How BuildClaim Works
From Changed Work to Recoverable Revenue.
BuildClaim connects project documents, field evidence, estimating, contractual correspondence, and change orders in one guided workflow.
The complete workflow
From project setup to recovered value
BuildClaim guides your team through a clear commercial path. Each step is reviewed and confirmed by people—AI assists discovery and drafts, it does not approve entitlement or recovery.
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Step 1: Set Up Your Project
- Create a construction project.
- Organize project details.
- Upload relevant contracts and documents.
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Step 2: Understand Contract & Scope
- Review contract terms.
- Establish original project scope.
- Confirm important requirements before relying on AI-generated findings.
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Step 3: Identify Potential Changes
- Review RFIs, drawings, documents, and field observations.
- Identify potential scope changes.
- Create Change Events for active projects.
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Step 4: Capture Supporting Evidence
- Attach field photos, documents, drawings, and correspondence.
- Organize supporting evidence around each Change Event.
- Track outstanding information.
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Step 5: Estimate the Impact
- Estimate labor, materials, equipment, and other supported costs.
- Use the company's existing cost library.
- Keep estimates distinct from approved recovery.
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Step 6: Prepare Notices & Change Orders
- Review applicable confirmed contractual requirements.
- Prepare notices and correspondence.
- Assemble and submit Change Orders through supported workflows.
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Step 7: Track Decisions & Recovery
- Track submitted Change Orders.
- Record approval, partial approval, or rejection.
- Monitor outstanding commercial exposure and approved value.
Illustrative scenario
Mechanical subcontractor — unexpected duct relocation
A walkthrough of how a specialty contractor might move from a drawing revision to a tracked Change Order decision. Example records and values are illustrative only—not a customer approval or guaranteed outcome.
Revised drawing identifies a possible duct relocation.
Project team reviews the change against original scope.
A Change Event is created for the potential relocation.
Field evidence and drawing revisions are attached.
Additional labor and material costs are estimated.
Confirmed notice requirements are reviewed.
A Change Order is prepared and submitted.
Approval, partial approval, or rejection is tracked.
Illustrative example. Sample project names, costs, and statuses shown elsewhere on this page are fictional and do not represent approved recovery for any customer.
AI assistance
AI Helps You Find the Risk. Your Team Makes the Decision.
BuildClaim assists with review and organization. Contractual entitlement, pricing authority, and commercial decisions stay with your people—not the model.
AI-assisted document review
BuildClaim helps surface potential changes in contracts, drawings, RFIs, and correspondence so your team can review faster.
Human confirmation of contract terms
Important contractual requirements stay unconfirmed until a person reviews and accepts them. AI suggestions are not authority.
Evidence organization
Photos, documents, drawings, and emails stay linked to the Change Event so reviewers see the full picture.
Draft assistance
Notices and commercial drafts can start from confirmed requirements and project context—your team edits and sends.
People control the decisions
Notices, estimates, submissions, and Change Order outcomes remain human-controlled. Nothing is approved or recovered automatically.
Product preview
See the workflow in BuildClaim
Representative screens use sample project data. Labels and values are illustrative.
Project overview
Contract value, potential changes, and recent activity in one project workspace.
Sample BuildClaim project workspace with contract, scope, documents, drawings, field capture, change event, estimate, and change order tabs. Change Events
Potential changes with owners, status, evidence links, and notice timing.
Sample change events from field capture, drawing revisions, and email, each with a review status and notice deadline. Contract Intelligence
Drawing revisions and contract-related findings surfaced for human review.
Sample drawing comparison between revision B and revision C, with a rerouted duct flagged as a potential change for review. Estimates
Labor, material, and equipment pricing from your company cost library.
Sample estimate priced from company labor, material, equipment, and assembly defaults with markup applied. Change Orders
Submitted packages tracked through review, approval, or rejection.
Sample change orders with submitted and approved values and their current approval status.
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