# Construction contract reminders

Source: https://contracko.com/contract-reminder-tools/construction-contract-reminder

# Construction contract reminders

Extract milestone dates, retainage release, lien-filing deadlines, substantial completion, and defects-liability windows.

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Best for construction agreements, subcontracts, and the schedules that govern milestones, retainage, and completion.

PDF or DOCX, up to 25 MB. One free extraction per day. No signup needed.

## Stay ahead of every construction milestone

Contracko automatically identifies the deadlines and obligations in your contract and sets reminders for you.

Renewal dates

Auto-renewal triggers and the next term start.

Notice deadlines

The last safe day to act before a clause locks in.

Expiration dates

When the current term ends, with renewal context.

Obligations

Reports, certificates, approvals, and recurring tasks.

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## Reminder guidance for this contract type

### Construction runs on dates that trigger other dates

A construction contract is a chain of dependent deadlines. Substantial completion is more than a milestone: it starts the defects-liability clock, the retainage-release countdown, and often warranty and lien windows. Each progress claim has a submission cut-off, and missing it pushes payment a full cycle. The danger is that these dates are buried across the agreement, the payment schedule, and statute, so no single calendar holds them all. A reminder system that links the trigger date to the downstream clocks it starts is what keeps a project's money and rights on track.

### Retainage and lien rights are won or lost on timing

Two construction deadlines carry outsized financial weight. Retainage, funds withheld until the work proves out, is released on conditions tied to completion and defects sign-off; release it too early and you lose leverage, too late and you strain the contractor. Lien rights, meanwhile, are governed by strict statutory windows; miss the filing date and an unpaid claim can become uncollectible. Both hinge entirely on tracking a date relative to a trigger event. Surfacing those triggers as owned reminders, with enough lead time to act, is the difference between protected cash and forfeited rights.

## Quick answers

Short answers to the questions we get most about reminder extraction.

- **Q:** How does the construction contract reminder work?
  **A:** Upload your construction agreement or subcontract as a PDF or DOCX. We run an AI extraction on the document, find the milestone dates, retainage release conditions, statutory deadlines, completion dates, and defects-liability windows, and suggest reminder dates for each. You can then start a free Contracko trial to track everything automatically, or note the dates yourself.

- **Q:** Does it surface statutory deadlines like lien windows?
  **A:** It surfaces the contract dates and flags where statutory clocks attach, for example, that a payment application or completion certificate starts a lien-filing or notice window. Because lien deadlines are governed by jurisdiction, treat the reminder as a prompt to confirm the exact statutory window with counsel, not as legal advice.

- **Q:** What happens after the extraction?
  **A:** You'll see a list of suggested reminders pulled from your contract, each anchored to the clause or schedule it came from. From there you can start a free Contracko trial to track them automatically with email alerts and owner assignments, or just note the dates yourself.

- **Q:** Can it track milestones across several projects?
  **A:** The free tool reads one contract at a time. Contractors and project owners running multiple jobs use a Contracko trial to keep every milestone, retainage trigger, and completion date in one tracked view so nothing slips between projects.

- **Q:** What happens to my contract after I upload it?
  **A:** Your contract is transmitted over TLS encryption and processed by AI providers under terms that exclude training on your data. If you start a Contracko trial, the file moves into your private workspace and stays there.

## Other reminder pages

Each page is tuned to a different contract type or reminder job.

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### [Warranty expiration reminder](https://contracko.com/contract-reminder-tools/warranty-expiration-reminder)

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## Keep every milestone, payment, and deadline on track

Track milestones, retainage release, completion dates, and statutory windows across your projects.

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