Contractor Agent

Contractor Agent tracks subcontractor agreements, penalty clauses, and on-site progress-payment submissions, checking each delivery against its contract terms.

What Is the Contractor Agent?

Contractor Agent is the specialist behind the subcontractor screens in Construction & Field Operations — it reads each agreement, tracks penalty clauses and progress-payment submissions, and checks every delivery against its contract terms before anyone signs off.

Subcontractor Agreements — Know what every subcontractor agreed to, line by line
Penalty Clauses — Penalties applied the way the contract says
Progress Payments — Pay for what was built, not for what was claimed

In one sentence

Contract-aware checks on every subcontractor submission — one specialist behind the subcontractor screens in Construction & Field Operations.

How the Agent Builds Its Context

Every screen in Construction & Field Operations follows the same two-step approach, and Contractor Agent always provides the second step:

Step 1 — Find the relevant records → Step 2 — Contractor Agent reasons over them

Step	What it does
Step 1	Searches the tenant's own live records for the ones relevant to the item being reviewed, entirely on the user's own device.
Step 2	Takes the most relevant matches and reasons over them the way a specialist in that field would, producing the structured finding the screen displays.

The candidate pool is always the tenant's own records

Contractor Agent works with the records already on file for the tenant rather than an external archive, so every finding can be traced back to something the team can open and verify.

What Contractor Agent Checks

Each area below is backed by its own dedicated reasoning, grounded in the same kind of records a specialist reviews every day:

Area	Check	What it looks at
Subcontractor Agreements	Scope of work	mapped to site zones
	Unit rates	compared against billed prices
	Retention terms	tracked per payment
	Insurance and bonds	expiry dates flagged
Penalty Clauses	Late delivery	days over the milestone
	Quality defects	linked to inspection notes
	Safety breaches	matched to site logs
	Penalty caps	never exceeded
Progress Payments	Quantity check	billed vs. measured on site
	Price check	against contract unit rates
	Retention release	calculated per milestone
	Approval hand-back	findings go to the approver

Where Contractor Agent Fits

Contractor Agent has no ledger of its own — every record lives in the add-on's own tenant-scoped store. Its job is strictly the reasoning step: given the context a screen already assembled, produce a structured judgment and hand it back to the person responsible for that record.

A reasoning layer, not a data layer

Contractor Agent never reads or writes stored records directly — it receives the context the calling screen assembled, reasons over it and returns a result. Saving that result and any follow-up action remain the screen's responsibility, and every finding is handed back to a person rather than acted on automatically.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Contractor Agent specific to Construction & Field Operations?

Today, yes — its capabilities exist to serve the Construction & Field Operations screens. The same two-step pattern is used by Patent Agent, Customs Agent and Compliance Agent in other parts of TotalApp.

Does Contractor Agent make final decisions on its own?

No. It returns findings — a flag, a discrepancy, a recommendation — and hands them back to the person responsible. Nothing is filed, paid, approved or sent automatically.

What happens if the agent finds no relevant records?

It says so instead of guessing. The finding is returned with a note that no supporting records were found, so the reviewer knows to check manually.

Where can I see Contractor Agent in action?

On the Contractor Agent product page, which walks through a typical session, or directly in the app on the Construction & Field Operations screens.