The project brain for Australian construction contracts.

Astruct reads the contract, the correspondence and the project mail, and shows what needs a notice and when. Every answer cites the clause and page. The notice is drafted on your letterhead before the time bar.

Free for 30 days. Two projects and 100 credits. No card.

Every notice, its clause and the days left.

Astruct keeps the register for you. Each notice and time bar comes from the contract, each date is counted in business days, and each one shows whether it went out on time.

Notices and time barsKestrel Street, Stage 2 · Subcontract HV2291-SC-014 · demo project, fictional parties
2due this week2given on time0missed
NoticeClauseDueTime leftStatus
Payment schedule from Harrow & ValeResponse to payment claim PC-09 of Fri 25 SepItem 27Subcontract p 17Mon 12 OctTodayNot yet receivedWatching the mailbox
EOT claimTower crane TC1 outage and late Level 6 accessSC 7.2Subcontract p 20Thu 15 Oct, 5:00 pm3 business daysof 15, from Wed 23 SepDraft ready for review
Variation particulars V-06SI-014 façade brackets, L4 to L9SC 8.2Subcontract p 21Mon 19 Oct, 5:00 pm5 business daysof 10, from Fri 2 OctQuote Q-26-1187 linked
Payment claim PC-10Work to 25 OctoberItem 24Subcontract p 17Sun 25 Oct9 business daysReference date, the 25thClaim being prepared
Variation notice V-06SI-014 façade brackets, “no change to the subcontract sum”SC 8.1Subcontract p 21Fri 2 OctGiven Tue 29 SepDue Fri 2 OctOn time
Delay noticeTower crane TC1 outage and late Level 6 accessSC 7.1Subcontract p 20Wed 30 SepGiven Tue 29 SepDue Wed 30 SepOn time

Dates count Brisbane business days; Monday 5 October was the King’s Birthday. Each row opens the clause and page it came from, and the letter that was sent.

1. Reads the contract

Your contract, read in about a minute.

Head contract or subcontract, standard form or bespoke. Special conditions are read with the general conditions, so a replaced clause is never the one relied on.

  • Contract sum, date for practical completion and liquidated damages
  • Reference dates for payment claims and the time for payment schedules
  • Every notice period and time bar, with its clause and page
Subcontract HV2291-SC-014.pdfRead, 28 pages
Subcontract sumAgreement cl 2 · p 2$4,862,540.00 ex GST
Practical completionItem 12 · p 16Fri 11 Dec 2026
Liquidated damagesItems 15 and 16 · p 16$3,850 a day, cap 10%
Payment claimsItem 24 · p 1725th of each month
Payment scheduleItem 27 · p 1710 business days
Notice periods and time bars
Delay noticeSC 7.1 · p 205 business days
EOT claimSC 7.2 · p 2015 business days
Variation noticeSC 8.1 · p 215 business daysReplaces GC 19.3
Variation particularsSC 8.2 · p 2110 business days after the notice

Reads the contracts you actually sign.

Standard forms, their subcontracts and the amendments that change them.

AS 2124-1992General conditionsAS 2545-1993SubcontractAS 4000-1997General conditionsAS 4901-1998SubcontractAS 4300-1995Design and constructAS 4902-2000Design and constructAS 4903-2000D&C subcontractAS 4905-2002Minor worksAS 4906-2002Minor worksAS 4917-2003Construction managementABIC MW-2018Major worksABIC SW-2018Simple worksGC21NSW GovernmentNEC4ECCFIDICRed, Yellow and Silver BooksHIAResidential contractsMBAResidential contractsBespokeand amended contracts
2. Answers with the clause

Ask anything. Get the clause and the page.

Ask in your own words. Astruct answers from the contract, its amendments and the correspondence, and cites the clause and page for each point.

  • Reads AS 2124, AS 4000, AS 4300, AS 4902 and AS 4903 style contracts, their subcontracts and amendments
  • Knows the security of payment time limits, such as under SOPA and Queensland’s BIF Act
  • Every answer cites the clause and the page
SI-014 says “no change to the subcontract sum”. Do we still need to give a variation notice, and by when?

Yes. SC 8.1 applies to any Direction you consider a Variation, including “a Direction stated to involve no change to the Subcontract Sum”. SC 9(b) confirms the statement does not relieve you of the notice.1, 2

SI-014 was emailed on Fri 25 Sep at 3:12 pm, before 5:00 pm on a business day, so it was received that day.3 Five business days takes the variation notice to Fri 2 Oct, 5:00 pm.

1Subcontract HV2291-SC-014p 212Subcontract, SC 9(b)p 223Email · SI-014 · Fri 25 Sep
Ask about Kestrel Street, Stage 2
3. Drafts the notice

The notice, on your letterhead, before the time bar.

Variation notices, delay notices, EOT claims and letters, drafted from the contract and the evidence. Upload a letter your company has sent and every draft uses its letterhead, fonts and layout.

Draft the EOT claim for the crane outage and late Level 6 access, on our letterhead
Read Subcontract HV2291-SC-014: SC 7.2, p 20Linked delay notice ARC-KS2-L-041 of 29 SeptemberChecked Programme Rev 8 for the critical pathDrafted on the Arcline letterhead, due Thu 15 Oct
  • The clause, dates, parties and references come from the project’s own documents
  • Downloaded as a Word file, ready to check and sign
  • Nothing leaves until a person on your team presses Send
ARCLINEFAÇADES
22 Ironbark CloseNorthgate QLD 4013T 07 5550 0860arcline.example
Rebecca LindqvistMain Contractor’s RepresentativeHarrow & Vale Constructions Pty LtdLevel 7, 212 Tarrant LaneBrisbane City QLD 4000
Our ref
ARC-KS2-L-044
Subcontract
HV2291-SC-014
Date
12 October 2026

By email: rebecca.lindqvist@harrowvale.example; contracts@harrowvale.example

Dear Rebecca

Kestrel Street Mixed-Use, Stage 2: Subcontract HV2291-SC-014 (Façade Package)
EOT Claim under Special Condition SC 7.2: tower crane TC1 and late access to the Level 6 slab edge

  1. Claim. Arcline claims an extension of time of 12 days to the Date for Practical Completion for the Qualifying Causes of Delay notified in ARC-KS2-L-041.
  2. Critical path. The curtain wall units are top-hung and Programme Rev 8 has no float in the façade sequence. The Level 5 unit start moves from 1 October to 13 October 2026.
  3. Records. Attached are the site diary for the week ending 25 September 2026, the crane schedule for week 39 and your emails of 23 and 28 September 2026.
  4. Continuing delay. The delay is continuing. Arcline will update this claim every 10 Business Days, as SC 7.2(d) requires.

Yours faithfully

Maya BrennanCommercial Managerfor and on behalf of Arcline Façades Pty Ltd
ARC-KS2-L-044.docxPrepared for reviewNot sentDue Thu 15 Oct
4. Reads the project mail

Connect Outlook. Astruct reads the project mail.

As mail arrives, Astruct reads it for variations, delays and claims. It compares each direction with your scope of work, flags likely variations and potential delays, links the evidence and works out when the notice is due. Upstream and downstream.

  • Directions compared against the scope of work
  • Potential delays flagged from mail, minutes and programme updates
  • Claims and payment schedules picked up, with the dates the contract sets

New mail is picked up within about five minutes. Astruct reads only the mailboxes you connect.

Mail · Kestrel Street, Stage 2Watching
Rebecca LindqvistMon 28 Sep, 1:20 pm
RE: L6 slab edge handover – revised date
Possible delayL6 slab edge now handed over Tue 6 Oct, not Wed 30 Sep. L5 unit start moves.
Craig PellowFri 25 Sep, 3:12 pm
SI-014 – Facade brackets L4-L9 to Detail 7/A-512 Rev C
Direction outside scopeScope · Annexure C, p 25FB-150 brackets, 2 × M12 anchorsSI-014FB-220HD brackets, 2 extra M16 anchors
Jess Nguyen16 Sep
Variation to meeting time – Façade coordination Thu 17 Sep now 1.30 pm
No action. A meeting time, not the works.
Delay noticeSC 7.1 · Subcontract p 20 · aware Wed 23 SepWed 30 Sep, 5:00 pmGiven Tue 29 Sep
Variation noticeSC 8.1 · Subcontract p 21 · received Fri 25 SepFri 2 Oct, 5:00 pmGiven Tue 29 Sep
Your documentsThe contract, drawings, programme and correspondence. Files, folders, zips and saved emails.
Live
OutlookPersonal and shared Microsoft 365 mailboxes. Shared ones need your admin’s consent, once.
Live
Procore, Gmail and SharePointSet up with you during the trial. Tell us when you request it.
On request

From one email to a notice, ready for review.

A replay from Tue 29 Sep on the demo project: Arcline’s façade subcontract in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, and the site instruction that changed its brackets. The notice went out that afternoon, three business days early.

Kestrel Street, Stage 2 · Issues · Variation
SI-014 changes bracket system L4–L9
Replay · Tue 29 Sep, 2:40 pm
Detected
Evidence linked
Deadline set
Draft prepared
Sent
Evidence
“Proceed as directed, no change to the subcontract sum.”
Email · Craig Pellow, Harrow & Vale · Fri 25 Sep, 3:12 pm
“15:12 SI-014 received by email from C. Pellow”
Arcline site diary · Fri 25 Sep
SC 8.1 · Variation noticeCheck the clause

“…the Subcontractor must, within 5 Business Days after receiving the Direction…”

Notice due · 3 business days left
Fri 2 Oct, 5:00 pm
Confirm rule
Variation notice
Our refARC-KS2-L-042 (V-06)ToRebecca Lindqvist, Harrow & Vale Constructions Pty LtdDateTuesday 29 September 2026

Arcline gives notice under Special Condition SC 8.1 that it considers the Direction in SI-014 to be a Variation. Arcline does not agree that SI-014 involves no change to the Subcontract Sum.

Arcline will give its Variation Particulars under Special Condition SC 8.2 by Monday 19 October 2026.

This letter is also a Delay Notice under Special Condition SC 7.1.

Maya Brennan
Commercial Manager, Arcline Façades Pty Ltd

Prepared for review · Not sentDownload .docxOpen in Draft
Replay · Tue 29 Sep, 2:40 pm
Special Condition SC 8.1 · replaces clause 19.3Check the clause

“…or a Direction stated to involve no change to the Subcontract Sum) involves or constitutes a Variation, the Subcontractor must, within 5 Business Days after receiving the Direction…”

Received Fri 25 Sep, 3:12 pm · 5 business days · Brisbane
Variation notice due
Fri 2 Oct, 5:00 pm
Particulars due Mon 19 Oct (5 Oct is King’s Birthday)
Confirm rule

Your project data is stored in Australia.

Stored in Sydney. Model requests go to OpenAI in the United States under its business API terms and are not used for training. Nothing leaves until a person on your team presses Send.

How Astruct handles your data

Nothing leaves without a person

Astruct drafts. No letter or email leaves until a person on your team presses Send.

Only what you connect

Astruct reads only the mailboxes you connect. Disconnect one from Settings at any time.

Your admin decides access

Owners and admins set roles and decide whose mailbox each person may search.

Built for the people who give and answer the notices.

Project managers, contract administrators and commercial managers, on either side of the contract.

Head contractors

Payment scheduleArcline PC-09, due todayItem 27 · 10 business days from Fri 25 Sep

Give notices to the principal on time, check subcontractor claims against their subcontracts, and give payment schedules inside the security of payment deadlines.

  • Delay notices and EOT claims under the head contract
  • Subcontractor claims checked against each subcontract
  • Payment schedules inside the statutory time

Subcontractors

Variation noticeSI-014 given Tue 29 Sep, on timeSC 8.1 · due Fri 2 Oct, 5:00 pm

Catch directions that change your scope, even when they say “no change”, and draft variation notices, delay notices and EOT claims from the evidence.

  • Directions compared against your scope of work
  • Variation notices before the time bar
  • Payment claims on the reference date

Developers

EOT claim received14 days claimed, wet weatherAS 4000 cl 34.5 · decision due within 28 days

Check each variation and EOT claim against the contract, the programme and the correspondence, and respond within the time the contract allows.

  • Claims checked against the contract and programme
  • The clause and page behind every answer
  • Responses inside the time the contract allows

Priced per project. Every user included.

AU$199 a month for your first project, and less for each one after. Free for 30 days. Two projects and 100 credits. No card.

Astruct
AU$199per project, per month, ex GST

Each project after the first costs less. Every user is included.

Price per project, per month, ex GST
First projectAU$199 each
Projects 2–5AU$179 each
Projects 6–15AU$159 each
Projects 16–30AU$139 each
Projects 31 and overAU$119 each
  • Unlimited users under one company account
  • The contract read, with every notice period and its clause
  • Ask, Search and Draft across thousands of documents
  • Outlook mail read for variations, delays and claims
  • Your letterhead, with drafts downloaded as .docx
  • Procore, Gmail and SharePoint on request

Each project is charged at the rate for its band, so 8 projects cost AU$199 + 4 × AU$179 + 3 × AU$159 = AU$1,392 a month. Cancel any time.

Work out your price

AU$1,392per month, ex GST, for 8 projects
  • First project1 × AU$199AU$199
  • Projects 2–54 × AU$179AU$716
  • Projects 6–153 × AU$159AU$477

Average AU$174 per project. Unlimited users on every project.

Free for 30 days

  • 1Request a trial. We email you an invite link.
  • 2Use two projects and 100 credits for 30 days. No card.
  • 3Keep going at the per-project price, or let the trial end. Nothing is charged unless you subscribe.

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Unlimited users

Astruct is priced per project, not per person. Add every contract administrator, project manager, estimator and executive on the job at no extra cost.

Spend follows your projects

You choose which projects are on Astruct, and the bill is the number of projects. Hiring or adding a consultant to a project doesn’t change it.

Your letterhead

Upload a letter you have sent. Astruct takes its letterhead, page size, margins, fonts, header and footer, and every draft from then on uses them.

Roles and access

Owners and admins invite people, set their roles and remove them. A person who is removed loses access to the company’s projects straight away.

Questions

What people ask before they start a trial.

More answers in the help centre

What is the project brain?

Everything Astruct has read on a project, in one place: the contract and its special conditions, the drawings, programme and correspondence you upload, and the project mail in Outlook. Ask it anything and the answer cites the clause and page. Search it in Boolean or plain English. Draft letters, notices, variations and EOT claims from it as Word files on your letterhead.

What does Astruct take from the contract?

Drop in the contract and Astruct reads it in about a minute. It sets out the contract sum, the date for practical completion, liquidated damages, the reference dates for payment claims, the time for payment schedules, and every notice period and time bar, each with its clause and page. Special conditions are read with the general conditions, so a replaced clause is not the one used.

How is it different from ChatGPT or Copilot?

General chat tools answer from whatever you paste in. Astruct works from your project: the contract with its special conditions, the drawings, the programme and the project mail. Every answer cites the clause and page, and search runs across every document in the project.

Which contracts does it work with?

The contract you give it. That includes AS 2124, AS 4000, AS 4300, AS 4902 and AS 4903 style head contracts and subcontracts, and bespoke or heavily amended forms. It also works with security of payment law, such as SOPA in NSW and Queensland’s BIF Act.

How does it spot variations, delays and claims in the mail?

Connect Outlook and Astruct reads project mail as it arrives. It compares each direction with the scope of work in your contract and flags the ones that look like variations, flags events that may delay you, and picks up claims and payment schedules. It works upstream, for notices you must give the principal or head contractor, and downstream, for notices and claims from your subcontractors.

Can I rely on the deadlines it works out?

Each deadline shows the clause text it came from and how it was counted: the notice period, business or calendar days and your state’s public holidays. It stays marked “check the clause” until someone on your team confirms the rule for the project. Astruct only reads the mailboxes you connect, so your team stays responsible for your notices. Astruct helps you give them on time. How deadlines are worked out.

Does it send anything on our behalf?

No. Astruct drafts letters, notices and claims for review. Nothing leaves until a person on your team presses Send, or downloads the .docx and sends it through your normal process.

Which systems does it connect to?

Outlook, today: personal and shared Microsoft 365 mailboxes. Procore, Gmail and SharePoint are available on request. Tell us when you request your trial and we will set them up with you. Documents from anywhere else can be uploaded as files, folders or zips.

How quickly does it see new mail?

New mail is picked up within about five minutes. Outlook can also notify Astruct when mail arrives, so a message is often picked up sooner. It is not instant.

What do we need from IT?

Each person can connect their own Outlook mailbox. Shared mailboxes need a Microsoft 365 administrator to approve Astruct once for your organisation, using a single link from Settings. Your admin also decides whose mailbox each person may search. Admin consent, step by step.

How is Astruct priced?

Per project, per month, with unlimited users. Your first project is AU$199, projects 2–5 are AU$179 each, 6–15 are AU$159 each, 16–30 are AU$139 each and every project from the 31st is AU$119. Each project is charged at the rate for its band, so 8 projects cost AU$199 + 4 × AU$179 + 3 × AU$159 = AU$1,392 a month. Prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST. Work out your price.

How does the free trial work?

Request a trial and we email you an invite link. The trial is free for 30 days, with two projects and 100 credits, and no card. Credits cover the work Astruct does for you: reading documents, answering questions and drafting. To keep going after 30 days, subscribe at the per-project price. Nothing is charged unless you do.

Where is our data stored?

In Australia, in Sydney. Model requests are processed by OpenAI in the United States under its business API terms, and are not used to train models. No letter or email leaves until a person on your team presses Send. More on the security page.

Start with one project.

Drop in the contract, connect Outlook and ask your first question.

Free for 30 days. Two projects and 100 credits. No card.