Beyond Speed: The True Role of AI in Construction Dispute Resolution
Modern commercial and multi-family construction disputes rarely suffer from a lack of evidence—they suffer from an overwhelming surplus of it. Whether managing custom residential builds, high-rise developments, or commercial projects, disentangling months of RFIs, daily logs, submittals, and change orders manually consumes hundreds of billable hours, delays schedules, and inflates party budgets. The Promise (and Real Limits) of Generative AI Emerging AI-driven case preparation tools offer rapid data indexing, synthesizing, and pattern recognition, promising to shave 20% to 25% off initial document review timelines. However, speed without technical accuracy is a dangerous liability. An algorithm can cross-reference dates across thousands of pages in days rather than weeks, but it cannot understand job-site context, evaluate human credibility, or account for verbal modifications made on-site that never hit a formal log. The Essential "Human Guardrail" Disputing parties can leve...