Buyout. Without the risk, delays, and late nights
Project award to executed subcontracts. Your PMs finally get to drive the job at its most critical moment.
Roger runs subcontractor buyout for general contractors on complex vertical projects, from award through executed subcontracts.
Execution-Ready Subcontracts in 2 Weeks
75% scope gap reduction
Buyout time spent reduced >65%
Custom exports, drafting, exhibits: fully turnkey.
Why Roger for Buyout?
Project teams are the only people who have the ability, authority, and time required to meaningfully mitigate subcontractor risk on projects. But that responsibility hits just as PM responsibilities are ramping on projects, so contracts get written past 5pm by tired construction managers.
Today
AI-assisted
With Roger
Buyout
Today
PM heroics drive buyout. 150 days.
AI-assisted
AI gives a draft. The PM still writes the final contract.
With Roger
Execution-Ready Subcontracts in 2 Weeks. RFIs in Procore.
Your PM’s week
Today
60 hours of gruntwork.
AI-assisted
60 hours of gruntwork, now with drafting and prompting.
With Roger
50 hours, spent on relationships.
“We believe our partnership with Roger has put us on a path to becoming the premier multifamily builder in our city.”
What does Roger do?
Constructability.
Conflicts and holes identified, then prioritized with your team.
You tell us how many RFIs you want drafted, we put them in Procore or Forma.
Scoping.
Assignment of all scope to custom packages. Decisions made with your team, using past projects as guidance.
Scope Language.
Inclusions, exclusions, coordination, spec sections, means & methods.
Matching your project’s priorities.
Boilerplate and Exhibits.
Shared language identified from templates and previous jobs, and added to every contract.
Reconciliation to Your Templates.
Scope and lessons learned from past projects, added to these packages or deliberately excluded.
Supercharged Document Editor.
You make final edits to scopes.
Backed by drawing references, additional comments, etc.
Turnkey Subcontracts.
Custom exports with your formatting, exhibits, etc.
Continuous Updates.
Roger adds addenda and change orders to scopes as documents evolve.
The Roger Warranty.
Roger stamps every deliverable.
We bill only once the buyout process is materially complete.
Unhappy? We’ll surrender our fee.
The Roger Warranty
We stake our fee on it.
How Roger Runs Buyout
Kickoff.
At award, your PM sends Roger drawings, specs, addenda, estimating decisions, and contracts from previous projects.
Coordination.
Roger extracts and stores all scope from drawings & specs and assigns everything. We coordinate with your team to make decisions on estimating gaps and other nuance.
Drafting and Polish.
Roger writes resilient contract language for all scope, and marries it with your custom exports, boilerplate, attachments, signature blocks, and other exhibits.
Reconciliation.
Roger compares your contracts to past projects and adds scope based on what you’ve done before.
PM Review.
Project team makes final edits to documents.
Continuous Revisions.
Roger updates every scope as documents evolve through the buyout process.
How is it priced?
You’re billed on completion, with our fee at stake. As our AI gets faster, the hours shrink and so does your bill.
We have cut our bill by 50% in the last 12 months.
FAQ
Buyout is the most sensitive thing we do. How do we trust you?
Roger guarantees quality with defense-in-depth: we interview your team multiple times, look at everything in the contract documents, check our documents to past projects, and run AI evals on our deliverables. Our final documents link back to drawings, and are built to be easily auditable.
No contract is perfect, but Roger gets as close as you can.
How long does the process take?
We run our entire process with you in 1 to 5 weeks depending on document count, project complexity, and your requirements. We can do phased handoffs. Usually your ability to meet with us is the rate-limiter.
Isn’t This an Estimating Thing?
Estimating scoping and operations buyout are entirely different. Good estimators price risk and look for defensibility, while good project managers coordinate every detail and set expectations. We do the latter.
Estimators are regularly stakeholders in our buyout process.
Our Buyout Strategy is Just “Your Scope per Plans and Specs”
Roger buyout may not be right for you.
What about Claude?
Claude can generate ‘right-looking’ documents. But without human understanding, coordination between estimating and PMs, comparison to previous jobs, and a lot of quality checks, ‘right-looking’ just guarantees scope gaps and poor project performance.
What do our PMs do Now?
We recommend PMs take our scopes and do a point-by-point coordination meeting with each trade pre-award.