Contrafly: A New Chapter for AI in Construction Contracts

Contrafly: A New Chapter for AI in Construction Contracts

We are delighted to be introducing Contrafly — a new AI tool built specifically for reviewing and amending construction contracts and construction-specific documents.

Over the past few years, AI has dominated headlines. In the legal world, much of the discussion has understandably focused on risks including accuracy, confidentiality, reliability and professional standards. In construction, where contracts allocate significant financial and operational risk, that caution is entirely justified.

However, AI has been moving on at a rapid pace and the conversation within legal circles has not. Whilst it is right to be concerned with the risk of AI, a new generation of domain-specific tools, like Contrafly, have made great strides in accuracy and reliability whilst the security situation for enterprise-grade tools is very different to the perceived shortcomings of free to use chat style tools many people have experienced to date.

More importantly, alongside those perceived risks sits a real opportunity. An opportunity to focus human expertise and judgement on the most complex issues and let AI shoulder the routine. An opportunity to empower commercial users to negotiate and draft contracts without compromising on quality or deviating from your preferred risk profiles.

We believe the future of AI in legal is not about generic tools applied loosely to specialist problems. It is about domain-specific systems; built with deep sector knowledge, structured review processes and clear risk frameworks that support legal teams and empower commercial colleagues without compromising quality.

It is also about bringing awareness of the opportunity that AI represents to legal and procurement teams in the construction industry.

That is the thinking behind Contrafly.

Built for Construction

Construction contracts are not standard commercial agreements with minor technical additions. They are complex instruments that allocate time, cost and responsibility across projects that can span years.

Contrafly has been designed specifically for this environment. It brings together:

• Jurisdiction specific knowledge;

• Construction-focused thinking;

• Structured whole-document review;

• Focused interactive chat functionality for contextual clause queries;

• Customisable Playbooks reflecting your organisation’s risk profile;

• Drafting tools which understand standard-form styles, formatting and how to draft amendments that work seamlessly with existing Particular and General Conditions;

• Integration into existing workflows through Microsoft Word Add-in;

• Customisable export of review results, change logs and negotiation tables straight into the Microsoft tools you already use.  

The aim is simple: make contract review more efficient while maintaining control and consistency.

Empowering Teams, Supporting Legal

One of the biggest challenges for in-house teams is volume. Legal functions are expected to move quickly, support commercial teams and maintain governance, usually all at the same time.

Contrafly is designed to help:

• Empower commercial users to negotiate within approved positions

• Reduce routine escalations

• Remove bottlenecks in the review process

• Allow legal teams to focus on the most complex and strategic issues

This is not about replacing legal judgment. It is about augmenting it. By applying AI in a controlled, construction-specific way that reflects real-world risk you can focus your most valuable assets, your people, on the issues that matter most.

Join Contrafly on the Journey

We are at the beginning of this journey, and we are excited about what lies ahead.

We will be running demonstrations soon and would welcome the opportunity to show how Contrafly can operate in practice.

More importantly, we want to bring the in-house construction legal community with us. Contracting is changing and we believe the most effective legal teams will be those that shape this change deliberately rather than reacting to it from the sidelines.

The conversation about AI in legal is moving from “if” to “how.”

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If you would like to see Contrafly in action or be part of the next stage of development, we would be delighted to connect, drop us a message on LinkedIn or get in touch here: www.contrafly.com/contact