Document Crunch
Construction contract AI that flags pay-if-paid and retainage risk in minutes, not days
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What Document Crunch is
Document Crunch is an AI contract review and risk management platform built exclusively for the construction industry. Its CrunchAI technology — trained on construction contracts — identifies indemnification, pay-if-paid, retainage, and compliance risk that generic legal AI tools miss. The June 2026 platform launch added Project Assist, an agentic layer that surfaces risk across an entire project from bid pursuit to closeout and generates redlines, notices, submittals, and RFIs via a chat interface. Document Crunch was acquired by Trimble in Q2 2026. Pricing starts at approximately $200/month for small teams; enterprise plans are custom-quoted.
Key features
- CrunchAI trained exclusively on construction contracts — flags indemnification, pay-if-paid, retainage, and compliance clauses that generic legal AI misses
- Project Assist (June 2026): agentic layer reviews risk across the entire project lifecycle from bid to closeout, not just individual contracts in isolation
- Chat interface for source documents — ask questions, generate redlines, notices, submittals, and RFIs directly from uploaded contract documents
- Reduces first-pass contract review time by up to 80% on large GC/subcontractor document sets
- Custom playbooks lock your firm's standard risk positions into every review
- Trimble-backed: Q2 2026 acquisition brings construction tech ecosystem integrations to the platform
💰 Sell it as a service
The offer
Sell a construction contract risk review retainer to GCs and specialty subcontractors — you run incoming project contracts through Document Crunch, annotate the flagged clauses in plain English, and deliver a one-page risk brief to the project manager before they sign.
What to charge
$500–$1,500 per contract review for one-off engagements; $1,500–$3,500/month for a retainer covering all new prime contracts and major subcontracts on active projects. Pass through the Document Crunch platform cost ($200–$500/mo) as a transparent line item. GCs with a steady pipeline of new subcontract agreements are the best retainer candidates.
How it gets delivered
Upload contracts to Document Crunch, run the AI review, layer in a brief annotation of each flagged clause with owner-facing plain-English context, and deliver a risk summary within 48 hours of contract receipt. Monthly retainer = all new contracts reviewed on a rolling basis plus a quarterly playbook update call.
This is one offer. AI Operator Academy is where operators build the full stack — packaging, pricing, fulfillment, and a peer group selling the same services. $999/yr.
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