Flagship Service
Know where your claim stands before your opponent does.
The Claims Readiness Assessment is a fixed-fee, fixed-timeline forensic review of your dispute. In four to six weeks, our experts deliver a complete picture of your evidentiary position: the causation chain, the strength of every claim head, the contradictions and gaps in the record, and your quantified exposure. Every finding traceable to a source document.
Delivered by construction dispute experts using GridLens, our proprietary AI forensic platform. 100% source traceability.
The Problem
Construction disputes are decided on documents. Most parties don't know what theirs actually say.
When a claim arises, the evidence sits across thousands of documents in disconnected silos: drawings and revision histories, correspondence, instructions, contracts, variations, inspection records, and schedule data. The standard forensic process is manual keyword search and spreadsheet analysis, consuming four to six weeks and hundreds of professional hours per major claim before any strategic thinking begins. Critical relationships between documents are missed, audit trails are incomplete, and expensive expert hours are spent on data organization rather than analysis.
Meanwhile, the dispute clock is running. Notice periods lapse. Positions harden. The party that understands its document record first holds the advantage in every negotiation, adjudication, and arbitration that follows.
What You Get
One engagement. Complete clarity.
The Claims Readiness Assessment takes your full document corpus for a live or emerging dispute and delivers a comprehensive forensic position report. The report establishes the causation chain connecting instructions, variations, delays, and costs; assesses the evidentiary strength of each claim head, whether you are preparing a claim or defending one; identifies the contradictions, missing triggers, and documentation gaps that would surface under cross-examination; and quantifies your exposure or entitlement with document-level substantiation.
Every conclusion in the report links back to specific source documents. Nothing rests on assertion. This is analysis built to withstand formal dispute proceedings, delivered in weeks rather than months.
How We Do It
Expert judgment, amplified by GridLens.
Our forensic work is powered by GridLens, a proprietary AI platform built specifically for construction disputes. GridLens reads the entire corpus, including drawings and scanned documents that text extraction cannot handle, and maps the relationships that decide disputes: which document supersedes another, which instruction triggered which variation, which correspondence establishes notice of a claim event.
In a recent engagement, GridLens extracted and connected 227 entities across a dispute corpus, including 122 variations, 31 contractual obligations, 16 claims, and 14 parties, reducing an analysis that traditionally takes ten weeks to one. GridLens is not a product we sell. It is the reason our experts spend their time on analysis and opinion rather than data entry, and the reason we can commit to a fixed fee and a fixed timeline.
90%
reduction in analysis time
1 week
vs 10 weeks for delay and disruption claim prep
100%
source traceability on every finding
4-6 weeks
to a complete forensic position report
Who It's For
Built for parties with real money at stake.
The assessment serves construction employers and project owners facing contractor claims, contractors preparing or defending claims on government or private projects, insurers and sureties assessing construction loss exposure, and legal firms representing parties in construction arbitration who need a defensible evidentiary foundation before building strategy.
Engagement Structure
Fixed fee. Fixed timeline. No surprises.
Pricing is set at the scoping call based on document volume and claim value, structured in three tiers by dispute size. The engagement begins with secure document intake, proceeds through GridLens processing and expert analysis, and concludes with delivery of the forensic position report and a findings briefing with your team. Where proceedings advance, we provide continuing expert support including formal expert reports and expert witness services under a separate engagement.
Request a Scoping CallFor Advisors
Law firms and claims consultancies: multiply your capacity.
Your team's value is strategy and opinion, not document reconstruction. We deliver the forensic evidence layer for your matters in days, fully traceable, under your engagement or ours. Partner with EMEA Contech and handle two to three times more matters with the same team.
Request a Scoping Call
The other side is reading their documents. Are you reading yours?
A scoping call takes thirty minutes. We assess your dispute, confirm scope and fee, and commit to a delivery date.