Artificial Intelligence Reviewer of construction contract for subcontractor (Aircons)

Arcadis成本顾问的一份报告显示，2020年英国建筑纠纷的平均价值为2770万英镑（建筑指数，2021年）。76%的建筑合同纠纷涉及承包商/分包商（托马斯路透社，2022年）。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的破坏性合同纠纷。造成这种情况的主要问题是，据Gateley说，许多对分包商非常不利的条款被插入到合同中，仅仅是因为他们中的许多人在签署前没有审查合同。这种性质的争议可能导致许多分包商关闭公司或削减技术工作以支付法律的费用。UH将进行文献审查，并检查使用自然语言处理（NLP）的可行性。AI阅读合同，并使用分类和提取功能来识别关注的条款。J-Wadel Solutions Ltd将研究考虑成本和性能的AI模型的最佳部署解决方案。这些模特应该在一分钟内完成这项工作，每份合同的价格可以低至100英镑。通过减少承包商/分包商之间的冲突，还可以节省许多就业机会，使许多分包商能够维持其经济活动，并成为当地熟练技工就业机会的重要来源。

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.