Smart contracts in construction, past the blockchain hypeA smart contract in construction can only bind what the record already proves — a payment event, a notice, an issued-set version. The ledger does not invent those facts.
Industry · Contracts and evidence
All IndustryThe audit trail is a contractual asset. Most teams treat it as exhaust.An exhibit-ready trail of what was issued, instructed and decided is contractual value. Most projects keep activity logs and inbox fragments instead — waste heat from the software, not a record they can still produce.
You won the argument and lost the claim, because you could not prove itBeing right about the delay, the instruction or the drawing is not a claim. The issued set, the transmittal and the contemporaneous file have to prove it — and usually they cannot.
