Belfort · Contract Intelligence

The watchtower
for industrial
contracts.

Your CLM files contracts. Belfort watches them.
Forward a project email — Belfort reads it against your clauses, milestones and penalty schedule, flags the claim before you do, and updates your risk position before the next site meeting.

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01

Forward the email

One dedicated address per project. No integration, no plugin — just forward.

02

AI reads against your contract

Clauses, milestones, penalty schedule — every condition and carve-out checked.

03

Claim + risk logged automatically

Admissibility verdict, merit score, contradictions. Your register updates before the next meeting.

Multi-model

GPT · Mistral · Ollama

cloud or self-hosted

Lifecycle

End-to-end

award to final acceptance

Sovereignty

EU-sovereign

GDPR · hosted in the EU

Sectors

EPC · Construction

concessions · industrial

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The diagnosis

An industrial contract is lost in fragments, not in incidents.

— I.

Commitments sleep inside PDFs.

Guarantees, penalties, contractual milestones — scattered across document platforms, spreadsheets and email threads. Nobody knows exactly what is running, or until when.

— II.

Amendments pile up without lineage.

Price revisions, schedule shifts, scope changes. The reference contract becomes a puzzle — precisely when you need to enforce it.

— III.

Claims arrive too late.

Without daily traceability, the grounds for a claim fade away, the evidence dilutes, and the contractual position quietly erodes.

The honest comparison

The tool that
created the problem.

Most contract losses don't start with a bad clause. They start with a spreadsheet nobody updates on Monday morning.

With Excel
With Belfort
Contract
documents

Files scattered across SharePoint, tabs renamed by hand. Which version is the actual reference? Nobody knows for certain.

All documents centralised and ranked by contractual priority. The master contract is always identifiable — every reordering is timestamped and auditable.

Inbound
mail

Shared inbox, no traceability. Finding the email that confirmed a deadline extension takes 20 minutes. Proving you received it: impossible.

Chronomail threads, timestamps and archives every exchange. The AI reconstructs the correspondence chronology and flags the commitments buried in it.

Risk
register

A "Risks" column in the schedule. No probability × impact matrix, no owner, no mitigation plan. Updated before the committee, forgotten after.

Structured risk matrix — probability × impact, owner, mitigation plan, residual exposure — each risk linked to the clause or email that created it.

Search &
analysis

Ctrl+F in a 340-page PDF. Answering "What is the penalty clause on milestone 4?" takes an hour of manual searching.

Ask anything in natural language. The answer cites the source clause, highlights the exact page and computes the financial exposure in seconds.

Drafting
correspondence

Finding the right counterpart on the client side means a phone call or hunting through an outdated contacts spreadsheet before writing a single word.

The actors registry maps every stakeholder — role, team, signing authority. The AI drafts the letter to the right person, pre-loaded with the contractual context.

Contract
logbook

Decisions end up in unindexed PDF minutes. Reconstructing a chronology for a claim takes days of manual archaeology across inboxes and folders.

Every action — email received, risk created, milestone validated — is automatically journalised. The full chronology is retrievable in one click when a claim arises.

Most contract losses start in the spreadsheet.

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The platform

One watchtower for every commitment.

Contract managers open Belfort the way one climbs to the belfry: to see, at a glance, what is happening across the territory of their contracts. What moves, what threatens, what deserves a decision today.

belfort.app/contracts/A-417/dashboard
AI Dashboard — natural language query on contracts
Contract logbook — timeline, milestones and recent activity
Claims register — admissibility verdict, merit score and recommended action

See Belfort on a real contract.

No sign-up · No install · Fully interactive

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03 / 04  ·  Why Belfort

The belfry sounded the alarm before
the fire. Belfort sounds the commitment
before it turns against you.

For eight centuries, belfries watched over free cities: they rang the hour, the market, the alert, the curfew. Belfort is built on the same principle — a continuous, discreet and legally defensible vigilance. Your contractual commitments no longer have to wait for the next site meeting to exist.

Belfry of Bruges · UNESCO World Heritage since 1999

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Three foundations

Built for the reality of industrial contract management.

Defensible watch

Every clause, every milestone, every guarantee becomes a tracked obligation. Belfort timestamps, archives and notifies — every action is auditable and enforceable in case of dispute.

14 commitment types Timestamped & auditable

Financial control

Amendments, price revisions, payment situations, penalties. A real-time view of contractual exposure — by project, by lot, by counterparty.

Indices BT · TP Liquidated damages auto-computed

Email surveillance

Forward a project email to Belfort. The AI reads it against your clauses in real time — flags the claim, scores its admissibility, surfaces contradictions, and updates the risk register before the next site meeting.

AI detection on every email Admissibility scoring · contradictions

The belfry is open

Climb the tower.
See your contracts differently.

A 30-minute walkthrough, on your real contracts if you wish. Built for the contract managers who carry the project — independent or in-house.

Hosted on Clevercloud Paris · EU · GDPR compliant GPT · Mistral · Ollama · bring your own model Self-hosted LLM compatible · your data never leaves Reply within one business day