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, all 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. These are 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, with no client or contractor names retained.
Every module is built for specialist subcontractors, not adapted from generic business software.
Beacon Risk
Contract risk analysis
Beacon Tender
Tender document review & submission
Beacon Docs
Contract document generation
Beacon Safe
Health & safety docs
Beacon Commercial
Commercial management
Beacon Insure
Insurance gap analysis
Beacon Labour
Labour & resource planning
Beacon Value
Value & specification optimisation
Coming Soon
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.
Our storyBeacon Risk Founding Partner Programme
We’re offering a small group of early adopters the chance to lock in their subscription price forever, shape the product roadmap, and get first access to every new module as it launches. Only 10 places available.
Standard price £395/month
You pay just £237/month, with lifetime reduced pricing
We ran the same contract through both. See exactly how Beacon Risk compares to general-purpose AI, clause for clause.
Beacon Risk and Beacon Insure are both live and priced separately. Beacon Risk is our contract risk analysis module. Beacon Insure checks your insurance cover against what your contract dictates, and is an add-on that requires an active Beacon Risk subscription. Our remaining modules (Beacon Tender, Docs, Safe, Commercial, Labour and Value) will launch on their own pricing as they go live.
You can keep going at the per-unit overage rate for your tier, with no subscription changes required. On Beacon Risk that is £25 per review on Starter, £20 on Professional and £15 on Enterprise. On Beacon Insure it is £9 per report on Starter, £7 on Professional and £6 on Enterprise. Each module's overage is billed against its own plan. If you are consistently exceeding your allowance on either module, upgrading that module's tier is usually more cost-effective.
Yes. You can upgrade at any time and the new rate takes effect from the next billing cycle. Your 12-month commitment continues from your original start date.
Downgrades can be requested at the end of your 12-month term. We don't allow mid-term downgrades to protect the stability of your team's access to the platform.
Beacon HQ is built for ongoing commercial protection, not one-off contract reviews. The 12-month commitment reflects the way the platform delivers value, accumulating across multiple contracts, projects and negotiations over a full trading year. It also lets us invest in product development, support and onboarding without month-to-month uncertainty.
Standard cancellation isn't available within the 12-month term. If there are exceptional circumstances, get in touch and we'll discuss them on a case-by-case basis.
Yes. On Beacon Risk, Starter and Professional both include a 14-day free trial: full access, no setup required, no credit card. Enterprise doesn't include a trial because of the scale of the commitment, but we can arrange a guided demo and pilot. Just request a demo.
All tiers include onboarding documentation and email support. Professional adds priority support. Enterprise includes dedicated account management and priority onboarding and training tailored to your team.
All prices shown exclude VAT. UK VAT is added at checkout at the prevailing rate.
Bacs Direct Debit at checkout. Invoices are available for accounting purposes from the billing portal.
The Founding Partner programme is invitation-only and capped at 10 places. If you're interested, apply via the form and we'll respond within 1 working day. If a place is available and the fit is right, you'll be invited to join.
You can cancel your subscription from the billing portal at the end of your 12-month term. Your access continues until the end of your paid period.
ChatGPT and Claude are general-purpose tools. They can read your contract, but they can't reliably tell you what matters or what to do about it. Beacon HQ is purpose-built for UK construction subcontractors, with framework-aware analysis, repeatable structured output, and proper commercial-grade confidentiality. Read the full comparison →
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