PLENA Construction & Contractor Disputes
Receipts of work completed, work contracted, payments made, defects observed — held by the property owner. Built for homeowners, commercial property owners, and contractors themselves who need contemporaneous documentation of construction-project events that often become disputes.
Opening problem
Construction-and-contractor disputes are the second most common civil-legal matter in most developed countries and a substantial litigation category globally. The structural pattern is asymmetric documentation: the contractor controls the work schedule, the change orders, the materials inspection; the property owner has paper contracts and intermittent photographs. When disputes arise — over completion, quality, change-order scope, payment, defects discovered post-completion — the documentation gap shapes the outcome.
PLENA Construction & Contractor Disputes provides the property-owner-controlled (or contractor-controlled) receipt layer: documentation of work as it happens, change orders as they are made, payments as they are released, defects as they are observed.
Five workflows PlenaProof covers
Contract Execution and Scope Attestation
Witnessed receipt of the executed contract, the agreed scope, the named subcontractors if any, the payment schedule.
Progress and Milestone Documentation
Periodic on-site receipts of work in progress: dated walk-through video, materials delivered, work completed against schedule.
Change Order Witnessed Declaration
When scope or price changes, witnessed receipt of the change order: who requested it, why, at what additional cost, with what schedule impact.
Payment Receipt Documentation
Receipts of payments released, against milestones met, with the contractor's acknowledgment captured.
Defect and Completion Documentation
Final walk-through documentation, punch-list capture, and defects-discovered-post-completion receipts that survive into the warranty period.
Institutional version
Target partners: state attorney general consumer-protection offices; Better Business Bureau; construction-mediation services; American Arbitration Association construction practice; ICC International Court of Arbitration construction practice; consumer legal aid organizations.
Same complement-not-replace disclaimer. PlenaProof does not adjudicate construction disputes, certify work quality, or replace licensed inspector judgment. It produces the receipt layer that mediators, arbitrators, and consumer counsel can act on.
The 100-Year Operating Commitment
Construction defects sometimes surface decades after completion. Latent-defect statutes of repose run twenty or more years in many jurisdictions. Every artifact replicated, anchored, verifiable across that arc, accessible by the property owner and their designated successors.
Why this differs
From contractor-controlled project-management software: PLENA receipts are owner-controlled (or symmetrically owner-and-contractor-controlled where both parties opt in), portable across the project arc, and readable by mediators and arbitrators across multiple dispute forums.
Existing instruments this complements
- State construction-contract statutes
- Mechanic's lien laws
- FIDIC contracts (international)
- AAA Construction Industry Arbitration Rules
- ICC International Court of Arbitration construction practice
- Equivalent global frameworks
What this does not do
PLENA Construction & Contractor Disputes does not adjudicate construction disputes. It does not certify work quality. It does not replace licensed inspector judgment. It does not transfer ownership or hold escrow. It does not provide legal representation. It documents.
Languages
Launches in PLENA's 8 live languages. Contact hello@joinplena.com for translator inquiries.
Related PLENA receipt grammar
For consumer-protection offices, construction mediation, arbitration practices, and consumer legal aid
State AG consumer-protection offices; Better Business Bureau; construction-mediation services; AAA construction practice; ICC construction practice; consumer legal aid: PlenaProof welcomes pilot conversations.