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Pythagoras for Contractors

Know where the change orders are hiding — before you sign the bid.

You can price defined risk. You cannot fairly price a vague note that becomes new work after award. We read the entire bid set and hand you the exposure — so you price it, or issue the RFI, while it still costs you nothing.

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The problem

The bid you win on paper is not always the job you build.

Deferred scope, delegated design with no criteria, diagrammatic MEP through a tight existing shell, "field verify," "as required," "match existing." Each one is undefined work that lands on you after award — as change orders you eat, or claims you fight. By the time it surfaces on site, the leverage is gone.

The core deliverable

The 8-Point Bid Audit

Every audit reads your bid set across eight dimensions of risk and biddability. You get a short, cited list of what actually moves money — and the specific action to take on each before bid day.

01 · BIDDABILITY SCORE™

How cleanly can you price it?

Where the documents force you to guess — and where that guessing concentrates your pricing risk.

02 · CHANGE-ORDER PREDICTION

Where the cost growth starts

The post-award change orders this set will generate, sized as a bracketed dollar range from real quantities.

03 · SCHEDULE CONFIDENCE™

Can you hit the date?

Duration realism, phasing and occupancy constraints, liquidated damages, and compression traps.

04 · EXTENDED GENERAL CONDITIONS

What a slip really costs

Your prolonged-overhead exposure when the schedule moves — and whether the contract lets you recover it.

05 · CLAIMS & DISPUTE SIGNALS

The risk-shifting language

The clauses that transfer undefined scope and concealed-condition risk onto you — flagged verbatim, with the RFI that neutralizes each.

06 · CONSTRUCTABILITY & COORDINATION

The conflicts you'll build into

Cross-discipline clashes and the scope-gap boundaries between trades that become your problem in the field.

07 · FINANCIAL

The money mechanics

Allowances, unit prices, and the funding structures buried in the documents that shift dollars after award.

08 · OWNER READINESS™

Is the owner ready to run this?

Whether the owner's package and administration are set up for a clean project — or a contentious one.

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Measured first. Read second. Judged hard.

Nemesis is our proprietary analysis engine. It runs the same disciplined three-stage pipeline on every bid set — built for precision over volume, so you get the findings that matter, not a list that buries them.

1 · Measure

A deterministic takeoff reads every drawing sheet and extracts scale, dimensions, and geometry. Sheets with no scale or no dimensions are flagged — you can't price what the documents refuse to define.

2 · Read

The full set is read against a library of risk-language patterns, trade-coordination interfaces, and Massachusetts c.149 requirements — every signal cited to the exact spec, sheet, or phrase.

3 · Judge

Findings are scored against outcomes from 33 real Massachusetts projects. Only what is real, material, and non-obvious ships. What it suppresses, it counts — proof of discipline.

The payoff

Bid with your eyes open. Every time.

Price the risk you can define. RFI the risk you can't. Walk away from the bid that's a trap. For active bidders, every project you price gets audited — the edge becomes routine, and the margin you protect is your own.

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