Beacon Risk isn’t just contract review — it’s an end-to-end risk and negotiation workflow. Upload your subcontract and in minutes you get a full risk report, your financial exposure, and ready-to-send negotiation wording for every problem clause. From contract received to pushback drafted — in one place.
Reduce risk. Save time. Protect margin.
Built by Subcontractors for Subcontractors
Built to analyse real subcontract agreements — Bespoke, NEC, JCT, and Design & Build.
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Risk Report
JCT Design & Build 2016
Total Exposure
£124,000
Risk Score
Moderate
Flagged Clauses
AI Summary
Three clauses require immediate attention before signing. The uncapped liquidated damages clause creates unlimited financial exposure. Design liability has been fully transferred to the subcontractor without customary carve-outs.
Three steps from contract received to risk understood.
From upload to report in approximately 10 minutes.
Simply upload your subcontract agreement to Beacon Risk — PDF, Word, JCT, NEC or Bespoke. No setup, no training, no specialist knowledge required.
The platform analyses the agreement and surfaces flagged clauses, financial exposure, and risk levels across the contract.
Access a clear, plain-language summary of risks so you can negotiate, price correctly, or walk away with full information.
Every clause in your subcontract is read and assessed — not just the standard risk areas.
No legal jargon. You get a clear explanation of what each clause means for your business, with suggested amendments.
High, Medium, and Low — so you know exactly where to focus your negotiation effort.
Where possible, Beacon Risk quantifies the financial risk so you can see the pound value of what you're signing.
A formatted risk report you can share with your QS, solicitor, or senior management.
Get professionally drafted negotiation wording for each risk clause — ready to send directly to the main contractor.
The most common UK subcontract form. Beacon Risk handles all standard versions including 2016 and 2024 editions.
Increasingly used in public sector and infrastructure projects. Full clause analysis across all main and subcontract options.
Many main contractors use their own amendments or entirely bespoke forms. Beacon Risk analyses these too.
Trained on real subcontract disputes. Every risk type below has cost a subcontractor real money on a real project.
These clauses appear regularly in subcontract agreements and are often missed under commercial pressure.
Your business takes on unlimited financial exposure for defects with no contractual cap to limit what you owe.
Clauses that make your payment dependent on the main contractor receiving payment from the client — restricted under the Construction Act, but still common in contracts.
Payment cycles of 60–90 days that put serious pressure on cashflow before a project has even started.
Vague scope definitions that allow obligations to expand after signing, with no mechanism to recover the additional cost.
Clauses that shift design liability onto you — even when you had no involvement in producing the design.
Requirements to hold specialist insurance policies that go beyond your standard cover and add unexpected cost.
Beacon Risk finds all of these. Every contract. Every time.
We ran a live JCT Design & Build subcontract through Beacon Risk and compared it, clause for clause, against a paid professional QS review of the same contract.
Beacon Risk analysed 215 clauses to the QS’s ~90 — and caught major risks the manual review missed, including a compressed pay-less notice, cross-contract set-off, and a termination-for-convenience clause. For every flagged clause it also produced ready-to-send replacement wording, where the QS report stopped at ‘this should be removed.’
Same contract. Faster, more thorough, and ready to act on.
Contract reviewed in this comparison has been fully anonymised — no client or contractor names retained.
Every module is built for specialist subcontractors — not adapted from generic business software.
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Review your contract AND automatically check it against your actual insurance policies. The only platform that catches both contractual risk and insurance gaps in one review.
Built by the founders of a specialist subcontracting business. Over 20 years in the industry. Tested against hundreds of real subcontract documents.
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