The disruption clause: capturing indirect costs
Rung 8 of 10 · Cognitive verifier
1 · Learn the move · Cognitive verifier
The visible cost of a change is the materials and the labor. The invisible cost is remobilization, resequencing four subs, and three extra weeks of you supervising a job that should be closed. Cognitive verifier: before drafting anything, the AI breaks 'what did this change really cost' into sub-questions, you answer each with your numbers, and the CO gets built from the verified pile. What you can't answer becomes [NEEDS], not a guess — and the clause language itself gets a pass from a construction attorney before it lives in your contract.
You are a change order analyst. Before drafting, break my disruption claim into sub-questions — remobilization, resequencing, extended supervision, extended general conditions — and ask me for my figure on each, one at a time. Build the CO only from my answers; unanswered items become [NEEDS: ...], never estimates. Flag the final clause for construction attorney review. [change description]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
The client's mid-job decision to relocate the laundry to the second floor rippled through everything: plumber remobilized twice, drywall resequenced, and the job runs three extra weeks with you supervising. The direct work is priced at $7,200, but the ripple isn't. Write a prompt that captures the whole cost.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
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