Built for NEC3 & NEC4 ECC · Options A–E
Compensation events, assessed in minutes — with the rigour of 20 years' NEC experience.
Clause 60 reads the CE pack, your contract and the contractor's actual programme, then returns a structured, evidence-grounded review you can check and put your name to. Built by a chartered commercial manager who has assessed compensation events on NEC contracts for over twenty years.
A full NEC4 review of a sample Key Date event, generated in front of you. No email, no upload, no sales call.
The assessment that matters most is the work there's never time to do properly.
Assessing a compensation event properly is slow, detailed work. Someone experienced has to read the whole pack, follow the cost build-up line by line, check it against the contract and the Schedule of Cost Components, and — the part most tools ignore — work out whether the claimed time impact actually holds up against the programme.
It's done under deadline pressure, by the most expensive people on the project, on event after event. Corners get cut. Things get missed.
And a missed point in a CE assessment is money — in someone's favour.
Three steps. Minutes, not hours.
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Upload the pack
The quotation and its cost build-up, your contract documents including Z-clauses and amendments, and — for a proper time assessment — the contractor's native programme files (Primavera XER). The more complete the pack, the more complete the review.
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Clause 60 assesses it
A structured, section-by-section review: contractual basis, cost, time and programme, internal consistency, risk and liability. Every finding labelled Fact — drawn from your documents — or Inference — the reasoning from those facts. Where information is missing, it's flagged, never assumed.
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You review and sign off
A first-pass assessment you check and put your name to, typically back within about ten minutes. Run several events at once; you don't wait for one to finish before starting the next.
The tool does the legwork. You make the call.
Programme formats today: Primavera P6 (XER). Asta Powerproject and Microsoft Project import are on our roadmap.
Four things a general AI tool won't do.
1. It reads the actual programme, not just the spreadsheet
Clause 60 reads the contractor's native programme files (Primavera XER) and analyses them properly: it verifies the logic links, runs a float analysis, and gives a clear Key Date and Sectional Completion overview — confirming whether a claimed delay genuinely moves a contractual date, or is absorbed by float. Most reviews take the time claim on trust. Clause 60 checks it against the programme's own evidence.
2. It reasons like an experienced NEC practitioner
Clause 60 isn't a general-purpose chatbot pointed at a contract. It's built on over twenty years of hands-on experience assessing compensation events under the NEC forms — the assessment discipline, the clause reasoning, the amended-contract awareness for Z-clauses and deleted clauses, Defined Cost assessments, Fee percentage assessment, risk reviews — encoded so every review applies it consistently.
3. It checks the cost build-up with a QS's eye
It re-sums the numbers to catch totals that don't foot, tests rates against the Contract Data, flags double-counts, and checks contentious NEC4 points such as an invalid working-area-overhead percentage.
4. It tells you what to verify. It doesn't bluff.
Clause 60 is assistive, not advisory. Where a competent reviewer should open the native files and confirm the logic themselves, the report says so, plainly. It won't hand you a false green light — because an assessment you can defend is worth more than one that just agrees with the claim.
Both sides of every compensation event.
Commercial managers, senior quantity surveyors and project managers who assess NEC compensation events — whether you're reviewing a contractor's quotation on the employer's side, or pressure-testing your own before you submit it.
Every compensation event has two sides, and both need a fast, rigorous first look. That's why the review is side-neutral: it assesses what the evidence supports, which is exactly what makes it hold up when the other side pushes back.
Built by someone who has done the job for twenty years.
Clause 60 was founded by Sheldon Wright, a chartered commercial manager (MCICES) with over twenty years assessing compensation events under the NEC forms of contract — from quantity surveyor to senior commercial manager on some of the UK's largest infrastructure programmes.
His career spans major highways, rail, environmental and utilities schemes from £5m to £4bn — including the £4bn Transpennine Route Upgrade for Network Rail and National Highways' £1bn Routes to Market framework — with tier-one contractors including BAM Nuttall, across NEC 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions and Options A through E. He continues to advise major contractors and energy and infrastructure clients through his consultancy, Wright Commercial Consultants.
"On programmes worth hundreds of millions, the compensation-event assessment that matters most is exactly the work there's never enough time to do properly. Clause 60 is that experience — made fast, consistent and repeatable."
- MCICES chartered
- 20+ years NEC
- £4bn TRU (Network Rail)
- £1bn Routes to Market (National Highways)
- NEC 2nd, 3rd & 4th editions
- Options A–E
Client contract data, handled properly.
- UK data residency. Your documents, reviews and account data are stored and processed in the UK. AI analysis runs in the EU on the UK's adequacy footing. Nothing leaves the UK or EU.
- Isolated at the database, designed to fail closed. If the system cannot positively confirm who you are and which organisation you belong to, it returns nothing.
- Independently penetration-tested by a CREST-certified firm — zero Critical, zero High, zero Medium findings, covering the web application, the API, file handling and the AI layer.
- Your data is not used to train AI models, and every review records the inputs and methodology version that produced it, so any report is replayable.
Priced per project, not per seat.
One recovered or better-substantiated compensation event can pay for a year. We charge per project, because that's where the value is — not per person who logs in.
Single review — £450
One compensation event, no subscription.
Pilot — £2,500
Thirty days on your own live events, with onboarding and direct support. You set the success criteria. Credited in full against your first year if you continue.
Project subscription — £8,500/yr
Up to 100 reviews a month, per project — a hard cap, raised on request. Onboarding and support included.
The three questions we're asked most.
"Does it replace my judgement?"
No. Clause 60 is assistive, not advisory. It does the assembly and produces a structured first-pass review. You check it, and you put your name to it. It makes you faster; it doesn't make the call.
"Why wouldn't I just use ChatGPT?"
A general chatbot gives you a confident answer with no citation, no way to know whether it's right, and your client's data sitting in a general model. Clause 60 is NEC-specific, grounds every point in your documents, is UK-hosted, and does not train AI on your data. It's the difference between a plausible answer and a defensible one.
"Would an adjudicator accept it?"
The output isn't submitted as "the AI says." It's a structured, evidence-referenced review that you adopt, check and sign. Every point is cited to source and the reasoning is transparent — which makes it more defensible than a review built at speed under deadline, not less. You remain the author.
See it assess a real compensation event.
No sign-up, no upload, no sales call. Press the button and Clause 60 produces a full NEC4 review of a sample Key Date event — the same report your team would receive.