BUILT FOR THE OWNER, NOT THE CONTRACTOR
Change Orders commonly run about 10% of project value, costing you millions. Your contract is where they begin.
Don't wait for a change order. Let's find your risk now so you can mitigate it. Upload your construction contract and get specific insight in minutes.
With our proprietary framework built on 40+ years in construction project management, we evaluate your contract across 11 project-setup areas. Whether you can still make contract edits or you have to run it as written, you'll find out what you can manage yourself and what to flag for counsel.
A great deal of risk exposure is set by contract terms, long before construction starts. It's critical to see your risk now and learn what to do about it.
Contract Insights Report is built for owners, owners' reps, and CM firms, by capital-project professionals with more than four decades of experience running owner-side programs.
Since 1984, our company's entire business model has depended on security and trust, so you can rely on us for both expertise and privacy. We keep your contract confidential.
Your contract is only used to generate your own report. It isn't shared, and it's deleted after your report has been processed for you.
With our construction project management software, what we do at VPO is give capital project owners real-time visibility, accountability, and control across projects.
But Contract Insights works on any contract, whether you're a VPO customer or not.
Your contract is used only to create your report — never shared, never used to train AI, and deleted after it’s processed.

Two ways owners and CMs use it
Your contract, analyzed for this moment.
What you do with the risk identified will depend on whether or not you can still change the contract. Your AI-powered report meets you right where you are.
BEST CASE · you can still shape the contract
Fix the risk before it's locked in
Owners: Before you issue the contract, see what it would commit you to. At a point when the terms could still be changed, get shown specific items to raise with your legal and procurement teams.
Owners' Reps & CMs: Show your client what the contract would require them to manage. Before it goes into the bid package, flag concerns to address.
Catch it while you can still change it.
COMMON CASE · the contract is already set
Manage the risk you can't remove
Owners, Reps & CMs: The contract is signed and the terms are fixed. Find out exactly where your exposure sits. Then you can set up documentation, notice tracking, and processes to protect the project.
Walk into execution knowing what could bite you, instead of finding out later because of a change order or a claim.
Run the project with your eyes open.
Your contractor may already be reading your contract with AI. Who's reading it for you?
Other construction-related AI tools are built to protect the contractor, but it's owners we care about.
Contract Insights Report is powered by AI too, but built on a proprietary rubric that's shaped by 40+ years running owner-side programs. The difference is the context that our expertise brings to the analysis. We read your contract for your risk, through the lens of our experience and the best-practice standards for construction project management.
"I reviewed the contract insight reports for four different contract types. They were consistently strong and aligned with what I would recommend as a construction manager. It's impressive that the system can produce such high-quality reports so quickly."
What you gain
Hours of your best people's time, saved
Reading a construction contract for owner-side risk is slow, specialized work. Contracts run hundreds, or sometimes thousands, of pages. Our report reads your contract in minutes, freeing up your construction management experts to spend their hours on the work that only they can do.
DOING IT BY HAND
Several hours
A senior construction professional's specialized time, reading your contract thoroughly and then producing the analysis needed? At typical billing rates, that would cost you well over $1,000.
WITH THE CONTRACT INSIGHTS REPORT
Minutes · $495
Upload, preview, download. The owner-side analysis you need is delivered in minutes, even for a thousand-page contract. All while your team is focusing on higher-value work.
Faster and more thorough.
Our proprietary framework is applied consistently across your entire document. Every page, every time. There's no skimming page 700. No bad afternoon. What a person would need hours to cover, you get in minutes, and in the same way for each and every one of your contracts.
"Reviewing a contract like this and producing similar results would normally take me several hours of billable time. Using this tool is well worth the time it saves me and the cost it saves my clients, while allowing me to focus on other work."
What's in the report
Owner-side findings, sorted into next steps.
Your report opens with a one-page status summary capturing 11 setup areas. It then gives you the most important move to make on your project. Next is section-by-section guidance, with each step tied to the contract clause behind it.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Guidance you can act on
Practical steps for the risks in your lane as an owner or CM. Documentation to set up, terms to administer, and processes to put in place.
FROM A SAMPLE REPORT
Written notice of a differing site condition is due before it's disturbed and within 14 days of discovery, or the claim is waived. Stand up a differing-site-conditions log from Notice to Proceed.
COUNSEL
Items to raise with your attorney
The provisions that carry legal weight, pulled out and framed for you as the owner. Guidance on exactly which items are vital to raise with counsel, without your having to incur billable CM hours to find those concerns.
FROM A SAMPLE REPORT
Counsel: confirm the Purchase Order Assignment carries the manufacturer's warranty through to the Owner and states when risk of loss transfers.
Guidance you get
The most important move you need to make.
Take a look at our report's output regarding a real, public water-treatment contract (with names and identifying details changed). On the left, the bid schedule. On the right, what our report told the owner to do about it. All delivered before Notice to Proceed.

Item 2: The owner pre-purchased $3.8M of equipment, and assigns the purchase order to the contractor.
Your contract is used only to create your report — never shared, never used to train AI, and deleted after it’s processed.


Procurement is flagged red, giving the one setup move that protects $3.5M of owner-funded equipment.
Sample generated from a real public-sector contract. Names and identifying details have been changed.
What's included in your report:
Scope & Owner's Project Requirements
Scope matrix, OPR, design deliverables
Schedule & Time Management
CPM baseline, milestones, delay & float
Cost Management & Budget Controls
Budget, WBS, payment, contingency
Change Management & Claims Avoidance
Change process, notice, entitlement
Records, Documentation & Information Systems
System of record, logs, retention
Roles, Responsibilities & Authority
Responsibility matrix, authority limits
Quality Management
QA/QC plan, testing, nonconformance
Procurement & Bid Packaging
Packaging, prequalification, bid leveling
Safety & Regulatory Compliance
Safety plan, permits, insurance & bonds
Meetings & Communication Cadence
Cadence, minutes, distribution matrix
Closeout & Handover
Punch, as-builts, warranty, retention
How it works
From contract to owner-side analysis, in minutes.
Step one
Upload your contract
Upload your contract documents as a single PDF — the agreement together with its general and supplementary conditions. AIA, ConsensusDocs, CMGC, construction-manager-at-risk, design-build, or a custom owner agreement all work. You don’t need the full technical specifications, but adding your drawings will sharpen the report.
Step two
Have it read thoroughly
It gets analyzed against our proprietary owner-side framework, consistently across every page.
Step four
Unlock the full report
Pay $495 by credit card, and download the complete PDF in minutes.
You'll see real findings from your own contract in the free preview. Before you spend a dollar, you'll know the report is specific to you.
Simple pricing
One contract, one report, one price.
$495 per contract
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Full owner-side report capturing all 11 setup areas
- Guidance for managing, plus items to flag for counsel
- Free preview before you pay
- Minutes to deliver, for any construction contract, any length
Your contract is used only to create your report — never shared, never used to train AI, and deleted after it’s processed.
No subscription. No software to install. Works whether or not you also use VPO.
Not ready yet? Download a sample report
Questions
What to know before you upload.
How is this different from just analyzing the contract myself?
Our report checks your specific contract for your risk, through a proprietary framework built on 40+ years of owner-side experience and construction standards of practice. Across 11 project-setup areas, you get guidance on what to manage versus what to flag for review with counsel.
Can I see a sample before I upload?
Yes. Download a sample report generated from a real public-sector contract (with names and identifying details changed), or upload your own contract and see its preview for free.
How long does it take?
Minutes. The longer the contract, the longer it runs. But for even a thousand-page contract, it's minutes. Not the hours of billed time that it would take for a professional to read it.
Is this legal advice?
No. The report gives project-management guidance, and flags items for you to raise with your own attorney. It does not interpret the law, render legal opinions, or replace counsel. Using it does not create an attorney-client relationship.
What contracts does it work on?
Any construction contract — AIA and ConsensusDocs standard forms, CMGC and construction-manager-at-risk agreements, design-build, or a custom owner agreement. Upload the agreement together with its general and supplementary conditions as a single PDF. You can also add your drawings, which sharpen the analysis.
Should I include the drawings and specs?
Drawings are worth adding — there’s a place to upload them, and they surface risks the contract text alone won’t, like utility conflicts, long-lead equipment, and phasing. The full technical specifications aren’t necessary; the core analysis runs on your contract and its conditions.
What if my contract is already signed?
It's still valuable, and arguably more so. If you can't change the terms, the report shows you exactly where your exposure is so you can set up the documentation, notice tracking, and processes to manage it during the project.
Do I need to be a VPO customer?
No. It works on any contract regardless of the platform you use.
Is my contract kept confidential?
Yes. Your document is used only to generate your report, and is handled securely. It isn't shared or used to train models for anyone else, and your contract is deleted after it's been processed for you.
What if my contract is confidential?
Many of our users — especially in the public sector — work under strict confidentiality. Two things protect you. First, your document is used only to generate your report: never shared, never used to train AI models, and deleted afterward. Second, you don’t have to start with a sensitive contract at all. Public contracts are often public record, and we provide sample contracts, so you can see exactly what the tool produces before you ever upload something private.
How do I redact my contract first? I only have a PDF.
You don’t need the original Word file. Open the PDF in Word — it converts to editable text for you — then use find-and-replace to swap the identifying details (party names, personnel, project name, address) for placeholders like [Owner], [Contractor], or [Project]. Export back to PDF and upload that. Placeholders rather than deletions keep each clause readable, so the analysis stays accurate; if you can leave dollar amounts, dates, and the governing state in, the findings get sharper. It all happens on your own computer — nothing leaves your hands until you choose to upload.
Find the risk now, not in your next change order.
Upload a contract and preview your findings, free of charge. Then get the full report in minutes, for $495.
Your contract is used only to create your report — never shared, never used to train AI, and deleted after it’s processed.
Your contract stays yours.
Confidentiality isn’t an afterthought — it’s how we’ve run since 1984.
- Used only to generate your report
- Never shared
- Never used to train AI models
- Deleted after your report is delivered
- Hosted on Microsoft’s secure cloud
And you don’t have to start with anything sensitive. Public-agency contracts are often public record, and we provide samples — so you can see exactly what the report delivers before you upload a private document.
Contract Insights Report by VPO
The Contract Insights Report provides project-management guidance, not legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. It is not a substitute for review by qualified legal counsel. Always consult your attorney on legal questions arising from any contract. © 2026 VPO / The Simplex Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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