The Ultimate Change Order Software for Excavation Contractors

Clearstory is the only Change Order Communication Tool purpose-built to excavation contractors and GCs on out-of-contract work in real-time to reduce risk for all stakeholders.

Purpose-Built for Excavation Contractors

From overtime to design changes to trade damage and more, there’s hundreds of out-of-contract work triggers for site-prep contractors. Built for trust and transparency, Clearstory’s cloud-based Universal Change Order Log creates instant alignment with your GCs to replace the headaches and risks associated with paper T&M tickets and exchanging static, out-of-date logs back-and-forth via email.

Trusted by industry leaders

Streamline processes. Reduce risk.

Whether you’re documenting field-directed work or responding to design changes from your General Contractor, Clearstory will supercharge your workflows so your teams can stop wasting time on tedious manual efforts. Watch and see how easy it is to get started.

Benefits to power-up your business

Improve Cashflow

“I needed a solution, and I wanted something easy to use. Clearstory is helping with our cash flow, and it's making it a lot easier to track costs.”

Jason Catalano
President
Catalano Construction

Reduce Lost Revenue

“We save time, have more accurate tags, and consequently increase the bottom-line revenue generated from Change Order work by using Clearstory.”

Steve DaSilva
Owner
DaSilva Underground

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Strengthen GC Relationships

“Clearstory replaces the need for us to explain or argue over Change Orders with GCs. It creates transparency and accountability. It's been great for us.”

Brian Nielson
President and COO
NDX

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Top-rated features for excavation contractors

  • Digital T&M Tickets: Create T&M Tickets and capture electronic signatures with our ridiculously easy mobile app. Tickets are automatically logged with the home office, include time-stamped photos, and anyone on your team can edit and review.
  • Cloud-Based COR Log: Clearstory’s cloud-based Change Order Log creates instant alignment between you and your customer. Upload CORs or use our templates to collaborate, track, and review Change Orders in real-time, whether your GC uses Clearstory or not.
  • Instantly Price T&M Tickets: Convert signed T&M Tickets into priced-out Change Order Requests using pre-populated labor, material, equipment and markup rates. Combine signed T&M Tickets and submit accurate, professional CORs to your customer.
  • Change Order Templates: Protect revenue and prevent delays by submitting clean, professional, and error-free Change Order Requests that only take a few minutes to package and share with your customers.
  • Customer Insights: View the status of all Change Order Requests and T&M Tickets on any project at a glance. Access Days Aging and Labor Hours summaries and see average time between signature requests to signed tags and COR submittals to approved COs.
  • Days Aging Report: Clearstory’s Days Aging Report provides a comprehensive view of outstanding CORs across all projects. Quickly identify problem areas and drill into items to understand status.
  • Align on Allowance Usage: Tag CORs to allowance buckets as you submit them, track usage in real time, and keep your GC in the loop without extra emails or confusion.

Real-world Customer Success Stories

How Catalano Saves 15hs and $1500 per week
Before Clearstory, Catalano had a backlog of documentation to process. Now, they enter documentation to Clearstory so efficiently, they are ahead of their COR workload!](https://www.clearstory.build/customer-stories/catalano)

BrandSafway Sees 65% Productivity Gain in COR Work
“Clearstory is more than just Change Order software. Bottomline- Clearstory gets Change Orders approved faster.”](https://www.clearstory.build/customer-stories/how-brandsafway-improved-change-order-productivity)

How NDX Boosted Net Profits by Using Clearstory as its Change Order Communication Tool
“Clearstory has created better relationships with our GCs because they are now able to effectively communicate Change Order Status to their own clients.”](https://www.clearstory.build/customer-stories/ndx-0)

Want to see Clearstory in action?

Contact us to schedule a 30 minute call to see if Clearstory is right for your team.