ScopeShield
An AI contract-and-scope review tool for SMB subcontractors: photograph or upload a GC's subcontract and get a one-page plain-language risk score with flagged clauses and scripted redline-request questions before you sign.
A subcontractor gets a subcontract from the general contractor a few days before a job starts and signs it because the work is already promised and there is no lawyer on retainer. Buried in it are pay-when-paid, no-damage-for-delay, unlimited indemnity, retainage traps, and lien-waiver-on-progress clauses that quietly move the GC's risk onto the sub. The danger is invisible at signing and only surfaces months later as an unpaid invoice or a delay claim the sub cannot push back on.
The owner or office lead of an SMB subcontractor (roughly 10-100 employees) who personally signs the GC's subcontracts and personally eats the loss when a buried clause turns a profitable job into an unpaid one. There is no in-house counsel and no budget for a lawyer to read every contract, so today the review simply does not happen.
A crisp, named buyer (the SMB subcontractor who signs without counsel) with clean per-contract pricing, sitting on a days-old market-formation event where the leading construction-contract-review player launched GC/prime-side and left the complementary sub-receiving-a-contract side explicitly unclaimed.
The unauthorized-practice-of-law boundary caps how far the advice can go, which holds the convergence and why-not scores down, and the incumbent that owns the prime side could ship a sub-side mode despite the channel conflict. Defensibility has to come from clause-taxonomy and lien-law depth over time, not from the idea being hard to copy.
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