Vertrage

Manage contractand claim risk oncapital projects

Losses on large contracts and claims bankrupt companies and cut billions from valuations. Vertrage reviews every contract and claim, finds the risks early, and helps your team avoid excess cost and delay.

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Small contract problems become large losses

A missed notice deadline, an unpriced change, or an unrecorded delay looks minor at the time. The cost appears months later, in the final account or in a dispute.

33%
Disputed amounts average a third of the contract budget on troubled capital projects.
66%
Claims for more time on these projects average two-thirds of the original schedule.

Errors in contract documents and failure to understand or comply with contract obligations are the two most common causes of construction disputes in North America.

Sources: HKA, CRUX Insight 8th annual report (2025); Arcadis, Construction Disputes Report, North America (2025)

From signature to settlement

Vertrage connects each obligation and right in your contract to the records on your project. It supports your team at each stage of the contract.

Contract intelligence

Know your position

Vertrage maps the obligations, notice periods, time bars, liability caps, and risk allocation in each of your contracts. It flags the terms most likely to cost you money.

Changes, claims, and delay

Build your position

Vertrage drafts the change orders, variations, and claims you submit, and reviews the ones you receive. For each one, it assesses contract entitlement, cost, and schedule impact. Requests for more time include a schedule analysis that follows AACE International recommended practices.

Remedies and disputes

Prove your position

Vertrage assembles the chronology, entitlement analysis, and supporting evidence for a contested claim. It does the same when you use a contract remedy such as liquidated damages, back-charges, suspension, or termination. Your team goes into negotiation, mediation, adjudication, or arbitration with a documented case.

For owners, contractors, and suppliers

Owners

Pay the right amount for changes and claims, and enforce the protections in your contract.

  • Review every change order, variation, and claim against the contract and project records
  • Price the changes you direct and assess their schedule impact before you issue them
  • Confirm that contractors meet the notice and documentation requirements in the contract
  • Support liquidated damages and back-charges with a documented record
  • Track your exposure across every contract in your portfolio

Contractors and suppliers

Recover the time and money your contract entitles you to, and protect your margin.

  • Review risk allocation before you sign
  • Track every notice deadline in your contracts
  • Prepare change orders, variations, and claims with full cost and schedule support
  • Support every request for more time with a schedule analysis
  • Respond to back-charges and liquidated damages with the record

Positions that hold up under scrutiny

Your team has to justify every commercial position to someone. That could be the other party, your executives, an auditor, a regulator, or an arbitrator. Vertrage ties each finding to the contract language and project records behind it. Your team can show that reasoning to any of them.

  • Your team reviews every recommendation and makes every decision.
  • We never use client documents to train AI models.
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Finding · Clause 8.3Time bar

Notice of delay issued six days late

Contract

General Conditions 8.3.1

“Notice shall be given no later than twenty-one (21) days after that date.”

Contract

General Conditions 8.3.2

“The Contractor waives any extension of time and any additional compensation arising from an event described in an untimely notice.”

Record

Daily log, 4 March

Excavation suspended. Rock encountered at grid C-4.

Record

Notice of delay, 31 March

Received by the Owner's Representative 27 days after the event.

EffectThe claim for a 14-day extension is waived under cl. 8.3.2.

Know what you signed.

Bring us a contract or a claim you're worried about. We'll show you what Vertrage finds.

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