A delay, a differing site condition, a directive to proceed, a missed payment — almost every one carries a contractual notice obligation with a deadline measured in days. Notice Builder reads your contract, identifies the clause that governs, and drafts the serve-ready notice: the right recipient, the right delivery method, the deadline the clause sets, and a letter where every assertion is grounded in a contract citation. Drafting assistance — not legal advice. Your PM or counsel reviews before it goes out.
The most expensive words in a construction contract are often a notice provision: “Contractor shall give written notice within ten (10) days of the event giving rise to the claim, failing which the claim is waived.” Miss it and a legitimate delay or change claim is dead on the merits — not because it was wrong, but because the notice was late or went to the wrong person by the wrong method. The clause sits somewhere in the general conditions; the clock starts the day the event happens; and the PM who needs to act is on site, not reading the contract.
Notice Builder closes that gap. Tell it what happened — the event type and a short narrative — and give it the contract. It finds the governing notice clause, computes the deadline from the event date and the clause's notice period, and drafts a complete, properly-addressed notice letter. It tells you who must be served, by what method (certified mail, the contract's designated portal, email to the owner's rep), and what documentation to attach. Every factual and contractual assertion in the letter carries a citation back to the clause it rests on.
Notice is a clock-protection step, so the value is entirely in speed. Run it the moment an event with cost or schedule impact occurs — before the days tick off the notice window.
Paste or upload the contract, pick the event type, and describe the event in a sentence or two. That's the run.
The prime contract, subcontract, or the relevant general conditions. The full agreement is best — the engine reads it for the notice clause, the deadline period, the designated recipient, and the required delivery method. If Contract Review already ran, the contract carries straight over.
Delay, differing site condition, change directive / constructive change, non-payment, claim preservation, or acceleration. The type tells the engine which family of notice clause to look for and how the letter should be framed.
A short narrative — the event, the date it occurred, and the impact. “Owner's structural RFI response returned 9 days late on 6/3; steel erection on hold; crane on standby.” The engine writes the formal notice around the facts you give it.
Sample output for a delay notice, drafted from a prime contract's general conditions:
Notice Builder is a drafting tool for construction professionals, not a substitute for a lawyer. It surfaces the clause it relied on and the deadline it computed so a human can check both — and it says so on every result. Notice requirements, computation of days, and waiver consequences are legal questions; when the stakes warrant it, have counsel review the draft before it's served. The engine's job is to make sure you're not drafting from a blank page with the clock already running.
Notice Builder sits in the post-award phase, where the contract you negotiated meets the events of the job. It reads the same contract the rest of the platform already knows.
No. Notice Builder is a drafting tool for construction professionals — it does not create an attorney-client relationship and it is not a substitute for a lawyer. It quotes the clause it relied on and shows how it computed the deadline so a human can verify both, and the result says exactly that. For high-stakes claims, have counsel review the draft before it is served. The engine removes the blank page and the clause hunt; the judgment stays with you.
It locates the notice provision that governs the event type you selected, reads the notice period (e.g. “within ten days”), and counts from the event date you supplied — flagging whether the contract specifies calendar or business days where that's stated. The deadline is shown with the clause it came from and the days remaining, so you can confirm the computation rather than trust it. If the contract is silent or ambiguous on the period, the result lowers its confidence and says so.
The engine still drafts a notice on the best available basis — often the general claims or disputes provision — and lowers its confidence, marking the result REVIEW. A low-confidence result is a signal to have the contract and the draft checked by counsel before serving, not a reason to skip the notice. Serving a reasonable written notice on time is almost always better than serving nothing.
No. The factual narrative in the letter comes from what you describe; the contractual assertions come from the clauses it cites. It will not fabricate dates, dollar figures, or events. Where the notice needs a fact you didn't provide, the draft leaves a clearly-marked placeholder for you to fill rather than guessing.
Always — and you should. The drafted letter is yours to adapt: put it on letterhead, adjust the tone, add facts, or have counsel revise it. Export it to PDF from the result, or copy the text. The engine produces a strong first draft fast; the final notice that goes out is the one you and your reviewer approve.
Bring a real contract and a real event to a 15-minute call. We'll draft the notice on screen, show you the clause it cited and the deadline it computed, and you keep the output.
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