LegalTech · ConTech FRCM
AI-powered contracts for construction
At a glance
The brief, up front.
Construction contracts hide payment terms, indemnity shifts, and scope-creep provisions that contractors often sign without fully understanding.
A Thalamus-powered platform that ingests contracts, flags risk, simplifies legal language, and answers clause questions in plain language.
The challenge
What stood in the way.
Construction contracts are long, technically complex, and full of hidden risk: payment terms buried in sub-clauses, indemnity language that shifts liability without warning, scope creep provisions that can unravel a project's economics. Contractors often sign without fully understanding what they've agreed to. FRCM's vision was an AI platform that could parse complex legal language, detect high-risk clauses, support negotiation, and educate non-legal users, at the scale of firms managing many projects at once.
The system we shipped.
We embedded as an extension of FRCM's team, bringing specialized AI and ML expertise to the core of their product. The platform ingests contracts and immediately generates insight: simplifying legal jargon, flagging risk clauses with scores and explanations, and surfacing recommended edits to support negotiation.
At the heart of the platform is Marten, an AI assistant that answers specific questions about contract clauses in plain language, then surfaces the questions the user didn't know to ask. Across a portfolio, risk trend analysis gives leaders consistent, structured signals for go/no-go decisions instead of instinct.
What was delivered
Outcomes you can point to.
- Risk detection, clause simplification, and negotiation support in a single platform
- Marten AI assistant: plain-language clause Q&A plus proactive risk surfacing
- Portfolio-level risk trend analysis for multi-site construction operators
- Designed for non-legal users: project managers can act without a lawyer in the room
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