Volve Product Highlights 2025

Entering a new year, it is worth taking a minute to reflect on what actually happened with the Volve platform over the last twelve months.

Even just looking at a high-level selection of new features, a clear picture emerges. Volve is steadily getting stronger around five themes:

1. Contract risk, clarity and standards

2. Tender quality, bids and learning

3. Change control and contract execution

4. Early-phase analysis and dependencies

5. Integrations and workflow

Below is a short recap of key highlights from each area.

1. Contract risk, clarity and standards

Deviations from contract standards

Early in 2025 we launched the first version of deviation checks against contract standards.

The platform can:

• Identify deviations from a selected standard

• Show the standard text side by side

• Provide a simplified assessment of each deviation

This marked the beginning of checking content in Volve against external reference standards, not just analysing documents in isolation.

Contradiction detection in tenders and contracts

A classic risk in complex construction contracts is inconsistency across documents. Different parts say slightly different things about risk, responsibilities or deadlines.

To address this, the platform started analysing both tender documents and contracts to identify potential contradictions.

This helps teams:

• Uncover inconsistent obligations and terms early

• Clarify risk before submitting a bid or signing a contract

• Support cleaner, more robust agreements

Detection of vague or unclear wording

We also introduced detection of vague and ambiguous formulations in tender documents and contracts – a common source of friction because different parties can read the same sentence in different ways.

The platform flags:

• Phrases that are open to interpretation

• Requirements that are incomplete or unclear

This gives a better basis for quality assurance, clarifications, qualifications and internal risk discussions, before unclear wording turns into disputes.

Contract Scanner

Later in the year we released Contract Scanner, a new function for identifying clauses related to classic construction contract risks and disputes.

Contract Scanner:

• Identifies and groups clauses by key topics in construction contracts (for example responsibilities, deadlines, changes, liquidated damages and force majeure)

• Provides simplified assessments of each finding:

  • Which party the clause mainly favours

  • The client’s general risk attitude

  • What level of attention the clause deserves

• Makes it easy to handle findings directly in the platform (mark, comment and follow up)

This makes contract risk reviews more structured, repeatable and easier to share in a team.

Deviation checks against technical and other standards

Towards the end of the year we extended deviation checks beyond a single contract standard.

You can now run deviation checks against other types of standards: technical, environmental, or even internal company standards.

With many overlapping requirements in construction, this helps teams take control of deviations early and reduce the risk of errors, missed obligations and non-compliance later.

2. Tender quality, bids and learning

Tender analysis: execution plan

In 2025 we added a dedicated tender analysis tab for uploaded bids and launched the first version of automatic evaluation of a bid’s execution plan and understanding of the assignment.

The tool:

• Analyses the execution plan

• Gives a ranking or rating

• Suggests concrete improvement points

Whether you are evaluating incoming offers or quality assuring your own bid, this opens up new possibilities to remove risk and increase the likelihood of winning.

CV evaluation against RFP requirements

We introduced automatic evaluation of CVs against the requirements in the RFP.

The platform can:

• Check CVs against both role-specific requirements and overall project needs

• Analyse strengths and potential uncertainties for each proposed person

• Suggest how a CV can be tailored better to the project and role

Before submission, this lets teams:

• Quality assure CVs in a more systematic way

• Evaluate different project team compositions by uploading several alternatives

During contracting, it supports direct comparison and evaluation of offered teams.

Tender Learning v01

We also released Tender Learning v01 – learning in practice, where it matters most.

After a tender has been analysed, you can upload the client’s feedback or evaluation (especially relevant in public procurement). The platform then allows you to:

• Automatically generate learning points

• Use that learning directly in future tender analyses

This turns tender feedback from a static PDF into something you can actually reuse. Work on the next version has already started, with the aim to show development of tender quality over time across tenders and portfolios.

Automatic draft execution plan / method statement

For tender documents, we added the ability to automatically generate a draft execution description based on the criteria in the RFP.

This means that:

• You start with a proposal already aligned with the specific tender and project

• You can then review, sharpen and adapt it, instead of starting from a blank page

The first version ensures alignment with the actual RFP and project, and can take into account learning from earlier public tenders. The next version will adapt even better to each customer’s own historic tender responses.

3. Change control and contract execution

Smarter contract handling in projects

We strengthened contract handling in Volve for live projects.

You can now upload an unlimited number of contractual documents from project execution, such as:

• Meeting minutes

• Change documents

• Invoices

• Technical reports

• Other relevant correspondence

Volve automatically links relevant information between the main contract and these attachments, taking into account time and priority. The goal is clearer agreements, better control, and a more effective contract process.

Change assessment in the contract module

We added a dedicated change assessment function in the contract module.

When you have:

• A new change notice

• A discussion point

• Or uncertain input ahead of a meeting

…the platform can analyse the situation based on:

• The signed contract

• Other contractual documents you have uploaded, such as meeting minutes, change messages, invoices and reports

The intention is to support more consistent, documented handling of potential contractual changes during project execution.

4. Early-phase analysis and dependencies

Early-phase module with dependency and sequencing analysis

We introduced a dedicated early-phase module.

When uploading early-phase material, you can select this module and get:

• Its own classification and summary of content

• Tailored analyses, including automatic identification of dependencies and sequencing requirements from planning documents

This gives faster overview and more targeted interaction in, for example, technical due diligence and other early-phase processes. It also opens up new ways to see how early planning assumptions might affect scope, risk and later execution.

5. Integrations and workflow

Custom Extractions

We introduced a dedicated Extraction tab to make it easier to work with structured information from the analysis.

Extraction gives you a list of all information Volve finds based on your own extraction rules, and lets you save and reuse those extractions across projects.

This makes it much easier to standardise how key data is pulled out from similar tenders and contracts, and to integrate those outputs into existing workflows and tools – for example:

• Requirement detection and requirement overviews

• Repeated reporting or checks you want to run on every new tender or contract

Over time, this turns your “typical checks” into reusable, systematic extractions rather than one-off manual work.

SharePoint integration (first version)

We also launched the first version of SharePoint integration.

Volve can now:

• Connect to SharePoint for selected customers

• Let users select and analyse documents directly from existing SharePoint libraries

• Reduce manual downloading and uploading of RFP, contract and project files

This is an important step towards analysing documents where they already live, and towards deeper integration with customers’ existing document management and workflows.

Not the full list – but a clear direction

This overview only covers some of the larger product themes and selected new features from 2025.

In addition, we:

• Shipped many smaller product improvements and user experience tweaks

• Delivered customer-specific configurations and content

• Made significant AI and infrastructure upgrades, so the platform can:

  • Handle larger document sets

  • Deliver more precise identifications and summaries

  • Do it faster and more reliably across portfolios

The direction is clear:

• Deeper understanding of contractual and tender text

• Closer connection to real project work in early-phase, tendering, execution and learning

• More automation with full traceability back to the governing documents

If you want to see how these capabilities can support your tenders or contracts in practice, we are always happy to walk through a real example together.