A dispute review board is a panel, usually three experienced neutrals, one selected by each party and a third jointly, empaneled at the start of a large project and kept informed throughout construction, so it can address disputes quickly as they arise rather than waiting until project completion.

Depending on the contract, the board's output can be a non-binding recommendation, a dispute review board proper, or a binding interim decision subject to later arbitration or litigation, a dispute adjudication board, giving projects real-time dispute resolution instead of a multi-year backlog at project's end.

Juricratic represents an active dispute review board as a recurring, in-project checkpoint dial rather than a single terminal event: each board decision updates the running claims-and-offsets ledger for the project, which the simulation can carry forward into a later consolidated arbitration or litigation branch if the parties never fully resolve underlying disputes.

Owners and contractors on major infrastructure projects use dispute review boards to avoid stacking years of unresolved change-order and delay claims until the project ends, since real-time neutral input tends to keep both cost exposure and relationship damage lower than deferred litigation.