Pricing Exercises Made Fast & Simple

Stop chasing your trades over email for pricing updates. With Clearstory Change Notifications, you can assign scopes, collect quotes, and track responses in real time to keep design changes moving without all the back-and-forth.

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Pricing Exercises Shouldn’t Be This Hard

Whether you’re budgeting a design change or a value engineering push, collecting pricing from multiple Subcontractors is a logistical mess. You send PDFs, chase responses, and try to organize it all in a spreadsheet for your team or the owner. It’s slow, messy, and full of errors.

No central place to assign and track pricing
No visibility into who has or hasn’t responded
No simple way to collect scope breakdowns

From Design Change to Owner COR Without the Chaos

Clearstory’s Change Notifications tool gives you a complete workflow for managing design-driven project changes. From assigning scope to collecting pricing to submitting a clean Owner-facing COR, everything flows through one system without the inbox gymnastics.

Send Scoped Pricing Requests to the Right Trades

Got a bulletin, ASI, or addendum? Upload it, select which trades need to price it, and set a response deadline. Clearstory notifies each Trade Partner and logs the request for tracking.

  • Auto-assign trades with one click
  • Eliminate the need to email each trade individually
  • Keep every pricing request logged and centralized in one place for easy access

Subcontractors Respond in One Click

Subcontractors can either mark the change as No Cost Impact or submit a COR directly in Clearstory. Each response stays linked to the original notification for easy tracking.

  • Provide trades a simple, direct, digital path to respond
  • Track response timestamps to stay on top of progress
  • No missing or stray responses

Track Open Rates and Response Status

See who’s opened your request, who’s responded, and who needs a nudge. Resend reminders with one click to keep the pricing process moving.

  • View all response activity from one real-time dashboard
  • Identify bottlenecks with visibility across every trade
  • Stay on track with smart reminders and instant updates

Route Responses Into Your Change Order Review Workflow

As responses come in, they flow directly into Clearstory’s Change Order Review tool. You can compare CORs, leave feedback, and prep your upstream COR for the Owner all in one place.

  • Hyperlink responses for Owner review
  • Simple markup, redline, and review tools
  • Package clean owner CORs for submission

Push Final Pricing to Your System of Record

Once pricing is reviewed and finalized, push it into your ERP or project management platform with Clearstory’s integrations. No re-keying. No version confusion.

  • Export clean, formatted CORs
  • Auto-push to ERP or project management software
  • No manual stitching of documents

Analyze Trends With the Response Matrix

Use the Change Notification Response Matrix to see how quickly trades respond and what percentage of scope changes are outstanding by contract, all in one simple view.

  • Track trade responsiveness over time
  • Spot recurring delays or drops
  • Surface bottlenecks before they escalate

Faster Pricing. Fewer Headaches. Total Visibility.

Send scoped pricing requests to every trade in seconds with complete visibility into responses

Track progress in real time and see exactly where pricing is held up

Speed up pricing exercises by 50% by eliminating emails and spreadsheets

What General Contractors Are Saying About Clearstory Pricing Exercise Tools

“Clearstory's pricing management features are super collaborative and our project teams have been really happy with the performance.”

Kelsey Gauger
Vice President of Operational Excellence
Suffolk Construction

“Clearstory has created a really positive atmosphere around change notifications because it streamlines the process and brings benefits to everyone's day in the field.”

Britt Smith
Senior Project Engineer
Clayco

“Utilizing Clearstory Change Notifications to the max potential provides real efficiency gains in the process. It’s going to cut your time in half.”

Braden Borcherts
Senior Project Manager
Clune Construction

FAQs

How is this different from spreadsheets and RFQ tools?

Clearstory doesn’t replace your financial tools: it connects the missing dots. It organizes scope, responses, and feedback in real time so nothing gets buried in spreadsheets or email threads.

Can I use Clearstory just for design changes?

Yes. Many GCs start with Clearstory for design-driven pricing exercises and then expand to use it for Change Orders, T&M Tags, and closeout tracking once they see the time savings.

How does this improve stakeholder collaboration?

Everyone works from the same live log, reducing email back-and-forth and ensuring transparency from design change to approval so pricing workflows move faster and stay organized.

Can I see what trades have responded?

Yes. Every updated flows into real-time dashboards to show who’s viewed, responded, or missed deadlines, so nothing slips through the cracks.