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Trade damage is a well-known issue in commercial construction. With multiple contractors working in close proximity, it is almost inevitable that some form of damage will occur during a project's duration. Here are the top 6 strategies for dealing with trade damage.

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Add documents from your Egnyte account directly to a Change Order Request or T&M Tag in Clearstory in just a couple of clicks. 

With Clearstory’s Change Notification feature, GCs can distill that process down to just a few clicks and get real-time visibility into response status and costs in a single view. 

New analytics feature provides executives, admins, and PMs with a live, project-level summary of status, value, and days aging for all CORs and T&M Tags shared with their GC customers.

Need better visibility into how many T&M labor hours are going into any given project? Introducing T&M Labor Hours Report, a summary of the total labor hours spent on T&M work for your project over time. 

Specialty Contractors have enough things to worry about during a project. Add in managing Time and Material Tickets and Change Order Requests on top of that and...

Six years ago, we launched Clearstory with a mission to solve one of the construction industry's biggest headaches... Change Orders. With hard work, a passion for ...

As a former General Contractor project manager, I wanted alignment between me and my trade partners on where we stood on Change Order risk, which led several years ...

As a General Contractor, can you answer the question “How do I know our forecasts include all outstanding Change Order risk from all of our Specialty Contractors on ...

On today’s modern, fast-paced, and complex construction projects, change is more frequent than ever. And whether they are design changes requested by your General ...

In construction, change happens on every project. But for Specialty Contractors, Change Order Requests represent a real risk to top-line revenue: you need to spend ...

It’s basically every General Contractor’s recurring “you don’t know what you don’t know” dilemma: You're attempting to forecast in your project financial system, ...

Clearstory CEO Cameron Page recently stopped by as a featured guest on Built by Builders, the popular podcast highlighting construction professionals who have ...

Clearstory is excited to announce our latest integration with Vista by Viewpoint, one of the leading construction management and financial software providers. Now ...

General Contractors in commercial construction navigate one of the tightest profit margins in the business world. Project fees can range from a mere 1% on the low ...

In construction, as outstanding Change Orders accumulate on projects, risk goes up for all stakeholders. For Specialty Contractors, this risk represents a delay or ...

Eliminate waste, automate quality control, and provide on-time, just-in-time product delivery. So goes the Toyota Way, the data- and robotics-driven lean ...

Backcharges have always been a painful but necessary part of commercial construction. Whenever possible, it’s best to avoid the backcharge process all together and ...

Clear software integrations, clear Change Order processing, and clear cash flow. Clearstory is pleased to bring the construction industry’s only Change Order ...

When we started Extracker five years ago, we set out to improve how our industry tracks extra work and project Change Orders between stakeholders. It was an ...

We are proud to announce that Clearstory was featured as a Top Construction Technology Firm on Construction Executive’s 2022 list. Our mission is to help ...

For all the podcast junkies out there, Cameron Page, our CEO, sat down with Robbie Reynolds, Billd’s Director of Business Development, on the Built with Billd ...

Financial Visibility: A Crucial Factor In The Construction Industry. For decades, the construction industry has struggled with a lack of shared communication and ...

Women in Construction Week is officially here. While we celebrate accomplishments year-round, this week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the growing ...

We are thrilled to announce that Jim Lesko has joined the company and will serve as the Vice President of Engineering. He joins the growing leadership team and adds ...

From healthcare to finance to government, cyber attacks are becoming more prevalent across all industries. For many years, construction was largely unaffected by ...

We know change is hard , but it’s time your company updates how you manage and track change orders. The current workflows waste serious time and cost too much ...

Four years ago, we launched Clearstory with a mission to create financial transparency between commercial construction companies with our first-of-its-kind Change ...

Clearstory is excited to kick off the new year by partnering with Ryvit and their integrated platform as a service, or iPaaS, which version-forwards dataflow in ...

We are excited to announce that our real-time Change Order Review Page is now live! This game-changing feature is the only way to share Change Order Requests ...

Construction change order requests, or CORs as they are more commonly known, have a critical impact on construction project finances. In the best-case scenario, ...

Death. Taxes. Change Orders. Some things are inevitable. On top of this, most contractors don't have an effective Change Order communication process in place, which ...

Clearstory recently launched our latest integration with Procore, one of the leading construction management software providers. Now general contractors, ...

Commercial construction projects are more advanced than ever and new delivery methods and available technology require the process to be collaborative from start to ...

It’s been over three years since launching Clearstory, the first of its kind Change Order Communication Platform for the commercial construction industry. As I ...

The Change Order Request (COR) log is the only tracking document shared between the Subcontractor and General Contractor, and therefore the only way a General ...

The one constant with every construction project is change. And that inevitably means a Change Order Request sent from a Subcontractor to a General Contractor. ...

The one constant with every construction project is change. And that inevitably means a Change Order Request sent from a Specialty Contractor to a General ...

PCO, PCCO, EWA, COR, OCO, PCI, CO, CE, WTF… Construction loves acronyms, especially when it comes to out-of-contract work. Out of all the options, why did we at ...

We’re excited to announce our new integration with PlanGrid®, a field collaboration solution that is part of Autodesk Construction Cloud and widely adopted across ...

Your company has project management software, but are you still using a spreadsheet to keep track of Change Orders? Do you have Change Order Requests sitting in ...

Raise your hand if you have ever sent a Change Order Request to your General Contractor and felt like it disappeared into the internet ether. It could be that your ...

What’s the most important document in commercial construction? Spoiler… It’s the Change Order Request Log

There is a reason the TV show 'The Office' chose a struggling paper company, Dunder Mifflin, to be the focus of its show. Paper companies are going out of business ...

How to Ensure Touch-Free T&M Tags during COVID-19

Clearstory Enhances Functionality with PlanGrid Integration Let's face it, no one likes creating or receiving paper Time and Material Tags. With Clearstory's easy ...

Worldwide, construction projects run over budget every day. Incomplete documents, schedule changes, missed scope, design changes, are just a few of the usual ...

With the dramatic shake-up from COVID-19, many construction projects across the country are shut down. Given the uncertainty on when these jobs will resume, there ...

What is a Change Order Request log? A Change Order Request log is simply a running list of all Change Order Requests sent from a contractor to their customer. ...

What is a Change Order Request Form? As mentioned in our Change Order 101 post, there’s only one constant in construction: change. The specific document by a ...

What is a Time and Material Tag? A Time & Material Tag is an industry-standard document that contractors use to authorize and document the amount of work spent ...

Everything you need to know about Change Orders The construction industry is rapidly changing and tracking project costs is only getting harder. Schedules are ...

“Extacker allows us to get our Change Orders processed and billed the same month the work is performed.”