October 28, 2025
The Hidden Risk in Giga-Projects — When AI Becomes the Weak Link
AI is transforming giga-projects — but without trusted contract data, it’s creating billion-dollar blind spots. Here’s how to fix it.
Michael Thomson
Managing Director (APAC and Middle East)
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AI is everywhere in project delivery — but not always where it matters most (until now)

Artificial intelligence is now embedded in nearly every stage of giga-project development — from concept design and scheduling to predictive maintenance. Countries investing trillions into infrastructure, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Singapore, are leaning on AI to accelerate progress and deliver efficiency at scale.

But there’s one area where AI has until now struggled to make an impact — the live, signed contracts that define project success.

The world’s most complex projects are built on documents that govern risk, responsibility, and reward over decades. When those documents are inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, or of poor quality, even the most advanced AI systems cannot produce reliable insight. Instead, they compound the uncertainty.

It’s a reality few project leaders want to acknowledge: AI can only be as good as the data it’s fed.

When AI meets contract chaos

On giga-projects like Diriyah, NEOM, or Red Sea, contracts routinely run to thousands of pages, referencing hundreds of obligations and dependencies. They’re amended, varied and interrelated.

Yet most of these agreements remain locked in PDFs or scattered across disconnected repositories — each containing subtle inconsistencies.

Now imagine feeding that data into an AI engine. The result? Conflicting interpretations, incomplete answers, and recommendations drawn from the wrong version of the truth.

For programs worth hundreds of billions, even small errors can have catastrophic consequences — from delayed payments and missed entitlements to reputational damage and arbitration.

AI doesn’t fix bad data. It magnifies it.

The data-trust gap: the biggest risk in giga-projects today

The challenge isn’t AI’s capability (that will always be on an upward trend); it’s the integrity of the information being used.

In complex, multi-decade projects, “contract truth” is rarely static. Versions evolve, amendments are applied, and new obligations are introduced. Without a unified and conformed record, project teams are left navigating an outdated map of their legal landscape.

This data-trust gap is emerging as one of the defining risks for giga-projects under Vision 2030 and similar programs. AI can support decision-making — but only if it’s drawing from a single, unified, and verified source of truth, not fragmented files.

“The future of AI in infrastructure isn’t about faster decisions. It’s about accurate ones — and that requires trusted data.”

Affinitext: giving AI a foundation it can trust

The Affinitext Intelligent Document Platform eliminates that uncertainty by transforming high-value, high-risk contracts into intelligent, structured, and navigable digital assets with 99.5 percent accuracy .

Rather than leaving critical agreements buried in document stores or static CLM systems, Affinitext converts them into a single, unified version of truth — cross-linked, searchable, and always up to date.

Core capabilities powering AI-ready governance

• AffiniDocs – Converts contracts into structured, navigable data. Every clause, definition, and amendment is linked and cross-referenced so users can instantly see the live position.

• AffiniAI – Delivers real-time insights and contextual analysis directly from the verified text, allowing teams to automate tasks and visualize obligations and dependencies without guesswork.

• AffiniTag – Adds advanced metadata-driven search and filtering with 95 percent accuracy, helping teams locate relevant clauses or contracts across massive document sets in seconds.

• AffiniTask – Turns obligations into actionable tasks, reviewed by experts and traceable to source text — closing the loop between contract and execution.

Together, these modules ensure every AI system built around project performance, cost, or compliance is powered by data that is both accurate and explainable.

From insight to accountability

When contracts are structured as live digital assets, the impact goes far beyond efficiency:

• Accountability increases. Every clause can be cited and validated.

• Decision-making accelerates. Teams can cross-reference dependencies in seconds.

• Compliance becomes auditable. Obligations are tracked at paragraph level, not guessed at.

• Knowledge is retained. Expertise becomes enterprise memory, not personal recollection.

In a world of distributed teams and frequent turnover, this continuity is priceless.

The ripple effect: what giga-projects gain

For giga-projects — often involving hundreds of stakeholders, multi-currency funding, and evolving regulatory frameworks — these capabilities create tangible outcomes:

• Reduced disputes: Fewer conflicting interpretations of contract clauses.

• Accelerated delivery: Faster access to accurate information shortens decision cycles.

• Stronger collaboration: All stakeholders work from one verified version of the contract.

• Audit-ready governance: Full traceability across decades-long commitments.

With Affinitext, project leaders no longer rely on institutional memory or buried email threads. They operate from a trusted, intelligent foundation that ensures AI — and every person using it — is working from the same page.

AI + accuracy = the real innovation

AI alone doesn’t make a project smart. What matters is the quality and confidence of the information feeding it.

Affinitext’s human-enhanced accuracy ensures that generative-AI models deliver insights that are traceable and defensible — not speculative.

By aligning machine learning with structured, validated data, giga-projects can automate safely, make confident decisions, and ensure long-term accountability.

In short, Affinitext doesn’t just prepare you for AI — it makes sure your AI is prepared for reality.

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