More tenders won. More projects delivered. More claims paid. One platform from tender to final claim.

Mike Krticevic (pron.: Kerr-STEE-chair-vich) is a construction lawyer and civil engineer with 25 years of industry experience across both sides of the contract. In his first decade, he worked in private legal practice acting directly for contractors, subcontractors, and developers. In the second, he served as the senior legal counsel and head of the legal team inside a major engineering and infrastructure company, overseeing construction legal matters on projects ranging from $1 million to over $2 billion across Australian infrastructure.

Alongside that, Mike has served as a NSW Security of Payment Act adjudicator since 2014, deciding well over a hundred payment disputes. He has also personally managed (with one cadet just out of university) all aspects of an $8 million commercial warehouse development in Western Sydney (Aug 2022 to May 2024) — from development approval right through to occupation certificate.

Since the NSW Security of Payment Act came into force in 2000, Mike has been working on the same underlying problem from every angle. As a lawyer, he advised contractors on how to document their work properly. As an adjudicator, he decided the disputes that arose when they didn't. When no comprehensive training on the legislation existed anywhere in the industry, he built and delivered a six-hour, face-to-face course for developers, contractors, and subcontractors — regarded by many attendees as the most thorough training on the NSW Security of Payment Act available.

Across all of these vantage points, Mike saw the same pattern, and it played out in both directions. Principals lost money to contractors who underdelivered but claimed aggressively. Subcontractors lost money to head contractors who paid late and documented selectively. Contractors lost money to subcontractors who underperformed and to principals who moved the goalposts. The common factor was rarely which side of the contract someone was on. It was that the operators with integrity — the ones who did what they said they would — were routinely outworked on the paperwork by counterparties who either knew the law better or were willing to use its gaps. The documentation was the difference.

For years, Mike consulted with colleagues across the industry about how such a platform should be built. The intention was there. The technology wasn't. The recent maturity of AI has changed that — making it possible, for the first time, to generate high-quality construction documents at the speed and consistency the industry has needed for decades.

Aedis is the platform Mike built to protect the operators who deserve protecting. Grounded in construction law. Informed by hundreds of real disputes. Designed by someone who has run the projects it's built for.