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The contracts you never see

Ridgeclause, pitching contract review to Fenwick & Vale Contractors. Thirteen slides, about four minutes. Both companies are fictional.

The contracts you never see — Four minutes on the clauses that reach a signature line without ever reaching yours. — Prepared for Fenwick & Vale Contractors
ARTICLE 9.3 — Page 14 of 62 — “Contractor waives all claims for delay damages, however caused.”
THE VOLUME — What one legal office absorbs — 60–140
CASE RECORD — One clause, one project — A mid-size general contractor signed a subcontract carrying a no-damages-for-delay provision. The notice requirement sat in a different article entirely: seven days. Owner design changes pushed the schedule 40 days. The claim was denied on notice, not on merit. They had seven days and took thirty.
THE CALENDAR — Why it gets signed anyway — Seventy-two hours
THE PRODUCT — Ridgeclause reads all of it in four minutes — Upload the subcontract. Ridgeclause reads every page, flags the provisions that shift risk onto Fenwick & Vale, and separates what is negotiable in this market from what nobody wins. Back comes a marked-up PDF and a one-page summary the project team can act on before the bid goes in.
THE PROCESS — Where it sits in your process — 01
CLAUSE LIBRARY — What we flag — No-damages-for-delay
Your positions, applied to every contract — Load your fallback language once. Every package is measured against it, including the ones that never reach your desk. What deviates comes to you. What does not comes back marked, and marked the same way every time. — THE PRODUCT
EVIDENCE — “We did not add headcount. We added four minutes per contract, and my office started reviewing exceptions instead of page 14 of every package.” — General counsel, regional general contractor
BOUNDARIES — What this is not — Not legal advice
TERMS — Pricing for Fenwick & Vale — STARTER
Send us one — Pick a subcontract you are about to sign. It comes back marked up within 24 hours. Read it, and decide whether we caught anything you would have missed. — No call required, and no obligation to talk to anyone after you have read it.

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