Bridging the Gap: How Sandline’s ProCore Integration Is Transforming Construction Litigation
The construction industry has undergone a profound digital transformation over the past decade. Project teams now rely on sophisticated cloud platforms to manage RFIs, change orders, daily logs, document workflows, and internal communications. At the center of this transformation is ProCore, which has become the system of record for thousands of construction companies worldwide.
But when construction projects lead to disputes or litigation, the very systems designed to streamline project execution can become a major obstacle for legal teams.
The Construction Litigation Challenge
Construction litigation is uniquely complex. A single project may involve dozens of stakeholders—general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, owners, and inspectors—communicating across multiple tools over months or years. Critical evidence often lives in a mix of:
- RFIs and responses
- Project correspondence and collaboration notes
- Document version histories
- Daily logs and field reports
- Emails and mobile communications tied to project decisions
When this information resides in ProCore, legal teams face a familiar challenge: how to collect, preserve, and process that data in a defensible, review-ready format.
Native exports are often incomplete, lack context, and aren’t designed for legal workflows. Even when data is manually collected, it frequently requires further manual effort to normalize, organize, and prepare it for review in eDiscovery platforms.
A Purpose-Built Solution for Construction Data
In 2025, Sandline’s development team focused on closing gaps like these by extending ModernETL, our purpose-built modern data processing platform, to support collection and processing of ProCore cloud data.
This integration represents a meaningful step forward for construction litigation—allowing legal and compliance teams to bring ProCore data into their existing eDiscovery workflows alongside email, mobile, chat, and collaboration data.
How the ModernETL ProCore Integration Works
Built on ModernETL’s proven microservices architecture—already trusted for processing data from mobile devices, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Symphony, and more—the ProCore integration performs comprehensive collection of project-level data and converts it into litigation-ready RSMF files optimized for Relativity and Everlaw.
But our ProCore Solution goes beyond basic extraction.
Key Capabilities Include:
Universal Threading
Communications are grouped across platforms, allowing reviewers to see how ProCore RFIs, field notes, and project discussions connect to related emails, texts, or chat messages.
AI-Driven Summarization
ModernETL’s AI capabilities generate intelligent summaries of project communications, helping legal teams quickly identify key decisions, disputes, and timeline milestones.
Flexible Processing Options
Data can be organized by single messages, day ranges, or weekly groupings, allowing teams to tailor processing to the needs of each matter.
The result is construction data that retains context, supports defensibility, and is ready for review without weeks of manual intervention.
Real-World Impact
Consider a construction defect dispute where a central question is: When did the contractor first become aware of a waterproofing issue?
Historically, answering that question could require weeks of manual review across disconnected ProCore exports, emails, and daily logs. With Sandline’s ModernETL ProCore integration, the same data can be forensically collected, summarized, threaded, and delivered into Relativity or Everlaw in a matter of days.
For legal teams, this means faster insight, reduced review burden, and stronger alignment between facts and strategy.
Positioning for the Future of Construction Litigation
As construction teams continue adopting cloud-based collaboration tools, legal technology must evolve alongside them. Sandline’s ModernETL ProCore integration reflects a broader commitment to meeting modern litigation challenges with solutions designed for today’s data realities.
Whether handling defect claims, delay disputes, payment controversies, or workplace incidents, having complete, defensible access to project-level communications can be the difference between clarity and missed opportunity.