Identify, understand and strategically position the commercial risks inside your contracts — before they become financial damage.
Most "AI consulting" today is tool installation dressed up as transformation. PiVOTiQ is different. Built by people who have lived the full commercial lifecycle — contract, variation, claims, dispute — and who started where the money is won or lost first: the contract you are about to sign. Not dashboards. Not chatbots. A commercial strategy engine.
A pragmatic commercial risk read on every contract you sign. Fast. Structured. Built to be acted on.
You've signed contracts you didn't fully read. Every contractor has.
The clause that looked standard until it triggered. JBCC payment terms you didn't price for. Scope wording in the NEC that quietly shifted risk onto your side of the table. The notice period that expired before anyone on your team knew it existed.
These aren't edge cases. They're in every contract you sign.
Most contracts still get reviewed on instinct. A skim of the special conditions. A gut feel about the head contractor. A hope that the standard form hasn't been amended in ways that matter. Risk goes in blind — and only surfaces when a payment dispute, a scope gap, or an LD claim makes it impossible to ignore.
The structural problem: a proper senior commercial review is slow and expensive enough that it is only justified on the largest packages. On everything smaller, the review simply does not happen — and the contractor absorbs the risk blind. We close exactly that gap.
It reads the contract the way an experienced commercial manager reads it — looking for the clauses that will cost you money, delay your programme, or expose your business. It flags them. It rates them by severity. It explains the mechanism. At Level 3, it tells you the action steps and the negotiation questions you should be putting on the table before you sign — and the commercial risks to monitor, escalate, and address proactively once the contract is executed.
Contractors and subcontractors across South Africa's commercial, civil, infrastructure, mining and industrial sectors — builders, civil contractors, services contractors, and specialist trades operating under NEC, JBCC, GCC and FIDIC forms — and under bespoke head contracts and subcontracts drafted by the employer.
The businesses where a contracts admin or QS exists but isn't dedicated to a single project. Where a commercial manager covers three or four jobs at once. Where the director is the commercial decision-maker by default — not by choice.
If your team is making commercial decisions on contracts they haven't had time to properly assess, this is built for exactly that.
The buyer mechanic matters: the person who finds us is usually not the person who pays. A mid-level commercial manager or contracts administrator finds the page and takes it to the director. The page's job — and ours — is to make that internal pitch effortless. A clear, fixed price. No demo. No meeting. Approve on a company card.
Larger contractors with established commercial teams use it differently — for pace and pipeline volume, not for capability. A structured brief in hours, not days. A second pair of eyes on a tender that closes tomorrow. A simultaneous read across eight live tenders, not a sequential queue.
When the issue is throughput rather than skill, Contract Risk Intelligence gives your team a head start they can act on immediately.
Not legal advice. For complex disputes, high-value negotiations, or matters requiring formal legal opinion, a qualified construction attorney remains essential. Contract Intelligence sits upstream of legal advice — it identifies which contracts warrant escalation and equips you to brief that conversation.
Not a 100% exhaustive contractual audit. No review is. What it captures is the majority of commercially significant risk that practically impacts your margin, your programme, and your balance sheet.
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How It Works
Contract Risk Intelligence · South Africa
Three tiers. Each represents a different level of commercial control — from visibility on every clause through to a defensible negotiating position before signature. All prices include VAT.
No "book a demo." No "contact us for pricing." No deck before you see the cost. The price is on this page. Read it, decide, and send one contract — or start a subscription. That is the entire process.
One contract, one fixed price. No subscription, no commitment, no minimum. Pay by card via Stripe, or by AUD invoice and SWIFT transfer.
For continuous pipelines. 10 Contract Review Packs per month. Cancel any time. Pay by card via Stripe, or by AUD invoice and SWIFT transfer.
Included at Every Tier · No Extra Charge
The report is a point-in-time read. The register is a living instrument you keep working — during negotiation, and for the life of the contract.
Each finding lands in the register against its clause reference, scored on Exposure, Control and Recoverability. The severity band calculates itself from those scores.
When a clause is amended in negotiation, you re-score it. The severity band recalculates on the spot. You see exactly what you have won, clause by clause, while you are still at the table.
After execution the same file carries mitigation owner, status, post-negotiation note and residual score. The negotiation worksheet becomes the contract administration checklist.
An editable file you own outright. No login, no dashboard, no platform, and no subscription required to open it — now or in five years.
Your contract review, on call, for the life of the job.
A real-time question-and-answer line to your own completed analysis. Ask in plain language, get an answer drawn from your Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 reports for that specific contract. No login, no dashboard, no app to deploy — it runs through a messaging channel your team already uses, from a phone, on site.
CRI Live answers only from the completed, quality-controlled reports for your contract. It does not re-read the contract and generate fresh analysis on the fly. That is deliberate. The answer you get on site in September cannot contradict the report your director approved in March.
CRI Live answers from all three report layers together — the rated register, the plain-English consequence analysis and the strategic position. Level 1 and Level 2 clients do not hold enough of the analysis for it to work properly, so it is not offered at those tiers.
Includes VAT. Unlimited questions on that contract, every day, for as long as the job runs. Cancel any time.
Add CRI Live — ZAR 950/month per contract → Terms & Conditions applyValue in Context · South Africa
A senior commercial manager can produce a maximum of 4 contract reviews per month. That constraint does not change — but it does mean that most contracts go unreviewed. Here is what each option costs per review, and what four reviews in a month costs you.
| Option | Cost per review | Reviews/month | Cost at 4 reviews/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| The alternatives | |||
| Senior QS / Contracts Manager — in-house | R37,500 | 4 | R150,000 |
| Senior CM / QS — external consultant | R73,500 | 4 | R294,000 |
| PiVOTiQ Contract Risk Intelligence — once-off, per review | |||
| L1 Contract Threat Intel | R3,950 | No cap | R15,800 |
| L2 Contract Risk Brief | R9,950 | No cap | R39,800 |
| L3 Contract Strategic Position | R14,950 | No cap | R59,800 |
In-house benchmark: Senior QS / Contracts Manager ZAR 1,800,000 CTC pa ÷ 12 months ÷ 4 reviews = ZAR 37,500 per review. External benchmark: Senior CM / QS ZAR 3,530,769 total engagement cost pa on the same basis = ZAR 73,500 per review. Benchmarks based on published South African market data — indicative only. PiVOTiQ pricing shown is once-off per contract review, with no subscription and no monthly capacity cap. ZAR prices include VAT.
How We Compare
Same commercial expertise. Delivered consistently. Scaled intelligently. Without the headcount.
| Capability | In-House Resource | External Consultant | PiVOTiQ L1 | PiVOTiQ L2 | PiVOTiQ L3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max reviews per month | 4 | 4 | No cap — submit as needed | No cap — submit as needed | No cap — submit as needed |
| Turnaround time | Days to weeks | Days to weeks | 1 business day | 1 business day | 1 business day |
| Editable risk register you own | — | Sometimes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ongoing Q&A on your contract | If they're free | Billed hourly | — | — | ✓ CRI Live |
| Cost per contract review | R37,500 | R73,500 | R3,950 | R9,950 | R14,950 |
| Structured output — every review | Variable | Variable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SA statutory context (CIDB, Regs) | Manual / variable | Manual / variable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NEC / JBCC / GCC / FIDIC / bespoke form coverage | Varies by person | Varies by firm | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plain-English risk explanation | Inconsistent | Inconsistent | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Negotiation playbook per contract | — | Sometimes | — | — | ✓ |
| Replacement Language Guidance | — | Sometimes | — | — | ✓ |
| Negotiation Sequencing table | — | Rarely | — | — | ✓ |
| QC review before every delivery | Variable | Variable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scales without new headcount | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Procurement & Access | |||||
| Price visible without a sales call | N/A | Rarely | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| No onboarding or training required | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| No platform licence or deployment | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Available without long-term commitment | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tailored Solutions
Standard plans serve the majority well. If your operation needs something different — higher monthly capacity, a mix of tiers across divisions, or pricing structured around a specific project programme — we'll design it around you.
South African clients: we work with your procurement and forex processes from the outset. SARB documentation is prepared with every invoice. No surprises.
Tell us what alternatives best suit your requirements, our team will have a look and get back to you within 2–3 business days.
These are the commercial moments where a 5–10 day traditional turnaround is not an option. Each scenario below is a situation where a 1-business-day structured review changes the outcome.
No. There is nothing to install, no platform to learn, no onboarding session, and no demo required before you can access the service or see the price. Subscribe by card or arrange an invoice — you can submit your first contract the same day.
No. PiVOTiQ is an Australian entity. South African clients contract directly with us and pay via international SWIFT transfer to our Australian bank account. We issue AUD-denominated invoices with the commercial documentation your bank's forex desk requires for SARB compliance.
We send you a formal AUD invoice and a service description. You instruct your South African bank or forex provider (e.g. Standard Bank Forex, Nedbank, Peregrine Treasury) to process an international SWIFT payment. Documentation is included with every invoice. Your plan activates on cleared funds.
NEC3, NEC4, JBCC (Principal Building Agreement and N/S Subcontract), GCC 2015, FIDIC Red/Yellow/Silver, bespoke head contracts and subcontracts across commercial, civil, infrastructure, mining and industrial sectors. South African statutory context (CIDB, Construction Regulations) is built into every review.
ZAR indicative prices are set periodically and include VAT. Once-off and month-to-month Stripe charges process at Stripe's live conversion rate. Where you elect invoice payment, the invoice is issued in AUD and your bank converts ZAR to AUD at the prevailing rate. Contact us if exchange rate exposure is a procurement concern.
It costs nothing extra — it is included at Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3, on once-off reviews and subscriptions alike. It is produced from the Level 1 analysis, and it is the same register at every level: each finding recorded against its clause reference and scored on Exposure, Control and Recoverability. The severity band calculates itself, so when you win a clause in negotiation you re-score it and watch the exposure fall. After execution the same file becomes your contract administration checklist. It is an editable file you own — no login, no platform, no subscription needed to open it.
CRI Live is a real-time question-and-answer line to your own completed reports. Ask in plain language from your phone on site, and get an answer drawn from your Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 analysis for that contract — never fresh analysis generated on the fly, so it cannot contradict the report your director approved. It is included at no charge on a Level 3 subscription, or ZAR 950 per month per contract on a once-off Level 3 review, VAT inclusive, cancel any time. It is Level 3 only because it answers from all three report layers together; Level 1 and Level 2 clients do not hold enough of the analysis for it to work properly.
1 business day — guaranteed. Submit any time. There is no cutoff time. Every report is QC-reviewed by our team before delivery — you receive a checked intelligence product, not raw AI output. SAST business hours apply.
No. PiVOTiQ delivers commercial intelligence — AI-enabled identification, explanation and strategic positioning of contract risk. It does not replace a construction attorney, claims specialist or registered quantity surveyor. Every report carries the standard disclaimer. Consult a qualified professional before taking action.