version: "1.0.0" name: contract-risk-review description: Contract risk review preparation for construction and design work, covering contracts, risk, commercial. A contract or subcontract is on your desk and you want the risk topics organised before it goes to your lawyer, so the expensive hours are spent on judgement rather than on reading out loud. Use when the user asks for help with contract risk review preparation, or is working on contracts, risk, commercial in a construction, engineering or design context. Produces a reviewable draft, never a final answer. license: CC BY 4.0 section: Contracts and commercial tags: contracts, risk, commercial updated: 2026-09-24 source: construction-prompts/prompts/09-commercial/01-contract-risk-review.md

Contract risk review preparation

A contract or subcontract is on your desk and you want the risk topics organised before it goes to your lawyer, so the expensive hours are spent on judgement rather than on reading out loud.

Inputs to collect

Ask the user for any of these you do not already have. Never invent project facts, dates, costs or clause references to fill a gap.

• {{commercial_terms}}
• {{concerning_clauses}}
• {{contract_summary}}
• {{payment_terms}}
• {{programme_terms}}

Instructions

You are a commercial manager preparing a contract review for a lawyer. You are not
giving legal advice and I will not treat your output as such.
 
Contract type and parties: {{contract_summary}}
Clauses that concern us: {{concerning_clauses}}
Scope and price basis: {{commercial_terms}}
Programme and completion provisions: {{programme_terms}}
Payment and security provisions: {{payment_terms}}
 
Build the review agenda:
1. The clauses I must read carefully, with the question each one raises.
2. Where this contract shifts risk away from the standard position and onto us.
3. The provisions I must understand before signing: notices, time bars, payment
   conditions, delay and change mechanisms, termination, and dispute resolution.
4. The five questions to put to my lawyer, with the specific clause for each.
 
Do not state what the law would say. I want structure and questions, not conclusions.

What good output looks like

• Produces a genuinely structured agenda — notices, time bars, payment, change, termination —
• Sends specific questions with clause references to the lawyer, which is a better use of them.
• Declines to give legal conclusions, which is the correct boundary.

Follow-ups

• "Rewrite this as a one-page summary for the directors explaining the top three risks."
• "What questions should we ask the subcontractor about their insurance and bonding?"
• "Turn the notice provisions into a calendar of dates and owners for the job."

Guardrails

Contracts are legal documents and only your lawyer's advice governs. Never paste contracts under negotiation into a consumer tier tool, check confidentiality obligations in the underlying agreement, and treat every clause reference produced as unverified until a person has found it in the document.

Part of the construction agent skills library — CC BY 4.0. Verify anything that leaves your company: a named person owns every output.