Artificial Intelligence Reviewer of construction contract for subcontractor (Aircons)

Arcadis成本顾问的一份报告显示，到2020年，英国的平均建筑纠纷价值为2770万英镑（the construction Index, 2021）。76%的建筑合同纠纷涉及承包商/分包商（Thomas Reuters, 2022）。第一家在伦敦证券交易所上市的商业律师事务所Gateley（2022）解释说，分包商经常面临与雇主和主承包商之间破坏性的合同纠纷。根据盖特利的说法，造成这种情况的主要问题是，许多对分包商非常不利的条款被插入合同中，仅仅是因为他们中的许多人在签署前没有对合同进行审查。这种性质的纠纷可能导致许多分包商关闭公司或减少技术工作以支付法律费用。UH将进行文献综述，并检查使用自然语言处理（NLP）人工智能阅读合同的可行性，并使用分类和提取特征来识别关注的条款。J-Wadel Solutions Ltd将考虑成本和性能，研究人工智能模型的最佳部署解决方案。模特可以在一分钟内完成这项工作，每份合同的价格低至100英镑。通过减少承包商/分包商之间的冲突也可以节省许多工作，使许多分包商能够维持其经济活动，并成为当地熟练商人工作的重要来源。

A report by cost consultants at Arcadis reveals that the average construction dispute value in the UK was £27.7m in 2020 (The Construction Index, 2021). 76% of disputes in construction contracts involve the contractor/subcontractor (Thomas Reuters, 2022). Gateley (2022), the first commercial law firm to list on London Stock Exchange, explained that subcontractors frequently face damaging contractual disputes with employers and main contractors. The main problem responsible for this, according to Gateley is that many clauses that are highly unfavourable for subcontractors are inserted into the contract simply because many of them do not review it before signing.Dispute of this nature can result in many subcontractors closing companies down or shedding skilled jobs to pay legal fees.UH will carry out a literature review and check the feasibility of using Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI to read the contracts and use the classification and extraction features to identify clauses of concern. J-Wadel Solutions Ltd will investigate the optimal deployment solutions for the AI model considering cost and performance. The models should do the job within a minute and can be offered for as low as £100-per-contract. By reducing conflicts between contractor/subcontractor could also save many jobs and enable many subcontractors to maintain their economic activity and be a significant source of local skilled tradesmen jobs.