The Auditors Who Got Tired of Auditing by Hand Built a Machine. Now Owners Can Use It.

Fort Hill Associates built Fort Hill LogiX to check every line of a construction payment application against the contract, with a Certified Construction Auditor signing off every report. Owners of capital projects can now use it directly.

GREENVILLE, S.C., Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2006, the construction auditors at Fort Hill Associates have worked on more than 1,600 capital projects for universities, health systems and other owners. The work is unglamorous and high-stakes: reading the fine print, line by line, across thousands of payment applications and dense CMAR and GMP contracts, to find the clauses that didn't match, the labor rates that didn't reconcile, and the change orders that didn't line up with the contract.

They also hit a wall.

Contracts got longer. Projects got bigger. And the hours needed to check every line of a payment application climbed past what any practice could staff. So Fort Hill did what few audit firms would. It turned its own bottleneck into a research project.

The result is Fort Hill LogiX, an engine built inside a working construction audit practice to do what the firm's auditors do, on every line item of a project's documents. AI reads the documents. Fixed rules test each line against the owner's contract. Every exception comes back with the page it was found on, and a Certified Construction Auditor works through each one and signs off the report before it reaches the owner. The owner makes the final call.

"We didn't set out to build software. We set out to stop losing sleep over what a manual review might miss," said Ruhtab Sahota, a Certified Construction Auditor and Founder of Fort Hill LogiX. "Once the engine could cross-reference a contract clause against a payment line against a labor rate in a single pass, reliably, we realized we had built something every owner needed, not just our own practice."

Fort Hill LogiX operates as a separate, standalone company. Fort Hill Associates built it, is its first customer, and stands behind every report it produces.

"The best thing we could do for this technology was share it," said Curt Plyler, a CFA charterholder, Certified Construction Auditor and Co-Founder. "We've spent twenty years earning trust one audit at a time. What we learned is that every owner with capital tied up in a project is carrying the same risk we were finding by hand. They should be able to see it the same way we do."

The work follows the Construction Audit Professional Standards published by the National Association of Construction Auditors, which require sufficient data and records in support of every reported result. LogiX applies that requirement to every line item.

The engine was built to check every line. The company was built so no owner has to do it alone.

About Fort Hill LogiX

Fort Hill LogiX reviews construction payment applications for owners of capital projects. It checks every line item against the executed contract and returns each exception with the supporting document attached. LogiX is AI-assisted, with human oversight, and every report is signed off by a Certified Construction Auditor. Fort Hill Associates built LogiX. fhlogix.com

About Fort Hill Associates

Founded in 2006, Fort Hill Associates is a construction audit and advisory firm in Greenville, South Carolina. It works on capital projects for research universities, academic health systems and other institutional owners. All four founders of LogiX hold the Certified Construction Auditor credential from the National Association of Construction Auditors. forthillassociates.com

SOURCE Fort Hill Logix Incorporated