What was buried.
These are real findings from real bid packages. Every one of them was sitting in the documents — waiting for someone to read the right page at the right time.
You upload your bid package — specs, contracts, addenda, safety manuals, everything. LARRY runs 100+ independent criteria against all of it. Four minutes later, you get findings.
Each criterion does four things:
Searches
Every document — not just for keywords, but for synonyms, intent, and variations. There are fifty ways to write “required.” LARRY knows all of them.
Detects
The specific facts that matter for this criterion.
Analyzes
What it found — assesses risk against defined thresholds, flags conflicts, identifies what’s missing.
Cites
The exact page, section, and spec number.
You don’t get a summary. You get findings you can verify.
Replacement Wage Language
Spec requires “replacement wages” for all labor — not additive to base rates. Buried in the general conditions on a data center project. Strange language, easy to miss, expensive to discover in the field.
Retention Tied to Warranty
Retention isn’t released at substantial completion. It’s held until the warranty period expires. That’s your money sitting in someone else’s account for months — maybe years — after you’ve finished the work.
Water Testing Requirements
Spec requires full water testing on all exterior glazing assemblies — a six-figure line item that doesn’t show up in the bid invitation or the scope summary. It’s buried in the performance spec for the curtain wall section.
Shift Differential Labor
Active campus, occupied building. Night-only work in patient areas. Your estimate assumes day shifts — but the spec requires flex and stretch on nights and weekends. That’s overtime you didn’t price.
Retention Tied to Warranty Expiration
Retention isn’t released at substantial completion. It’s held until the warranty period expires — your money sitting in someone else’s account.
Full-Time Safety Representative Required
Dedicated safety rep required on-site. Six-figure line item hiding in General Requirements — a section most estimators skip.
Attic Stock Discrepancy — 2% vs 10%
Spec calls for 2% attic stock in one section and 10% in another. Same material, two different numbers. That’s an argument in the field.
Prevailing Wage Documentation
Prevailing wage rates apply with certified payroll required weekly. Filing requirements identified and flagged for estimating team.
Every finding cites the exact page, section, and spec number.
These aren’t edge cases. They’re in every spec book — buried in Div 01 General Requirements, scattered across addenda, hiding in execution clauses nobody reads at 9 PM on a Tuesday.
LARRY reads all of them. Every time. And every finding links back to the exact paragraph so you can see it yourself.
Trust but verify. That’s the whole idea.
LARRY doesn’t guess. It runs a library of 100+criteria built by estimators, construction attorneys, and domain experts who’ve seen what gets missed.
Each criterion is independent and composable. You pick the ones that matter for your trade. Division 09? Different criteria than Division 15. Government project? Different criteria than private.
10,000 pages. 100 criteria. 4 minutes.
Bring us a project and see for yourself.
Pick a bid you’re working on right now. We’ll run LARRY on it. You’ll see exactly what it catches — with page citations you can verify yourself.
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