Disclaimer

The Subcontract Risk Scanner generates an AI-produced commercial risk report. Adjudicate Pro generates an AI-produced assessment of a construction payment dispute. Neither is legal advice, financial advice, accounting advice, or any other professional advice. Neither should be relied upon as a substitute for consultation with a qualified construction lawyer or commercial advisor familiar with your specific circumstances.

Reports and assessments are produced by an automated artificial intelligence system. The output may contain errors, omissions, misinterpretations, incorrect statements about legislation or procedure, or analysis that does not apply to your contract, dispute, or circumstances. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any output. You must independently verify any information before relying on it. Different runs of the Tool on the same material may produce different results.

Adjudicate Pro expresses its assessment partly as a percentage likelihood of success. That figure is a commercial estimate generated by an AI system from the material you provided, and only from that material. It is not a probability derived from decided cases, not a prediction of what any adjudicator, court, or other party will do, and not a guarantee of any outcome. A strong percentage can still lose; a weak one can still win. Real outcomes turn on facts, evidence, and procedure that no automated assessment can fully capture.

Security of payment legislation imposes strict time limits, and missing one can permanently extinguish rights. Any statement in an assessment about a deadline, time bar, notice period, or adjudication procedure is general information that may be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Verify every date against the current legislation, with professional advice where the amount matters, before you act, or before you let a date pass because the assessment suggested you had time. Details of adjudication registries and nominating authorities are provided for convenience only; we are not affiliated with, and do not act for, any of them.

Where an assessment includes a draft letter or other communication, it is a starting template only. If you adapt and send it, the communication is yours, sent in your name and on your own judgement. Check every statement, figure, date, and legal reference in it before it goes anywhere. We are not the author of your correspondence and accept no responsibility for it or for any response it provokes.

The Scanner and Adjudicate Pro refer to contracting parties using generic terms such as "the principal", "the head contractor", or "the builder". Their reports and assessments do not, and are not intended to, make any statement about, judgement of, or reference to any specific named entity or individual. Any apparent reference to a specific entity is unintended and should be disregarded.

Builder Check and Builder Watch work differently: at your request they look a named business or company up in public registers (ASIC's company and business names datasets, the QBCC register of licensed contractors, and ABN Lookup) and reproduce what those registers say, with the source and the date of the data on each line. Where a register has no open-data feed, they give you a link to the official search with the name filled in.

Nothing in a Builder Check report, a Builder Watch alert or the list of matching entities is an assessment, opinion, rating, score or recommendation by us about any entity's solvency, creditworthiness, financial position, reputation, conduct or suitability, and none of it is a credit report. A register entry is a fact to weigh, not a verdict. A company with one adjudication decision had one dispute; a company suing its own client may simply be owed money.

Registers can be incomplete, out of date, contain errors, or list entities with the same or similar names, and we do not verify them. The entity shown first when you type a name is a best match, not a confirmation. Confirm the ACN or ABN against your contract or purchase order before relying on anything in a report or alert, and do not rely on a report or alert as the sole basis for any decision. What you say or do about an entity after reading a report is your own responsibility.

Where the output refers to market norms or similar benchmarks (for example, typical liquidated damages rates, payment terms, or time bar periods), or gives indicative cost and timeline estimates for negotiation, adjudication, or court, these are general commercial indications based on observed practice. They are not statements of law, are not project- or dispute-specific, and are not quotes. Actual costs, timeframes, and market practice vary by sector, state, project scale, and over time.

Using the Tool, receiving a report or assessment, or contacting us through the Tool does not create a lawyer-client relationship, an advisor-client relationship, or any other professional engagement. We are not your lawyer, accountant, or advisor.

Any decision you make about a subcontract (or about whether to pursue, negotiate, settle, adjudicate, litigate, or abandon a claim or payment dispute) is your own decision, made at your own risk. We accept no responsibility for any loss, damage, or other consequence arising from any decision made in reliance on any report, assessment, or information provided by the Tool.

For decisions that involve material commercial risk (signing a subcontract, commencing an adjudication, or starting court proceedings among them), you should engage a qualified construction lawyer admitted in the relevant state or territory, your accountant, and any other appropriate advisor first. Take the report or assessment with you: it can make that advice faster and cheaper. The cost of getting proper advice is almost always less than the cost of getting it wrong.