-end - main contracts, sub-contracts, variations, claims, retentions - with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions.

- Auto-draft JCT, FIDIC, NEC and bespoke construction contracts
- Surface variation, retention, and liquidated-damages exposure pre-signature
- 500+ construction-ready templates across 150+ jurisdictions, free to use

## What construction teams run through Genie

### Draft subcontracts and framework agreements

Produce a first draft of a subcontract, collateral warranty or framework agreement from a plain-English brief.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/create-contracts](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/create-contracts)

### Negotiate against your own construction positions

Check a contractor's or employer's amendments against the risk you actually accept on delay, defects and payment.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/review-negotiate](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/review-negotiate)

### Consistent terms across every project

It remembers the positions you took on the last framework, so site and commercial teams stop re-negotiating settled points.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ai-contract-assistant](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ai-contract-assistant)

### Ask what a collateral warranty commits you to

Get answers on liability caps, step-in rights and payment terms, each tied back to the exact clause.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ask-your-document](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ask-your-document)

### Mark up subcontracts inside Word

Redline a JCT or NEC subcontract in the file the main contractor sent, without rebuilding your comments elsewhere.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/word-add-in](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/word-add-in)

## How teams use Genie in Construction

### Sales

- **Win tenders faster** — Auto-draft main contracts, subcontracts, and consultancy agreements in seconds, with your standard positions applied.
- **Negotiate within playbooks** — Surface pre-approved fallback terms for JCT, NEC, and bespoke contracts during tender negotiations.
- **Track project-stage risk** — See where every project sits versus your liability, payment, and programme positions.

### Procurement

- **Subcontractor onboarding in minutes** — Review subcontract, plant-hire, and SaaS agreements in one pass, with risk areas flagged automatically.
- **Standardise across suppliers** — Enforce your H&S, insurance, and payment positions across the entire subcontractor base.
- **Spend-control insights** — Surface auto-renewal, rate-rise, and variation clauses across the supplier base before they trigger.

### Leadership

- **See project-portfolio exposure** — Surface enterprise-wide risk across main, subcontract, and JV agreements in a single dashboard.
- **Move faster on growth and JVs** — Spin up due diligence packs, acquisition agreements, and joint-venture terms without delaying the deal.
- **Empower every team within guardrails** — Set commercial and H&S positions once; let project, procurement, and commercial teams draft within them.

### In-house Legal

- **Outsource the routine work** — Auto-handle NDAs, subcontract amendments, and standard appointments so you focus on novel issues.
- **One source of truth for clauses** — Maintain a living construction playbook commercial and project teams can draft from directly.
- **Move quicker on negotiations** — Suggest pre-approved fallbacks for liability-cap, delay, and variation clauses during negotiations.

### Operations

- **Streamline contract intake** — Triage incoming subcontract, plant-hire, and consultancy agreements automatically against your playbook.
- **Standardise across the supply chain** — Enforce a uniform position on H&S, insurance, and payment terms across every supplier.
- **Cut cycle time** — Reduce review backlog from weeks to days with AI-first triage on every incoming agreement.

## Real Construction teams using Genie

> “When I put the final lease in front of counsel, I paid for just one hour of review - and they didn’t have any edits. For me, that was the proof piece.”‍“Something that used to cost me $5,000 in legal fees now costs maybe $600. The value is undeniable.”

— Housing Us, Housing Us - a fast-growing US real-estate developer - moved from outside-counsel review on every lease to a self-serve workspace, saving roughly $50,000 a year.

**$50,000 / year in legal fees saved**

- **Industry:** Real estate
- **Team:** 5 employees
- **Use case:** Lease + development contracts
- **Result:** $50k/year saved

[Read case study](https://www.genieai.co/case-studies/how-a-fast-growing-real-estate-company-uses-genie-ai-to-save-50000-per-year-in-legal-fees)

## How does GenieAI compare to ChatGPT?

| Capability | GenieAI | Claude | ChatGPT |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Conversational interface | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Can upload docs & PDFs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Review against your playbook rules | Yes | Yes | No |
| Edit and negotiate in tracked changes | Yes | No | No |
| Collaborative legal editor for teams | Yes | No | No |
| Compare against a proprietary legal dataset | Yes | No | No |
| Manage complex deals with Eidetic Intelligence | Yes | No | No |
| Develop an org-wide legal brain | Yes | No | No |
| Save templates, playbooks, insights | Yes | No | No |

## Construction contracting, answered

### Which construction documents does GenieAI generate?

JCT, NEC, FIDIC, and bespoke construction contracts, subcontracts, collateral warranties, [professional appointments](https://www.genieai.co/en-gb/template/consultant-appointment-agreement), and the documents construction projects depend on.

### Can construction teams review contracts without waiting for legal?

Yes. Legal sets the positions your business accepts once, as a playbook, and Genie reviews incoming subcontracts, collateral warranties and [framework agreements](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/framework-agreement) against it, so routine work moves without joining a legal queue.

Anything outside those positions is flagged rather than waved through, so legal keeps the standard and the business keeps the timeline.

### Who decides which contract positions we can accept?

Legal does. The playbook is authored and owned by your legal function: preferred positions, acceptable fallbacks, and the points you will not concede. Genie applies it rather than substituting a standard of its own.

That division is the point. The business gets speed without reopening settled questions, and legal gets consistency without reviewing every draft.

### How long does a subcontract review take with Genie?

It depends on length and how much the counterparty has changed, so we publish customer outcomes rather than a single headline figure. Firefish, a market research agency of 50 to 100 people with its own in-house legal function, cut contract review time by more than 50% and now handles the same volume with half the legal availability.

HoSt Group, a 700-person energy company, gives 25 commercial seats to its sales and commercial teams and reports 80% faster reviews. The saving comes from Genie reviewing against your playbook first, so whoever opens the contract starts from a marked-up draft rather than a blank page.

### Does GenieAI work inside Microsoft Word?

Yes. Genie works directly in Microsoft Word, so you review and redline in the document your counterparty actually sent, rather than moving it into another system and breaking your review trail.

DocuSign and Adobe Sign integrations are in development.

### What happens when a counterparty's redline falls outside our playbook?

Genie flags the deviation instead of accepting it. The change is identified against the specific position it breaches, so whoever reads it can see what was altered, why it matters, and whether it needs a decision from legal.

Escalation is the feature rather than the failure. It is how legal stays in control of the standard while everything inside the standard keeps moving.

### Is our contract data used to train AI models?

No. Documents you generate or upload stay in your tenant, are not used to train models, and confidential material is not shared with third-party LLMs.

GenieAI is ISO 27001 certified and operates under GDPR.

### Does GenieAI work with JCT, NEC and FIDIC?

Yes. Genie drafts and reviews against the standard forms your projects use, including JCT, NEC and FIDIC, with the bespoke amendments your business requires applied on top.

The amendments are the point: your schedule of amendments becomes the playbook, so every project starts from the position your legal team has already settled.

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