Key takeaways

Volve builds a construction commercial graph that maps the explicit relationships between tender requirements, disciplines, and contract obligations across thousands of project files.

Contradiction detection surfaces critical conflicts between bid letters and contracts that keyword-based search tools miss because the issues share no common phrasing.

Managing complex project data through these connected relationships reduces expensive errors that typically occur in the seams between disparate documents rather than inside them.

Forty files each describe the same project from their own angle, and the expensive mistakes often live in the seams between them, in connections between requirements.

Volve is built around that fact. Underneath the analyses sits a live map of how the contents of your documents connect, the construction commercial graph. Not a database of files, but the relationships across documents, disciplines, obligations and revisions, held explicitly instead of in someone's memory.

The map is in active, continuous development, shaped on live construction projects with tender sets that range from tens of documents to thousands. Same map, both ends of the scale.

Contradiction detection shows what that means in practice. A clause in the contract and a deviation in a bid letter can be in direct conflict without sharing a single phrase, so searching for similar text will never surface it. Following the connections does. Contradiction detection has been live since 2025; the map is what has made it sharper and faster.

Read more on the baseline for this core Volve developmentHere: The tender isn't in the documents.

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Alf Jørgen Dovland

COO & Co-Founder