Since its introduction in September 2007, the ConsensusDocs movement has struggled to become a serious contender in the arena of standardized design and construction forms. Developed by a coalition of more than 40 industry groups, ConsensusDocs—a catalog of 100-plus standardized contract documents—set out to become the industry standard, but early software challenges and other criticisms thwarted widespread adoption.
Now, with initial kinks resolved and a host of new offerings, ConsensusDocs is gaining traction in the marketplace, experiencing its biggest growth to date with annual licenses doubling to more than 2,000 over the past two years.